APRIL 25, 2015 - SEASON OPENER WORK PARTY AND INFORMAL SHOOT

The "SEASON OPENER" was held today at the Batouche Range at CFB Gagetown. Eight eager shooters and an observer were on hand to rejuvenate the targets under the capable direction of Mike L. the Match Director. Welcome to Nick M. - a new shooter and Jonathan who might be. 
It was determined that F-Class centers need to be obtained and it is time to sort through the various targets/target centers as many of them appear to be outdated. These should be donated to clubs such as Springfield, St. Antoine and Saint Gabriel who might be able to use them for informal matches or practice. The RNBRA building also needs a good cleaning and the "computer room" needs to be sorted out. It might be possible to store RNBRA files here as the storage fees now are prohibitive.

Despite the weather shooting began at about 12:30. Earlier in the morning we had a good dose of snow in the Fredericton area and it was still quite cold at the start of shooting. Temperatures hovered around 5C while the wind blew predominantly L>R across the range at about 5 to 10 km/hr. It was still winter clothes weather and those who

thought it was Spring shivered steadily. The range was also not quite melted and everywhere we walked cold water was splattered about - cold on the feet. We started at 300M to obtain "zeros" as several shooters had new equipment. From there to 600M and 900M.

One good thing - no bugs! At least not those that flew around or sting. Lots of bugs in shooters equipment and in electronic scoring (we tried to have F-Class scoring despite shooting at TR centers - wind adjustment error possibilities were infinite for F-Class shooters) although Adam MacD. made heroic efforts to make this comfortable for us all. All-in-all we had a good time and even got some things done. 

From Mike Lutes - We had one Non RNBRA member and I collected $5.00 insurance fee. Which I'll remit to the RNBRA treasurer. We waived his entry because he assisted with the targets and filled out and paid for an RNBRA membership.
It was a good day enjoyed by all. Everyone chipped in and we shot till about 6:00 pm.
Thanks to Adam and Gordon for opening up and looking after the E-targets ,
To Don for lending his experience in the target maintenance work (he is experienced at replacing target centers) and he has also taken a target face inventory.
And to Bert for doing some of the RSO duty as well as organizing the work and chairing the meeting while taking minutes.
It's going to be a great summer
Mike