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Timetable January 2020

Sunday 5th January	10:00 IPSC 10.30 ISSF No Scheduled Matches am CAS No Scheduled Matches 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:15pm ISSF No Scheduled Matches 1:30 Cowboy Action No Scheduled Matches
Sunday 12th January	10:00 IPSC No Scheduled Matches 10:30 CAS No Scheduled Matches 10.30 ISSF No Scheduled Matches 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:15pm ISSF No Scheduled Matches 1:30 Cowboy Action No Scheduled Matches
Sunday 19th January	10:00 IPSC 10:30 CAS Practice 10.30 ISSF 25M Std Pistol R/O Craig S ; Supervisor Lester K 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:30 Cowboy Action Continues
Sunday 26th January	10:00 IPSC ISSF 25M C/F R/O Brett Mc ; Supervisor Rhys W am Cowboy Action Practice Shoot 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:30 Cowboy Action Continues
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.	Remember to sign the sheet and lock your car!

Winter water Rules

The water is turn off. It needs to be checked occasionally to ensure it is off. Water is in the tank by the BBQ shed for drinking. Toilets - use the buckets in the toilets for flushing. Fill from the black tank out the back.

Warmer weather Water Rules

The hut water supply is turned from the black tank. It needs to be checked occasionally to ensure it is off. Just turn on the main tap, and let the hoses do the rest. Don’t leave the tap permanently on.

GALLOWAY GANG MONTHLY MATCH

To all COPC Cowboy Shooters.
All is good on the cowboy frontier. Our cowboy shooters continue to bring back medals and placings. Two of us attended the North Islands Champs in June in Wanganui. Night Shooter got first place in duelist and Lindis Ranger got 1st in gunfighter.
Over the winter the Sunday shoots continued as the weather did not get that cold.
Our monthly matches on the 2nd sunday are still being held, which has attributed to our winnings at away matches.
We started to take on the ispc section, giving them a taste of cowboy stages with their guns and vice versa. I think they realise that shooting four guns is more fun, but they need to learn how to count.
My role as section director for CASunder PNZ took me to the 50th anniversary celebrations in Auckland recently, it was definitely an eye opener but great to meet and talk to other shooters from the different sections. One thing we all have in common is, how do we protect our sport.
A big thanks must to Mac Tuckett for diving in and taking control at certain times to organize Sunday shoots, sometimes both roles get on top of me.
In the not distant future we may be visiting the Invercargill club as they have had an influx of new cowboy shooters, that we are helping to bring up to speed, it could be a good relationship for the South Island clubs.
I have thanked this person so much in the past as his continued advice to the section and club could not go unnoticed, so a big thank you to John Holley.
So let's keep this club a rockin and work together to secure the future of shooting in NZ.
Lindis

August Monthly Report for Range 3

Hi all.

Hi all. On the 3rd and 4th of August saw the Shiver and Shoot IPSC competition down in Invercargill. Well done to everyone who came from our club to brave the snow. It was a pretty great turn out.

A big thank you to Rex and Mick for helping me with the working bee. We managed to roll out a decent length of fake grass and we also made a couple more screens, which will serve to allow for more interesting course design. Thanks to the cowboys for finding those materials for us.

A wee bit of housekeeping: Please remember that if you are the last on the range you need to put away any targets you have used. Some targets have been left up recently and have been ruined by the weather.

Happy shooting,
Antonia

Report For January from Lester issf

Greetings ISSF shooters, Happy New Year again.
We will have a shoot on Sundays, 19th & 26th January, but at 10-30am only. No 1;15pm match; trainees with experience can participate if they want to, but must be under supervision by the RO.
Sunday 19th Jan 10.30am Std Pistol R/O Craig S ; Supervisor Lester K
Sunday 26th Jan 10.30am C/F 25m R/O Brett Mc ; Supervisor Rhys W
Thanks. See you there. Tight groups. Lester K
ISSF DirectorGreetings ISSF shooters, & a Happy New Year to you all.
However, 2019 has not ended so well for our club. I have just had a call from Brett that our main building & toilet block have been broken into probably yesterday or last night, door locks smashed etc., but with nothing obvious being taken except the small spotting scope which is not there. Luckily our ISSF shed was not broken into. Robert, Euan, & the police are there assessing, photographing etc.
I went to the range on Sunday(29th) for our working bee, but was there completely on my own, so looks like you all are very busy having a good time with family etc. However, I renewed all of the targets, the range was nice & tidy, measured up the 50m range frames for construction of some brand new ones for us, but couldn't remove the target turning bar between the LH, & middle frames. It will need 2 people to do it.
Just a point on stapling on new targets: the larger SS staple gun pushes the staples with too much pressure & the staple breaks through the soft cardboard, even if there is 2 targets, so, as you will notice, I have used a piece of thick cardboard under each staple for putting on new targets. Using the small red staple guns, the pressure is much less, & the smaller staple does not break through the thin target cardboard.
Also, please put centres on using the glue, NOT WITH A STAPLE GUN. I had a very difficult time removing all the staples around the centre of the targets, before putting on the new target, having to use a hammer , screwdriver & pliers to get the dozens of staples out of the centre corners! Thankyou.
January programme: (was going to this discuss last Sunday!) but with the break-in etc., have decided not to schedule any matches for the 1st 2 Sundays( 5th & 12th), but members are welcome to go to the range & practice etc. For the final 2 Sundays I will put out another newsletter with matches, times & R/O's etc., when I have some more info on availability etc. Let me know if you are available for a match on these 2 Sundays.
Well, all the best for 2020; we need to think about a competition when the range modifications are finished.
Tight groups.
Cheers,
Lester K
ISSF Director

Annual General Meeting REports

PRESIDENTS Annual REPORT

COPC Presidents Report 2018-2019
Hard to believe another year has gone by. The Club has for the most part been ticking along very well. Particularly with the changes made. Ie; as how the different sections are run. By having each section having their own leader has certainly made running the Club much more smoothly. Also it spreads the workload much better.
During the year we had had a couple of informal meetings, which were well attended. Most of the discussion was looking at Range development options. As with the number of members we have attending on Sundays is increasing quite significantly. As there is quite an interest from a few members to shoot Blackpowder. So we need some room for that.
March 15th was not a good day for NZ. There has been a lot of changes in a very short time, which effects most of us in some way with rushed new laws & newly prohibited firearms, It also put a spanner in the works re Range Development. But I personally feel we should push forward making our club a better place for our members. There will be discussion in General Business, Re; going forward.
In the past year I had the privilege to attend some away CAS shoots, that were great fun to attend. We also held CAS shoots here at our club, that went very well indeed. These competition shoots held here are a great benefit to our Club.
Se you all on Sunday.
Cheers Euan

CAS Annual Report

28 th April
Over the last year the cas section has been doing well. We have started doing monthly shoots held on the second Sunday of each month. By doing this not only are we having more shoots but the level of shooting has increased immensely. It gives our new shooters a chance to experience match conditions, because for some, getting to an away shoot is sometimes hard.
All of our CAS shooters have done well in competition, with all that attend taking away a placing. What has benefited the new shooters is the experience level that has come to the club from the shooters who have traveled overseas, bringing back all the new tricks of the trade.
In light of recent events I encourage everyone to attend away shoots and support other clubs. To all CAS shooters, you are able to alter your file to only hold ten, weather this is done by yourself or a Gunsmith get it done, because if you end up handing them in getting another one in the country in a short time by not be the case.
Our monthly shoots will continue next month as it will be the last practice we will get before the North Islands at the end of May.
On another note progress at the club is moving along with plans to increase our ranges so as we can hold bigger events like the wild bunch national and the CAS nationals. We are very lucky to have this range and the ability to run such events as other ranges around the country are finding it difficult to continue. ie having more restrictions because of urban sprawl and council restrictions.
In July the CAS section are holding a Winter shoot called WinterRange, this will be a three day shoot starting on Friday and running to Sunday. More to come on this later on.
That's all from me, may you have a good years shooting, and most of all stay safe.
Lindis Ranger Charles

Annual Report from Lester ISSF

Greetings.
Our ISSF Section has developed extremely well over the last 12 months.Several members have obtained their "B" Category licence, purchased quality target pistols, and are regularly participating in our 2 main matches, Standard Pistol & Centrefire/25M. Most of our senior members are attending matches on a regular basis, helping supervise trainees, & giving advice & help to the rest of our team. I am pleased to report that those members regularly shooting matches have improved their shooting skills, with a resultant increase in scores achieved.
Trainee member numbers have reduced over the last few months, with some in the "B" category application process. A few have limited attendances over the past year, & will need to confirm their future intentions with the club.
All "B" cat shooters are also now taking their turn as Range Officers, which further adds to their experience, highlighting the importance of safety on the range, & the process of malfunctions for the various matches. Experience gained will have important benefits when attending competitions.
Of extreme importance to our Section has been the maintenance of our No.2 range. The shooting bays are now always clean & tidy, all the brass collected (& sold!), and improvements made to the building where necessary to help with our shooting. We have had very good attendances at our working bees, & I thank members for their efforts.
One area of concern to our Section is the Club's plans for modifications to our range, which are designed to benefit other Sections, & the police training. ISSF have done their bit to get this work started, & would like to see it completed in the near future.
I wish all sections all the best for the coming year.
Lester Kidd ISSF Section Director

ANNUAL Report Communications (Website)

This year we saw a change in format from a News Letter email out to the development of the COPC website. www.copc.website. The cost to the club is approx. $90 per year
This was introduced over a few months until the email out was no longer necessary as all club reports scores, monthly shoot calendar, photos and news worthy information was/is now online. It is an excellent way to share photos and even video clips. The site is updated regularly. The more that is sent to me the more up to date it can be.
ISSF section director sends in a report every month which is greatly appreciated.
It would be fantastic if all the Section Directors and President would share some news from time to time.
Scores are entered for each section every two weeks. Or as they come in.
Calling of Meetings and other more urgent business is still circulated via email from the President, Secretary and Section Directors.
The website receives between 9 and 30 visits per day. Of these visits about 2/3 are unique views, so people just browsing sites. On the 18th of March there was a slight peak to 31 unique visits. Otherwise the site just ticks along with approx. 10, I assume club member checking in per day. There is often peaks on Saturdays.
The 2018 CAS Trip to the USA was very newsworthy and members were excellent at sharing news and scores form the USA. Thank you to all who kept me up to date.
The CAS Facebook page has been an excellent source of info for members also. Thank you to all who contribute to that.
Katrina

Photos From the old days

Thanks Wayne
'86 or 87 Construction
90's for Rapid Fire
Wayne, John H and Niel S

from John 20 Years President Memoirs

I note that from 15 years ago I was commenting on our membership of 20, and average attendance of 8. IPSC/Speed shoots had faded to none through lack of attendance/interest, and morning shoots were “unheard of”.
Wayne had introduced a Firearms Safety course at Cromwell Polytechnic and was bringing students to the range for practical work.
Scouts were being introduced to pistol shooting, as too were members of the Caravan Assn, on various occasions.
The range had been closed for several months to bring it up to the safety standard needed for Certification. This is when the tyre barriers and backstop were installed.
No external competitions had occurred, and we weren’t running anything. CAS was just getting underway in NZ, and it wouldn’t be for several years that we ran a competition. IPSC competitions have been very few over the last 20 years, and ISSF competition non-existent.

2005 saw the steel cladding go onto the clubhouse, the large window on the back of the shooting booth installed, and we ran our first CAS competition.
2006 we bought, thanks to Wattie, the generator. This saves about $1000 each year. Despite being told by the then Arms officer that we were only allowed 1 armourer, we increased the number to 3.
2007 the Warkworth PC visited after the Easter Bunny shoot for an action match. The number of .22’s available for club use increased by 2.
2009 after discussions with the Gun Club and the Box Factory, Range 3 construction was started.
2010 the white water tanks were acquired, we ran our first CAS SI Championships, Range 3 finished, we now pay the Gun Club $25 per member for the use of the grounds. Wayne, Secretary for 12 years, is replaced by Robert.
2011 membership is up to 30, postage killed the hardcopy newsletter and produced the e-mail newsletter. Many members attended RO courses in ISSF, IPSC, and CAS, first of the “Fireworks” sales. Many of us are going to shoots at other clubs.
2012 Text messages started. A Black Powder (CAS) shoot and a 3-gun shoot were held. The Range wall between R2 and R3 extended backwards, gate installed between R1 and R2. Long serving member Tony D passed away.
2013 more shooters are heading off to “outside” competition. Fireworks sales continue.
2014 CAS and 3-gun matches continue to be run. Range 3 is being developed as an IPSC range. The Club’s Constitution is updated. The Water system is given a shake up with “drinking” and “toilet” water supplies. The hut is wired properly to the generator. New BBQ area created.
2015 mobile Facades are created. The new Club Training Officer (Wayne) starts work.
2016 safety areas created on R1 and 2, and R3 hut installed. CAS shoots continue, as do members attending other club shoots.
2017 Jim J and Richard K die unexpectedly, membership is 42, Police use the range for training and wish to use it in future. BBQ deck area created, Range Inspection completed, “Traffic lights” for timing ISSF events running.

It is good to see we have run several major CAS events, and “entertained” the Antique Arms Assn with several MSSA shoots. We have also run several smaller 3-gun events.
John Holley 2018

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