ESCONDIDO FISH & GAME ASSOCIATION O CT O BER 2 0 1 9 Affiliated with: National Rifle Association. • Calif. Rifle & Pistol Association. • California Outdoor Heritage Alliance Single Action Shooting Society • San Diego Wildlife Federation & The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association Civilian Marksmanship Program • National Shooting Sports Foundation MEETINGS Board Meeting 1st Thursday 6:30 PM - Meeting Hall Linda’s Lines General Meeting 2nd Thursday 7:15 PM Meeting Hall Another month, another newsletter. There is a lot of news this month, most of it is good. OFFICERS President - Linda Linaker, LM First the bad. We need to be mindful of our surroundings. 760.638.0573 When you come to the range, be sure to leave with all of your [email protected] equipment. Maybe a checklist both when you leave home and Vice President - Darrin Eaton,LM when you leave the range would be helpful. Don’t forget your 760.630.8339 [email protected] firearms! Recording Secretary - Geoff Orchin LM 760.741.3721 Now the good news. We have a new shoot chair for Women on [email protected] Target. Breda Walsh will be heading up the WOT program. Her DIRECTORS first event is scheduled for October 26th. Spread the word. We want her event to be a success. Thank her for stepping forward, Mark Baldwin 760-715-1871 Yosi Boublil 760.214.3582 she is excited to start. Chris Cote 847.224.6898 Ren Everett LM 760.432.2089 Also, Chris Cote has stepped up to be the new Junior Trap Mike Marks PP LM 760.744.7784 chair and is working closely with the other shoot chair, Curt Ed Migdal LM 760.598.0093 Summers. The first Saturday was a real success. 21 kids were there Patrick Russ LM 760.644.2751 and lots of smiles were in evidence. Look out trap shooters, these Chief Range Officer kids are going to be competition! Jay Zimmett LM - 858.735.2354 [email protected] The last new item is a special thanks to the ever busy Darrin Assistant Chief Range Officer Eaton. Check out the new trap lights. We appreciate Darrin’s hard Mark Baldwin - 760-715-1871 [email protected] work coordinating this big improvement - On time and under budget. If only the government could work this efficiently. Grounds & Maintenance Pete Olson 760-518-9855 Treasurer Everyone have a great October. See you soon on the Range. Lucy Nelson LM - 760.533.3771 [email protected] Association Clerk Juli Everett LM - 760.432.2089 [email protected] Newsletter / Webmaster [email protected] [email protected] www.escondidofishandgame.com Linda Linaker 16525 Guejito Rd. • Escondido, CA 92027 I More Bodies, Less Work I enjoy numerous events at EF&GA. My favorites (in no particular order) are Junior Rifle, Junior Pistol, Junior Trap, Work Parties, Combat Match, AR-15 Steel Match, Annual Barbecue, Cracker Shoot, Trap, 5-Stand and a few others. I would participate in more events but I keep having to go to work and keep my beautiful wife happy at home (doing the dishes and taking out the trash). I was thinking that all of these events have one thing in common – they all require a lot of work to set up, run, and tear down. Each event has a shoot chair that orchestrates the mayhem and makes it all work properly. In every case, without a bunch of volunteers pitching in to help out, the shoot chair would be overworked and grumpy. Because we have a great bunch of participants, we usually have a lot of volunteer help to make it all happen. I have had to run a few events so I know how critical it is to have people offer to help out and make my life easier. I have also talked to numerous shoot chairs about this and we all agree – We all appreciate when people step up and help out to make events run smoothly. If you have helped set up and/or tear down an GUNTHER event and you wondered if anyone noticed, believe me – it is noticed and appreciated greatly. New * Used * Consignments Tues. thru Sun. 10am - 6pm I Make Time to Attend a General Meeting www.GuntherGuns.com Bring a friend to the next General Meeting and one or both GUNS 2717 Loker Ave West * Carlsbad * 760-444-1100 of you could win a few bucks. At the last General Meeting, Geoff Orchin won the $25 door prize. Had he attended the meeting, Timothy Treso would have won the $500 Attendance Prize. The next General Meeting is 10/10/2019. If you don’t show up, you can’t win. I Donor List (9/12/2019) Thanks to all who donated to the raffle table at the last General Meeting – Dave Rylaarsdam, Bud Smith, Bill Williams, Al Anzelone, Scotti Clary, Pamela A Tucker, Bob Leider, Jim Rolfes, Elvio Marchi, Mark and Laurel Baldwin, Ray Bucholz, Chuck Daugherty, Rich Hall, Steve Baran, Joyce and Frank Alessio, Roberto Ramirez, Linda Linaker, Eric Elsam, Wayne Brunner, David Pendergrass, Dorothy Notter, Oliver Lewar. I Be a Raffle Donor Your donations help support our monthly General Meeting Raffle. Our entertainment Chairman is Bud Smith. If you have items you would like to donate to our monthly General meeting raffle, please contact Smoldering Bud at 2 Dossier continued on pg. 3 Dossier continued from pg. 2 Lic. #783634 [email protected]. Please consider new or used items in working order. Thanks for your support. J&B I 2019 Scholarship Winners EF&GA believes that education is an important part of Plumbing becoming a productive member of society. Each year we Inc hold a scholarship award contest for EF&GA members, & Drain, members’ children and members’ grandchildren. In order to qualify, the applicants must fill out the application and write an essay that meets the required criteria. All of the (760) 745-9990 applicants that qualify are have their names placed in a hat and a random drawing of up to four names are selected. This year the winners are Max King, Drianna Brinkmeier, Wyatt Boublil, and Aaron Ferguson. If you know them, be sure to congratulate them. I Coaches Course (10/20/2019) One of the many areas where we need more volunteers is in coaching. We need people to coach for the Junior Marksmanship Programs, Women On Target, and other introductory classes and events. If you are interested in participating but question your abilities as a coach, perhaps the Coaches Course would be a good place to start. The class is a full-day event and lunch is included. Skills for coaching include but are not limited to the skills that are used for shooting. When you learn to coach a specific discipline, it forces you to consider and break down the discipline to a combination of minor components – stance, breathing, trigger control, etc… Because you are forced to dissect it, you re-learn the discipline and become better at it yourself. Also, when you watch a new shooter improve with your assistance and watch them get stoked on their own progress, it is gratify- ing and motivating for yourself. Join us for the Coaches Course and learn how great it can be to coach someone. Please email Ren Everett at [email protected] if you would like to attend. Reservations are not required but strongly rec- ommended so that we can plan for enough food. I Soda Machine Over the past 6 months or so there has been an ongoing saga over the soda machine on the West side of the Trap Ramada. There were problems with getting it refilled and general service issues. After a slew of discussions, negotiations, arguments, threats, and certified letters, the old machine was finally removed. There was a minor casualty from the removal of the old machine. The security cage was damaged but that didn’t stop us. Chris Cote brought up his Escondido Fish & Game Assoc. P.O. Box 460506 welding gear and put it back together again. Escondido, CA 92046 Pub. Monthly, Vol. 22, Issue 10 Dossier continued on pg. 12 3 JUNIOR CORNER by Patrick Russ Junior Rifle (9/15/2019) On September 15th, we had another great Junior Rifle event. The weather was warm, but not hot with a gentle breeze starting about noon. We had approximately 70 kids. These kids did an amazing job as usual. I would not want to be working the scoring table this month as many of the scores were extremely close. I would like to thank the Navy Corpsman of the 1st Marine Division for volunteering with our Junior Rifle program. These young men showed up at the crack of dawn, on their day off, to work with us. They coached the kids in the fundamentals of rifle marksmanship. As the guy that runs the line for this program and a Marine, I can tell you that I loved having a firing line full of Navy Corpsman. It was a huge relief because my biggest fear is that something bad happens at one of these events. With a line full of Corpsman, I knew that if anything did happen, they would receive the best possible care. These guys are life savers, we couldn’t have been in better hands. Not to mention, these guys really knew their stuff with many shooters getting their best scores ever. The kids came away healthy, happy and with a great experience. Just a reminder, Top Gun is coming up soon. Will you be on that list? The November Junior Rifle event will be your last chance to improve your overall scores. Junior Trap is Back Chris Cote has stepped up to work with Curt Summers and get Junior Trap going again.