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| Officers: | ||
| President: C. D. Reul | 303 238-5696 | denreul@comcast.net |
| Vice President: Jim Brummerstedt | 303 772-5145 | jr338@juno.com |
| Secretary/Treasurer: Martin Everitt | 303 425-4450 | mever46144@aol.com |
| Directors: | ||
| Jerry Davidson | 303 986-5740 | |
| Don Fabrizio | 303 424-4558 | fabriziodj@aol.com |
| Dave John | 303 433-2780 | treefort6@yahoo.com |
| Stan Dial | 303 797-1950 | dials@worldnet.att.net |
| Andy McMinimee | 303 794-3199 | |
| David Lee | 303 431-4513 | biggeorge248@attbi.com |
| Membership Database: | ||
| Bruce Benninghoff | 303 978-1284 | bruce@prolynx.com |
| Newsletter Editor: | ||
| Laura Everitt | 303 233-4808 | leveritt@dmns.org |
HUNTER SAFETY CLASSClub members? Leonard Avery and his son Trent conducted a two-day hunter safety course at CRC in October. This is the second year that they have conducted these courses at the range. Last year they held two sessions but were limited to one class this year that resulted in an overflow session. Included in the thirty-seven registrants were club members and local area residents, mostly aspiring young hunters and their families. Leonard is a Master Instructor for the Colorado Division of Wildlife who suggested holding the classes on the CRC ranges to fulfill two goals. One is to provide a local venue for the classes for the residents of Byers/Strasburg area. Hunter safety courses are held primarily in the metro area and are not readily accessible to the rural area residents. Secondly, conducting the course in the natural habitat of CRC allows Leonard and Trent to set up life-like situations. They use animal skins and hunter clothing to demonstrate safe and unsafe shooting situations. An example is placing a deerskin representing a hunting shot on a nearby rise. However, just over the ridge is a picnic table stressing, ?know your backstop? to the attendees. They also use elk hooves to make animal tracks in the sand demonstrating game trails and tracking. The uses of many real-life examples like these make the CRC course a really unique experience for the attendees that cannot be duplicated in a classroom. A bonus is the exposure of the club and our facilities to many local residents. Next year Leonard plans to conduct two courses at CRC. One in September and another in October to coincide with the opening of hunting seasons. He will welcome additional club members to help in setting up the field experience and assisting with the classes. VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDThe newsletter needs volunteers to stuff and mail the newsletter. Several members have previously indicated their willingness to assist with the mailing and we would like to confirm that they still have an interest and to keep a list of ready helpers. Please call Dennis Reul at 303 238-5696 or e-mail to: denreul@comcast.net to indicate your interest. WANTEDRon Best is looking for a Unertl 1-1/2 inch objective scope of 10 to 15 power. Call Ron at 303 986-0836. WINTER EVENTSThings get pretty quiet this time of year, but there are still important things to do! Please keep the following in mind. Dec. thru March: Regular winter schedule of silhouette rifle matches. Call Tom Bant 303 425-8870 for hi power information, and Steve Hawks 970 532-3432 for the smallbore schedule. Don?t forget to look at our weather station on the web site for up to the hour weather data at the range. Many times its warmer out there than in Denver. January 17: Annual Match Director?s Workshop. Call Denny Reul, 303 238-5696 for information. Anyone interested in running, or helping to run, an event of any kind is welcome. February 21: (tentative) CRC Annual Dinner and Meeting. Watch the Newsletter for details. February 22: First Sporting Clays shoot of the new year. Hope for good weather! December 31: Last day to pay 2003 dues and fulfill 2003 work bonds. See articles elsewhere in this Newsletter. January 1: 2004 dues for all members will be due. More on this and a payment coupon in the next newsletter. MATCH DIRECTORS MEETINGThe club?s match directors will meet in January for their annual meeting to coordinate activities for the coming year. The club would like to have member input on any improvements or changes to the facilities or problems that might need to be addressed. Call Dennis Reul, 303 238-5696 or Marty Everitt, 303 425-4450 with your ideas. ANNUAL MEETINGThe Colorado Rifle Club will conduct its annual meeting tentatively on February 21, 2004. Put this date on your calendar and if you have ideas or wishes of what you would like to see and hear at the meeting, contact any of the club officers. THANKS!Thanks to Ralph Landon, a 1000 yard Bench Rest shooter from Palisade, CO, who is known among bench resters for having shot the record 1000 yard group of .027 inches for 5 shots. Ralph donated, thru Ron Best, a caliper used to score group sizes for bench rest targets. Many Thanks Ralph! It will get good use. NEEDED!!The club needs two small trailers, or the wheel and axle sets to build them. One, for the portable welder, should be a single axle rig capable of carrying about a ton around the property. The other, for our 300 gallon water tank should be a 2 axle affair capable of carrying about 1-1/2 tons. Broad wheels for floatation tires would be great. We?ll trade two years of work bond for either. With the completion of the new toilets next spring we will need about 18 or 20 two or three pound coffee cans with plastic lids to hold extra rolls of paper. please leave them in the stat. office. 2004 SOUVENIR PINWe need a design for the 2004 souvenir pin given to all competitors. Jim Brummerstedt designed the 2003 pin featuring the 1000 yard bench rest target. We used a bulls eye for several years before that, how about a silhouette, pistol or clay bird pin. Send Martin Everitt a camera ready copy of your design, any size. B & W copy is ok, but you can specify the colors for the different elements. The club logo font is called Monotype Corsiva which may be in most computers or we can send you some copies to work with. Lowell & Alices CornerIn the past articles I have tried to bring you up to the time I retired as Sec/Treas in February 2001. Since then, articles in the club Newsletters have kept you informed of improvements etc on the property. It occurred to me you might be interested in the history of our present property. There is an article in the album 1990 in the ranch house. However, it is likely that most of you will never read it. This will be similar. Thomas J. Hayes of Missouri traveled in a covered wagon from Missouri to Colorado in 1899. He filed a homestead claim in 1905 of CRC property, 160 acres where the ?old? house was (and has since been burned down) and the sporting clays area and the pond to the west. Tome and Rose May Anderson (also from Missouri) were married in 1903. Their first home was a dug-out built in the hill across the road south from their house. Thomas was a carpenter by trade and helped build sugar beet factories in Brighton and Ft. Morgan. He also built barns for other people. At one time he was a Constable. It was common practice for homesteaders to build a dug-out for their first home. There were also banks, way-stations, etc. around Hoyt that were housed in dug-outs at first. In 1910 he built the house on Bijou Creek, known as the Bijou Ranch. The kitchen was added on in 1920 when a third child was born. He also built the grainery, chicken house and all the buildings, most of them have been taken down. The Hayes? had three children: Ruth, Thomas L. (Bill) and Mary Jane. We were privileged with a visit from Mary Jane and her son Tom to the range in August of 1994. Needless to say they were thrilled with all the work that had been done and to see their old homestead, etc. The Gairs also come out from Byers to see Mary Jane as they were also good friends. The history they all gave us was ?mind-boggling?. We made notes and tried to piece it all together. Tom farmed the land, growing wheat and alfalfa, etc. He also had cattle, some horses, and raised pigs. Alfalfa was grown in the area where the Sporting Clays Course is now, because that was all level ground until the 1935 and 1965 floods. The big flood on May 30, 1935 changed the course of the Bijou Creek. It washed out the bridge across the creek and was never replaced in that area. They put the bridge on 96th Avenue instead. The 1965 flood water line was halfway between the fence (at sporting clays) and the ?old? house. The floods, needless to say, caused much erosion of the land, washed out trees, left big gully?s, etc. There were still a few old trees left after the 1965 flood, but Bill Gair tells us that most of the trees down by and in the creek came from seed that blew in during the storm. Tom Hays and his son Bill both passed away with influenza during a bad snowstorm, Tom on January 15, 1937 and Bill on January 17, 1937. Rose, the wife and mother never quite got over her loss and she and her daughter Mary Jane left the Bijou Ranch in August 1937 and moved to Denver. They leased the land out. On October 7, 1941 they sold the ranch to their daughter Ruth and her husband Ray Fulmer. On September 16, 1941 the Fulmers bought the northeast section of our north section. More about that later~~ In Rememberance
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