Monday, 28 September 2015
CRGC has just finished its annual assistance to hunters by providing them a place to sight-in their rifles, and some consulting on how to do it, not to mention a fair amount of problem analysis and minor repairs. (It seems like most sporting goods retailers don't have people who know how to properly mount and bore sight scopes.) As usual the club was open the two weekends before the start of deer season, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM each of the four days.
We had 304 hunters bring in 372 rifles to be sighted in. An average year is 268 hunters and 326 rifles. The club provided targets, sand bags, chamber flags, a spotter, spotting telescope, and spotter board (and occasionally a bore sighter and tools) to help each shooter. This was the second most busy year since we started keeping permanent records in 2003.
The 2015 data was:
| Data | Saturday 9/19/15 |
Sunday 9/20/15 |
Saturday 9/26/15 |
Sunday 9/27/15 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # shooters | 52 | 54 | 90 | 108 | 304 |
| # firearms | 57 | 71 | 103 | 141 | 372 |
| # volunteers | 15 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 53 |
| # volunteer hours |
129.4 | 117.8 | 77.9 | 123.1 | 449.1 |
The 13 year summary data looks like:
| Data | Saturday | Sunday | Saturday | Sunday | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # shooters | 598 | 721 | 1101 | 1058 | 3478 |
| # firearms | 721 | 882 | 1339 | 1295 | 4237 |
| # volunteers | 155 | 138 | 160 | 143 | 596 |
| # volunteer hours |
1301 | 1171 | 1282 | 1212 | 4966 |
The following club members helped during the sight-in days. A new member in 2015 is signified by an asterisk following the member's last name, and the number in parenthesis is the number of days the person worked: Jack Baker (2), Ira Basinger* (1), John Bee (1), Earl Boaz* (1), Dwight Bond (2), Rich Chapin (3), Jeff Cohen (4), Mark Duval* (0.5), Grant Garner (4), Ken Goetz (0.5), Tim Hulse (1), Tim Martin* (1), Mark Middleton* (1), Ken Mazur* (1.5), Greg Kluever* (1), John Rapp** (2.5), Bob Ray (4.5), Jim Sanderson* (1), David Scott (1), Jim Stewart* (1), Shane Stock* (1), Kolin Thiel (2), Steve Timberman (4), Homes Tupper (4), and Ron Yarbrough* (0.5). Hugh Boyle assisted with non-spotting work part time on all four days. ** Mr John Rapp is a CRGC applicant who is getting involved with CRGC members and club activities.