AHAMO ARCHERY CLUB July 16, 1999 July 1999 Newsletter CLUB OFFICERS President: Bill Arledge (393-5371) Vice President: Dustin White (402 235-2646) Secretary: Dave Wise (498-0186) Treasurer: Dave Holthouse (291-0211) Trustees: Mike Vandeman (332-4625) John Terfone (738-1692) Sergeant at Arms: Robbie Valeika (328-8753) News Editor: Lee Pereksta (592-3856) 3D Coordinator: Jack and Dustin White (402 235-2646) Indoor range phone (734-7272)
July 12 Club Meeting News
Club Meeting highlights
The July meeting was attended by 11 members. We discussed a workparty planned for Monday July 19 for replacing the cardboard, 3D workparties, and purchasing a new grill and tent for the outdoor range. Mike Vandeman won the incentive drawing for $10.00.
New Members
There were no new members voted in at the meeting.
Key Dates to Remember
Tuesdays: American Round League July 19: Workparty to replace cardboard (7:00) July 24: 3D work party outdoor range (9:00) July 25: Outdoor 3D August 2: Club Meeting (7:00)
No August Newsletter
Please do not look for a newsletter in August. The next newsletter will be in September.
Another Cardboard workparty
There will be a workparty on Monday July 19th at 7:00 to cut and replace cardboard. We had a workparty in June to replace cardboard but found the cardboard to be a little too wide. We had not planned on cutting the cardboard, but were disappointed to find we needed to trim it. Bill Arledge went home and brought in two saws which both broke while we were using them. Thank you Bill for letting us use your saws.
On Monday, the 19th, we will finish the job. If anyone would like to help, we can use some more more people that night. Roy Canterbury will be letting us use his saw for the work party - Thank you Roy...
Sportsman's Quest:
one more final note:
The club members that worked at the Sportsman’s Quest were given part of the proceeds from the shoot. They decided to use it to purchase some equipment for the Club. Their gift will be greatly appreciated. The club will be getting a new Grill for the outdoor range, and a new tent type shelter to put up during outdoor shoots.
3D News:
The June 3D was rained out, so there was no 3D income that month and no scores to publish in the newsletter. Please note the July shoot and work party support that is needed. The shoot is on the 25th and we will be setting up on the 24th.
At the club meeting we decided to allow members to set up a table to sell equipment. If you have anything to sell, please label it and bring it to the July 25th shoot. During the meeting, we decided that anyone selling items would need to spend some time during the shoot watching the table. Be prepared to do that if you have something to sell.
August 3D shoot
Since there will not be a newsletter in August, please note the date of that shoot and come out to help. The August shoot will be a 2 day shoot with workparties at the end of the week to set it up.
The August shoot will be held August 28th and 29th (Saturday and Sunday). We will need plenty of help that weekend and also on Thursday and Friday to set up. Please check with Jack White, Dustin White, or a board member for workparty times. Remember, we will be clearing the times we can be out there with the YMCA so they know when we will be there.
If you can help during the shoot in any capacity, please come out and help. We will need help selling food, help with registration, and help policing the range during the shoot.
This is a good lead in to the next article... please read it.
Editorial on Helping Your Club
The Ahamo Archery Club is much more than a place to shoot for $96.00 a year. Your membership fee does not come close to covering our expenses throughout the year. To get us through the year we hold leagues, tournaments, raffles, and solicit corporate sponsors. Without these other fund raising activities, our club would not be able to continue...
If you have not been helping at any of our events, please consider giving some of your time to help out. It is not difficult to do and the help is both greatly appreciated, and a necessity to allow the club to keep going.
There always seems to be the same people attending workparties.... These are the people that keep our club solvent and in good condition for the rest of us. Routine things that get done include dumping the garbage, cleaning the bathrooms, sweeping the floor, and keeping the vending machines full. Please don’t take these things for granted - club members do these things to make the range fun, clean, and safe for everyone in our club.
When we have scheduled workparties, the people that are always doing the routine tasks for the club are at the workparties also.
I hope that some of the club members will feel just a little guilty reading this and will come out to help at our club work parties. Your support will be greatly appreciated.
This is also a good time to mention our officer positions. Officers spend many many hours throughout the year supporting the club. They attend monthly board meetings, monthly club meetings, most workparties, and have specific duties they are responsible for.
Officer positions are a lot of work, but that work is rewarding. If you would like to run for an office next year, please visit with a current board member to discuss the duties required of that office.
Outdoor American Round League
We are still shooting outdoors on Tuesdays at Mike Stanner's. There is still room for more if you want to shoot. Shooting starts at 7:00.
Mike’s address is: 11222 Kentucky Road in Papillion. His phone is 592-3308.
Take Cedardale east, past 72nd to Kentucky Road and turn left.
Hope to see you there.
Committee Needed:
A committee is still needed to review club finances and rent. We need to review our financial position and develop a proposal for next year’s budget. We also want to develop a proposal for our future rent that is fair to the owner of the building and will keep the Club solvent. If you would like to participate in this committee, please contact Bill Arledge.
Club Shirts and Hats:
If you would like a club shirt, contact Dave Holthouse. When we received our last order there were some that were not picked up, so there are some shirts available now. If your name is Larry, you can even get one with your name on it (someone did not pick up one shirt that had a name stitched on it).
Bill Arledge also had some club hats made up. Dave Holthouse has these, and they really look nice. Contact Dave if you want one.
Newsletter Articles:
If anyone has a newsletter article, or even some equipment they would like to sell, please let me know.
Hunting Tips:
The following is from Jim Crumley's Secrets of Bowhunting Deer, by John E. Phillips.
See http://www.trebark.com/secrets.htm
SCOUTING THE PRE-SEASON
By John E. Phillips
One of the problems associated with pre-season scouting is most of the time you spook the deer you're trying to find. The more time you spend in the woods scouting one to two weeks before the season, the more likely you are to spook deer.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO SPOOK THE DEER
To bag a buck with your bow on opening day, surprise that buck by being in a place at a time when the deer least expects you to be there. If you walk through the woods the week before the season leaving your human odor in all the sites where you see deer signs, then you've notified the buck you're coming after him. An older-age-class buck realizes his best chance of survival is to avoid the regions he usually frequents when he starts smelling human odor there.
If you get up one morning, walk out your front door, see a stick of dynamite lying in the bushes set to go off, move on to your car, spot another stick of dynamite ready to explode, find yet another stick of dynamite set to go off at the first stop light you come to as well as where you stop for coffee, more than likely you won't take that same route the next day to work. That same scenario is what a buck experiences as he moves along the route he normally has taken all year and never has spotted danger there before. When that buck smells human odor in all his familiar places and hasn't smelled a hunter since the last hunting season, he will become extremely wary. Generally if he's an older-age- class buck, he will change the route he's been walking since the end of deer season.
I do my scouting in the woods four to six weeks before bow/deer season begins. Then starting two weeks before the season starts, I do most of my scouting with binoculars. I go to agricultural fields and openings in the woods just before daylight and immediately before dark to look for deer. I stay well-away from the animals and use my binoculars to learn where the deer are coming into and going out of the fields and openings. I want to be able to see about how many deer are moving to the fields and openings and hopefully spot the buck I want to hunt during the opening of bow season.
Corporate Sponsors
Please Patronize the corporate sponsors of the Ahamo Archery club.
Ahamo Corporate Sponsors include:
*COUGAR LANES *FULL DRAW ARCHERY *WILDLIFE CREATIONS *JENSEN TIRE COMPANY (707 N. 120th St.)
Upcoming Tournaments
Upcoming 3D’s July 17-18 State Games 18 Bethany Mo 24-25 Oakley 25 Ahamo 31 SWIB Creston 31 Seymore August 1 SWIB Creston 1 Seymore 7-8 Grand Island 7-8 Stuart 7-8 Oakley 15 Prarie Bowmen -Lincoln 15 Red Rock 21-22 State 3D-Kearney (Gibbon) 21-22 Golden Arrow 21-22 SWIB Creston 21-22 Winterset 21-22 Stuart 28-29 Ahamo 3D and Bowhunter Tune-up 28-29 Seymore 29 Pottawattamie Cresant IA September 4-5 Stuart 5 Pawnee Archers 11-12 Stuart 11-12 Oakley 12 Robinhood -Fremont 18-19 Stuart 19 Atlantic 19 Bethany Mo 25-26 Seymore Upcoming Target July 17-18 State Games 26-30 NFAA Outdoor Nationals (Watkins Glenn, NY) August 7-8 Safari Round-Grand Island September (none)
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