Winter update

  Well mother nature has gotten the upper hand in central Wisconsin.  Work has pretty much come to a halt at the Homegrounds.  Last week when I was there it looked like all the concrete pads for the shade shelters are in.
  Most if not all the man holes are in and they have buried the main water lines and sewer lines in the West campgrounds.  The shower house is stubbed in and the footings poured.  The dump station on the west side has been started.  The power box is in by the shower house and well.  So they did get a good start.  I heard that they figure a few more weeks and they would be done.  The plan is still to be open for camping in early May.
  We are getting bids for irrigation for between the sidewalk and the trap houses so that we would be sure to have grass growing and taking away a lot of the dust.  Along with that we have a couple of bids to do the seeding there also.
  Putting in the stone for the cart path should only take a couple of days.
  Our next face to face meeting will be Jan 25th.  Place still undetermined but somewhere in the Rapids, Rome area.  We have teleconference calls scheduled for Dec 16th and 23rd.  So contact me or any director if there is anything you would like to have brought up.
  Some other things that came up at the last BOD meeting on Dec 7th.  1st.  We have changed the zone boarder's slightly.  Dodge Co. is now in the SE Zone.  There are others that we are looking at.  Next Beaver Dam has been asked to host the SE Zone shoot again this year.  With them in the SE Zone they will be added to the rotation.
  Next.  The WTA has purchased a 2011 CAT Skid Steer.  We got a great price due to a lot of searching done by Bruce and Bill.  Bill's salesman found a good one for us.  It has only 1200 hours and we got it for around $33k.  It is on tracks and has a bucket and forks.  It will accept a lot of other attachments like snow blower, a broom. and others.  It was a necessity  for us to have.  Thanks Bill.
  The ATA rebate for 2014 is $7918.  It would be $80 higher but there were 4 people that shot Reg. targets without renewing their memberships.  We are in the process of contacting the clubs to take care of this problem.
  Well that is all I can think of for now.  My brain isn't working very well.  I took a fall on my steps at our house up north and fractured my tail bone (my butt) so my brain got scrambled.
  Merry Christmas and have a happy, healthy year filled with high scores.

Don

Golf carts for the Wisconsin State shoot.

Anyone who would like to rent a golf cart for the 2014 Wisconsin State Championships please contact Bill Simonar at 1 920 655 4759 or email him at wjsshoot@aol.com.  Bill can fill you in with all the information you would need.



Don

Looking for vendors for the 2014 Wis. state shoot.

Anyone interested in vending at the 2014 Wisconsin State Shoot please contact Bill Simonar.  He can be reached at wjsshoot@aol.com or 1 920 655 4759.  He has all the information you need.  So be part of one of the largest state shoots in the country.  Join us July 15th thru the 20th.



Don

Homegrounds RV Park update

Well the contracts have been signed and work, if not already, should begin very soon.  Denny and I have okayed the final things for the shower house building.  It will look great and serve our needs very well.  If anyone has seen the ones at the grand ours will be very similar.

Get your reservations in soon for the State Shoot in 2014.  Bill Simonar is now taking deposits. Best way to contact him is by email.  wjsshoot@aol.com.

Things are starting to get busy again at the Homegrounds.  We figure that even if the camp grounds don't get finished this winter we will have a good jump on a spring finish.  We are planning on having the Homegrounds RV park open for business on May 1st.  So don't wait for the State shoot come on in a camp for a few days or week.  There is a lot to do in the area.  Fishing, golf, water sports ATV trails all over and tons of other things Adams Co and the town of Rome have to offer.

As always if you have any questions please contact me or any director.  Or you can use the comments section on the web site.


Don

Homegrounds update

Just a few updates from the WTA BOD meeting last Sat. the 19 of Oct.

On Friday the 18 Dennis Taylor and myself met with some of the contractors out at the home grounds.

The pads for the shade shelters will start being poured in about another week or so.  The walkways that were damaged during the state shoot with the water trucks and the Fire trucks will also be repaired.

Badger Environmental should be starting in a week or two.  They will be starting the septic and water for the West campgrounds.  They are also going to put in a 11-12 foot stone cart path behind the shade shelter pads.  It will run the length of the main walkway up to the woods on the west end.

Van Ert electric will be in contact with Badger so that the electric wiring can start as soon as possible.

We have started with some prelim. drawings of the interior of the training center.  The BOD got a copy of it so that everyone can see if there are somethings we want added or taken out or moved around.

Dennis and I are meeting at General Engineering corp on Monday to discuss the training center and the shower house in the west campgrounds.

Dennis is going to be putting some doors on the remaining trap houses on Sat and Sun.  We will also be blowing out the water lines and putting anti-freeze in the septic line traps.  So if you would like to help out come on out to the home grounds this weekend.

As you can see there is allot still going on to get ready for the 2014 State shoot to be held July 15th - 20th

The minutes for the meeting should be published soon.

And The Winners are.........

The winners of the the free entry in one event at next years state shoot are.  Ron Wahl, John Reeb, Adam Becker, Sam Downs, and Reuben Stark.  We will be contacting the winners as soon as possible.

We received 215 survey's back.  that is just short of 25% of the survey's we sent out.  Not bad.  I will try to post the results soon.  I will not be posting the comments due to length.  Nothing surprising.  Mainly dust, line help, food issues, grow some grass and get the main building up.  Didn't seem to be a big issue finding hotels.  Several people said the golf carts should be kept off the side walk.  The only one other than the people picking up score sheets that I saw was Nick Thanos.  There may have been more but I didn't see them.  Had a person mention the minor problem we had with the electric to the campers.  Considering the heat and only eight campers out of 126 that wasn't too bad.  One person said we should have had showers.  We did.  One said we should have had flush toilets.  We did.  We spent several thousands of dollars to have the showers and air conditioned flush toilets with running water.  Had a couple people say we should have had more port a poties.  We had more than in past years.  The total number of places to park your behind to do your thing was higher than in the past.

All in all people for the most part were happy with the way things ran.

If you have any comments please contact a director.  My info is donmittag@aol.com.  262 470 2708

Dates for the Wisconsin 2014 State shoot.

I guess it passed through the cracks.  I have not posted the dates for next years State shoot.  They are July 15-the 20th.  See you then.

Bigger and better 2014 State shoot and other Homegrounds information.

Melinda has addressed, stamped, return addressed and stuffed over 800 questioners.  They are about your experience at the state shoot.  We are asking for a little more information that may be helpful when we are looking for grants.  They went out in the mail today.  So if you attended this years State shoot you should receive one soon.  The responses are important for a number of reasons so please send them back.  We are also going to sweeten the pot a little if you send us your name and email address.  We will have a drawing for five lucky shooters to receive a free entry into any 100 bird event including WTA daily fee's.

There was a BOD meeting last night and we are trying to get some of the minor problems with the shoot this year ironed out.  

We are also talking about things to make the next shoot even better than this year.  One idea that a member brought to us is having a good ole Wisconsin Friday fish fry.  What do you think?  When they mentioned Perch they had my approval.

We (the BOD) will be going to sign a large loan, $1.8 Million, next week.  So things will be going forward this fall.  We will be discussing which things need to be done first or in what order.  We will be meeting with some of the contractors we have used so far.  They all have been terrific to work with and their work has been great.  They also have be near the bottom of the list when it came to prices too.   So as you can see things have been continuing to develop even though if you have been to Rome it don't look like we have been doing anything the behind the scenes work is still going on.

As always if you have any questions or comments contact any Director.  Our contact info can be found on this web site.  My info is   Don Mittag
                                        262 470 2708
                                         donmittag@aol.com
Give me a call.

State Shoot camping 2014

Camping reservations are now being taken by Bill Simonar. It looks like we will be offering the 7 day package at on $210 again this year. We also have 10 and 5 year leases available. Talk to Bill for more information on that. Bill has asked that people email him that way he has a better record. His email address is wjsshoot@aol.com

We are hoping to have both campgrounds complete by next years shoot. One will be for sure. So come one come all to our new homegrounds.

Don

Miss placed Power Cord

During this years State Shoot someone borrowed Rick Teskers 30 foot long 50 amp. extension cord. If you have any information on the missing cord please contact Rick at 262 424 0444. I am sure you camping people know how expensive these are. Rick is sure it was just forgotten when someone packed up but if you have noticed a extra extension cord please call Rick. Thanks

WTA All State Team

The WTA All State Team requirements web page has just been updated with revised information Web Page Link.



The WTA All State Team application can be found at this link. The pdf file was designed to be fillable, saveable and emailable.

Mike P

My thoughts about the 2013 State shoot.

  Well the 2013 State shoot is in the books. I just figured I would post some of my thoughts. I leave for the Grand in a couple of days and I am now rested up after our shoot.

To start out with I was a bit disappointed at the beginning because there were a few things that I had hoped would have been done that weren't.  Things like the campgrounds.  But as the shoot went on, I started getting comments from a lot of shooters that were camping.  The common theme was that even though we had the campers in the parking lot, it was still better than a lot of other large clubs.  And no I am not trying to pick on anyone.  It is just a fact.  We had electricity for everyone, water for everyone and sewer for a few.  We pumped the rest which seemed to be ok for the campers.  With the campers in the parking lots I was a little worried that parking may become a issue.  Well it really didn't.  Next year with the campers in the campgrounds parking will really be easy.  You will be able to park right behind your traps.  Just like it was planned.

  Shade.  We had more tents than most circuses.  Not sure if the shelters will be in yet next year but I hope so.  We are looking at a couple different designs.  

  The landscaping.  (Dust).  Well this too should be done (a lot of it.  maybe not all)  next year.  A lot will have to do with mother nature but I would be willing to bet that it will be 100% better than this year.  Speaking of the dust.  I just can't say enough about the Rome fire dept.  How many communities anywhere would have done what they did to try to help us out and water down a lot of ground.  A big thank you to them. 

  The trap line.  As for the targets I thought they were great.  Most everyone I talked to said the same thing.  We are hoping to have all of OUR machines in next year.  It was truly a wonderful thing that the clubs from around the state did, letting us use some of their machines.  But it is a lot of work and driving to get the machines there.  Taking machines in and out of trap houses is a royal pain.  Our houses aren't to bad because of the way we had them built but some other houses can be ugly for old fat men like me.

  The line help.  We know we need to improve a lot in this area.  We have already started things in motion to do things better next year.  Give us a couple of years to get some experience to our help and like in the past things will get better.

  The office trailers.  They didn't work out too bad.  Next year the Training center should be up and operational and that will make signing up a breeze.  The classifying trailer got really hot a few days but tolerable.  It must have be Kevin and my hot bodies that raised the temp in there. Plus the new building will have indoor plumbing.  With the portable shower and toilet trailer that we rented that really was mostly a non issue.  There seemed to be enough port a johns around that we didn't kill to many bushes.

  Next is just a couple of personal observations.  I was on the grounds 8 of the 10 day prior to the shoot.  I wasn't alone.  There were all kind of people there.  I am not going to name names because I am terrible with names and would forget someone.  So to the dozens and yes I mean dozens of people that volunteered  a big thank you.  On Friday - Sunday prior to the shoot there had to be 30 to 40 people helping out doing everything from filling in some ruts on the fields, leveling, cleaning putting machines in the trap houses, placing trash cans where we needed them and you name it.  So again thank you all.  Until you have done it you don't realize how much mowing it takes to cut weeds on 30 trap field and the surrounding area's.  Then everything needs to be blown off.  Including the mower operator.  

  Then there were the contractors that did everything they could to be sure we had electricity and water to the temporary camp sites.  They went far beyond what I would expect most contractors would have.  If you had been there 10 days prior to the shoot you would have thought that there is no way in the world that this place is going to be ready in time.  Well guess what.  IT WAS.

  And last but certainly not least.  To all the shooters and families and friends that came to shoot or just to see our new home grounds thank you.  Without your support and donations this project would not be possible.  But the project isn't done yet.  We have a long way to go.  So if you liked what you saw.  Please, Please if you can donate anything contact me and I will get you a pledge form or you can find them here on our web site.  Even if you have donated in the past we don't have any rules that say you can only give once. 
  
  Well those are some of my thoughts.  If you have any comments please use our comments section or write or call me.  Contact info is on this site under Directors.  Now is the time so that we can put your comments to work for next year.

Don Mittag

Shooting History

Gordon Horgan has provided a copy of Sporting Holidays from 1937 for your viewing and I found a copy of the 1914 WI State Shoot the names and scores start on the bottom of the 2d column. The link is below.

WTA History page

Mike P

Well here we go.

Well the grand opening is in the morning.  The shooting starts right after that.  The Homegrounds look very impressive.  The campers are rolling in, classification, squadding and cashiering has begun.  Are we ready?  We'll see.  Here are a couple of pictures I took Sunday afternoon.

Looking west.  A few of the campers to the left.

A impressive site.

Our flag pole from a pine on the property.

Still need a place to stay at the State shoot?

I have been contacted by a friend of the WTA that has a house on the 18th hole of the Arrowhead Lakes course Just a few miles from the homegrounds. She has a room for a single or couple. Private bath.  Kitchen privileges, a garage if you like, pool passes to the private pool in the area.  It is a four bedroom.  It also includes breakfast.  The owner will be present and help with any needs that may arise.  The cost is only $80 per night.  She would like someone for at least 4 nights.
If interested please call 1 920 205 9932.
This can work out nice.  I have rented for several years in Sparta Il.  After renting in a home I found that it is way better than a hotel. After a couple years it seems like you are part of the family. Plus the price is better too.  You can't beat $80 a night plus it includes breakfast.

Don

Historical Shoot News

Gordon Horigan has provided a April 10, 1948 copy of the weekly  Sportsmen's Review an Official Publication of the ATA. You may view the entire publication on the History page of the WTA website.
http://www.witrapshooters.com/about-WTA/history.html

Please thank Gordon for providing a segment of Wisconsin Trap Shooting history.

Mike P

Pictures from Chad Blanke

Here are a couple of pictures Chad sent me that he took from the helicopter.
And before anyone asks.  Yes the company that is supposed to remove the piles of stumps is to be there tomorrow.

Electricity

With help of Ron Wahl (top photo) and Jim Kotecki(bottom photo) the power outlets we installed on Sat.  The power is not in the houses yet but will be soon.  When it is we will be ready.

Also this week the west vendor sites have the water and sewer lines in and water pedestals installed.

The wiring to the trap houses has been trenched in but the main power lines have not been connected yet.

Nick Thanos will soon be staining the trap houses.  We picked out some nice purples and pinks.  Three will be paisley.  For those that can figure it out I was kidding.  They will be a darker green.

About 16 of the scorer stands the Rick Tesker donated have been delivered and they look great.  Nice job Rick and crew.

8 or 10 of the trap house doors have been installed.

The biggest hold up right now is the company that is supposed to be chipping the stumps that are piled up in the shot drop area has not been there.  That is holding up the planting of grass.  Even if he is late and we don't have grass the brownish black color of the dirt is a really good back drop to see the target right out of the house.  The piles of stumps will be gone one way or another.


Don

WTA website revision

The website will launch a total redesigned website. It will happen sometime today, Thursday 20 Jun 2013.

If you booked any old website pages there no good. I have a backup copy of the web site just in case.

The new website will have more pages but the navagation bar will allow you to access any page from any page,

Mike P

A few aerial photo's from today 6/6

Here are some aerial photo's taken today 6/6

This is the view from trap 22 except for Pat, the trailer, and the piles of stumps will be gone.

Thirty trap houses in a row.

At approx. 2:50 pm this afternoon the last of thirty trap houses was installed.  I took about 2 3/4 days.  Two of which poured rain all day.  But they are all installed and it is very impressive to look down that line.  For a bunch of guys that had never worked together they did a great job.  I will be posting some of the pictures from the first house installed to the last one today.  Thanks again to all the volunteers.  With out them this would never have happened.  Thanks to John Reeb who saved our butts again today.  And also a big thank you to Dudley and Tammy Larson of Direct Drive tranport, Dan McDermitt of Renolds Crane, Jim Grunewald and Co.  Jim's people were unbelievable.  We checked the first couple of holes and found them to be perfect which allowed  us to just put the houses in without worrying about being level or the correct depth.  They were spot on.

Most of the crew.  There were a couple not in the picture.

From trap 30 looking east.  Look at all the standing water after two days of steady rain.  It was gone in about ten minutes after it stopped.

Trap one looking west.  Looks great.

Some pictures have been removed because a few people have been all upset that we weren't wearing protective gear, and not doing things according to OSHA.  If you have any comments please see TS.com about our trap houses.  I'm tired of being flamed.  Someone else can do it from now on.

WTA Youth Program Information

I just updated some information on the Wisconsin Youth Program. If I missed some thing please let me know and I post it (that goes for any other web page.

I hope the ground crew at the home grounds are "getting it done"

WTA Youth web page

Mike P

Even more great news

This is to report we have even more good news.  Our ATA Delegate and fellow WTA Board member Rick Tesker is the most recent generous member to lend the WTA $71,000 for the purchase of 10 new Pat Traps.  They have been ordered and Rick is going to write a check for them on Monday.  They say they will be ready on July 10th.  Dudley Larson will be taking care of the shipping to Wi.  Thank you both very, very much.  With members such as these the Homegrounds IS becoming a reality.

We will be meeting with the electrical contractor Van Ert and Badger Environmental for the water, sewer, and the crushed stone work this week to discuss what all we can have done with the money we have and the time that is left before the big gig in July.

The trap houses will start going in the ground on Mon. June 3rd.  We can always use more hands as there is a lot of other work the needs to be done.  If you can't help out just stop by and say hi.

And again if you have the means and would like to lend or donate some money to help out getting even more done at the Homeground before the State shoot please give me a call.  262 470 2708 or email me at donmittag@aol.com

The zone shoot at Beaver Dam is looking like a big success.  They had, and I am guessing 120 to 130 shooters for the Single Championship today.  If it had not been for the huge storm that blew threw late this afternoon everything ran very smoothly.

Don

Trap houses on the move

Here are some of the trap houses on the move at the Reeb Farm.  John has been generous enough to pick up 12 trap houses and transport them to the homegrounds.  Dudley Larson is being equally as generous to move the other 18 houses.  Remember these puppies weigh about 22,000 lbs. each.  We will be installing these guys next week in Rome.  Jim Grunewald is going to bring a back hoe to dig the holes and Dan McDermot is bringing a crane to lift them in place.  Thanks to all involved.  It is generosity like this that is making the homegrounds happen.  The last picture is of John just after he lifted a trap house onto one of his trucks.  I always knew farmers were strong.  And that is his lovely wife Jean helping.

Work week in Rome

I received this email this weekend.

"Don I would like to help out with the traphouse installs and work week but I would not like to incur the cost of a week's lodging.  There may be others in the same situation."

"Suggestion for the blog.  Ask if there are those with RV's that might like to take in  overnight guests.  It may encourage more people to come out and participate."

So if there is anyone that would like to take a homeless person in please let us know.  Also anyone that would like to help and needs a place to sleep also let us know.   Dick Otto has agreed to coordinate people  that need a place to sleep and the people with a extra bed.  He can be reached at 1-262-363-1303 or  dickotto@wi.rr.com

We need some workers.

Workers needed.  The week of June 3rd we will be installing the trap houses.  We will also be working in the campgrounds clearing limbs, brush and trees that have fallen during the winter.  Any one available please contact Bruce, Denny or myself.  We will need rakes, pruners, chainsaws, trailers, 4 wheelers , tractors and so on.

Don Mittag

Old WTA shoot programs

If you have an old copy of a WTA shoot program over 50 years old would you please send a copy to the webmaster@witrapshooters.com  , I would like to post it in a history portion of the WTA website. If your club has an old paper copy of local shoot program please consider allowing that program to be posted in the WTA history webpage.

I am also looking for old photo over 50 years old  of local or state level shooters. Please provide a caption of those in the photo.

Mike P
webmaster

Shoot Reports

Just a reminder to all the clubs holding “ATA registered shoots” that the the following items should be sent to Melinda Mittag  (WTA Registered Shoot Coordinator) and not to Arlene as in the past.

Request for a registered shoot.

End of shoot report

Check for WTA

Other shoot documentation

Make sure to change the address in 3S for the club that use computer.

Mailing address:

Melinda Mittag

S105 W39321 Hwy NN

Eagle, WI  53119

Mike P

I am making some minor changes to the website. It should be easy to find any page your looking for from any page with the new navigation bar (that was a learning experience). Pages may change in there design but every page will be in the navigation bar or a drop down item.


Mike P

Cabin available for State Shoot

Just received notice that this cabin is available for the week of the state shoot.  The Web site is wittslingerlonger.com

Spring is finally here and the start of the 114th Wisconsin State Shoot is a little over 3 months away.  As soon as the weather allows, work will continue on our new home-grounds.  Many new and exciting things are planned for this year's shoot.

On July 16, 2013 the Wisconsin Trapshooting Association will celebrate the Grand Opening of our new Shooting Complex and Learning Center.  The festivities will include appearances by the many dignitaries that made our "Homegrounds" a reality, a first shot by Ray Moser, a ribbon cutting ceremony and will begin at 9:30 a.m.  We would like to invite all of our members to join us for this momentous event.

WTA Meet and Greet will take place on Thursday, July 18th from 5-10 PM in the main WTA tent. Meet the members of the WTA Board of Directors, WTA Hall-of-Fame Members and inductee's. The All State Team members and High Average winners will be presented with their awards. There will be free food and refreshments.

The WTA NINTH ANNUAL AWARDS & FUNDRAISER BANQUET will take place on  Saturday, July 20, 2013 at the Lake Arrowhead Golf Course, 1195 Apache Lane, Nekoosa about 5 minutes from the homegrounds. Cocktails and raffles will start at 5:00 PM and a Buffet Dinner will be served at 7:30 PM.  There will be Early Bird, Hat, Chinese, and Card Raffles Silent Auction and Door Prizes and the 2013 WTA Hall of Fame Inductees will be presented. Tickets for Adults are $40 each or 2 for $70 and for Children under 12 they are $25 each.  Seating is limited to 250 people so order your tickets with WTA Secretary/Treasurer Arlene Otto, 262-363-1303 before they run out. Ticket bought  prior to June 25th will be entered into the special “EARLY BIRD DRAWING”.  Proceeds from this event benefit the homegrounds and the Public is Welcome!

The WTA would like to thank all of its shoot sponsors and this is a listing of the planned

 events for the 2013 Wisconsin State Shoot:

Tuesday

Wy Moser Intro 100 Singles

Baker Farms Lead Reclamation Handicap

Waukesha Gun Club Doubles

WGC $500.00 Added Money

Wednesday

Adams Engineering & Surveying

Doubles Class Championship

White Flyer - WTA Hall of Fame Handicap

Direct Drive Express-WTA

Youth Program Singles

 Thursday

President’s Handicap

Sponsored by Northwoods Adventures in memory

  of Gary D. Strasser, Jr.

Friends of the NRA Singles Class Championship

 

Friday

Plum Creek Timberlands Preliminary Handicap

ATA $500.00 Resident Trophy Money

Tesker Manufacturing Doubles Championship

Saturday

Kolar Arms Singles Championship

Club Team Championship (See page 19)

Sunday

Recob’s Target Shop Handicap Championship

Presquading for the shoot opens at 2:00 a.m. central time on May 1st  and ends on July 1st

at presquad.com.

The first shooter breaking 100 straight in a single event at the 2013 Wisconsin State Shoot will receive a one of a kind belt buckle from Jim Beasley of Tilden Trophies.  The winner of this custom buckle will be determined by Squad Number and Position.

Buckles commemorating the beginning of the WTA Homegrounds and the 114th Wisconsin State Shoot made by Jim Beasley of Tilden Trophies are available.  The cost is $99 with $15 of each buckle purchased being graciously donated by Tilden Trophies to the WTA.  In addition, Jim has donated buckle number 1 to be auctioned off by the WTA at the Annual Banquet.  This is a limited edition of 114 buckles.  If you would like to pre-order yours today please contact Jim Beasley at 727-808-8770, 800-350-3315 or trophyaa27@aol.com for available numbers and payment information.  Buckles will be available for pick-up at the State Shoot.  Otherwise, stop by and see Tilden Trophies in the vendors area.

Mike P

Trapline Layout 2

The layout (by John A.)  for the trap line is posted on the documents web page.  http://www.witrapshooters.com/Doc/Trapline.pdf

When you review the layout you will see that Traps 17 & 18 are missing. These will be used for practice and are not included in the layout.

A separate web page maybe developed for the state shoot  after April Board meeting.

Mike P

Next big step

Well we finally got all the approvals needed to do the septic and water work in the campgrounds and west vendor sites.  So the bid's will be going out today for the septic and water construction.  They should be coming back around the middle of April.  We will be selecting a lucky bidder then.  This is the next really big step.  Now we just need the snow to melt soon.

Grants

As many of you already know the BOD has hired a wonder young lady named Jessica Fandrich to find and apply for grants.  So far she has done a wonderful job.  There are many in the works right now and we have already gotten grants from the NRA, and ATA.  She has many from the State of Wisconsin in the works.  But being human she can't find them all.  So if anyone knows of any grants that maybe even be just a possibility please let me or Denny know and we will pass them on to Jessica.

The Trap line

We have had a few people ask which way the numbering on the trap line would go.   SOOOOOO it will start with trap one on the east end and go west.  Traps 17 and 18 will be used as practice traps.  

Hotel information for the 2013 State shoot

As of 3/20/13, there are still rooms available at – (no specific order) - all of them are approximately 10 miles from the grounds.  Some less

1. Roadway Inn – 3300 8^th St. South, Wisconsin Rapids (715-423-7000). Internet available and pet friendly. Hotel is currently closed for remodel – will reopen around April 15^th. Room available.

2. Maples Motel – 4750 8^th St. South, Wisconsin Rapids (715-423-2590)

3. Sleep Inn & Suites – 4221 8^th St South, Wisconsin Rapids (715-424-6800). Internet available and pet friendly. Fully booked night of 19^th & 20^th. Other nights available.

4. Shermalot Motel – 1148 W Queens Way, Nekoosa, WI (715-325-2626). Internet available – no pets

5. Camelot Motel – 9210 State Highway 13 S, Wisconsin Rapids (715-325-5111). Pet friendly. Rooms available

In the Plover area (about 26 miles on good roads) there are still rooms available at:

1. Best Western – 5253 Harding Avenue, Plover (715-544-6200 or 855-205-4632). Internet, pet friendly. Single Kings and suites still available.

2. AmericInn – 1501 American Drive, Plover (800-634-3444). Internet and pet friendly. Fully booked night of 19^th. On other nights, rooms are available.

3. Hampton Inn – 3090 Village Park Drive, Plover (715-295-9900). Internet, no pets - A few single queen and single king rooms are available.

4. Comfort Inn – 1560 American Drive, Plover (715-342-0400). Internet, pet friendly – queen and king rooms still available

Melinda Mittag

Checks that haven't been cashed

There are a few checks from the State shoot that have not been cashed as of yet.  We are moving the checking account to a different bank.  So you will have until March 30th to cash them.  At that time you will need to get a new check.

We Need

We need some more help.  Are there any members out there that are sign painters?  We would like to put up a temp. sign on the home grounds.  If anyone is interested give me a call or email.

Camping update

Bill Simonar called today and said that we are down to ONE campsite left.  Also after this week end anyone that has asked for, but not yet paid MAY be in danger of loosing their site if they do not pay this next week. He said he will contact them so they know that they are behind in paying for their site.  Bill will start taking campsites that are not paid and give them out as requests come in to people that pay at that time.  Also if we get more requests in than we have spots he will start moving any BOD Directors out of the camp grounds and putting them on the vendor sites if still open.  So a word to the wise.  If you have not paid for your campsite you should do that very, very soon.




Don

Camping

Just heard from Bill that we only have five camping sites left.  So if you or if you know someone that is planning on camping at the State shoot in July you had better contact Bill Simonar at 920 655 4759 or wjsshoot@aol.com.

Trap Houses

Dennis Taylor and I have been down to visit Jeff Welch at Welch Bros. concrete a couple times in the last two weeks.  They are making our trap houses.  Here are some pictures of how they look before they are in the ground and before they are completed.  The first picture is the bucket of concrete coming over, the next two are the bases being poured, then there is the inside and outside of the form just after they put in the concrete, next is Dennis and Jeff gabbing about something next to a finished house, and finally we have the finished product.

Don

WEB Site Update

The web site is going through some updates by different people and it has caused the main page not to be displayed properly. I am trying to get that corrected. The current version of the web site is HTML with CSS.
The current HTML/CSS is hard to edit unless you have all the original source files. Thats why the home page is in font error. I tried to edit something and screwed it up. I am working on fixing the problem.

This same problem may happen again as the web site is transfered from a single editor(web master) to multiple web masters. That's the problem with HTML/CSS, everyone needs the original source documents to properly edit any HTML/CSS web page.

If everything goes as planned the new published web page should happen better then the main page.

Mike P

A bunch of information

Well it has been awhile.  But things are a little slow in Rome due to this thing called winter.  I am going to just  post some random things about the BOD meeting last Sat.  The minutes should be published soon.

First the Sec Tres. position.  As some of you may already know Sarah and Jay have resigned.  Boy young people.  Just kidding.  With the addition of their daughter, Sarah's full time job, Jay's full time job and his new business really taking off they found that it was just way to much for them to handle at this time.  I for one can understand.  Jay said now he may be able to beat me at doubles again.  Well I don't have any jobs so just think how good I'm going to be.  In the mean time Arlene Otto has graciously agreed to take back the position temporarily.  We have also taken part of the Sec. job and made a new position called Reg. shoot coordinator.  That is going to be my wife Melinda.  She will be the one people holding Reg. shoots will be dealing with for the reports, sending the money too, and in general the paper work involved with holding a shoot.  Melinda and Arlene's contact information will be posted on this site soon.

Next the Hall of Fame.  This year there were four nominee's for the HOF.  The way this works is the paper work for each nominee is sent to the currant living HOF members to vote on.  In order to be accepted you must get at least 2/3 yes votes from the HOF that send back their forms.  So this year 3 of the four nominee's received the needed 2/3 vote.  Due to the rules stating that only 2 people per year can be inducted  into the HOF the two nominee's with the highest percentage of yes votes will be inducted this year and the third will be inducted next year.  I am honored to announce the two inductee's for this year.  Dennis Taylor and Fritz Thistle.  Both very well deserved.  Both true gentleman and sportsman and true ambassadors to the sport of trapshooting.  They will be inducted at this years banquet at the Arrowhead lodge in Rome near the new home grounds. The date is July 20,2013  Congratulations to both men.
The next person to receive the required 2/3 yes votes is very close to me.  He has spent many years working for clubs in the area, with the WTA and has had a average shooting record.  I know him well.  It is Don Mittag.  He will be inducted at the banquet to be held during the State shoot in 2014 but because he has been voted on already will not have to go through the selection process again.  So congratulations Don.  It is well deserved I think.

Don