GRIFFIN GUN CLUB
Amelia Road
Griffin, Georgia
PRESIDENT - GLEN WEBBER - 471-2704 TREASURER - ED KLONOSKI - 770719-0724
PAST PRES - JOHN NEEL - 228-2904
SECRETARY - RONNIE GARRISON 227-3881 MEMBR SEC - ROGER SNYDER 770-467-9072 HUNTER SAFETY - VIC
STENSON - 227-1724
HOST
- APRIL PRUITT
GUN SHOW - BEN
MOORE - 358-2289
RAFFLE
- ERIC MOYE - 228-7555
SAFETY JERRY BURFORD - 228-2664 SKEET
- KEITH SCRUGGS - 228-3408
BUILDING - JERRY LADD - 504-0131
GROUNDS - DAVID GRIFFIN -678232-4089 SASS
- BOB BODRON
- 461-7503
RIFLE & PISTOL LEONARD JOHNSON - 770-233-9346
JULY 2014
NEXT MEETING
Next Meeting - Monday – July 14 - 6:00 PM – Get your bill and info on new gun laws
Board of Directors - Monday – July 28 – Jerry Ladd – did you and Eric swap months?
UPCOMING EVENTS
Budweiser Skeet Shoot – July 19 – call Keith to help
Steel Challenge Match - 1st Saturday each month - Next match – August 2 - At least one range
will be open.
Black Powder Shoot - 1st Sunday each month - Next match August 3 - All muzzleloaders
welcome, in-line with scopes, too. Can you beat the guys shooting traditionally???
Cowboy Action - - 2nd Saturday each month - next match August 9 - this is the annual match!
Skeet and Eat - 2nd and 4th Thursdays each month – July 24. If you want to shoot 5-Stand let
Jerry Burford know in advance so it can be opened
USPS Shooting - 3rd Saturday and 4th Wednesdays each month – July 19 and 23 - First four bays
on right going to the ranges will be reserved for these matches.
Police on Range - Sheriff’s Office - -They will use the ranges each 3rd Wednesday the Sheriff
and Police Departments will have open range day - they will work with you if you want to shoot.
Buckarama – First week in August – Eric needs help
DUES BLLS
Bills will be available at the July meeting and mailed to those not picking them up after the
meeting. Please pay by August 1. Gate combination will be changed and the new gate
combination will be on your new membership card
NEW MEMBERS
Ten new members were approved at the last meeting! Welcome them to the club. Sponsors make sure you go over the rules and help them with problems and questions, like getting keys to
the club.
Don’t forget you can get four work hours for sponsoring a new member - help the club grow. Be
sure to turn in your hours when you sponsor a new member.
WEB SITE
Thegriffingunclub.org is our web site. Check it out. This is being done by a new webmaster now
- you need to add your email address.
MEMBERSHIP BADGES
Please wear your name tag when shooting at the club. Remember that the combo is on them so
take care of them. If someone is shooting on the ranges and not wearing a badge, ask them if
they are members of the club and check them out.
PRESENTATION AT MEETING
Probate Judge Pam Ferguson will be talking about the new gun laws which took effect July 1. I
am sure everyone has read a great deal about the new laws and have questions about them , this
is a great time to get them answered.
KIDS ON RANGE
Your gun club membership is a family membership but NO children are allowed on the range
unless you are with them.
CUT THE GRASS FOR WORK HOURS
David reports all mowers are working - bring some gas and cut the grass for work hours. David
needs help with ground work – call him to get in some work hours.
SHOOTING BAFFLES AND POSTS
Apparently we have some members that want to be expelled from the club. Someone or several
someones keep shooting baffles and posts intentionally.. Anyone caught doing this will be
expelled from the club.
CHANGE IN ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
The new AOI have been approved.
WORK HOURS
IF YOU DON’T TURN IN WORK HOURS THEY CAN ‘T BE COUNTED! Since bulletins
are not longer mailed, each month a list of completed work hours will be posted at the clubhouse
at the meeting. Please check it and let Ronnie Garrison know if it is wrong. Check the date on
the list - if you turned in work hours within two weeks before the list was printed they won’t be
on it.
You are required to do 12 hours per year and the number on the list is the number you have
turned in. If you don’t turn them in they can’t be counted. You can get work hours helping set
up for competitions like the Skeet Shoots, Cowboy Action, Black Powder and Steel Challenge
matches. Contact the chairs of those groups to help, or directors listed at the top of the bulletin
for ways you can do work hours. Some suggested jobs to get work in - mow grass - sign up sheet
in the clubhouse - empty trash on ranges - put in dumpster - weed eat berms, especially on top move targets to houses - contact Jerry or Keith - paint sheds and covers - contact Jerry Ladd plug holes in gutters and clean them out.
MEMBERSHIP CLASSIFICTIONS
We accept new members as active members. We do not have any special classifications like
youth memberships since all active membership includes family members. We do waive the
initiation fee for law enforcement but not other groups. Those not paying an initiation fee are
associate members and do not have a vote.
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NOTE - IF YOU SPONSOR A NEW MEMBER, THEY MUST BE AN NRA MEMBER.
PLEASE HAVE THEM SIGN UP ON LINE OR THROUGH THE MAIL, NOT SEND A
CHECK TO THE CLUB SO SIGN THEM UP. Please put this number on your NRA renewal
- the club will get $5. If you sign up a new member, get them to use this number and the club
will get $15! Don't forget it.
GUN SHOW
Ben is hoping to have a gun show the second weekend in December
LOCK THE GATE!
Please lock the gate behind you when you are shooting during the week. The gate should stay
locked even when you are there on week days. Weekends and during matches it will be left open.
IF YOU ARE THE LAST ONE TO LEAVE MAKE SURE IT IS LOCKED!
LIABILITY WAIVERS
We have new liability waivers in the clubhouse - be sure to sign one and leave it on the
clipboard. You need to sign an new one each year, and before shooting any match.
BULLETS LEAVING THE RANGE CAN GET US SHUT DOWN
One of our new members discussed the problems the Moultrie club had - we can get shut down if
bullets go out of our ranges. Follow the rules and good sense or we will lose our club. If you see
someone doing something dangerous stop them and report them to a board member.
POLICE YOUR BUTTS!!
Please don’t thr0w cigarette butts on the ground and expect someone else to pick them up. Put
them in the trash!
MEMBERSHIP CARDS
NOTE - we are putting the old gate code and the new one at the bottom of each card. Gate
combo will be changed after the September board meeting so make sure you have paid so you
will have the new gate code. Life members will get a post card with the new number on it.
CMP
Our dues are paid so you can use your membership card to buy through them. ALSO - you can
get a discount through Creedmoor Sports at www.odcmp.com/Sales/Creedmoor.htm through our
CMP affiliation.
KEYS TO THE CLUB
Jerry Burford is handling keys for new members - if you need a key contact him.
.LOCKS
With our combination locks like the one on the gate you have to set the code and push in on the lock to
make it release. After doing this spin the numbers so the combination does not show. When you
lock it back make sure the combination is not set or anyone can open the gate. We have had problems
with access to some of our buildings by members that need it but we have also had a theft problem with
targets that we now try to keep locked. We are searching for a solution that gives members access but
keeps equipment safe.
EMAILED BULLETINS
I get many undeliverable emails bounced back. If you change your email address, let me know!
Note my email change - Starting with the July bulletin, all bulletins will be emailed unless you
request that you keep getting a mailed bulletin. You must call or mail Ronnie Garrison to
continue getting a mailed bulletin. Send me your email address if you want to be added to the
email list - email ronnie@fishing-about.com or rgarri7470@aol.com
SEE YOU AT THE MEETING MONDAY NIGHT!!!