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The Silver Arrow Journal
Official Newsletter of the Silver Arrow Bowmen
Issue 4-08
The
Presidents Podium-
Meeting
information
All of the Directors were at the March meeting,
additionally Barton Barrow, Rose Taylor, Holly Dean, Ray Gerdes and Brian
Guerrero were there.
Most of the meeting was taken up with Bonanza
planning. There will be a work
party on Saturday and/or Sunday April 19&20, so expect to get a call to help
with this. We need to get the range
all ready on that weekend as we are starting the shoot on Saturday…
Donations from buckle donors have started to
come in, the first one was from Sierra Nevada Construction, who sent us in a
check for $100, thank you Very Much!
We also
discussed creating a poster for SAB that just has our emblem and on it and some
general information about the club and a map to the range, that we can post at
different locations such as Cabella’s, Sportsman’s etc…
We discussed the grant we
have been working on from the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
It was submitted in February and we had not heard anything about it for a
while. I contacted them and they requested a more detailed estimate on the costs
and any restrictions there might be by the Washoe County Parks.
I contacted Washoe County Parks and got that information, then submitted
a detailed estimate with current costs ( it came to about $4800 dollars).
John McKay with NDOW said that it looked O.K. and it was going forward.
He called back today and said the contract people advised him that the grant
needed to be agency to agency, so they are revising it to better reflect that,
then it will be ready to submit to WCP for signature…
Hope
to see you at the next meeting, Monday April 14th, at 6:30 pm, 5270 Neil Room
#219 (the TMCC annex building, across from the Sears Automotive shop @ Meadowood
Mall)
Key
Three Items of Business
Item
#1 Bonanza Shoot planning
Item
#2 Bonanza Shoot Sponsors
Item
#3 Range work parties
We
may also discuss:
Changing of the combination to
the Range Gate Lock
The flag
The fencing grant
The
VP Voice
We had 11 people for the bow
hunter Education class on the 5th of April. Everyone had a good time
and it was a great class. We
potentially will get several new members signed up who attended the class.
The
Secretary Says
Financial-
We paid
for all the Bonanza Awards, the bow for the raffle and printing for the Bonanza
and the newsletter. We also had to buy a couple of ink cartridges for our
printer and we bought the posts for
replacing the survey stakes.
As
of April 8th:
Checking
account
Money
Market is
We
also received a check for $100 from Sierra Nevada Construction as a buckle
donation
Membership
Remember,
May is when all memberships come up for renewal for existing members!
The
Bowhunter Chairman’s Chatter
John Carlsen will be
needing volunteers for the Bonanza
work party on April 19 and/ or 20th.
We will need to set up the week before, as we are starting the shoot on
Saturday this year..
The
Range Captain’s Corner
Paul anticipates changing the gate code next month
when all of the membership renewals come due (they are due in May) Notification
will come thru the newsletter when it changes…
He has put new targets out on the practice range and
is working on the rest of range. He changed out a one of the practice range
bales that was getting shot through all the time.
Out
on the Range
The Lemmon Valley Range remains
open to members and the general public every day, via the lower parking lot and
walk over gate. There are 28 bail
butts available for shooting. Please
leave the range clean! Remember,
if you are a member and you want the combination to the lock, contact either
Paul Farina or Kelly Dean.
The Range may be closed for
general use on Saturday and Sunday April 19&20th for maintenance
and prep for the Bonanza. It will
definitely be closed for general use on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 25,26
& 27 for set up and the Bowhunter Bonanza shoot.
May
1st & 2nd from
1 pm to 4 pm there will be 3rd & 4th graders from
Maimi Towles school using the range for a basic introduction to archery and
outdoor skills.
The
Web
The
WEB is back in business!
Most of it is already updated and the rest will get done as we get more
information…Thanks again to Mark Rauh for getting it up and running again.
Upcoming
events
Conservation/Organization
shows
No new ones at this time
Hunting
seasons and information
Big game tag applications
are open, the last day to submit them is April
21st !! The results
will be out by June 20th. The
2nd Drawing will deadline is July 7th, The results will be out by
July 18th.
Antelope:
August 1st- 20th
(this was adjusted from last year, as this year the 2nd draw will not be
out until July 18th)
Deer
August 1st - September 5th
November 10th-30th, areas 071-079, 091, 081,101-108
(These areas also have tags in the early season, except 081)
December 1st-10th, areas 192,194,196,015,021
(These
areas also have tags in the early season, except 015,021)
Dec
11-Jan 1st, areas 201,202, 204205,206
(These areas have NO early archery season tags)
Elk Antlerless August
1st -24th
Elk
Bull
August 25th-September 14th
*NOTE-
Season beginning and ending dates are no longer coordinated with weekend
days, most are opening on Friday and
ending on a weekend day this year. Last year the commission anticipated NOT
adjusting to the days of the week and keeping the seasons on the same dates year
to year. Obviously this has changed, as most of the seasons have had some
change!
Local
and State Archery events and shoots:
Bowhunter
Education Class-Verdi Library-(Reno) Sponsored by NDOW & SAB
The Saturday, May 10th,
class has been canceled as the library is not available that day, it has not
been rescheduled at this time…
Bow
Hunter Bonanza, SAB Reno April 26 &27th
Redding Western Trail Shoot May
1,2,3,4-
BowHunter
league SAB Reno May 7th- July 9th
& the Finale/Challange on Saturday July 12th
Cancer Shoot, May 11th,
Carson City (CVA)
River Animal Madness, Fallon May
18th
Bowhunter Classic, Elko May 31,
June 1st
Bristlecone shoot, Ely, June 14th
& 15th
Fathers day shoot, Spooner
Summit, June 14th & 15th
NBHA Bow Hunter Jamboree, Eureka
June 21&22
Bear Valley Shoot, Loyalton, June
22
Bow
Hunter Finale/Challange SAB Reno, July 12th
Traditional shoot, Clear Creek
Bowmen, July 13
Big Buck Warm Up, Spooner Summit,
July19&20
NBHA Sagebrush Classic
Traditional shoot, Eureka, July 27 (tentative at this time)
Clear Creek Turkey Shoot, Carson
City, October 19th
Turkey Shoot, Sunrise Pass
(Carson City), November 2nd
Turkey
Shoot, SAB Reno, November 16th
Toys for Tots shoot, Carson City,
1st week in December (tentative at this time)
Tip
of the month
The
law-
This came up in a class-Washoe
County has changed it’s discharge of firearms law- moving from the state law
of no discharge of firearm within 500 feet of an occupied building, to no
discharge of a firearm within 5,000 feet ( that’s right, almost a mile) of an
occupied building or an improved road! It makes a shorter distance for shotguns,
being 1,000 feet. I have not been able to find a specific mention of archery,
but as some of you know, at one time the D/A interpreted it to include archery.
If anyone has further information on this please let me know, so I can
keep everyone informed! KD
P.S.
An interesting note, this law
would put their own shooting facility in violation, as it is easily with in a
mile of both occupied dwellings (houses) and the Pyramid Highway…
Please
let me know about your hunts, good
stories are what I am looking for, whether you took an animal or not. I will put
them in the story of the month section…KD
Silver
Arrow Bowmen
Address
P.O. Box 12834
Reno, Nevada 89510
Web
Page:
WWW.SilverArrowBowmen.org
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contact:
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To talk to a real person and get answers
The Flag
An
unknown person put up a nice American flag on our flag pole about a month and a
half ago. We were unable to
determine who it was, but whoever you are, thank you, it looks great!
Since that time, Paul has received 3 complaints about the flag, that the
flag is flying during hours of darkness and it is not supposed to fly at night
without a light on it. They all suggested that it needed to be taken down each
at night. Neither Paul or the club
has the resources to put it up and down every day. With the complaints, Paul
decided to just take it down.. …KD