Our past President, Rob Engh, competed in the 2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot held in France the last week of August and first week of September. The competition was over six days involving 30 stages with the best Production shooters in the world as Rob’s competition. Rob finished in 79th place (77.77%) out of 455 [...]
Open House Peter Turgeon, Gary Wong and Ron Edward ran the section. We used three club shotguns and two of Peter's. 138 people shot at this station, 12 hit all five shots! The Trap Club donated five cases of targets and three flats of shells for over 700 rounds! Peter managed to fix the [...]
Well it has been a bit of a slow start to the season due to the backcountry closures. Currently several regions of the province do not allow any ATV/UTV use, these include Regions 3, 4, 5 & 8. Make sure you check the BC Forestry website as there are also specific areas (maps provided) [...]
ATS was cancelled, for the month of August, due to work commitments on both my and Joe’s part. This months ATS day, 24 September, will be used as a ‘validation shoot’, for those attending the Oct MWO and DSTO courses, as well as for any others that would like to verify their weapons [...]
Our monthly match was held on September 3, 2017. We had a fair turnout of 8 shooters and a range officer considering this was a long weekend. Special thanks to Dave Mensour and the Law Enforcement Action Pistol Club of the Port Coq. & Dist. H & F Club for allowing us to shoot [...]
All, a reminder for this months ATS day, Sunday, 24 September. This ATS day will be a warm up and confirmation, for October’s Veritac courses: Multi Weapon Operations 20-22 October: https://shop.veritacsolutions.com/products/multi-weapons-operations-mwo Dismounted Small Team Operations 27-29 October: https://shop.veritacsolutions.com/products/dismounted-small-team-operations-dsto From the course providers: Attend the ATS shoot on 24 September 2017. This is [...]
Action Rifle League Shooters - On Saturday 7 October 2017, Action Rifle League invites you to the Close Quarter Shooting Series 2017 at the Abbotsford Fish and Game Club. Action Rifle League has put together a series of competitions in BC in an effort to get people off the bench and into the exciting [...]
LOCAL RIVERS 1) Chilliwack/Vedder: conditions are as they were in August, low and clear! Open for hatchery Coho 4/day; Chum 1/day; hatchery Rainbow Trout 4/day. No Pink or Sockeye retention. 2) Fraser: is closed to salmon fishing until further notice! Open for Sturgeon and hatchery Cutthroat Trout! Fred Helmer and the Salmon Society have organized a protest for [...]
First, a big “THANKS”, to all the volunteers that came out for the open house; I hear it was a great show, and well run, as usual..! The down side... Please be advised, due to work commitments on both Joe’s and my part, this months ATS slotted for 27 Aug, is cancelled. Work load [...]
Another group of five for the IPSC TC held over two consecutive Tuesdays. This is a new format and seems to have a use for those who can’t quite find a weekend to take the course. See the club and/or my class schedule to find one that may work best for you. They are limited [...]
A number of our IPSC Sub-Club members participated in the 2017 National Championship for IPSC Canada and they represented us very well. In Classic Division, top Abby finishers were Brian McCoy in 11th with 83.951% and Brennan Sheremeto in 12th with 83.611%. In Production Division, top Abby finishers were Mike McClelland in 18th place [...]
The August 6 Championship Match, unfortunately had only a few shooters. At least 10 of the shooters were at the World Police and Fire Games in San Francisco and yours truly, in bed with the flu. Everyone shooting had a great day. On the bright side, both Russell Sorsdahl and myself made the Governor's [...]