AHAMO ARCHERY CLUB April 9, 2002 April 2002 Newsletter CLUB OFFICERS President: Jim Chandler (537-8058) Vice President: Bill Lewis (498-9364) Secretary: Dave Wise (498-0186) Treasurer: Dave Holthouse (291-0211) Trustees: Bill Rhoades (932-0417) Ed Rebarich (345-7608) Sergeant at Arms: Greg Thomas (625-2697) News Editor: Lee Pereksta (592-3856) 3D Coordinator: Mike Vandeman (332-4625) Indoor range phone (734-7272)
Key Dates to Remember
Tuesdays League night 7:00 April 13 Work Party to set up for the outdoor 3D. 9:00 at the outdoor range. April 13, 14 Ahamo Outdoor 3D Reg 12 - 3PM Sat, 9 - 12pm Sun. April 14 Work Party to tear down the 3D around 1:00 Sunday April 28 Club Picnic May 6 Club meeting 7:00 Indoor Range
April Club Meeting
The April meeting was attended by 15 members. We discussed the upcoming first outdoor 3D for our club, and some more about the FAST shoot.
New Members
One new member was voted in at the March Meeting; Bill and Lynthia Buettner. Welcome to the Ahamo Archery Club.
Leagues
There will be a short indoor league held for the next few weeks. It may be too late to get on the league, but all members are welcome to shoot along. League shooting starts at 7:00 each Tuesday night.
Club Championship Results
The Ahamo annual indoor club championship was held on March 19th. There were 10 members participating, all in the Men's Release division. The club champion for 2002 is Bill Rhoades. Congratulations to Bill for shooting the high score at this prestigious event, a 300 with 53 x’s. A listing of all scores follow:
1. Bill Rhoades 300 53x 2. Scott Baily 300 51x 3. Kit Secord 298 43x 4. Steve Murphy 297 29x 5. Mark Seip 296 37x 6. Harry Thompson 295 32x 7. Rich Stone 294 42x 8. Lee Pereksta 290 30x 9. Kent Keller 251 24x 10. Dick Sousa inc.
Next 3D Shoot
We had a work party on April 5 and 6 to take the targets from the indoor range to the outdoor range, and to set up most of A course. Thank you to all that came out to help. Both work parties had a tremendous turn out.
The 3D will be on April 13 and 14 and we need just as much help. If as many members come out to finish setting up the course on Saturday it should be a very easy work party. All we need to do is finish setting up A course and set up B course. The targets are all at the outdoor range and it will just be a matter of carrying out targets and setting them up. Please come out to help, the work party will start at 9:00 on Saturday.
When we tear down on Sunday, we will need help to bring in some of the targets, and just take down others so that we can put them out of sight from the YMCA campers. That work party will start at about 1:00.
Club Picnic
Remember that the club picnic is coming up and you need to RSVP if you will be going. The Picnic will be at the Walnut Creek Ampil Theater on Sunday April 28th. Walnut creek is located just off of Highway 370 and 96th street. You do not need a park sticker for Walnut Creek.
The picnic will be for members and non-members. There will be a cost of $3.00 per person that will cover Chicken. The $3.00 will need to be pre-paid, so we know how much chicken to get. You can pay Jim Chandler, either by mail or whenever you see him. Jim's address is 7717 Marisu Lane, LaVista, NE 68128. Call Jim or Sherry at 537-8058 if you have questions.
The Picnic will be from 12:30 to 3:00 on the 28th. Please bring a side dish or desert, and bring your own drinks. Note that there is no alcohol permitted at the park.
Jim will be putting flyers out at the range and also at some of the local archery shops. The Picnic should be fun. so plan on attending.
Newsletter Items
If you are a club member and have an item for sale, please send me the information and I’ll put it in the newsletter. I also welcome newsletter articles.
My Email address is: hunterlee@MSN.com
3D Shoot Schedule
I heard that someone in the club was complaining that we do not have all of the upcoming shoots around the state in our shoot schedule. I can only publish those that I know about. If anyone has a list of shoots that need to be added, please send them to me so I can update our list of shoots. It’s easy to update, but I cannot add shoots to the schedule if I don’t know about them.
Club Shirts:
If you want to buy a club shirt, please contact Greg Thomas. Greg found a person that can make collared shirts with our Ahamo logo for $14.95 each. If you want one, call Greg at 625-2697 to add your name to the list.
Hunting Stories from Club members:
If any members have stories they would like to share, please send them to me.
Here’s a story about Dick Sousa. Dick and 5 others went pig hunting in Oklahoma in March of this year. They went to a game farm that was set up to provide quality hunting and had rules that all were required to follow to keep it that way. One rule was that no stalking was allowed, and another was a requirement that you could only be on the ground looking for stand sites at certain times of the afternoon. Also along on this hunt was Steve Murphy and Mike Vandeman from our club.
The hunters arrived on a Sunday afternoon to check out stand sites with the ranch owner to be prepared for the morning hunt. They spent the night in the bunk house, and in the morning headed out to their stands. After an hour of so of hunting the rain started and it was soon pouring buckets. They lasted as long as they could, but before long everyone was forced to quit. Dick’s video shows all of the hunters standing under the porch of the bunk house waiting for the rain to stop.
When the rain finally quit, they went back out hoping for a good afternoon hunt. At about 6:00 Dick saw a bunch of pigs coming out of the fields and also from the woods behind him. Some of them got within 20 yards and Dick was able to draw on the biggest of the group. He hit one pretty good and it went squealing off through the field. Dick saw it go down in the high grass. He was told not to approach wounded pigs by the ranch owner, so he stayed in his stand till dark.
Dick was allowed to shoot 2 pigs, and almost got a shot at a large Russian Boar before it got too dark, but the pig didn’t get close enough.
When it got dark, Dick and another hunter named Jerry, who was hunting a couple of hundred yards from Dick, got their flashlights and headed into the field to find the pig. When they got to the spot Dick had seen it fall, Jerry was in the lead with his flashlight, and Dick was approaching with an arrow in his bow, just in case it was still alive. As they slowly walked up to the spot, Jerry stepped on something that jumped up and took off running past them squealing like crazy. Dick and Jerry took off trying to get out of the way, tripping all over each other.
They decided that the best thing to do was wait till morning, and were hoping that the pig was hit good enough that it would be dead by morning.
The next morning, all of the hunters went out to look for Dick’s pig. They went back to the spot where it jumped up and started to look for blood. Dick said they quickly found out that pigs don’t bleed much, probably because of the fat closing up around the wound.
While they were looking for blood, Mike Vandeman walked to a spot 10 yards from where they were standing and called back to Dick; “here’s your pig”. Dick’s pig was where he had seen it go down. They had stepped on another pig the night before that wasn’t even shot.
While Dick and some of the hunters were getting ready to field dress the pig, one of the hunters started looking around and stumbled on a very large sow. The pig squealed and took off past the hunters and they scrambled all over each other trying to get out of the way. At long last, they field dressed the pig and got it back to camp.
One thing that they all learned on the hunt, was that pigs don’t move very much during the day. None of the hunters saw much until about 6:00 in the evening.
Congratulations to Dick for his successful hunt. Congratulations also to Mike Vandeman. Mike was also successful, and got a pretty big one the second evening of the hunt.
Deer Harvest Statistics:
For those of you that like to look at statistics, the numbers below should keep you busy for a while. They’re from the Game and parks web page.
Table of deer harvest statistics for 2000 and 2001 2000 2001 Unit Permits Deer % suc- Permits Deer % suc- Issued Harvest cess Issued Harvest cess Blue Northwest 3,613 2,230 62 3,524 1,997 57 Blue Southeast 5,133 5,488 73 5,130 4,141 63 Buffalo 3,204 1,713 53 3,111 1,741 56 Buffalo Whitetail 1,500 821 55 2,000 863 43 Calamus East 1,941 1,129 58 1,663 825 50 Calamus East Antlerless - --- -- 300 105 35 Calamus West 2,188 1,173 54 2,199 1,084 49 Elkhorn 5,283 3,443 65 5,324 2,904 55 Elkhorn Antlerless --- --- -- 1,004 448 45 Frenchman 3,710 2,404 65 3,701 2,341 63 Frenchman Whitetail 1,200 662 55 1,200 556 46 Frenchman Antlerless --- --- -- 402 239 59 Keya Paha 2,961 1,566 53 2,954 1,421 48 Keya Paha Antlerless --- --- -- 300 118 39 Loup East 3,612 2,254 62 3,653 1,863 51 Loup West 2,393 1,229 51 2,378 1,171 49 Missouri 3,946 2,186 55 4,003 1,991 50 Missouri Antlerless --- --- -- 505 197 39 Pine Ridge 3,427 2,045 60 3,449 1,812 53 Pine Ridge Antlerless -- --- -- 401 164 41 Plains 1,679 1,146 68 1,689 995 59 Platte 3,018 1,668 55 3,043 1,536 50 Platte Whitetail 800 320 40 800 269 34 Republican 4,150 2,683 65 2,934 1,724 59 Republican Whitetail --- --- -- 1,500 804 54 Republican Antlerless -- --- -- 504 205 41 Sandhills 2,644 1,679 63 2,632 1,449 55 Sandhills Anterless 752 451 60 668 295 44 Statewide - Buck Only 4,000 2,153 54 4,000 1,776 44 Upper Platte 1,543 945 61 1,345 762 57 Upper Platte - Antlerless 100 47 47 101 34 34 Upper Platte South - Antlerless --- --- -- 120 55 46 Wahoo 5,732 3,770 66 5,746 3,336 58 Wahoo Antlerless --- --- -- 1,004 418 42 Totals 68,529 43,205 61 73,299 39,639 53 SPECIAL SEASONS DeSoto Early 100 47 47 100 64 64 DeSoto Late 100 41 41 100 43 43 Fontenelle 79 68 -- 96 58 60 Archery 15,730 4,506 29 15,082 4,141 27 Muzzleloader 17,798 5,821 33 18,083 5,503 30 SEASON CHOICE AREAS Area 1 516 249 48 1,015 478 47 Area 2 1,022 430 42 971 455 47 Area 3 480 237 49 1,009 462 46 Area 4 1,014 497 49 1,516 721 48 Area 5 2,776 1,382 50 3,942 2,966 53 Area 6 5,068 3,427 48 5,062 3,391 50 Area 7 --- --- -- 2,528 962 38 Area 8 --- --- -- 502 238 48 Area 9 --- --- -- 458 197 39 Area 10 --- --- -- 87 43 45
Also from the Game and Parks web page:
At the turn of the century, there were only about 50 deer in the entire state. Today, the Nebraska deer herd stands at 300,000 to 350,000. Over the past 10 years the deer season has been open for an average of 117 days every fall and winter.
Nebraska has significant populations of two species of deer, the white-tailed deer of the wooded river valleys and farmlands and the mule deer of the open plains and ranchlands.
The two species are of similar build and proportions, but whitetails average about 10 percent heavier.
Other more obvious physical characteristics set them apart, most conspicuously the feature that gives each species its name — the large white tail or “flag” waved by the whitetail when it is alarmed and the mule deer’s large mule-like ears.
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