NEWS
*Visit the Media & Shooting Info Links...
Good Morning All,
I've posted highlights of this year's NSCA Advisory Council Meeting on
the Zone 7 web site. Also, rule changes that have gone into effect
(housekeeping issues), and the ballot questions to the Delegates for
approval are listed.
I hope this web site becomes a useful tool. Please pass this onto
as
many people as possible.
Thanks!!!
Adam Pinto
Zone 7 Delegate
Hello all,
Some shooters were wondering why the NSCA did away with the plastic
membership card. See Lori Hartmann's [NSCA Club Administrator] reply
below.
As of this date it looks like Nevada has three All American Shooters !
Congratulations to Mo Daane, Lady All American and to All American
Sub-Junior Shooters, Greg Mackintosh and Drew Rappaport.
Please tell your shooting friends to sign-up on Carson Valley Clay's
we will be notifying all Nevada shooters of events around the state --
Nearly all this year's events are now posted on Carson Valley's Website
on the state website [or soon to be] to the larger shoots around Zone 7
sponsored by State Delegate Adam Pinto
Thanks,
Joe
Desert Lakes is coming back!!!
The new Owners of Desert Lakes
Country Club will be re-opening the facility by the end of January. Once
they are on their feet, we should see registered shoots as well. The club
will be open to the public, and offer memberships. Please stay tuned for
more information as it becomes available.
Nevada State Shoot concurrent awards.
There were in and out of state concurrent awards in the Nevada State shoot
program in both the Main event and in the Main Five Stand event. Concurrent
awards were given two down for in state and 1st place out of state. After I
revisiting the Carson Valley Clays program it clearly stated in bold type
that on the preliminary day there would not be any
concurrent awards.
It was the club's intention not give out any plastic / wood trophies just to
fill out the awards package. They were given over $10,000 by the Nevada
State Sporting Clays Association for trophies and added money, plus I was
told that the club put up an additional $2500.00 to purchase the very best
buckles / money clips they could buy, nearly every award was in the $100.00
range including those given to the out of state winners.
Carson Valley Clays gave trophies 3 deep for in state shooters and 2 deep
for out of state shooters in both the main sporting and five stand, plus a
shooting bag to the winner of each class in and out of state for the main
sporting event and all money was equally divided both in and out of
state.
Please remember that the main event was only $150.00 with $10.00 back to
class, there was only so much money to go around, all this and a free free
hot dog !
Thanks to all who attended !
Joe Winnicki, President, nvssca
Update --- If you haven't pre-squaded by Sunday night 8-6-06 you might not
get the flight times that you requested. NEARLY all requested flight times
have been met at this time.
As of 12am Monday 8-7-06 we have 170 shooters pre-registered. Please try to
car pool, we have expanded our parking facility but parking is still
somewhat limited.
ATTN: The Preliminary 12gauge and ALL small gauge events will start at the same
time on Friday 8-11-06 at 8:30am. The course will now accommodate all the
events at once. 5 stand will be unchanged for now !
The FITASC at Capitol City Gun Club is also filling up, please check with
Dave Fiedler at CCGC 882-9904. Remember FITASC will only be shot on Thursday
and Friday 8-10-06 and 8-11-06.
After looking at a posting on Shotgun Sports "dot" com -- it was
suggested that the Nevada State meeting be held at Carson Valley Clays
Saturday afternoon. The position taken was that having the meeting at
Carson Valley Inn during the dinner was in essence charging a member
$25.00 to attend the state meeting. A point well taken ! But in fact
there would be no charge to attend the State meeting at the Carson
Valley Inn. For those of you who attended last year's State meeting
might I remind you that there were fewer than 15 of us who stayed after
the shooting ended Saturday afternoon.
My only intention was to try and maximize the number of members at the
State meeting. There was also some concerns about the amount of time
between finishing Saturdays events and when the dinner started. I agree,
under the circumstances it would be better if we held the State meeting
and elections after Saturday's events / shootoffs on the club house
porch, see ya there !
Thanks for your input and your patience.
************
If you are planning on shooting the FITASC at the Capitol City Gun Club
either Thursday or Friday as part of the Nevada State Sporting Clays
Shoot you may sign-up at CCGC, entry forms will be available there. Call
Dave Fiedler at 775-882-9904 --- Don't forget to make the Friday night
shooters party.
CVC President Dave Sharpe and CVC board member Tom Clark will be in
charge of target setting for most of the events during the state shoot.
Both Dave and Tom have completed Mike McAlpine's Clay Target Setting
Academy. Their goal is to set target displays that are new and unique to
all that attend this year's Nevada State Shoot, they're hoping to take
away some of the home field advantage from the local shooters.
Carson Valley Clays does not have rental golf carts available, bring
your own. The course is slightly hilly but walkable, the roads and
trails have been resently graded. See pictures at
Walker River Resort has just opened a second sporting clays course, they
now have a total of 24 stations, a truly great shooting facility. WRR is
a full service RV camp ground and is less than 45 minutes south of
Carson Valleys Clays. Call Leia at 800-446-2573
ATTENTION SHOOTERS:
Please refer to this site for all updates on Nevada State
Shoot and all related matters concerning Carson Valley Clays. The Carson
Valley Clays website will not be posting new information at this time,although
the information on it at this time is accurate, except for Nevada State Shoot
information. There are some slight changes on the entry form for the state shoot
so please use the one on the
http://.www.nvssca.com (The changes are regarding the trophy packages for
preliminary sporting event and the small gauge events, the trophies for these
events will be combined in and out of state).
Lets welcome Nevada's newest sporting
clays shooting club.
Spring Creek Trap & Skeet Elko,
NV. 1-775-753-8549
Moe Matys is the owner/ manager. Moe is an
accomplished shooter with many years of experience putting on Trap and Skeet
Shoots.
See Spring Creek's sporting clays shooting schedule under
"Events" on the front page.
Good
Luck Moe.
Joe
Winnicki
Sage Hill Clay Sports, in Reno, Nevada
Under mostly typical Nevada sunny skies, Sage Hill Clay Sports
hosted The 2004 Nevada state Championships on August 12, 13, 14, & 15. This
years state shoot was the largest ever held with 186 competitors in the main
event and nearly 200 participants over the span of the four day event.
Day one saw the small gauge events being played out at Sage Hill
Clay Sports, while the Capital City Gun Club in near-by Carson City, Nevada
hosted the Nevada State FITASC Championship event with the cooperation of Sage
Hill Clay Sports. Capital City Gun Club manager and professional target setter
Dave Feidler laid out some truly awesome target displays, these presentations
were certainly much to the liking of Reno, Nevada shooter Andy Humphriss who
took home the FITASC top prize.
As the shoot moved into day two all events moved over to Sage Hill
Clay Sports where field manager Rodney Bullard took over and masterfully
coordinated great target displays and the maintenance of nearly fifty traps.
Fridays preliminary event saw Gardnerville, Nevada's Steve White
edge out the likes of All American Albert Bogetti Jr. by a single target posting
the winning score of 97.
On Saturday the shoot shifted into the main event, after the first
leg of the 200 target State Championship a handful of shooters were within grasp
of a potential State Championship, most notably was the 2003 State Champion Beau
Nyrehn from Elko, Nevada. Beau posted the days high in state score with a 99
also in with a 99 was California's Albert Bogetti Jr. and after the dust settled
on Sunday Beau Nyrehn managed to repeat as Nevada's State Champion and Albert
Bogetti Jr. won the Open Championship.
The only remaining major Nevada state Championship that needed to
be decided was the Five Stand. This would prove to be a real shoot out by two
Reno, Nevada shooters, Jim Crouse and Woody Chesnut. After the initial ten bird
shoot off failed to produce a winner the shoot out went to miss and out with Jim
Crouse taking the win.
Much of the success of this years Nevada State Shoot must go to
Darlene Bullard, owner/manager of Sage Hill Clay Sports and her most
capable staff. In addition Darlene's donation of a Beretta 391 shotgun to be
given away at a drawing open to all shooters, and nearly $10,000. in added money
and prizes from the Nevada Sporting Clays Association helped to create interest
in the shoot.
By Joe
Winnicki
State Shoot Agenda and Issues.
NSCA / NVSSCA members if you have an issue and would like to bring it up
for
discussion at the Nevada State Meeting please e-mail me at:
JW
Air travelers when traveling with firearms check with your air
carrier
first. Ground travelers go to the gun law guide link below
To: Contact Transportation Security Administration or Homeland
Security
Department.
Joe Winnicki, TSA Employee
Northern Nevada Youth program a big success !!
Dave Sanger, of the Nevada Fish and Wildlife has put together a great
youth shooting program, with the help of Sage Hill's Owner Darlene
Bullard, Tom Forbes pro-shop manager and 20 volunteers from the gun
club.
The program is for kids between the ages of 12 and 16. The first half
hour of the class stresses gun safety and basic clay target shooting
theories followed by shooting 12 trap and 12 skeet targets, one on
one
with the instructors.
After completion of this six week course the students will be treated
to
a free sporting clays competition sponsored by Carson Valley Clays.
[see
link] CVC President Dave Sharpe has the full support of the CVC
membership, the members are volunteering their time pulling,
providing
lunch, prizes and free targets for the youthful shooters.
Foot note: Mason Valley Trap and Skeet along with Carson Valley Clays
sent five junior shooters [all expenses paid] to shoot at the Grand
American Trapshoot in Vandalia, Ohio last year.
This Youth program has produced very positive results for the Sage
Hill
club. Dads and Grand Dads have pulled their old fire sticks out of
the
closet to shoot with the kids. We have a whole squad of moms lined up
for the next six week session.
I would hope more Nevada clubs will get on line and promote youth
shooting.
Linda Hand, Nevada State Trapshooting Delegate from the Las Vegas Gun
Club has also put together a very good youth clay target shooting
program. For those of you in the southern part of the state, Linda
Hand
or Steve Carmichael, owner of the LVGC, are the people to see or
e-mail
me. [Joe Winnicki] [See "
Contacts" on the nvssca website]
Good Shooting,
Joe
HOME
DISCUSSION
LINKS
EVENTS
NEWS
SPONSORS
GEAR