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Key access to the new Trap and Skeet
field is obtained by training and club service.
As a member of PCSC, you have access
to shoot on the skeet and trap fields while accompanied by any member that has
gone through the Shotgun Orientation. You may use the hand operated traps
south of the Trap and Skeet fields at anytime.
If you would like to go through the Shotgun Orientation in order to get a key to
the Trap and Skeet Houses so you can shoot Skeet or Trap at anytime, all you
have to do is attend one of the Shotgun Orientations held at 11AM on the first
Saturday of each month and then attend one of the monthly Club Meetings to have
your paperwork signed off and receive your key. Club Meetings are held on
the third Thursday of each month.
See our web site at:
http://www.parkersportsman.com/calendar.htm
Contact Robert Wood and Harry
Towler for details. You may use the contact form page also. Your
interest will be forwarded.
First Saturday of the month
Orientation for New Members is at 9:30. Trap and Skeet orientation will follow
at approx 11 am.
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Shotgun
Committee Notes:
Several
notes regarding the Shotgun Committee are appropriate, I believe, as we
approach the end of the year.
First, the
use of the shotgun ranges is up considerably from last year judging by
rounds purchased, so the members are using the range more and that is
the whole object of the Shotgun Committee formation.
The Saturday morning shooting is really busy and seems to be
enjoyed by all. The 4-H
Club shooters are buying a lot of rounds and that is encouraging for the
future of the sport and the ownership of firearms in general.
Second,
please exercise caution and proper procedures when opening and closing
of the trap and skeet houses. These machines can break a hand, arm or leg in a heartbeat if
one is not careful. Too
many times the skeet machines are left in the cocked position because
the person closing the houses fails to release the arm by pushing down
on the spring loaded switch prior to unplugging the power cord.
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Then that person and the next person to open the house ends up
standing in front of a cocked arm in order to replace/remove the steel
closure to the window. This
is a dangerous practice. Please
release the arm with the switch, unplug the power cord and then replace
the steel closure. Also
when releasing the arm, make sure no other member is in the flight path
of the bird picking up hulls, etc.
In general be cautious around these machines and do not walk in
front of the skeet house window or the trap house when they are in
operation.
Next item
is an obvious failure in the part of those who give the orientations.
It must not be emphasized enough during the Orientation that when
the member is through shooting and had shut down the machine, IT MUST BE
REFILLED with clay targets. If
you are in a time bind and don’t have time to refill the machine, then
you don’t have time to shoot in the first place.
Please be courteous to the member that is following you and
refill the machines when you have completed your rounds.
Gentlemen are conscious of the burdens they may impose on others.
Happy
Holidays and we’ll see y’all at the range
- Harry Towler |
Trap shoots
schedule available at:
Texas
Trapshooters Association
Our Team
Five Parker County Sportsman Club members entered the Inter-Club
Skeet and Trap Shoot at the Fort Worth Trap and Skeet Club Saturday
3/21/09 in the Open-Industrial Division. The team consisted of John
Scott, Randy Arnold, George Smith, Rusty Perrin and Harry Towler.
They came away with Runner-Up trophies with scores of 212 in Skeet
and 238 in Trap for a combined 450 for the 500 targets. This was the
first year for competition in this Division.
John Scott also won the Shoot-Off for HOA Runner-Up for Trap.
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Heads up gang:
September
Newsletter
Covered Dish Dinner on Election
Night
No further steel targets
allowed on range
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