Kingston & District

Trap, Skeet &

Sporting Clays Club On Saturday June 21st,

our club skeet pro, Andy

Spooner, conducted a free

skeet clinic for the mem-

bership.

Andy runs his clinic annu-

ally for the members in

both beginner and interme-

diate skill set levels. A

very popular clinic that is

hugely received and attend-

ed by a large number of

members, especially our

new members who desire

some instruction from an

experienced, professional

skeet shooter, and Andy is

just that person.

His instruction is deliber-

ate and broken down into

sections that assist the

shooter to understand the

basics of gun fit, body posi-

tion, hold point, leads and

most important, the fol-

low through. A fair

weather shooter who was

lucky enough to have

mother nature on his side

for the clinic.

Andy also offers private

instruction for those who

would like to pursue his

services. The club has real-

ly begun to evolve once

again with all disciplines

running; skeet, trap, and

sporting clays. Archery is

advancing and should be

up and running in the ini-

tial phase soon.

The executive would again

like to thank Andy for his

contribution and all those

whom attended provided

very positive feedback.

An excerpt from Jim Riga

who attended the clinic:

“I can truly say that the

Intermediate Skeet Clinic

was one of the most worth-

while tutorials I have ever

attended. Andy’s clinic

taught me a few things I

hadn’t known before, and I

thought after career shoots,

I knew pretty much every-

thing.” (cont’d page 3)

Andy Spooner—Instructor

Points of interest:

General Mbr’s Meeting

Firearm Safety Courses

New members

Archery Program

Canadian Firearm Safety Course!

Bob Taylor has been ap-

proved to conduct a Fire-

arm Safety Course at the

club on Oct 24th and 25th.

This course is being adver-

tised to attain potential

new members with a spe-

cial price in the effort to

acquire new memberships.

Bob currently has his own

Firearm Safety business

and offered to run some

courses at the club thus

giving direct exposure to

our facility.

Further details are located

on the club website, and

depending on the response,

will determine the delivery

of future courses.

Please pass the word

around to friends and ac-

quaintances

Thank you.

New Cash Register 2

Juniors Medal

Performance

2

Sporting Clays 2

Buy & Sell 3

Dan Keeler Memorial

Fun Shoot

3

Club Supporters 4

Inside this issue:

Skeet Clinic — FREE!

September 2014

Volume 1, Issue 3 Fall Newsletter SHOTGUN SPORTS

Finally we have man-

aged to replace the antique

cash register with a brand

new, state-of-the-art Casio

machine that will enable

the core kitchen staff to

run the flow of sales more

efficiently.

It was clearly evident that

the old machine was not very user

friendly and lacked the capacity to

program all the club pricing details.

Now with the new register, the entire

price listing ranging from member-

ships to beverages to ammunition are

programmed into the

machine with a simple

one button operation.

Training of the Core

Kitchen Staff has taken

place to ensure all are

fully competent in the

operation of the new

machine.

We wish to remind all members that

it is only the trained kitchen staff who

volunteered to become part of that

staff who will operate the new regis-

ter.

A further reminder to all that the

common practice of accessing the

kitchen to quickly punch shoot cards

or purchase beverages through the

side door will cease. All shooters,

other then the scheduled kitchen staff

and executive members on duty will

perform their business at the kitchen

counter in an orderly fashion please.

This eliminates the erroneous trans-

actions and maintains control of

squading.

Your cooperation is greatly appreciat-

ed.

by John and Brian. Brush was cut

back to facilitate proper target acqui-

sition and station signs mounted. A

couple of the stations were reposi-

tioned to accommodate the proper

shot-fall ballistics directed from the

CFO and now the range can be run

simultaneously as the trap and skeet

on the main fields.

Thanks to all who assisted in the

clean up.

With the efforts of John Wigle, Brian

Andersen, Don Barnes, Michael Ivanic

and others, the club’s sporting clays

range is up and running and looks

good.

Several stations were cleaned up with

the removal of deteriorating stands,

old hull containers, and garbage from

the station houses. Machines were

serviced and checked functional by

Don Barnes and targets replenished

Hope to see you out to enjoy the sport-

ing clays on your next visit to the

club.

New Cash Register!

Sporting Clays — Operational

Preston Carey both—157.

Two Person Team Results:

Silver Medal: Cole Chown 176/200

Bronze Medal: Hunter Chown 176/200

Honorable mention was Preston

Carey with 164/200

Well done boys. You made us proud!

The Ontario Summer Games took

place from Aug 7-10 in Windsor, Ont,

and three of our club juniors partici-

pated in this competition.

With the assistance, and guidance of

Tony Raponi, the boys did extremely

well at the competition and here are

the results:

Individual 200 Target Event:

Hunter Chown—173, Cole Chown and

Juniors bring home the hardware!

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Kingston Juniors

NEW PRICE!!

Bob Black has a progressive loader for

sale, details as follows:

MEC Grabber 76 - Comes with:

1 extra (tall) bottle

1 oz. charge bar

1-1/8 oz. charge bar

extra powder bushings (#29, #31, #32)

reloading manual

(see photos)

Bob is asking $200.00 and can be con-

tacted at: 613-376-9954

If any member wishes to advertise

their own firearms and accessories via

the newsletter, please forward com-

plete details/photos to the club secre-

tary.

follows: 100 Skeet HOA: Patrick Our first Annual Dan Keeler memori-

al Fun Shoot took place on Aug 10th

and proved to be a great success. This

event was in memory of a former club

member, Dan Keeler who passed

away in July of 2013.

He was a huge contributor and pro-

moter of the club and it was decided to

hold an annual event with a dedicated

trophy bearing his name.

Results for this fun shoot were as

Groenewegen, 100 Trap HOA: Bill

Roberts and the 50/50 Skeet/Trap:

Micheal Ivanic. Well done gents!

Donations were accepted and the club

matched the donations and presented

to the Keeler family desire towards

the KGH ICU.

Thanks to all who assisted in the

preparation and delivery of this event.

The Executive.

Buy & Sell

Dan Keeler Memorial Fun Shoot

things that I hadn’t even noticed I had

been doing. This type of tutorial diag-

nosed problems and realize what you

had been doing. Having been a teach-

er in Quebec for over 33yrs, I know

what it takes to teach students.

Andy had a lot of patience, an easy-

going style, and I heard no complaints

from our squad. Members were will-

ing to take advice seriously, without

pretending to know it all. I urge any-

one, experienced or not, who wants to

improve their skills to try this clinic.

With a teacher like Andy, it was time

well spent. I offer my sincere thanks

to Andy Spooner for his professional-

ism, and his helpful insight that will

surely benefit all the members on the

squad in the long run. Good job Andy!

(submitted by Jim Riga)

“ I would venture to say that no mat-

ter how experienced you are, and no

matter how proficient you may think

you are, there is always room for im-

provement. But clinics are teaching

aids, not miracle workers!

Andy didn’t immediately jump into

your shortcomings right away, he let

you shoot freely, and watched closely.

With Andy’s help, I soon discovered

Skeet Clinic—cont’d

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1250 Italia Lane

Kingston, Ontario

K7L 4V3

Colin Campbell

Plumbing & Heating

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ProAlliance Realty

Phone: 613-542-9228

E-mail:

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Club Supporters

Kingston & District Trap,

Skeet & Sporting Clays

Individuals that support the club

throughout the year include Dave

Mayell, Andy Spooner, Tom

MacFarlane, Bill Templeton, and

George Difederico to name a few.

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Editor — Mark Ezard