The Airfield Flyer, November 2009, Volume 4, No. 11

In my last newsletter column, I advertised our next Women on Target class coming up on Saturday, November 14, 2009.  I was one of the instructors at the last Women on Target class held in April of this year.  We had fifty enthusiastic ladies that attended.  As one of the instructors, I witnessed ladies that were initially nervous or unsure, and whose statements were “I’m not sure I can do that.” or “Do I have to shoot a rifle?”, but soon those statements changed to “Let me try that again!” or “I cannot wait to buy my own rifle (shotgun, pistol, etc.).”  The class provide

Boy Scouts - We’ve recently been doing a lot of work with Boy Scout groups.  I’m always excited when we have the opportunity to introduce young folks to the shooting sports.  There is so much misinformation out there about firearms that it is WONDERFUL to have the opportunity to properly inform those who will decide the future of our sport.  Due to Boy Scout requirements this work falls primarily on those of us who hold NRA instructor credentials, but each and every one of you can help in y

Please do not set items upon the target frames to use as targets. When you miss the mark, all to often you hit the frame tearing it up. This cost your club money and resources to repair and replace.  Place targets on the cardboard provided and hang them in the approved fashion.

In the near future The frames will be painted red and carry a do not shoot reminder.

   On Saturday October 24th. Airfield Shooting Club provided Range Safety Officers and Instructors to Boy Scout Troop #364 under Scoutmaster and ASC member Mike Lambiase for their camping and shooting weekend at Airfield 4-H Center. The boy's received training and practice in rifle, shotgun, and archery disciplines.

A big thanks to members Dale Mullin, Steve Gordon, Curtis Stone and Dave Yaconis  for spending a full day assisting Mike and myself teach youngsters the safe handling of firearms.

Those of you who use our skeet range may or may not be aware that we’ve run into some minor issues with our skeet keys.  The keys that have been issued are what we refer to as “count-up” keys.  They allow our members to keep track of the rounds they’ve shot by counting up as targets are selected on the control panel.  The keys have a built in safeguard in case they should be lost and fall into the hands of non-members.  The keys will not allow more than 2000 targets (that is 80 rounds of skeet) to be thrown until their programming has been refreshed.

Is the cost of ammunition getting you down? The VSSA is holding reloading clinics at Gander Mountain.

Cartridge Clinic 7 November in Richmond

Shotgun Clinic 5 December Richmond

Clinic runs from 10AM to 6:30PM

For more information and other dates and places go to VSSA Reloading.

I have been reloading for a long time but it was usually just to save money for target practice, so I usually just used the starting load in many of the books. Sometimes I would modify a few things to see what would happen but for the most part if went boom when I pulled the trigger it was good.