The Wawarsing Rod & Gun Club provides shooting facilities to members at distances up to 300 yards.
There are several ranges on the grounds including a rim fire/archery range, skeet and trap ranges and the 300 yard range for center fire rifle and pistol.
Shooting hours are from 9:00 am to sunset.
Members are expected to be familiar with the club's range rules before using the facilities.
Heads Up: Subject: NYS Senate Bill S8461 Sporting Range Good Neighbor Act
The above referenced proposed bill in the NY Senate that would affect skeet, trap and sporting clay ranges in NY.
Give a look (link below). If passed it would require certain property dimensions.
If a range can not meet the required dimensions then a protected berm would have to be built to catch the "bullets".
This act would also require that lead shot be reclaimed. If passed, this is to be enforced by the NYSDEC.
This bill currently sits in Committee and was sponsored by Pete Harckham (D) of the 40th Senate District in Putnam Co. This is worth keeping an eye on.
NY State Senate Bill 2023-S8461
COMING EVENTS
The next meeting will be on June 11, 2024.
This will be a dinner meeting. The cooks for this dinner are the Board of Directors!
The dinner starts at 6:30PM and Board of Directors will be cooking a
London Broil steak dinner with baked potato, cole slaw, bread with strawberry shortcake for desert.
Join us! Reminder: You must pre-register by sending in a
check for $15 call Marianne at 845-626-7968.
All details on dinner registration are here
The 22 caliber long range matches will be on
the 300-yard range on Sun. 4/28, Sun. 5/26, Sat. 6/22, Sat. 7/20, Sun.
8/25, Sat. 9/21, and Sat. 10/19. Matches start at 9AM and should be
finished about 4 PM. No casual shooting will be on the 300-yard range
during the matches.
The 22 Bench Rest Matches at Wawarsing will be
on 6/9, 7/7 and 8/4. Matches start at 9AM. No casual shooting will
be held on the rim fire range during the match.
Safety Alert – The Skeet division reports
finding fired 00 Buckshot shotshells on the skeet ranges.
All members are advised to use bird shot NO LARGER than 71/2 when
shooting at aerial targets to reduce the chance of shot falling off
the club’s property
.
Remember – there is no using
Tannerite
or other exploding targets on the ranges at the WRGC. Explosions
disturb our neighbors, and we try to be good neighbors.
The Future of Dinner Meetings are in your hands! Cooks
are needed for our monthly dinner meetings! Please consider
volunteering to head a team for one of our upcoming dinner meetings.
Our Dinner Committee trainer, Glenn Pomerantz, can help guide you
through the effort. Contact Glenn at 845.656.1284 or
gapref01@gmail.com
for more info.
Future Trap Shoots at Wawarsing
Weekly Trap Shoots will be on Thursdays at 5 PM .
Fred Trainor is the Trap Chairman and
Hank Dawesis his assistant. Call Fred
at 845-883-6454 or Hank at 845-564-2270 to see if the shoot will take
place.
SKEET SHOOTING
THE SKEET DIVISION HAS EXPERIENCED A REDUCTION IN PARTICIPATION OVER
THE PAST SIX MONTHS. IN AN EFFORT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER AND ALSO TO
ATTRACT NEW SKEET SHOOTERS, THAT WE ARE WILLING TO TRAIN FOR THE SPORT,
WE WILL OPEN THE SKEET RANGE ON THE 1st and 3rd SATURDAY OF EACH
MONTH.
SHOOTING WILL START AT 1:00 PM. WE WILL BEGIN IN FEBUARY ON SATURDAY
2-6-21 AND 2-20-21. Contact LOU CLEMMER, chairman,
845-236-4809 (H) 845-505-2222 (CELL) or co-chairman
, AL CARBONARO
845-807-7750, OR BILL BUSKEY
845-361-2778 to determine when the range will be open.