Volume 30
NOVEMBER 2014
Issue 11
THE NEWSLETTER FOR THE ONTARIO ROD & GUN CLUB
Inc.
2523 Trimble Road, P.O. Box 319, Ontario NY, 14519
2014 Club Officers
and Directors
President:
Ken Paul
Vice President
Jeff Raggi
Secretary
Bill Palermo
Treasurer
Don Anderson
Elected members of
the Board of
Directors
Colin Bartkowiak
Marty Beckenbach
Mike Centola
Dave Colburn
Dave Kielon
Lee McMullen
Tony Massimi
Gary Partridge
Bob Saetta
Doug Trumpowsky
Board Chairman
Steve Verdi
Life Members of the
Board of Directors
Nancy Anderson
Gordon Beh
Nancy Buyze
Bill Dostman I
Rich Haywood
Ken Henderson
Jim Mater
INLAND WATERS
TRAP LEAGUE
The second event of the season was shot over
the traps at the Mendon Conservation Club. Visibility
seemed to be the biggest complaint for most shooters as
scores were abnormally low. High scores of 48 were
posted by Ray Sherbinski and Mike Campbell with Mike
also capturing the Stein trophy. Jennifer Abbott won the
Hayes trophy. Dave bills one $47.50 in the 50-50 raffle
and Andy Nolan won the Beikirch gift certificate.
Congratulations to all! Anyone wishing to compete in the
league must do so at one of the next two shoots.
Team Ontario had some good scores lead by
DOUG TRUMPOWSKY, posting the team-high of a
46. DAVE MUELLER and DON STEADERMAN
were the next with each posting 45s. JEFF HEATER
Posted a 44 while JOE CARDILLO completed team
scoring logging a 41, giving Team Ontario 221 targets
and five league points for the event. Accumulated club
standings at this point found Team Ontario and the team
from Outlet tied with eight points and tied for eighth
place.
The third event of the season found the league
at the traps of the HolField Rod & Gun Club on October
18th and 19th. The threats of rain for Saturday and cold
winds for Sunday didn’t scare anyone away as half of our
members shot each day. There was a lone 49 for the
weekend while six shooters posted 48s. Dave Stratton
collected the Bonbright trophy posting a 46. Scott Long
collected $43.50 from the 50/50 while Rob Dahlen won
the Beikirch gift certificate.
Team Ontario had some decent scores lead by
DOUG TRUMPOWSKY, posting the team-high of a
48. JEFF HEATER followed posting a 47. DON
STEADERMAN and BILL PALERMO were next
with each posting 44s. DAVE MUELLER (along with
Tom Logue, and Kurt Larson) completed team scoring
logging a 42, giving Team Ontario 225 targets and
another five league points for the event. Accumulated
club standings at this point found Team Ontario alone in
solid 8 place with 13 points.
See Bill Palermo for more information. (585)
458 - 5398
RANGE ORIENTATION
All new club members in order to use the rifle
and pistol ranges you must have attended and have
passed the RANGE ORIENTATION.
To register for the next Orientation class to be
conducted on November 15th, 2014 you will need to
contact range coordinator - Gary Partridge (585) 872 4029 or Bill Palermo (585) 458-5398.
WORK DAY
A workday is scheduled for November 1st. Fall
cleanup will be the concentrated effort for our workdays.
Club workdays are an excellent time to be able to put in
your 8 hours of volunteer activity for the club and receive
your work certificate. As they say, many hands make
light work, the more members we have working on
projects will make the jobs finish more quickly. Consider
coming out to our workdays that start at about 9 AM and
will run until about 3 PM (or later). This is your club!
Don't you think it's about time that you put in a little bit
of sweat for the betterment of the club?
CLUB HOUSE
PAINTING
On September 27th eleven members of the club put on
their painting clothes and pitched in to freshen up the
exterior of the Trimble Road club House. Work began at
about 9AM with spray gun, rollers and brushes laying on
the white paint. Several obstacles were overcome with
the job almost complete. Just a small area on the west
side of the building needs to be completed. Many thanks
goes out to Gary & Robin Partridge; “spray man”-Lee
McMullen; Rich Haywood; Tim Green; Bill Dorofy; Don
and Carol Steaderman; Jim Ladelfa; Bill Verhagen; and
Bill Palermo.
Lunch of hot dogs and hamburgers was served
to the hungry crew.
The building looks GREAT! Thanks to all who
took the time to make this a great club!
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NOVEMBER 2014
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MEETING SCHEDULED
Board of Directors meeting has been scheduled for
NOVEMBER 6th at the Trimble Road clubhouse at 7:30 PM.
All members of the Board of Directors are requested to attend
this meeting. Please note new date.
The Scatter Sheet
ONTARIO ROD & GUN CLUB
2015 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
TYPE OF MEMBERSHIP FOR WHICH RENEWING
AND AMOUNT TO BE PAID
(Please circle one)
JUNIOR....$20.00
SINGLE....$60.00
FAMILY....$75.00
SENIOR....$30.00
+$25.00 WORK ASSESSMENT FEE
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
TIME IS UPON US
LIFE……..
Please print clearly
NAME:__________________________________________________
ADDRESS:_______________________________________________
CITY:___________________________________________________
Wow! Where has this year gone? Here it is, getting
close to the time to renew your membership for 2015. Did you
receive your “Work Certificate”? If not make sure that you see
Steve Verdi and obtain your work certificate for the time that
you have put in working at the club. Don’t forget to include it
along with your renewal. At this time, membership fees have
not changed. Please use the renewal form at the right
for your renewal.
STATE:____________________ZIP:__________-__________
PHONE: (__________)______________-_________________
MEMBER DOB:_____________/___________/____________
LIST YOUR FOB NUMBER_______________________
MEMBER OF NRA? [
] YES
[ ] NO
If YES Please list NRA# _________________________________
Do you wish to receive the newsletter by e-mail? [ ] YES [ ] NO
REMBER TO
VOTE ON
NOVEMBER 4th
If YES please list your e-mail address
_____________________________________________________
If renewing a FAMILY MEMBERSHIP please complete the following:
SPOUSE__________________________DOB_____/_____/_____
CHILD 1_________________________DOB_____/_____/_____
CHILD 2_________________________DOB_____/_____/_____
GUNS
BOUGHT  SOLD  TRADED
SPECIAL ORDERS - MAIL ORDER - INTERNET ORDERS
AMMUNITION
CASE LOTS OR BY THE BOX
PROFESSIONAL GUNSMITHING
MODERN & ANTIQUES
RIFLES - SHOTGUNS - HAND GUNS - AIR GUNS
KIELON GUNSMITHS
www.kielongunsmiths.com
CHILD 3_________________________DOB_____/_____/_____
CHILD 4_________________________DOB_____/_____/_____
Junior Membership is for any youngster under the age
of 21 who is full time student and being totally supported by a parent or
guardian. At 21 a Junior Member must renew as a Single Member
Single Membership is for anyone wishing to join the
club who is over the age of 21. The Single Membership covers just the
member.
Family Membership is for any family which wants to join
the club. Membership covers the member and spouse and all children
under the age of 21, living at home and totally supported by the member. When a child family member reaches his or her 21st birthday that
child must sign up under his or her own membership.
Senior Membership is for any member who has reached
his or her 65th birthday and has maintained continuous club membership for 1 year. Work assessment fee does not apply.
Areas of Interest
(Please check all that apply)
Trap Rifle/Pistol Muzzle Loader
Work Assessment Fee: $25.00  Waved
Cash Date Received:_____/_______/_____
Check Check Number: _________________
Amount Received: $______________
10/14
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NOVEMBER 2014
The Scatter Sheet
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PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS
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NOVEMBER 2014
WHY EVERY WOMAN
SHOULD LEARN HOW
TO SHOOT
By: Robbie Spryn
Daughter: “I wonder if any of the gir ls bother ed to
lock any of the windows downstairs?”
Mom: “Well let’s go down and check.”
Daughter: “ I am just too tired, I will just lock the
dead bolt in the room. Besides nothing has ever happened.”
Those words still ring in my head. And how many
times have you seen someone on the news talking about
something bad that happened in their neighborhood and you
hear this spoken, “ But nothing like that has ever happened
here before. This is such a nice quiet neighborhood.”
This is a true story so let me tell you the rest of the
story. We were visiting family in PA for Thanksgiving and my
daughter had just finished several grad school tests and she
wasn’t packed to leave when we arrived at 11PM. She asked
if I minded staying over night with her, and that Dad could pick
us up in the morning. I agreed, and around 12:30AM is when
we had that conversation about checking the windows. So after
that she locked the dead bolt and we went to sleep.
At 2:30AM, I heard two men talking downstairs in the
house, and I elbowed my daughter and whispered, “Get on the
phone and call 911 right now.” She was still groggy and asked
me why? My response was, “ Cause two men are in the house
and they are coming up the stairs… get on the phone and call
911 NOW.“
Not to bore you with all the details, my daughter and I
are ok, but that really scared us. It took the police over 25
minutes to get to the house and they told me we were fortunate,
cause it could have taken 45 minutes or longer. Police are
rarely there in time to stop a crime, they often make it there
after the fact, to do paperwork or to put up the “do not cross…
crime scene tape”.
So how many of you women think it will never
happen to you? If you think that way, now is time to stop
thinking that way and instead think of this: what will you do if
something bad does happen? Will you be a victim or the
victor?
Ladies, this is why I learned how to shoot. Granted I
really didn’t want to do it, not at all. Guns scared me, and that
is the truth. But recently on August 23rd, the Ontario Rod and
Gun had their 3 Gun competition and I, at 60 years of age took
part in it. While I was not trying to compete against the men, I
did a great job with the shooting part.
And why 3
gun? Because if the bad guy comes into my home I want to
know I can handle a shotgun, or a rifle, and finally the pistol, so
that no matter where I am, I feel better prepared to defend
myself or my family if need be.
And guns are NOT for everyone. If you think that you
could not shoot someone even if they were going to harm or kill
The Scatter Sheet
you, then you shouldn’t have one. But what about if you could
have saved, your spouse, or your child by learning how to
defend yourself? Would that make you think twice?
My daughter and husband applied for their permit first,
and when I went with them to watch them shoot, just seeing
them made me decide that I should also know how to shoot as
well. So I applied for my carry permit and then took NRA basic
training. Now that did NOT prepare me for much. So then I
took a defensive class, and I felt better about that too but still
not super comfortable because after learning some skills all I
could do was put up a target and shoot, which I didn’t find all
that exciting or all that realistic. I have also taken two courses
with the Project Appleseed. Both were two day classes in PA,
in order to learn to shoot a rifle, and that was amazing. And I
had a friend teach me how to shoot a shotgun, and tried my
hand at skeet and even though I am really not very good at that I
still had lots of fun. But then we heard about the fun events that
Ontario Rod and Gun has to offer, so we joined and I have been
having a blast.
I have been doing the Tuesday night steel shoots. I
have been competing with rifle competitions. And I have taken
part and tried the shotgun too, which made me want to try the 3
gun. And I will say that it was a ton of fun and I got a lot of
experience taking part in the competition. Learning not just
how to move and shoot but how to reload too.
So why do I do this? Because that night when we were
sitting in the dark in her bedroom I realized I couldn’t defend
my daughter or myself. While she was on the phone with 911,
I asked her, “Do you have a knife?’ She replied, “NO!” My
response was, “ Well you should.”
Her response
was, “Sorry.” A minute later she handed me a butter knife. I
looked at it and said, “ What am I supposed to do with
this, butter them to death?” And I never want to feel that
vulnerable again. God helped us that night. The two men fled
the house before the police got there. They weren’t there to
hurt us, but were simply robbing houses that weren’t occupied
because everyone went home for Thanksgiving. But it could
have been much worse.
So the more I shoot, even though I am not in a class, I
am getting better and better. That is why. And it is so much
better than just shooting at a target because it is closer to real
life scenarios, and I am learning how to shoot on the
move. Now all the men are faster in the competitions, but so
what? I don’t come to compare myself to the guys. I come to
learn and to get faster and more accurate, and by golly that is
happening.
You can ask the fellas who whoops and hollers out
there when I have completed the course. And I do a little jig
too… But I have also asked, “Where are your wives
fellas?” Ladies, you are at higher risk to become a victim, and
in comparison to a man you are at a much bigger disadvantage
than your husband is because we are not as strong or as large as
a guy. So ladies, there is really no excuse for you NOT to come
and learn to shoot. And remember this, the life you could be
saving might be yours, your husband, your children or your
grandchildren.
I hope to see more of you in the near future.
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NOVEMBER 2014
The Scatter Sheet
The ONTARIO ROD AND GUN CLUB Inc.
2523 Trimble Road, P.O. Box 319 Ontario, NY 14519
(315) 524—7717
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
DOUBLES EVENT
NOVEMBER 16th
Come enjoy Breakfast and Lunch
Then clobber some doubles trap targets.
Club opens at 8:30AM
2
3
10
PRIZE SHOOT
EVENT
9:00AM - ’TIL
Breakfast & Lunch
11
6
7
BOD
MEETING
7:30PM
12
13
17
18
25
OPEN TRAP
SHOOTING
5-9PM
& STEEL
WORK DAY
9AM - til’
INLAND WATERS
LEAGUE @ ROCH
BROOKS
8
14
15 MDTS
SHOTGUN 1
On the Eagles Range
RANGE
ORIENTATION
9:00 - NOON
19
OPEN TRAP
SHOOTING
5-9PM
& STEEL
24
1
RIFLE
MATCH
10AM-3PM
On the Eagle’s
Range
VETEREANS DAY
DOUBLES
EVENT
9AM-’til
Breakfast & Lunch
23
5
OPEN TRAP
SHOOTING
5-9PM
& STEEL
SDFA DEFENSIVE
SHOTGUN
COURSE
9:00AM - ‘TIL
On the Eagle’s
Range
16
ELECTION
DAY
GO VOTE!
OPEN TRAP
SHOOTING
5-9PM
& STEEL
INLAND WATERS
LEAGUE @
ROCH BROOKS
9
4
Sat
20
21
22
28
29
GENERAL
MEMBER
MEETING
7:30PM
26
27
BLACK FRIDAY
RIFLE MATCH
10AM - 3PM
On the Eagle’s Range
30
9AM Come for Breakfast & Lunch - Club opens at 9:00AM
The ONTARIO ROD & GUN CLUB Inc.
2523 TRIMBLE ROAD
P.O. BOX 319
ONTARIO, N.Y. 14519
PLACE
STAMP
HERE
PASS ON THE LEGACY OF SPORT SHOOTING
IN GOD WE TRUST
GOD BLESS
AMERICA!
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REGISTER TO VOTE IN NOV.
GENERAL
MEMBERSHIP MEETING
NOVEMBER 20TH 2014
AT THE CLUB HOUSE
7:30 PM
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP meetings are held the 3rd
Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM at the Trimble Road
clubhouse. All members are welcome to attend and bring
forth their ideas and suggestions.
OPEN TRAP SHOOTING is available every Tuesday
night from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Members and their guests
and the general public are welcome to come in shoot.
THE RIFLE AND PISTOL RANGES are available to
members who have completed the orientation course.
Range hours are from 9:00 AM to dusk daily. Please adhere
to these times in consideration of our neighbors.