Minnesota Shooting Range, Itasca Gun Club Grand Rapids Newsletter August-September 2009

Itasca Gun Club Newsletter August September 2009 (Page 2)

Camp Perry 2009 National Pistol Championships Report. It was an exciting year at the National Pistol Championships at Camp Perry, Ohio. Minnesota was well represented on the podium. Kevin Vacura of Red Wing, MN won the Harry Reeves Memorial Revolver match scoring 286 10x while Greg Abraham of Lake Crystal, MN took second with a score of 284 9x.
Greg Abraham also placed third in the Distinguished Revolver match with a score of 283 5x.
Minnesota State Team competitors were: Tom O’Donnell, Mark Vangsgard, Mike Johanns, Robert Vanderport, and Christopher Fleming. The team scored 2857 56x and placed 23rd overall.
Notably, there were two Minnesotans shooting for Team Springfield who took First Place with a score of 3340 86x in the Industry Team category. Members of Team Springfield were: George Kasat from Eagan, MN, Kevin Vacura from Red Wing, MN, Christopher Johnson and John Farley.
We wholeheartedly applaud the accomplishments of these skillful competitors and are grateful and proud to claim they are from Minnesota.
Also participating in the individual competitions were Dave Schultz and Joanne Baker who say they didn’t set or break any records, but they had a lot of fun.

A reminder for everyone that the IGC Indoor Pistol Range open shooting dates are tentatively scheduled from late November until mid March 2009. Monday evenings from 5:30 PM -7:30 PM. Mike Hughes will announce the dates for the Indoor Bullseye Pistol League after he conducts a “pre-season” meeting with Bullseye competitors to establish rules and dates.
Pistols and coffee is moving from Wednesdays to Tuesdays from 10pm to 1pm and will be starting the second Tuesday of December. For questions contact Conley Janssen. Check the schedule on the IGC website for contact information, www.itascagunclub.org.

The 2009 Itasca Gun Club Gun Show is in the books for this year. We had a few more vendors than last year, and some new ones. The turn out was good. We brought in $436.00 for our youth program, not bad when entry fee is only $ 1.00. Thanks to the people who came out to help with the show set up. A special thanks to Phyllis Anderson, Marge Kelly, and Bob Ross for their help and Larry Heise for cooking up some tasty sloppy joes. An extra thanks goes out to Conley Jannsen and his three children for their help. It's always a pleasure to work with them at any function.
The Dates for the 3rd Annual Itasca Gun Club Gun Show are set for July 24 & 25, 2010. See you next year, Joe Oliver, IGC –Vice President. (8-7-09)

Parting Thoughts, The Itasca Gun Club logo is available at Arrow Embroidery for hats and clothing and at Silvertip Graphics for stickers. A GREAT way to promote the club. NRA memberships are renewable through Itasca Gun Club and are less expensive than renewing through the NRA. In addition, renewals and new memberships benefit the club. When you’re ready to renew or sign up as a new NRA member, please contact us first!

Watch for IGC President on ICTV, Outdoors with Tom Chapin airs on Wednesday 8:00 PM on the ICTV Cable channel. Chapin interviews Jeff Sundin of the IGC and Bob LaPlant of the Grand Rapids Gun Club. The program is intended to help bring Northern Minnesota firearms enthusiasts and sport hunters up to speed on some of the shooting programs available in Grand Rapids and surrounding areas.

Gun owners and folks interested in participating in shooting sports can tune in for a look at what the area has to offer and get aquatinted with the clubs programs.
Just the facts ma’am. Everyone gets the occasional frantic email message letting you know that you’re about to be required to register your gun or pay a huge tax on ammo or maybe even have to list your guns on tax forms.
Without a doubt, there are plenty of legitimate concerns for today’s gun owner to worry about. But lets try not to make the problem worse by passing along information from bogus emails that do nothing except fuel fear on both sides of the political spectrum.
A good rule of thumb when viewing one of these so-called “heads up emails” is to run the information through one of a number of fact checking websites that exist to help separate fact from fiction. I recently received an email that contained a specific senate bill number and so I simply ran it through a couple of websites to check it out.
Urban Legends Dot Com, http://urbanlegends.about.com and Fact Check Dot Com, http://www.factcheck.org are just a couple of sites that help track down whether these rumors are truth or fiction. Another fine way to track gun legislation rumors is to run it through the NRA website. No matter your opinion of the NRA, there is no doubt that they will be on top of any “real” pending gun legislation. Get the facts before you email and save your friends the trouble. Jeff Sundin