The President of the Abbotsford Fish and Game Club’s Quarterly Reports on the status of the club.
Welcome to the heat! 39 degrees at the range the other day, that’s warm! Ranges are getting busier, please remember we are still operating off of the time windows of 8-10, 10-12, 12-2 etc on weekdays and starting at 10am on weekends. Until the PHO allows for us to restore all the shooting benches we [...]
We had our AGM! Massive thanks to Geoff Fraser for doing all the hard work on setting up Zoom to handle it. It ran without a hitch, which amazed me and many who attended. We hammered through the agenda with ease and passed our bylaw update, our budget and of course voted in new [...]
Thank you to all who attended our 2021 Virtual AGM! AFGC's first Virtual AGM was a resounding success and we received a lot of positive feedback about how smoothly the process went, from the visual presentation to the online Q&A and live online voting. Thank you to the volunteer organizers who put this together! We [...]
So the first of April has come and the internet is inundated with April Fools’ jokes. There are some great ones out there, the highlight for me being the one from Hornady, they previously did one on a bullet cam which took the internet by storm. Sadly, AFGC can’t announce any jokes this year, [...]
And, that’s why we can’t have nice things... Recently the club decided to purchase some nice rifle rests for use on ranges 2 and 3. These were not cheap items, and we’d hoped that we could trust our membership in having these out on the ranges. Sadly, that isn’t the case as two of the rests [...]
It seems that 2021 is the year of attacking gun owners in Canada. We now see not only the Federal government upping its attacks on gun owners, but the Province of BC now doing so as well. Not only are they drastically expanding police search and seizure powers, but they are also going after [...]
Rain, sun, cold, snow, wind, typical BC weather for this time of the year. It is great to see the ranges still being used during our “nicest” time of the year, and many have commented on how much they like the heaters, making their day much nicer at the range.You should have all received the [...]
A slow time of the year, mostly thanks to COVID-19, we are seeing more restrictions coming down the pipe, but currently we are still able to stay open. We ask that everyone please abide by the Public Health Order, even if you disagree with it, you are expected to follow it when attending the [...]
Not a lot to report on this month other than WEAR YOUR SAFETY GLASSES. It is truly frustrating to constantly have to harp on about this, our rules are very specific, you must be wearing your safety glasses on the ranges at all times when the line is hot. It does not matter if [...]
Our sediment pond has been cleaned out and the new parking area created by the archery range and the main clubhouse. This work required short notice closure of range 2 due to the lengthy approval process and weather conditions. Many thanks to our caretakers for arranging to get all of it done. On another [...]
Things are picking up at the club, most especially as we now welcome in a couple hundred new members to the facility. During this time please be patient with our new members and help them along if you see them making some mistakes on the range, jumping down someone’s throat is seldom the right [...]
Not a lot to report for the month of July, the ranges haven’t been as busy as I thought they would be once we reopened. My sincere thanks to our members for adapting so well to our Covid Procedures, it’s great to see everyone doing so. We are seeing our renters return finally, and [...]