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Manhattan Wildlife Association
Trap Gary Delin (406) 587-2581 Bill Beyl (406) 587-7373 |
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Trap shooting continues on Wednesday evenings starting at 6:00 pm and Sundays starting at 1:00 pm. Practice shooting and league shooting take place at the same time on both days. Winter league is going on now and will finish up in early April. We have a fair amount of new shooters out shooting and everyone is doing fine and seems to be having a good time. Come out and give trapshooting a try and get some friends together and form a team to get in on spring league which will start in late April. It is a five person per team, added target handicap league, which makes new shooters competitive with experienced shooters. It is a very low key competition-type league where the most emphasis is put on having fun. Come out and give it a shot.
We have our first of two ATA registered shoots on Sunday, March 30th. The program will be 100 singles, 100 handicap, and 100 doubles. You may shoot any or all events. ATA shooting is trapshooting at it’s finest. Come out and see how it works, or better yet sign up and give it a shot. We are putting teams together for the State All-Class Team Singles Shoot, which is in Great Falls on Sunday, April 27th. This is a five person team shoot where each team is made up of a class A, B, C, D, shooter and a new shooter. It is a fun event where shooters of all abilities team together to shoot in the name of their home club. We will have a list at the trap sign-up counter for anyone who would like to get on a team and give this great event a try. Hope to see you there.
We are still selling reclaimed shot for $20.00 per 25 lb. bag to MWA members only. There is a 20 bag limit. We will be having a second offering of 20 bags in the not too distant future. In these days of high-priced components, our goal with the 20 bag limit on this very reasonably priced shot is to help as many of our shotgun shooting members as possible keep up their shooting habits at as low a cost as possible. For the few of you who have chosen to not be good team-playing members and only thought of yourselves, I say B.S. I know it has been quite easy for you to get your non-reloading member friends to buy 20 bags and transfer them to you so you can hoard many times your allotted share. This is not how good members are expected to act. I hope some of our team playing members are not forced to cut back on their shooting because they cannot afford the sky rocketing price of new shot when there is no more reclaimed left because a few of you hogged more than your share. Maybe when the second offering comes around, those few of you (you know who you are) might pass on making a purchase, or at the very least play by the rules. I am sorry to go on about this, but it is a sore subject with me.
In the past several months we have been changing from one long running trap help crew to a new trap help crew (due to kids getting older and moving on) and things have not always been as organized and smooth running as we would like them to be. We apologize for any inconvenience or problems you may have encountered and ask your patience and courtesy in dealing with these bumps in the road. I congratulate and thank those of you who have pitched in to help and those of you who help on a continuous basis. Thank you. I hope you all have a great trapshooting experience. See you on the trap line.
Gary Delin 587-2581 |