The Spring Raffle is one of the ways the club raises money to keep the dues down and continue to maintain and improve the club.

We know the economy is bad, please help the club by getting tickets at the meeting and selling them. Sell five, sell just three, but help the club by selling tickets. The spring raffle offers assorted sporting goods, unlike the fall raffle which is purely a gun raffle. This raffle has guns, but it is mostly sporting equipment which can be used by anyone. And if the prize doesn't suit your needs, the price the club paid for the prize can be applied to any purchase, so golfers, tennis players, and particularly hikers and runners who want specialized shoes can make full use of the prize value.

The prizes are awarded one per day, based on the evening number. Unlike raffles where "your odds will vary depending on tickets sold," there are only 1000 tickets ever sold, and 30 chances to win. Thirty chances at serious prizes, those are good odds.

If this reaches you too late to get to the meeting, a ticket seller ill be at the club every night until the first of June, call the club about 7pm and pick a time. Our club runs by the efforts of the members, your effort is needed now!
Trap results
Iroquois lost its first match last Sunday, in a battle of undefeated clubs decided by the last squad of the day. We went into the last squad down by a single bird, and two of our shooters improved the club total, but one of the West Albany shooters shot a higher score and we wound up losing by three. Vince Monini came to shoot before leaving on his honeymoon (congratulations), and junior Scott Ditmars shot a personal best (16) in the first round, and duplicated it in the second. ed now!

Target Pistol Course:
      This is a course for anyone who wants to shoot a handgun better. Bruce Martindale will be the instructor, it will be 3 nights in May and the cost is $29.00
Junior Archery:
      The season is over, as usual there were more kids and more fun than ever. There are some images on in here.
Posted Signs:
      As soon as the creek drops and the rest of the boundary can be locatedthe signs will go up. Contact Lew Callahan if you want to help out.

Spring Raffle, Fish Stocking for kids - click here for details and more events

Trap Schedule:
Match 1 at Guan Ho Ha Sunday April 5 10am -1 pm
Match 2 Voorheesville Sunday April 19   9 - 12
Match 3 at Berne Sunday May 3    9 - 12
Match 4 West Albany Sunday May 17    9 - 12
Match 5 Watervliet Sunday June 7    9 - 12
Match 6 at water vlirt Sunday June 28     9 - 12
Match 7 at West Albany Sunday July 19     9 - 12
Match 8 Berne Sunday August 2     9 - 12
Match 9 at Voorheesville Sunday August 23     9 - 12
Match 10 Guan Ho Ha Sunday August 30     9 - 12

New member safety course
The required new member range safety course  photos and movies online for your viewing pleasure.

Winter trap and skeet league
Sunday mornings, 9am. Trap one week, skeet the next, schedule on the trap and skeet bulletin board in the club. Jack Keating is running it. Go, shoot, freeze your favorite body parts off, get warm and eat.  Coffee all day, hot food at lunch. I haven't made it this year, seven weeks with pneumonia and assorted ills keeps me out of the cold as much as possible.

Getting stuff in the newsletter
The electronic newsletter is published ten times a year (assuming content is available), so you can eMail your stuff to newsletter@iroquoisrodandgunclub.com. Please use plain text or HTML, I don't have every bizarre word processor known to man, and I may not be able to read it. Words on paper are fine, I'm at the club for meetings and usually on Monday night. It doesn't have to be pretty, I'm the editor and I will make it pretty.

Please join us at our membership meetings every third Tuesday at 8:00pm  March 17th 2009. All members and those who are just curious about the club are welcome to attend the membership meetings!

Our mandatory Safety/Orientation Class has been a success in 2008-2009!  We will be continuing these classes for all members in the Winter 2008-09 months.  Please keep checking the website, or simply call the club to acquire more details.  This class is MANDATORY for any member who joined the club after 2000, and a good idea for long time members who may not have used some of the ranges recently.

In the meantime you can reach us at (518) 356-7273. We are looking forward to hearing from you. You can also contact us at our e-mail address: joinirgc@iroquoisrodandgunclub.com.

If you are not familiar with Iroquois Rod and Gun Club and your first contact with us is online: We would be pleased to hear from you! Please let us know what your needs and questions are, we will be more than happy to help.

Newletter: if you have material to send to the newsletter, or would like to be on the mailing list for the online newsletter, which will be published more often than the paper version, please send to the newsletter editor at newsletter@iroquoisrodandgunclub.com.