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To: Ed
Ed, I need to ask of your help in getting some information to a Club Meeting.
I am not able at this time to make meetings so I’ll put in what I would like addressed at a meeting and ask you to please relay it at a meeting.
I just sat and read over my last news letter I received a few weeks ago again and need to bring these issues to the attention of the officers and members!
What I would like for the Officers to Address and to please take some sort of action on what has always been printed many times over in each news letter.
Shooting!
Taken straight from the News Letter
“25,50,100 &200 yard shooting Ranges- All Members are to be reminded that the association’s by-laws state that “All Shooting Must be conducted from a Designated Firing Points to proper Designated Targets.”
Ok, This Really does need Addressed and looked at for a way to change some things at the 25 yard shooting location ONLY.
Pistol Shooting. In the Past, I’ll admit, I’m guilty of this and I KNOW a Few Other Members are also Guilty of doing this. There are many members that have taken up Pistol Shooting, be it for Hunting or for Personal/Home Defense!
We wish to practice with our pistols, we need to be able to shoot at a firing point of 5, 10, 15, 20 and then 25 yards, the ONLY Way to do this is to set up at the 25 yard target and pace off or measure off the 5, 10, 15, 20 yards from the target back toward the shooting bench and shoot, which by the By-laws is a violation of which should not be!
I know a few who are armed guards that need to practice at these distances also and also we have Police Officers that are members that need to practice at these distances…Pistol Shooting can NOT Always be done at just 25 yards!
I have come up with a way for the club to Solve this little “Snaff Foo” of the By-Laws and to make it that we who shoot pistols do not violate the Club’s By-Laws.
At the 25 yard bench or the 25 yard shotgun location, place a target that is not held by 4X4s..make it that there is rebar in the ground at 5, 10, 15, 20 yards(painted Bright Orange so they are seen)(or make the rebar attacked to the bottom of the target holder so it can easily be pushed down into the ground at the 5, 10,15, 20 yard distances. Have the target holder made out of the old style that used to be used at the club, hollow metal tubes that can be easily lifted UP and off the rebar and then moved to 5, 10, 15, 20 and shot at from the bench or the 25 yard shotgun location. This will be very helpful to those of us who wish to be able to shoot our pistols at closer distances then 25 yards and then would not violate the Club‘s By-laws, we would be shooting from the bench location or shotgun location but the target would be at the distances we need that are closer then 25 yards!
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Get the ok and I’ll do the measuring 1 day and put in the rebar or taget, I have plenty of rebar that I can use and the club would not have to pay for it if the ok would be for rebar placed at 5, 10, 15 and 20 yards to place the target holder on.
Have it that when the shooter is done shooting, the target holder is taken and placed near 1 of the 25 yard shooting stations so that it does not interfere with the 25 yard target!
Second, from the news letter
“Continuous Rapid Fire Shooting of Firearms”
This is Always in each News Letter, someone who built a house up on Fanteane’s Field in the New Development, just Complains, Complains, Complains.
WHEN is the Club going to get an Attorney that has done what the Attorney for Duncannon Sportsmen’s Club did when all the development started around Duncannon’s Club Grounds?
Duncannon does not Face what Marysville is Facing!
The Marysville Sportsmen’s Club has sat in the location it is at since when, 1930’s? 1940’s?
When is the Club going to Act apone our rights as a Club and stop things were it needs stopped?
Enough is enough!
When the Building started across the creek in the field, things should have been handled then, not hope that the people who built the house KNEW there was a shooting range right across the creek from them and there would be shooting many times throughout the year!
I have been told, and I do not know if it is true or just a rumor but what I was told from a few members was that many of the older members who were officers talked with Roger Barrick and asked him to make sure that the people buying land there and building KNEW about the club and shooting…It was said that the Officers then and Roger Barrick did a “Gentlemen’s” Hand Shake and he was to have told those buying and building about the club and shooting.
We have to remember, the “Gentlemen’s Handshake” Went out the door basically back in the late 1950s to late 1960s!
We as a club need to hire an attorney and stop the complaints NOW before we loose our club to the Anti Gun Folks that are in Marysville!
The Club would be Grandfathered in since it was there LONG BEFORE Any of those homes were Built and even thought of being built! If the Marysville Borough Council made some sort of ordinance about shooting in the past years, an Attorney can get things fix that the Club is listed as a Grandfather Clause and remain that way and nothing can be done to the club for rapid shooting!
The time is now if it has not been started to take action to Stop the members of the Club from having to Bow Down to those who complain!
The Club was there LONG Before they bought and built their homes! They now need to deal with it!
The action needs to be taken with an Attorney!
Third, I spoke with you about this 1 day a few years ago while talking to you on the phone.
The Archery Targets.
How do we go about making it ok to use a portable climber to shoot from at the targets? Or how do we go about building a shooting platform to shoot from and elevated height?
I’d like to be able to work on keeping the archery targets useable and see that those who wish to practice can do so either from the ground or from a above shooting station.
My Dad before he died, took the time to take care of the archery targets, he mowed the grass, fixed up the target hay bale location and a few shot at it, I’d like to be able to use the archery range and also help take care of it.
How do we go about keeping the archery location up and running and adding to it for height shooting?
I look forward to a reply from you and the officers of the Club.
What I have addressed in this letter, really does need addressed and fixed, the rapid fire complaints, is 1 that should be first and foremost to be addressed! If not, we may soon see our club go the way of the passenger pigeon! Extinct and only a fishing location along fishing creek!
Thank You