Saginaw Field & Stream Club Newsletter

Volume 2015

Issue 03 March

www.saginawfieldandstream.com Tom Heritier, Editor

March is worth $600 if

March 19, 2015 Membership Meeting Program

you are in your seat.

Terry George Was not in his seat and did not collect $600.00

Membership Meeting March 19, 2015, 7 PM Dinner Served at 6 PM Menu Fish, Mac & Cheese, Cole Slaw, Desert

HUNTING NEAR HOME It is always nicer when you can enjoy a day of hunting when you don’t have to drive half way across the state. In years past they had a successful Hunters Access Program that provided access onto private lands. That program has declined over the years, primarily because of lack of funding. Well, our DNR has received a $1.2 million federal grant to get this program back up. Our speaker will be the man in charge. MIKE PARKER, Michigan DNR’s Hunting Access Program Coordinator kicked off this expansion last month, and he will bring to us all the details of what he is doing and how it will affect our chances to gain access to new hunting grounds close to home. Monique Ferris of our Soil Conservation District is working with Mike and will also join him for our program.

Rick Wendzik won the Ruger Pistol, then won the 50/50 Ruger Single 10, 22 LR Revolver to be raffled Identification Statement Saginaw Field and Stream Club Newsletter is published monthly by the Saginaw Field and Stream Club. P O Box 2092, Saginaw, Mi 48605- 2092

NOTICE The club mailing address is now,

1296 N Gleaner Rd Saginaw, MI 48609 9495

Caitlin Boehler 14 Yrs shows off her 8 Point Saginaw County Buck at our annual meeting

Club Shooting Hours

Guest’s

Are as follows, 0800 AM until sunset, use you hunting guide to determine sunset. If there is an organized event under lights, that may go to 10 PM. The lights on ranges are for organized events only.

Anyone who is not immediate family is considered a guest and is required to pay the $5.00 guest fee. Mail Boxes are located on each range. Immediate family is defined as, spouse, and minor children.

Club Administrative News Expenses, $21,168.53 Income,

$16,705.18

Checking, $40,283.16 Savings,

$55,857.87

Building Donations

Financial Report

$118,648.00 To Date

James L. De Clerck, Treasurer

Membership Report March 2015 Joey Lee, Membership Secretary

1654 General Members

94 Associate Members

1748 Total Membership

New General Members Jeff Halm Adam Jackson Chris Swaffer Stephen Tessin Gail Miller-Burdo Robert Miller Aaron Schwarz Michael Elias Steve Boehler Thomas MacDonald Rob Troutman James Harvey Greg Tyra Brandon Reis Matthew Shapley Jason Haines Patrick Smeaton Samantha Anger Patrick Wilson New Associate Members Rick Burdo Zachary Platko Kelly Harvey Members Re-joining____________________________________________ Timothy Roller Richard Schneer Josh Billow Anthony Furlo

Building Managers Mike Meyer 989-274-4078 Greg King 989-694-4868 For rentals or questions Please call

CCW Range Paper Targets, Bowling pins and hanging clay targets are the only targets allowed on the CCW range. Targets are not to be hung from the pin table covers!

Banquet Donors These Donors Supported us big time, RETURN THE FAVOR! Dick Williams Guns Shaper’s The Salon Gander Mountain YMCA of Saginaw Jim Redmond’s Auto Repair Draper Toyota Wohlfeil’s Hardware Cooper’s Frame & Art H & B Equipment Staples Hi-Tech Optical Inc.

Euchre Has returned to SFSC. If you have time Thursdays from 1PM to 4 PM in the club house. Doors open at 12 Noon. Civilian Marksmanship Program Saginaw Field and Stream Club is affiliated with the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Refer to Our Number

56200 All Memberships expire on December 31st of the year.

Activities at Saginaw Field and Stream Club, March 2015 Sunday

Monday

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Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

Indoor Archery League 7PM

Thomas Twp Archery 2-8PM

JOAD Archery 6-10PM

Youth Archery 8AM Trap & Skeet 10AM

Sun Set 6:24PM

Thomas Twp Police Upper Pistol Range 9AM Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

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Day Light Savings Time Starts

Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM Trap & Skeet 3PM Pistol Committee 7PM

Indoor Archery League 7PM

JOAD Archery 6-10PM

Youth Archery 8AM

Women’s Shooting Alliance 25PM Club House

Saturday

Sun Sets 6:29PM

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Thomas Twp Archery 2-8PM

Trap & Skeet 10AM

Sun sets 7:38PM

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Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

Indoor Archery League 7PM

Thomas Twp Archery 2-8PM

JOAD Archery 6-10PM

Indoor 3D Shoot 8-AM-4PM

Dinner 6PM Membership Meeting 7 PM

Trap & Skeet 3PM Sun Sets 7:42 PM

Trap & Skeet 10AM

Sun Sets 7:47PM

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Indoor 3D Shoot 8-AM-4PM

Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

Indoor Archery League 7PM

Board of Directors Meeting 7 PM

Trap & Skeet 3PM

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Thomas Twp Archery 2-8PM

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JOAD Archery 6-10PM

Youth Archery 8AM Trap & Skeet 10AM

Sun Sets 7:50PM

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Friday

Trap & Skeet 3PM

Sun Sets 7:33PM

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Thursday

Sun Sets 7:54PM

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Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

Indoor Archery Leagues 10AM & 7PM

April 1

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Black Powder 6PM Rifle Range

4 Youth Archery 8AM Trap & Skeet 10AM

Trap & Skeet 3PM Sun Sets 7:59PM

Archery Call Rob @ 989-971-8540 Pistol Call David 989-928-9821

Sun Sets 8:03PM

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A Word from the President Mike Meyer

(State of the Club - Highlights of 2014) Capital improvements - Lower pistol range Expanded the lower pistol range – doubled in size Constructed a new canopy over the shooting line - Renovation of indoor archery Removed wall to allow for 30 yd shooting as well as providing a seating area for spectators - Purchased porta-potties for the range areas - Improved the acoustics in the meeting room New Activities - Women’s shooting alliance - IDPA/Defensive pistol Shooting - Thursday afternoon Euchre Games - Regions Archery Shoot Financial Highlights - Paid down building loan by $24,000 half of which came from building donations, brass recycling and sales from our donation table - Paid down Log House loan by $6000 - 2014 Outdoors banquet at Horizons produced the largest net profit since we’ve had it. - Trap and Skeet operations have historically been our second largest money maker, but in the last few years that has been surpassed by archery events. - We have begun to make our newsletter available by email which, once we get the bugs worked out, is on track to save us $8-$9000 per year Youth Events - We have held annual training for Youth Archery, Youth Smallbore rifle and Youth Shotgun, as well as our Hunter education class in September. - We allow Thomas Twp the use of our indoor archery range for youth archery classes. Focus for 2015 - This year, we are planning to improve our entrance road. With the significant amount of traffic that it sees, we have had a serious problem with potholes. Hopefully, we can find an affordable way to improve the road to eliminate this problem. Highlights of the business meeting: - Mike Mosca was recognized as Member of the Year for his numerous volunteer activities. Vaughn Siler received the President’s Award, and Clarence Huebner and Andy Graves received special recognition for their service to the club. - Dale Winters and Dennis Burns decided to not run again for the Board of Directors. They were honored for their past service as board members. - Rob Komyathy, Jim De Clerck, Joey Lee, Greg King and Tom Heritier were recognized ning and representing the club -

for their efforts in run-

15 year old Caitlan Boehler was recognized for her harvest of a nice 8 pt buck during the youth hunt.

Election of Directors Wayne Hanson, Charles Hoover, Robert Komyathy and Pat Reis ran for board positions as incumbents, Carl Hubinger and David Anderson ran as nominees from the previous membership meeting. Because there are 7 board positions available, all six were voted in as directors by acclamation.

The Trap & Skeet Field Mike Meyer

A big thank you goes out to Cabelas for their donation of 3 cases of shotgun shells to our youth shotgun training that starts in late spring. Before that though, is the youth small bore training, starting in April. Watch this newsletter for more details in the coming months. Saginaw Field & Stream Club held a thirteen target lead at the end of the third shoot of our traveling winter trap league. But I think we blew that big time at our fourth shoot. Our individual scores ranged from 13 to 21. Oh well, we’ve still got two shoots to make it up. The following shooters broke 25 straight December 23rd through February 21st :

Trap

Skeet

25 Straight

25 Straight

Bill Otter – 2

- None –

Greg King - 2

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Saginaw Field and Stream Club At the January membership meeting, Gary Cuttitta, State Match Director IDPA, presented an overview of what IDPA is and talked about what a program of this type can do for our club. It’s been just a year now since some of us went out to the Linwood Bay Sportsmen’s Club to see for ourselves what all the excitement was about. Since that time, we have had 5 club members become certified as IDPA Safety Officers, gotten the club registered as an IDPA sanctioned club and started our Thursday night shoots. With over 100 shooters coming out to shoot, we have a great start. Now, we have 5 more individuals who will be going for their Safety Officer certifications and plans are underway for a great new season.

We will be hosting an event titled “An introduction to IDPA” on April 30th at the club house. This event is open to anyone in the area who wants to learn more about IDPA. This is a non-shooting event, open to the public and offered at no cost. We will be talking about everything from the kind of equipment used, rules, scoring, range safety and protocol, stage design and more. If you or someone you know might like to see what it’s all about mark your calendar and join us. We will start at 7:00 p.m. We have scheduled our first shoot for May 7th. Like last year, we will be setting up at 3:00 p.m. IDPA/Defensive Pistol Practice

IDPA Pistol Program and be ready for shooters by 4:00. We will go until dark every Thursday afternoon through October. With additional safety officers, we can run a couple of stages and our goal this year is to run through the stages more quickly. Again, we will be charging $5 to come out and shoot. We have plans to host our first match in July and will be looking for volunteers and shooters. Watch for more information to come. Contact Carl Hubinger 989 989 642 5487 Joey Lee 989 989 996 0397

Pistol Range Committee update: Looking forward to spring and some warmer weather, the Pistol Range Committee met on 2/10/15 to plan for the upcoming season. Our goals for the 2015 season are improving safety and creating a fun and safe shooting environment for all. The committee discussed the need to raise the berm on the right side of the upper pistol range that backs up to the Cowboy Shooting range. This will be a big undertaking and we need your help! We are looking for dirt, equipment to move and position the dirt, and volunteers. The Pistol Range Committee will meet each month on the 2nd Tuesday at 7:00 at the club house. Our next meeting is scheduled for March 10th, 7:00 p.m. at the club house. We welcome any member who would like to join us to attend. Other plans include working on a monthly “fun shoot” for members and guests to come out and enjoy some fun and challenging target shooting with some competition and prizes thrown in. We have scheduled a “work” day on May 2nd at 8:00 a.m... This will be a time to work on the berm, get all the target stands out, clean up and organize the ranges and have some fun. We will get the grills out and cook up some brats and burgers and in the afternoon, we will have a “fun shoot”. If you are interested in getting involved with the Pistol Range Committee please call or email: David Anderson- [email protected] (989 -928-9821)

The Women’s Shooting Alliance We will also be meeting after our Sunday meetings at It is currently minus 8 degrees. I can’t even think Applebee’s for some informal “gun talk” and food. about heading out to the range to get in some shootThis will be a fun and informal way to get to know ing, but I can think about what we have to look foreveryone and have a little fun. ward to when the temperatures rise come spring. Topics for this year’s meetings are still being finalized Erin and I have been meeting to talk about how we but we plan to kick off the first one with a discussion can make the WSA a fun, empowering and educaon “Going to the range…your first time”. tional experience for all women. We’ve discussed th some changes that I hope you’ll all find exciting and Our March meeting is scheduled for March 15 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and then off to Applebee’s. We want to tell your friends about. hope you will all join us! We are dedicated to creating a supportive and fun environment for all women who want to learn to shoot Joey Lee ([email protected]) 989-996-0397 * in a safe setting. Whether you are brand new to Erin O’Rourke ([email protected]) 989-326shooting or have been shooting for awhile, getting 3792 together with other women in a safe environment is our goal. We hope you’ll join us to learn. We have made some changes. We will continue to meet on the 3rd Sunday of the month from 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. We will do all of our shooting on the lower range and we are going back to basics. For those women who are comfortable shooting and just want to work on developing their skills, the area under the canopy will be open to all who have shot with us before and want to do some target practice. We will be working with those who wish to have a more oneon-one experience on the other side of the lower range. The goal is to work with those who need the extra help and to allow those who just want to have some fun with their target practice to go for it.

The Archery Range Hopefully it’s going to warm up soon, as I write this it’s -13 degrees out. We just hosted our 2nd 3D shoot of the year and turnout wasn’t too bad If you have never shot one of these, you owe it to yourself to try it, they are lots of fun. The next indoor 3d is scheduled for the 21st and 22nd of March. Our J.O.A.D. program is going great, and the progress these kids are making is awesome. Our indoor leagues are going good, remember if you want to come out and shoot for fun on any league night you are more than welcome to join in. I am also looking for feedback from our shooters to see if we can make things better or change things up. So if you would like to see something be done different or have some ideas on what we can do to improve our archery program I am all ears.

In addition, we will be available for all new shooters to meet with us prior to our monthly shoot for some basic pistol training. This way, we can provide the extra time to help those just starting out and make sure everyone who joins us on Sunday is prepared and knows the safe gun handling rules. The additional dates and times will be on the Wednesday before the monthly shoot from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. and the Saturday the week before the shoot from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. These sessions will need to be arranged for prior to the date by contacting either Erin or me by phone or Rob Komyathy email. For those interested in working on their defensive shooting skills, please join us every Thursday afternoon/evening for the weekly IDPA/Defensive Shooting practice.

February, 2015

NATURAL RESOURCES REPORT

There was quite a discussion on the U.P. deer habiFor legislative issues go to “Lansing Watch” on our tat, particularly the wintering grounds. A number of work groups are assisting the DNR on resolving web page. (saginawfieldandstream.com) the issues. Of course, the wolf plan was discussed The month started out with the Lake Huron Citizens as well as efforts to get things back on track. Fishery Advisory committee meeting. The main topic was the depressed perch population in Sagi- The public appearances had some whining and naw Bay and the over population of walleyes. The complaining although less than usual. The heaviest DNR presented a number of histories on both spe- topic was the Graymont proposal. As to Graymont, cies. The lack of food is causing the walleye to prey the Director signed off on the mineral exchange but on perch to a much greater extent than in the past held off on the land exchange. and even with that the walleye are on a slow growth You should know that the legislature can sell land trip. I mentioned at past meetings that the DNR without the DNR being involved. In other words, needs to change the walleye creel limit, size limit the Graymont proposal could have been agreed to and have a no closed season. The intent would be and completed a long time ago via legislative acto reduce the walleye population. This would re- tion. The legislature did not do that because the lieve the perch from predation and allow the wall- uproar would have been hazardous to their reeleceyes more food. All three options were discussed tion prospects. Better to let the DNR take the hit, and the conclusions were as follows: Creel limits albeit the legislature is in the background prodding are expected to be quite effective and will be con- the DNR. I shouldn’t blame the entire legislature as sidered in the near future; No closed season is also it seems it is a few select senators who are the culexpected to be quite effective and will be consid- prits. I learned that both houses have five or six top ered after much consultation with Law Division; priorities, one of which is to sell off state land. I furLowering size limits is not going to be a considera- ther learned that these few select senators are tion as most anglers will keep only the larger fish. pushing the DNR to honor any and all offers for the These options will be discussed further with the in- purchase of state land, regardless of size or locatent to change regulations as soon as time allows. tion. Such action would chop up the remaining state The State Park Advisory committee continued their land, block lake and stream access, cut off trails and review of those parks in most need of refurbishing. make it impossible to use as you wouldn’t know if This time it was McLain near Hancock and Straits you were on public or private land. Hunters using under the Mackinaw Bridge. I have been to both dogs would be particularly at risk. I believe what I heard because I have reported on similar action in and they are very nice scenic parks. the past both in this message and in the Lansing Marketing continues to be high on the radar and Watch on our web page. If you look at the latest much progress is being made. The current effort is Lansing Watch you will find the same old nonsense. to make direct contact with citizens to promote the I don’t know what drives these people to want to natural resources of Michigan. destroy the main recreational attraction this state A couple of items stood out at the wildlife and fish- has. Of course, there’s the money these senators eries session. The Black Lake sturgeon season last- have long lusted for. Maybe they think if there’s no ed five and a half hours. Five sturgeon were har- public land the DNR funding can go their pet projects. While we are fighting among ourselves over vested weighing from 31 pounds to 87 pounds. minor issues we may be losing a place to pursue those issues. When you sit in any fisheries meeting you hear; Well, if the legislators want to sell off state land in “Why can’t the DNR plant more of this or more of pieces I’ll make an offer on the capital building and that?” To start with the hatcheries are at capacity any other property occupied by legislators, tear and only certain fish can be raised in each hatchery. down the buildings and leave them searching for a The water available and the temperature of the wa- place. Maybe then they’ll know how we feel. ter are the limiting factors. Add more hatcheries? -Funding is hardly available for proper maintenance let alone new construction. Jim De Clerck

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