The Satuit Nimrod

Nominations for the Executive Board were closed at our September 4th meeting. As all the positions were unopposed, the Chairman of the Nominating Committee cast the one vote necessary to elect the slate.

The officers for FY2024 are:

President: Mike Kinahan

Vice President: Ken Crowell

Secretary: Richard Martin

Treasurer: Mike Fechter

Executive Officer: Dave Glancy

Directors: Bill Berry, John Dwyer, John Hatherley, Arty Johannesen, Phil Lennon, Ron Rice

Look for September's regular business meeting to move to the first Tuesday of the month starting next year as holding it on the Monday conflicts with Labor Day. If there are no contested positions on the Executive Board, this meeting will also be the Annual Meeting. If a vote is needed, then the Annual Meeting will be held on the third Monday in September. 

Dues and Keys

Fobs for those members in arrears have been disabled. New keys are available at club meetings, during organized activities and, generally, weekday afternoons around 4:00 PM when a group of members meet to drink coffee and solve the problems of the world.

Pistol

We had six shooters compete in the "Miss and You're Out!" match held in dank conditions on Saturday, September 16th. The course of fire was shot three times. Winning the Iron Sights category in all three relays was some Old Bloke (OB) with a funny accent shooting a .22 rimfire pistol.

In the first relay, Alex Koines, Drew Thomson and the OB rang all the targets resulting in a shoot off on a 12-inch square plate at 50 yards; the shoot off went for three cycles. Drew Thompson switched to an optically sighted gun for the second and third relays and, naturally, won both. Both Alex Koines and the OB shot clean in the second relay resulting in a shoot off that went for four cycles. After the third cycle the shoot off was shot one handed. Lastly, in the third relay it was Alex and the OB battling it out at 50 yards for five cycles. Again, the shooters switched to a one-handed hold after the third cycle.

The next pistol match will be a Halloween themed "Spooktacular" fun shoot on Sunday, October 29th starting at 9:00 am. An email blast with the details will be sent closer to the date.

Skeet and Trap

The time to record your 10 rounds in the Summer Trap Contest has been extended due to weather and days without clays. All scores must be posted by Tuesday, October 10th. On Saturday, October 14th, all are welcome for a social gathering at 12:00 to award prizes for 1st and 2nd place. We'll have a grill cranked up if you wish to bring something to grill — BYO bevvies. 

Skeet has resumed shooting on Wednesday evenings from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm.

Cowboy Action Shooting

The Cowboy Action Shooters of the SRGC hosted a Wild Bunch match titled "Have Three Guns Will Shoot" on Saturday September 23rd.

The match consisted of five separate and distinct shooting scenarios.  The total number of rounds fired by each competitor was 188. These rounds were fired from three different firearms in each scenario.  The guns used were a 1911 in 45acp caliber, a Winchester Model 97 or a Model 12  shotgun and a lever action rifle in 40 caliber or greater.

We were able to complete the five stages before the rain fell.

The winners were, in the Modern Category; Mark Baker, and in the Traditional Category; Ron Rice.

We look forward to hosting another match sometime before the end of the year.

Candy-filled pumpkins will be dropped from a crane courtesy of Dave Glancy and dglancycrane.com on Saturday, October 28th at 1:00 p.m. The pumpkins are hollowed out and filled with candy.

This Pumpkin Drop is for club members and their children only — emphasis on the children. The public is not invited. Strict safety protocols will be in place with children not allowed to proceed to the impact zone until the pumpkins have hit the ground — then it will be a free-for-all.

Trap will be open from 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM for those members wanting to get a couple of rounds in. 

A recent incident in Las Vegas proved once again that armed citizens save lives—and sometimes many, many lives.

On June 23, a man wearing a helmet and armed with a rifle and other firearms charged into the Turnberry Towers luxury condominiums in Las Vegas and began firing shots in the lobby area. Humberto Garcia, an armed front-desk employee carrying a concealed firearm, quickly shot the attacker, putting an end to what could have been a mass-murder situation.

Lt. Noe Esparza with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department tried to calm the public by saying, “I want to dispel any reports of any active assailant or any active shooter situations; that was not the case here today.”

But, had the attacker not been stopped, it could have quickly turned into an “active-shooter situation.” Some residents who were near the site of the attack called the desk employee a “hero” and believe he saved their lives. The incident was briefly in the news, but once the armed citizen aspect was discovered, gun-control advocates and much of the so-called mainstream media simply chose to ignore the story.

This “lie of omission” is nearly as telling as the outright untruths they regularly claim about armed Americans. Here’s where they’re wrong. Read the entire article here.