West Shore Sportsman's Association

**davidb72** · October 17th, 2014, 10:44 AM

I wanted to post this for everyone to see and to let everyone know what exactly is going on at West Shore Sportsman's these days.

Mike Beliveau is a respected writer and commentator on firearms. His bio:

Mike Beliveau was born in northern Vermont in 1954. While growing up in he developed a love of history, particularly the
history of the American frontier. In 1988 he took that interest and turned it into a freelance writing career. Mike has done
writing and photography for several nationally distributed magazines. His primary subjects are eighteenth and nineteenth century firearms and frontier history.

Currently Mike is the black powder editor for "Guns of The Old West" magazine and he writes the handloading column for "Combat Handguns" magazine. He also writes feature articles for those magazines and several others.

Mike lives in the rolling hills of central Pennsylvania.

Mike is being expelled from the club for embarrassing the board of directors by posting this video in response to the new range rules they voted in.

http://youtu.be/RuBfYCMHwcI

There is no other reason they could be expelling him - they claim it is because he was unsafe or broke rules in the past in videos that he posted to his YouTube channel. The fact is that he embarrassed the board and for that they feel he must pay.

This is his latest video explaining the current proceedings against him.

http://youtu.be/wubzrfgqQDw

The next club meeting is on Tuesday, October 28th at 7:30 PM. I hope that everyone that is a member, regardless of how you feel about this issue comes out to the meeting to be heard.

**cdi** · October 17th, 2014, 11:04 AM

There are few things more vindictive and spiteful than an embarrassed Fudd.
Good luck.

**daschnoz** · October 17th, 2014, 11:06 AM

They're butt hurt. Nothing less, nothing more.

**alpacaheat** · October 17th, 2014, 01:47 PM

I was planning on joining WSSA at the beginning of the year...will have to watch this situation.

Recently spoke to a longtime member who doesn't shoot there anymore.

**streaker69** · October 17th, 2014, 01:56 PM

Kind of strange to be expelling such a traditional shooter.

**cuprunner** · October 17th, 2014, 03:35 PM

Is this the same West Shore club that hosts the Cowboy action SASS shooters? I guess that is over now. I fail to understand how members who are not tolerant of the many types of firearms members like to shoot, get into the leadership positions of gun clubs. Seems like the entire membership should have had a vote on all those changes. I have been shooting and hunting for 45 yrs. and I still like to shoot tin cans with a .22, just like to see the action. I agree, just clean up afterward, it's that easy. Now days if you don't have some reaction targets, see how long a young starting shooter stays interested in punching holes in paper. Got to try to get the young one started. They are the future. Maybe they have some rules that would allow for the recall of this board. Let the membership vote on that! They did it in Colorado to a couple of politicians. Lastly I don't see what he did that was so terrible.