McHenry Sportsmen's Club

McHenry Sportsman’s Club Newsletter (August 7, 1999)

Dear Members and Families:

The annual Club Family Picnic:

It is summertime, and once again time for the annual McHenry Sportsman Club membership family picnic. Please mark your calendars. This year the picnic is on August 29, (the last Sunday of the month), on the club’s grounds.

We all had a great time last year, so we will have even a greater time this year.

There will be plenty of eating and trapshooting, and it is cheap. Tickets are five dollars if you are coming alone, or ten dollars if you and your family come. This includes all the food and soft drinks you can possibly consume. The food we will be cooking for all of you this year includes Hamburgers, Brats, Vienna Hot Dogs and Chicken, all cooked on that big barbecue behind trap one. Most people bring a dish to share, so there will be no shortage of delicious food for everyone.

The shooting events that will be held this year include the following:

Fifty targets from the sixteen yard line.

Fifty targets from your handicap yardage. Your yardage is the greater of your ATA handicap yardage, or one half of the total score you received while shooting the sixteen yard event.

Twenty five pairs of doubles.

Practice shooting and “Annie Oakley” events.

Instructional assistance will also be available for people that are new, or just want help becoming better shooters.

Cost for shooting is ten dollars per event, or twenty five dollars for all three events. This cost is used to purchase prizes for the winners. Prizes this year are Belt Buckles and Bracelets. As you may remember, we awarded Belt Buckles and Bracelets during our July Fourth Registered Shoot, and the response was overwhelming.

Practice shoots are three dollars per a twenty five shot round. Instructional assistance is offered at no charge. Cost of “Annie” shoots depend on the nature of the event.

The shooting starts around nine in the morning. The “eating” (business) part of the picnic starts around noon. Bringing a dish to pass would be appreciated, and it would serve as a platform to your (or your spouse’s) creative culinary talents.

The Shotgun Raffle:

Earlier this year, we sent a letter to our members asking for ideas the club could use to raise money for important things , like repairing the clubhouse and purchasing an automatic trap machine. Several members suggested a shotgun raffle. The membership thought that would be a good idea and purchased a very nice over-under shotgun and offered it as a prize for a fund raising raffle. We sold one hundred tickets at twenty dollars each. Ticket holders have a one in one hundred chance of winning the shotgun, for each ticket they hold. These odds are far greater than most activities of this nature. The tickets were sold out within several weeks.

We will conduct the drawing for the shotgun at the club during our annual family picnic, August 29, 1999.

If you purchased a ticket, you may win. If you do not win, you really did win because the proceeds you helped raise by contributing will help your club, and you were part of it. If you did not buy a raffle ticket, you may get one more chance. Sometime, possibly late this fall, if interest is there, the club may offer another shotgun raffle.

Sincerely,
Tom Carneal, Club Treasurer

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