The McHenry Sportsmen’s Club
Weingart at Rolling Rock
Road
Johnsburg, Illinois 60050
October, 10 2000
Dear Members and Families:
We are well into our fall season. Most of the ATA activities will be winding down for the winter (except for those who book airline tickets to shoot out of state). This means many of us will be once again shooting at our local clubs. We welcome all of you at the McHenry Sportsmen’s Club and hope to be seeing all of you soon.
This
year we will once again be hosting our annual Fall Turkey Shoot. The format will be much like last year. The guys are forever attempting to figure
out new and better ways of conducting the games, but as of now, things seem
stable.
The
dates for the shoot are as follows:
Saturday, November 4 and
Sunday November 5, 2000
From 12:00 PM
until 5:00 PM
This
shoot normally has a great turnout, so please mark your calendars and
join in on some fun and at the same time, bring home your Thanksgiving turkey.
We have arranged another gun raffle. The prize is a Browning BT-100. I have seen this gun, and I hope I win it.
The demand for shooting doubles has gotten to the point where it is the next action item at McHenry. As nice as our automatic machines appear to be, they are not capable of releasing two targets at the same time.
The raffle is intended to help the club raise money to purchase a trap machine capable of throwing ATA regulation trap doubles. Once installed, this machine will be normally available any time the club is open. Its duty priority will be any type of game where “true pair” doubles are involved.
This comes right on the heels of a successful rollout of automatic trap machines earlier this year.
The tickets are twenty dollars for a single ticket and fifty dollars for a group of three.
There are one hundred and twenty eight tickets with “twenty-some” tickets sold already. We hope to have the remaining tickets sold by the end of the year. The drawing will occur when the tickets are sold.
This will help our club. We want to keep improving the club and not increase the shooting fees. This is a good way to do this. And.. just think, you may win the gun after all. The odds are very favorable.
The
summer league is ending at this writing..
The prizes will be awarded during the Turkey Shoot.
Another
league is brewing and from what I am told, there will be less targets and
handicapped in such a way that anyone, regardless of their shooting ability
will have an equal chance of winning.
When the format becomes finalized, we will send the information as soon
as possible to you.
Sincerely,
The McHenry Sportsmen’s Club