Berrien County Sportsman’s Club, Inc. Newsletter

2985 Linco Road, Berrien Springs, MI 49103

www.bcsportsmansclub.com Volume 22 Issue 6 June 2017

Membership Meeting The next Membership Meeting is

Wednesday, June 21st

at 7:00 p.m.

Carry in Potluck Dinner with Business Meeting to Follow

Funding and Support for the BCSC Jr. Rifle Program and Jr. Shotgun Program is generously granted by the NRA Foundation.

nrafoundation.org

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Be sure to visit BCSC Youth Programs on Facebook and “follow” our youth archery, shotgun and rifle programs. Thank you.

Important Notice of Range Closures

All shooting ranges will be closed ef-fective June 18, 2017 for the replace-ment of two range walls. This closure includes all rifle and pistol ranges. Exception is for prior sched-uled club sanctioned events. Please see club calendar for other dates ranges will be closed.

We are in need of volunteers to help replace the middle range wall and the ranges will not be opened until all work has been completed. Please contact Jim Howley or Michael Kechkaylo if you wish to volun-teer. (269) 313-6450 or (269) 325-3519.

Remember, without your help, the clo-sure of the ranges will be extended until the work is complete.

Thank you in advance

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fore you leave the club then there will be no suspension. If you leave the club with a mess, our caretaker will call you and inform you that your range card has been turned off and that the club will require you to per-form range cleanup for one hour to get your range card turned back on. Any questions or concerns can be di-rected to : Jason Grimm: (269) 927-1793 Jim Essig: (269) 429-9797

Attention: Range Users Club range rule 2.22 states: Always police the range, any range, and clean up brass and mess after you’re fin-ished. This includes Archery, Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun ranges.

It has come to the attention of the elected officials that we have some members and/or guests that are not cleaning up after themselves when leaving the club ranges. The main vio-lation is large amounts of cartridge cases just left in piles on the ranges. This is causing unnecessary man-hour and maintenance expense It only takes a few minutes to clean up after yourself and deposit the cases in the provided buckets, not in the trash cans. It is your club and your responsi-bility. Violation of club range rule 2.22 will cause a temporary suspension of your range privileges. If our caretaker sees a violation and brings it to your atten-tion and you clean up your mess be-CONTINUED

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ARE YOU SPONSORING, COORDINATING, OR SUPPORTING

AN ACTIVITY AT THE BERRIEN

COUNTY SPORTSMAN’S CLUB?

If it is happening at Berrien County Sportsman's Club, be sure your event gets into the monthly club newsletter. Let the BCSC newsletter help you get the word out to our members. Does your club activity sponsor weekly or monthly events? Put a monthly column in the newsletter and build participa-tion. Email details to:

editor@bcsportsmansclub.com

The Club Newsletter is Going All-Digital

Club Members: Due to the expense of mailing the newsletter, we will be phasing out dis-tribution of the newsletter via US Mail after the June issue this year. Starting in July of 2017, you will only be able to get a printed version of the newsletter by coming to the club and getting one from the clubhouse foyer. This should be easy for most active members, as you must sign in when you get to the club anyway. If you are not currently receiving the newsletter via email, send your name and email address to:

editor@bcsportsmansclub.com This will assure that you are getting your digital copy of the newsletter each month. If you do not wish to give us your email, you may also download a PDF of the newsletter from the club website at:

www.bcsportsmansclub.com

The money we save on postage will be used to promote the club in other ways. Thank you, Cean Burgeson Newsletter Editor

Trap and Skeet News Effective immediately, the club ranges will be open for trap and skeet from 1 p.m.-4 p.m. until Labor day week-end. The new skeet building should be up and operational sometime during the month of June. These shoots are in addition to Sunday’s and Tuesday’s normal times. Tom Holt. RSO trap and skeet Trap and Skeet Shoots

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CMP Rifle Shoot Schedule for 2017

This year’s shoots will now be changed to Sundays and the cost of using the club gun will be $50. The reason for this is the increased price of ammunition. If you figure the cost of 52 rounds of 30-06 ammunition; you will find that you will pay over $50. So, by raising the cost, we are only recovering the cost of ammunition for the club. The cost to shoot bringing your own ammunition and gun will remain at $10. All shoots will start at 8 a.m. on the rifle range.

June

NO SHOOT DUE TO COMPTONS

July 9, 2017 Poker Shoot

August 13, 2017

Poker Shoot

September 10, 2017 CMP or Poker Shoot

October 8, 2017

Military Bolt Shoot

For questions call Gene Herrman at: (269) 465-5026

Election Committee Needed for Next Year

The Executive Board is in need of an Election Committee to replace board positions which will

become open this year. Please call or email a member of the Executive Board if you are interesting in serving on this committee.

Hunter Safety

Classes Call Dan at

(269) 429-4656

to register.

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New Members for May

Welcome to the Sportsman’s Club! Please introduce yourselves when you come by—we’ll always be glad to see you

and your family!

Brian Bertien / Barbra Steinbrecher Burtonsville, MD

Kieeran Browne /Kathryn Bixby

Chicago, IL

Michael and Jeri Essig Bridgman, MI

Benjamin Jakubs

Berrien Springs, MI

Min and Leah Ke St. Joseph, MI

Richaard and Shirley Matthias

Stevensville, MI

Robert McFeeter Benton Harbor, MI

Kevin O'Hagan St Joseph, MI

Travis and Kendra Olszewski

St Joseph, MI

Brian O'Malley Burbank, IL 60659

Pat O'Malley Chicago, IL

Marketing and Public Relations Experts

Cean@classicpressroom.com | 269-687-9128

WWW.CLASSICPRESSROOM.COM

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Call Cean @ 916-616-4014

CHAIRS FOR

SALE The Club is selling ex-cess chairs. We have 100 metal, folding chairs

at $5 each. If you are interested in purchasing chairs, or know of anybody who is, including non-members, contact Jerry Hebner, Club caretaker, at 269-429-3792.

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PLEASE VISIT OUR ADVERTISERS! WE APPRECIATE THEIR SUPPORT!

RANGE SAFETY CLASS

Range Orientation begins at 7 p.m. in the BCSC clubhouse.

Monday, June 5 Martin Prillwitz

Monday, July 10 Jim Essig

Monday, August 7 Jim Essig

Monday, September 11 Jeff Herman

Monday, October 2 Sheryl Hausman

Monday, November 6 Jim Essig

Firearm & Archery Safety Rules

Number 9.1:

Club members are not permitted to use any range unsupervised unless

they have completed the Club’s

“Firearm Safety Rules and

Guidelines Course”

NEW

MEMBERS, BRING YOUR

PISTOLS

New members! Come on out with your pistol on Thursday nights and enjoy shooting with some of the old members. We would like to meet you and have you use our indoor pistol and rifle range. We will help you with your shooting skills for when you decide to take the club’s monthly CPL class. If you are not a current CPL holder, you will need to be sure to separate your ammunition and firearm and place these two items in different parts of your vehicle when transporting your firearm. The clubhouse range opens at 7:00 p.m. Martin Prillwitz

IDPA shoots are the second Satur-day of each month. Shooting runs from 8 a.m. to noon. Come on out and see what it’s all about.

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DNR Southwest Lower

Peninsula Fishing Report St. Joseph: Boat anglers continued to make good catches of trout and salmon. Fish were caught well past 200 feet. There were also nice catches of fish from 80 to 100 feet, with most caught on spoons and spin doctors and flies. Pier anglers were still catching lots of channel catfish. Most were caught on night crawlers and stinkbait. The occasional steel-

head was also caught on shrimp.

St. Joseph River: Anglers drifting night crawl-

ers and trolling small crank baits were catch-

ing lots of walleye - most in the lower river.

South Haven: Boat anglers were catching good numbers of lake trout and salmon in 70 to 90 feet. Blue and green spoons seemed to

work best. Pier fishing was very slow.

Kalamazoo River: Nice walleye catches were

reported around Saugatuck.

Grand Haven: Salmon fishing continued to be good. Boats were finding Chinook, along with some coho, near the pier heads in 30 to 60 feet of water. Offshore they were catching fish 30 to 100 feet down in 120 to 180 feet of wa-ter. Orange, green or pink spoons were work-ing well, along with white flasher flies. Some anglers on the pier were catching Chinook on

alewives.

Grand River near Grand Rapids: Walleye

and bass were caught in good numbers near

6th Street Dam.

Grand River near Lansing: Those catch-and-release fishing for bass were seeing quite a

few fish near Grand River Park.

Muskegon: Offshore boats were doing well

on Chinook and coho 25 to 100 feet down in 140 to 200 feet of water. Green, orange or pink spoons were doing well, as were white

flashers with green or white flies.

Whitehall: Anglers trolling in 150 to 200 feet were catching Chinook and coho on spoons. Most fish were caught in the top 50 feet. Pier anglers casting spoons caught them as well,

along with the occasional steelhead.

Junior rifle

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NOTICE TO MEMBERS The Berrien County Sportsman’s Club does not allow slide fires, trigger bumps, or any ac-tions that attempt to mimic a fully automatic firearm. Thank you for your cooperation.

NEWSLETTER CORRECTIONS Did you find an error in the newsletter? Please email the correct information to editor@bcsportsmansclub.com for publication in the following month’s newsletter. Thank you.

BERRIEN COUNTY

SPORTSMAN’S CLUB RANGES

The Berrien County Sportsman’s Club includes a variety of ranges to meet your shooting needs. This includes indoor and outdoor archery, indoor and outdoor rifle and pistol, along with black pow-der, 25, 50, 75, and 100 yard ranges, handgun tactical and bowling pin ranges. A 200-yard rifle range is available for special club events only.

Michigan Gun Owners was established in 2002 as a website and incorporated in 2003 with the mission to educate the public and encourage grass roots activism on a state-wide level through various outreach programs and a popular community forum on the internet. Michigan Gun Owners has become Michigan’s fastest growing, grass roots gun rights advocacy organization.

http://www.migunowners.org

NO VEHICLES ARE TO BE DRIVEN ONTO

THE RIFLE RANGES. THANK YOU.

NEWSLETTER ONLINE You can read the Berrien County

Sportsman’s Club Newsletter online every month by visiting the Club’s

Website www.bcsportsmansclub.com.

Select the NEWSLETTER box in the bottom left corner of the home page.

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CAMPGROUND

LOT AVAILABLE A lot in the Berrien County

Sportsman’s Club Campground is now available. The lot has electricity and campers have access to running water and toilets. The campground offers a dump station. The vacancy will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. The cost is $85 per month, $1,020 per year. To reserve the open lot, or for more information, call Les Herrman at (269) 429-9963 and talk to the machine. I will get back to you in the order that calls come in. Please leave me valid phone numbers.

Thank You,

Les Herrman, Campground Chairman

4478 Red Arrow Highway

Stevensville, MI 49127

269-556-2253

Report All Poaching

RAP Hotline: 800-292-7800

BCSC Whirlpool Trap Night

2017 NRA Action Pistol

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Officers/ Board Members/ Chairpersons

President Jim Hausmann 269-208-6574 Vice President Jason Grimm 269-927-1793 Secretary Treasurer Sheryl Hausmann 269-208-1506 Director 2 yr. Al Hemerling 269-876-9363 Director 3 yr. Dan Bacchiocci 269-208-4290 Director 1 yr. Les Herrman 269-429-9963 Director 2 yr. Matt Center 574-339-9274 Director 1 yr. Mike Kechkaylo 269-325-3519 Director 1 yr. Jim Wojcik 269-429-7060 Director 3 yr. Curt Novotny 260-418-7297 Director 3 yr. Cean Burgeson 812-781-9422 Director 2 yr. Margo Howley 916-616-4014 Caretaker Jerry Hebner 269-429-3792 Archery Dan Jennings 269-429-4656 Bldg./Grounds Jim Howley 269-313-6450 Campground Les Herrman 269-429-9963 CCW Registrar Jason Grimm 269-927-1793 Fishing Jeff Jones 269-449-9185 Hunter Safety Dan Jennings 269-429-4656 IDPA Dale Herter 269-782-2462 Jr. Rifle Robbee Center 269-683-1168 Jr. Shotgun Membership Gayla Snow 269-429-3792 Newsletter Cean Burgeson 916-616-4014 Pistol Martin Prillwitz 269-463-3472 Public Relations Cean Burgeson 916-616-4014 Range Safety Jim Essig 269-429-9797 Rentals Jim Hausmann 269-208-6574 Rifle Gene Herrman 269-465-5026 Trap & Skeet Tom Holt 269-429-8888 Webmaster Wayne Sample 574-320-8045

IN GOD WE TRUST "No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily sub-dued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." Samuel Adams to James Warren, 1775

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Monthly Club Events

Trap & Skeet Sundays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

Pistol Every Thursday at 7 p.m.

Fishing Every Day

Home School Archery Tuesdays at 10 a.m. AEP Tactical Range Wednesdays at 8 a.m.

Retirees

July 2017

3 Range Orientation 7:00 pm 4 Executive Board Meeting 7:00 pm 8 IDPA-Rifle Bays 8:00 am 9 Poker Shoot 8:00 am 10 Board of Directors Meeting 6:30 pm 19 MEMBERSHIP MEETING & POTLUCK 7:00 pm 27 CCW Class 6:00 pm 29 CCW Class 8:00 am

June 2017

5 Range Orientation 7:00 pm 6 Executive Board Meeting 7:00 pm 10 IDPA Rifle 8:00 am 12 Board of Directors Meeting 6:30 pm 13-18 All Ranges Closed 15-18 Comptons 21 MEMBERSHIP MEETING & POTLUCK 7:00 pm 22 CCW Class 6:00 pm