FORT VALLEY GUN CLUB

Since 1962

 

LETTER TO MEMBERS FROM OUR RANGE OFFICER 

June 5, 2014

Tom Hodge

Executive Range Officer

 

Members the Fort Valley Gun Club

 

Subject:  User Friendly Range

 

In the past 8 months I have spent a lot of time on the lower ranges talking with the members and found that we have quite a few older members (myself included) using our range facilities.  A lot of us are Senior Citizens and a few of our members are troubled with disabilities.   Keeping this in mind, I have built and installed a prototype user friendly shooting bench and a light weight portable target rack so we will not have to move from range to range to shoot at different distances. This bench is not the final design, so I am asking for anyone that is interested in this project to please try this bench and target rack and pass your comments on to me so that I may finalize the design and build more benches.  I want to hear anything you have to say that will make the bench design better for you/us.  Please let me hear from you about this before the July meeting.

 

One of our members was so excited about this that he made a $20.00 donation to help buy the materials.

 

Please e-mail me at  bch5050@cox.net or call me at (478) 971-4399

 

Uncle Tom

  Saturday,  22 Oct  - FAMILY & FRIENDS SILHOUETTE MATCH.  Gates open at 9:00 AM and the match will begin at 10:00 AM. While this match is geared toward young shooters, it is also a match for the entire family. Any .22LR rifle with any action and any sights. (It is strongly suggested that younger shooters use bolt action rifles and scopes are the most common sight used) Targets are 10 steel chickens at 40 meters, 10 pigs at 60 meters, 10 turkeys at 77 meters and 10 rams at 100 meters. Ammunition is limited to .22LR standard or hi-velocity with a maximum velocity of 1250 fps. Absolutely NO HYPER-VELOCITY cartridges permitted. Match fee is $7. For complete match rules, please see this page.

 

 

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