Abe Lincoln Gun Club News
www.abelincolngunclub.com
May
2010
Dear Members,
If
you have been out to the club in the last week or two, you will know that work
is underway on constructing the “clubhouse” addition to the indoor range
building. When completed, this
building addition will provide not only an indoor restroom, but also a meeting
area that is totally separate from the indoor range.
This is something we have needed for years, but even more so recently as
the club has increasingly made its facilities available to the public, and
especially to youth groups.
The
construction of this building addition is being carried out by a dedicated crew
of club members, who intend to have the building at least framed and closed by
the time this newsletter arrives in your mailbox.
More volunteers will be needed to finish it.
Before it is complete we will need volunteers who are good at finishing
drywall, painting, putting down flooring, and installing plumbing, among other
things. If you have any of these
skills and are willing to lend a hand, please notify Steve Rowoldt (502-9447) smr-spi@yahoo.com,
or Dan Croll (836-7663), mrfixit824@aol.com.
Annual
Meeting/Work Day, June 13, 2010
The ALGC Annual Meeting and Work Day is set for June 13,
2010, with the work day to begin at 8:00 AM and the meeting to start at 11:30 AM
or soon after.
Work Day- We
have two major projects planned for the Work Day, and several routine cleanup
and repair projects. One major
project is to entirely replace the roof on the outdoor covered range, while the
other planned job is to hang and finish dry wall in the new building addition.
Among the more routine spring projects, are planes to replace the 50-yard
target backers, remove the old 25-yard posts, clean up the indoor range bullet
impact area, and of-course do the brush removal and weed cutting that is needed
annually.
We especially need anyone with experience hanging and
finishing dry wall to come equipped to work on this project, and the rest of you
need to bring along what you believe to be the necessary tools to do these other
jobs. The club tries to provide
necessary building materials, but we have to rely on you to bring the tools!
Ray Kurniskie has asked me to request wheelbarrows and brush-cutting
equipment especially, along with tree trimming equipment.
We could also use a couple of post-hole diggers, along with lots of
battery drills and screw-drivers, wrenches, saws, etc.
We know we will have plenty of willing workers, but to put you all to
good use, we will need you to bring tools and work gloves
Annual Meeting / Elections - Aside from the usual reports
and discussions, this annual meeting involves the bi-annual election of club
officers. Offices open for election
include President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, and we very much
welcome nominations for any of these offices.
Some of the current officers are just finishing their first two-year term
and are willing to serve another, but some of the rest have been in their
current job for quite a few years (Your Secretary, for instance) and really feel
that it would be good for the club to have some new blood in the job!
Anyway, the Abe Lincoln Gun Club is only as good as the members who step
up to help manage it, and all of us have a responsibility to take our turn on
the board.
Nominations for officers may be given to either President
Steve Rowoldt or to Secretary Jim Leinicke (525-3725).
Annual
Dues are Due by July 1
Please take note that your annual gun club dues must be paid by July 1, and you will not receive further notice. Under the By-laws changes made in 2009, your annual dues are $100.00 if you pay in person at the Annual Meeting/ Work Day June 13. Otherwise, the annual dues are $125.00
Skeet
Range Update
Ray Kurniskie reports that the voice command system for the skeet range has been updated and is now much simpler to operate. If you are a skeet shooter and don’t understand the new system yet, please get together with Ray and have him explain the changes.
Other
Facitiies Reports
Aside from the new building work now underway, there have been quite a few other improvements made this spring. First of all, Ray Kurniskie did not wait until our road became hopelessy rutted before arranging to have two more coats of asphalt grindings put down this spring. The road is now in excellent condition again due to his quick work. If you are an indoor pistol shooter, then you already know that all of the previously graveled area inside the building has been replaced with concrete. This was done for the sake of air quality, primarily, as the gravel produced a great deal of dust. We hope that this change will help our air filtration system keep up a bit better.
On both the outdoor and indoor pistol ranges, lanes are being marked to remind everyone of the importance of keeping your fire entirely in your lane. We have also placed cut-outs on the 100-yard plywood and request that you center your targets over these cut-outs to help preserve the target backing boards so that we don’t have to replace them so often.
Finally, our conservation folks have been busy. There is a new purple martin house near the front gate awaiting summer occupation, and Pat Malone recently completed a controlled burn of our prairie grass area. Many of you will be delighted to hear that we will shortly be having some trees planted on the back of the 200-yard shooing berm to provide needed shade. A member has graciously offered to pay for these trees, and you should see them planted within the next few weeks.
4-H
Program
The Sangamon-Menard County 4-H is starting a youth shooting program and has approached the Abe Lincoln with a request that club facilities be made available for youth instruction programs. The Board has agreed to make the trap and skeet range facilities available for shotgun instruction, and the indoor range facilities available for winter .22 rifle instruction. We have no further details yet, but will make every effort to schedule 4-H activities at times of minimal club member usage. Watch the website for further information.
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We
will see you at the Annual Meeting/ Work Day!
Jim Leinicke, Secretary