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Berrien County Sportsman’s Club, Inc. Newsletter

2985 Linco Road, Berrien Springs, MI 49103

www.bcsportsmansclub.com Volume 20 Issue 6 June 2015

Membership Meeting

The next Membership Meet-

ing is Wednesday, June 17,

following the 7:00 p.m. potluck dinner.

NEW AND RENEWAL MEMBERSHIPS If you have not received your new mem-bership card and decals, please call the membership chair, Adam Hebner, at 269-487-5284. If you requested a mailed newsletter and are not receiving it, please email Greg Iwaniuk

editor@bcsportsmansclub.com Thank you for your support of the Berrien County Sportsman’s Club.

NEWSLETTER ONLINE You can read the Berrien County

Sportsman’s Club Newsletter online every month. Visit the Club’s Website

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

See you there next month.

New Members for May Arthur & Teresa Caldwell SawyerI Paul & Amanda Konczal St. JosephI Steven Lay Granger IN Helena Amari Berrien Springs Mark & Debbie Swisher Berrien Springs Charles Hartung & Darlene Kuhens

Berrien Springs Gregg & Lisa Schlender Stevensville Samuel & Linda Quaye Niles Robert & Karen Margol Niles Ted & Denise Werk Bridgman

Welcome to the Sportsman’s Club Please introduce yourselves, when

you come by—we’ll always be glad to see you and your family

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4478 Red Arrow Highway

Stevensville, MI 49127

269-556-2253

COMPTON

TRADITIONAL

BOWHUNTERS

RENDEZVOUS

Fathers Day weekend is just around the corner with a tremen-dous amount of preparation to get the grounds ready for the Compton Ren-dezvous. Call Larry at 269-470-4926 to help in preparation or work at the event and reserve your tee shirt to wear at the event. Highlights of this year’s rendezvous will include Dick Mauch, Friday night keynote speaker, sharing his memo-ries of the 1960’s African bowhunting with Fred Bear, Bill Wright and profes-sional hunter Wally Johnson. Saturday evening’s keynote will be delivered by Bryan Burkhjardt, bringing his insights and tips for do-it-yourself bowhunting in Alaska. There will be an expanded kids’ range, novelty targets and flying discs, and FOUR 3-d ranges.

3-D ARCHERY OPEN TO PUBLIC 30 Realistic Rinehart 3-D Animal

Targets Shooting Towers & Shooting Blinds Free Practice Range $8 per Round (30 shots) Shooting

Fee $3 per Round for BCSC Members Youth ages 15 and Under Free! Aerials—Equipment Provided For Additional Details call Larry

Janke at 470-4926. Shooting times are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on August 8 and 29 and September 19 and 26. See page three for details on the Compton Traditional Bowhunters Ren-dezvous June 19-21. Traditional arch-ers can purchase a three-day unlimited range pass during this event.

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RANGE SAFETY CLASS

Range Orientation is in the clubhouse.

June 1 `Milt Russell

July 6 Jim Essig

August 3 Adam Hebner

September 7 Jim Howley

October 5 Jim Hausmann

November 2 Milt Russell

December 7 DeWayne Hellenga

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 Guide-

lines Course”.

IDPA shoots are the second Satur-day of each month. Shooting runs from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Come on out and see what it is all about.

NOVEMBER SITE-IN DAYS Itching for deer season? Site-in day is coming in

November. Long-time site-in range manager Marty Prillwitz is stepping down after the 2015 season. If you are interested in taking over site-in days next year and would like to train with Marty this November, please give Marty a call at 269-463-3472.

Funding and Support for the BCSC Jr. Rifle Program is generously

Granted by The NRA Foundation. nrafoundation.org

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Gentle Reminder

Please sign in at the clubhouse when coming to shoot ,fish or use the archery range, as per the club

"Sign In Policy”.

PLEASE VISIT OUR ADVERTISERS!

WE APPRECIATE THEIR SUPPORT!

PISTOL Members and guests, come on out Thursday nights at 7 pm for our

weekly pistol shoots. Range fees are only $3 per member, $5 per guest, in-doors. No fee when we are shooting outdoors. Join us for target practice, and a lot of fun.

Marty Prillwitz, Pistol Chairman

No vehicles are to be driven onto the rifle ranges.

TARGET BACKING NEEDED

The club needs a new source of cardboard for the paper targets

used on the Club’s ranges. If you have a suggestion, call Jason

Grimm at 269-927-1793.

Trap &

Skeet

TRAP & SKEET IN FULL

SWING FOR SUMMER

Trap and Skeet is offered on Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Tuesday night shoot runs from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The cost to non-members is $5.00 for 25 targets. The cost to members is $4.00 for 25 targets. Call Tom Holt 269 363-9731 for information.

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

SUNSET COAST & APPLE BLOSSOM CUP WINNERS

Twenty-eight guns were registered both days for the the Sunset Coast Re-gional Open and the Apple Blossom Cup State of Michigan Match. The Sunset Coast Open winner was Kevin Angstadt with a score of 1918 X 196. The Metallic winner was Kent Hill with a score of 1868 X 109. Production win-ner honors went to Dave Blough with a score of 1690 X 88. The Apple Blossom Cup State of Michigan Match Open winner was Kevin Angstadt with a score of 1920 X 180. Martin Johnson took the Metallic win scoring 1878 X 118. The Produc-tion winner was Dave Blough with a score of 1747 X 100. The Michigan State Championship was won by Ray-mond Millsap Sr. who had a score of 1735 X 93. To win this title you must be a member of the Michigan Rifle & Pistol Association and a resident of Michigan. At least two national records were set during the weekend matches. I would like to thank all the volunteers that help to run this event.

Martin Prillwitz

If asked, please have your mem-bership card or car decal avail-able. Remember to always sign in and out at the clubhouse for all Club activities.. Good fishing!

Jeff Jones, Chairman

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PLEASE VISIT OUR ADVERTISERS!

WE APPRECIATE THEIR SUPPORT!

2015 Cmp,

battle rat-

tle, & mili-

tary bolt

shoot schedule

Following is the 2015 Civilian Marks-man Program shoots for 2015 at the Berrien County Sportsman’s Club: CMP SHOOT May 9, 8:00 a.m.

Range shared with IDPA Shoot, East 100 yard Rifle Range will be

used for CMP CMP SHOOT July 18, 8:00 a.m. RATTLE BATTLE Aug 15, 8:00 a.m. CMP SHOOT Sept 19, 8:00 a.m. MILITARY BOLT Oct 4, 8:00 a.m.

The CMP Mission To Promote Firearm Safety and Marks-

manship Training

With an Emphasis on Youth

BUSINESS OWNERS Are you a business owner? Do you sell a product or provide a service? Advertise in the Berrien County Sportsman’s Club Newsletter. Over 400 family homes are exposed to your business every month when you place your business in your Club’s newsletter. To advertise in the next newsletter,

Contact Greg at editor@bcsportsmansclub.com.

269-487-8829 Each month the newsletter is mailed to nearly 200 Michiana homes. Over 400 member families see the monthly newsletter on the Club Web-site at www.bcsportsmansclub.com. Give yourself a double-shot. Adver-tise your business while you also help promote your Berrien County Sportsman’s Club via the newsletter.

Contact Greg today at editor@bcsportsmansclub.com

269-487-8829

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Do You Have Ideas to Help Promote the Berrien County

Sportsman’s Club? Let our Public Relations Representative, Cean Bergeson know. Cean has taken on the task of managing the public relations function for the Berrien County Sports-man’s Club. Please let Cean know of op-portunities to put the Club’s best foot for-ward. 269-281-0242.

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 clubs monthly CPL class.

Martin Prillwitz

Michigan Gun Owners was established in 2002 as a website and incorporated in 2003 with the mission to educate the pub-lic and encourage grass roots activism on a state-wide level through various out-reach programs and a popular community forum on the internet. Michigan Gun Own-ers has become Michigan’s fastest grow-ing, grass roots gun rights advocacy or-ganization.

http://www.migunowners.org

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AERIAL

ARCHERY

AT THE

COMPTON

RENDEZVOUS Why attend the

Compton Traditional Bowhunters Rendezvous? Aerial archery, of course. You bring the traditional bow, we’ll bring the flu-flu arrows. We’ll even turn on the range lights when it gets dark so you can keep shooting. Come and try your hand at this very popular Compton event. You may even decide to replace your shotgun with a traditional bow this coming pheasant season. For more information call Larry @ 269-470-4926. June 19-21 at the Berrien County Sportsman’s Club.

WHO ADDS CONTENT TO THE BCSC

NEWSLETTER? YOU DO.

If it is happening at Berrien County Sports-man'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 participation.

Email details to:

editor@bcsportsmansclub.com

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Officers/ Board Members/ Chairpersons

President Eric Royer 269-487-8049 Vice Pres. Paul Lesnefsky 312-350-4342 Secretary Open Treasurer Oscar Hnanicek 269-428-9089 Director 3 yr. Matt Center 574-339-9274 Director 3 yr. Mike Ketchkaylo Director 3 yr. Jim Wojcik 269-426-7060 Director 2 yr. Dwayne Hellenga 269-429-1203 Director 2 yr. Dan Jennings 269-429-4656 Director 2 yr. Margo Howley 269-313-0523 Director 1 yr. Jeff Herman 269-449-4304 Director 1 yr. Chris McCall 269-429-1322 Director 1 yr. Les Herrman 269-429-9963 Caretaker Jerry Hebner 269-429-3792 Archery Larry Janke 269-470-4926 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 Kevin Pounders 269-484-4881 Jr. Rifle Robbee Center 269-683-1168 Jr. Shotgun Adam Hebner 269-487-5284 Membership Adam Hebner 269-487-5284 Newsletter Greg Iwaniuk 269-487-8829 Pistol Martin Prillwitz 269-463-3472 Public Relations Cean Burgeson 269-281-0242 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

HUNTER

SAFETY

COURSE

The next hunter safety course will be held July 27, 28 and 29 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. and August 1 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

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

BERRIEN COUNTY SPORTS-

MAN’S CLUB RANGES

The Berrien County Sportsman’s Club includes a variety of ranges to meet your weapon and shooting needs. In-door and outdoor Archery. Indoor and outdoor Rifle and Pistol. Black Powder, 25, 50, 75, and 100 yard ranges. Handgun Tactical and bowling pin ranges. A 200 yard rifle range is avail-able for special club events only.

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June 2015 1 Range Orientation 7 pm 2 Executive Board Meeting 7 pm 2 Trap & Skeet 7-9 pm 3 AEP Tactical Range 8 am 6 Trap & Skeet 1-4 pm 7 Trap & Skeet 10 am-2 pm 8 Board of Directors Meeting 6:30 pm 9 Trap & Skeet 7-9 pm 10 AEP Tactical Range 8 am 13 Trap & Skeet 1-4 pm 13 IDPA 8 am-12 pm 14 Trap & Skeet 10 am-2 pm 16-21 All Ranges Are Closed For The Compton Tradi-tional Bowhunters Rendezvous 16 MSU Steak Fry 1 pm 17 Membership Meeting & Potluck 7 pm 19-21 3D Outdoor Archery Ranges Traditional Bows Only 8 am-8pm 23 Trap & Skeet 7-9 pm 24 AEP Tactical Range 8 am 25 CCW Class 6-10 pm 27 CCW Class concluded 8 am-5 pm 27 Trap & Skeet 1-4 pm 28 Trap & Skeet 10 am-2pm 30 Trap & Skeet 7-9 pm

July 2015 1 AEP Tactical Range 8 am 5 Trap & Skeet 10 am-2 pm 6 Range Orientation 7 pm 7 Executive Board Meeting 7 pm 7 Trap & Skeete 7-9 pm 8 AEP Tactical Range 8 am 11 IDPA 8 am-12 pm 11 Trap & Skeet 1-4 pm 12 Trap & Skeet 10 am-2 pm 13 Board of Directors Meeting 6:30 pm 14 Trap & Skeet 7-9 pm 15 AEP Tactical Range 8 am 15 Membership Meeting and Potluck 7 pm 18 Old Timers Club 6 am-6 pm 18 CMP Shoot 8 am-12 pm 18 Trap & Skeet 1-4 pm 19 Trap & Skeet 10 am-2 pm 21 Shriners Pavilion 8 am-Midnight 21 Trap & Skeet 7-9 pm 22 AEP Tactical Range 8 am 23 CCW Class 6-10 pm 25 CCW Class concluded 8 am-5 pm 25 Trap & Skeet 1-4 pm 26 Trap &Skeet 10 am-2 pm 27 Hunter Safety Course 6-9 pm 28 Hunter Safety Course 6-9 pm 29 AEP Tactical Range 8 am 29 Hunter Safety Course 6-9 pm August 1 Hunter Safety Course 8 am-3 pm

Pistol Every Thursday at 7:00 p.m.