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We had a pretty good turnout considering that the shoot was over the [Labor] Day weekend. There were 21 shooters that came out to test their skills on our course. Everyone liked shooting the new targets we purchased from Scuhbachs in Jackson in time for this shoot. The next shoot will be on Sept.27th, just in time to get your practice in before opening day of the bow season.
The class winners were:

Men’s  Freestyle:
1) Jamie Powers       241
2) Tom Dembinski    228
3) Nick Aldrich          223

Women’s Freestyle:
1) Megan Dembinski   194

Jr. Freestyle:
1)  Griffin Murphy     206
2)  Parker Murphy    200
3)  April Dembinski  138

Men’s Open:
1) Barry Stapleton   257
2) Craig Ludwik       256
3) Larry Brian          245

– Len Ellsworth

The winners for the May 3rd shoot are:

Men’s Open:
1st – Dale Becket – 223

Men’s freestyle:
1st – Brad Mahalak – 268
2nd – Nick Benidict – 246
3rd – Kyle Tillotson – 234

Cub:
1st – Mikayla Becker – 86
 

Total shooters: 15

l would like to thank all that helped out with the 1st shoot of the year. Mike Boyer and Ron Mast were there all day. Breck Stringer, Bruce Sullins, Ron, and probie Nathan Sova all put in a lot of time helping set up the course. Dave Tihonen, Mike Woods, Mike Hakale, Breck, Ron, and Nathan all helped Mike Boyer out in the kitchen to make it a success.

Next month the targets will mostly stay the same, we will just adjust the yardage and angle of the shot. We have six volunteers to help set-up the course. They are Bruce Sullins and Tom Nienhaus for targets 1-10, Larry Collins and Mike Hakale for 11-20, and Breck Stringer and Nathan Sova for 21-30. Thank you for volunteering.

We were lucky to have the Flintknappers Weekend at the Club during this shoot. I have been at the shoots before when this was going on but I would just kind of walk around to see what was going on, not staying very long and really didn’t see much of it. I was there all day and was amazed at the families that came to see this. There were kids involved watching and learning how to weave baskets, make broadheads, strings for bows, bows and a lot of other primitive things. It was very educational for me just to see all of this going on. I heard a couple of kids telling their dad that they wanted to get a bow and learn how to shoot. Not too many places I know of that you can go and see this part of history being shown. They, the Flintknappers, would like to come back next year in April so if there is an opening on the 1st Sunday in April, we might just be starting up the bow shoots a month earlier next year.

Thanks again for all of the help and participation,
Len Ellsworth

Here is the 3D Archery Schedule for 2015:

May 3rd
June 7th
July 19th
August 2nd
September 6th
September 27th

Registration time for all shoots is 8am to 3pm.

We Hope you come out and enjoy our 3D course that winds through our club grounds, 74 acres of beautiful scenery and challenging shots!

For More Information – Contact Len Ellsworth: [email protected]

June 20th = “First Steps” Class 5 – 8 pm
June 21st = “CPL / Safety In the Home” Class 8:30am – 4:30pm
Go to: http://www.chelsearodandgun.org/?page_id=2401 for more details or Call Ph: (734) 426-2162 and Ask for Neil Ehnis

We are planning on setting up our “redneck 5 stand” as well as really shooting like “rednecks” and practice our trap shooting while sitting on varied “objects” of questionable origins. Ah yes, good times…

9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Cost: $4 / 25 shot round. (Special events/games accordingly)

Eye and ear protection mandatory (not provided)

What: multiple stations with varied targets (singles, report pairs, doubles) Fun event shoots. (Standard trap field open also)

Well we had the first archery shoot for 2014 and even though I wouldn’t say it was a rousing success we did have 17 shooters show up. The one thing that baffles me is that we only had 2 shooters from the Club participate. Dan Hovater and myself. I would like to think Dan, Ron Mast, and Mike Boyer for helping all day at the shoot and with set-up. They were the only members who were in attendance. I… do not know how to get members more involved but I hope that as the shoots go on they will at least come out and try the course because it is different from years past and will be changing each month. CVS pharmacy in Chelsea donated 10 cases of water to the Club and we had it on the course for participants to drink. I think as the summer heats up that will help with hydration. Mosquitos were tough but I only saw one deerfly.

– Len Ellsworth

The top three finishers for the classes were:

FREE STYLE
1) Chris Bazick 268
2) Rob Hendricks 268
3) Len Ellsworth 258

RECURVE
1) Scott Casper 137
2) Dan Hovater 126

FREESTYLE JR.
1) Alex Booner 142

Our most sincere thanks for all who attended the St. Patrick’s Day party back on March 15th, as well as to the members who organized and volunteered their time. We exceeded our monetary goal and again we are able to give out scholarships to Chelsea High School students! We also had an awesome corned beef and cabbage dinner, drinks, and friendship.

When the numbers came back to the Board in April, we discovered that we made enough money to present FOUR $750 dollar scholarships! Thanks again to everyone in the Club and the community who supported our scholarship program for 2014.

The Chelsea Education Foundation will now be accepting applications for the Scholarships and will be choosing the recipients soon! The scholarships are presented on commencement night at Chelsea High school in June.

11am – 2pm

Details: Click Here

Hey everybody, it’s looking like good weather this weekend, so come out and do some shooting, unless you have Mother’s Day obligations.  Speaking of which, all mothers shoot for free this Sunday, so take advantage of this once a year offer if you can.  See you out there.