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Timetable June 2019

Sunday 2nd June	10:00 IPSC 10.30 ISSF 'B' Cats only Std pistol R/O David Mc am Cowboy Action Practice Shoot 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:30 Cowboy Action Continues
Sunday 9th June	10:00 IPSC 10:00 Cowboy Action Monthly Shoot 10.30 ISSF 'B' Cats only Std pistol R/O Rhys W 12:00 Trainees non "B" Cats 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:30 Cowboy Action Continues
Sunday 16th June	10:00 IPSC 10.30 ISSF 'B' cats 'B' Cats only C/F sport R/O John S am Cowboy Action Practice Shoot 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:30 Cowboy Action Continues
Sunday 23rd June	10:00 IPSC 10.30 ISSF 'B' cats 'B' Cats only C/F sport R/O Brett Mc 12:00 ISSF non'B' Cats training am Cowboy Action Practice Shoot 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:30 Cowboy Action Continues
Sunday 30th June	10:30 IPSC Big Monthly Shoot - three courses 10.30 ISSF Working Bee - Shoot after work complete. am Cowboy Action Practice Shoot 12:30 BBQ Lunch Bring your Own BBQ and hot water available 1:30 Cowboy Action Continues
_	Remember to sign the sheet and lock your car!

water Rules

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

May Monthly Report for Range 3
Hi all,
It’s been a busy first month as section head, with many changes being made.
The most major change has been to stop alternating between shooting either IPSC or Speed Challenge, and instead shooting both each weekly shoot.
Another change is the planned beginning of monthly IPSC Competitions on the last Sunday of each month, much like the monthly Cowboy Action Competitions. This will start next month on 30/06/19 at 10:30am. There will be three courses which competitors will run through only once. I’d recommend shooters interested in partaking to attend some regular IPSC shoots for practise and refresh themselves on IPSC rules, as these competition shoots are aiming to mimic Interclub IPSC shoots.
Plans for courses of fire will be sent out in advance for the monthly IPSC Competition to help provide a little more insight and organisation. Please contact me with any ideas or requests for what you would like to shoot and I will incorporate it.
Targets for Speed Challenge that are the correct sizes and heights are in the pipeline. Turns out our old targets have been half the correct height all along! Thanks to Rod for getting his mate with a laser cutter involved.
As for future changes to Range 3, the following ideas have been put forward and will be worked on in the following months:

Putting astroturf or another more consistent surface down over more area of the range and levelling areas not covered to reduce tripping hazards
Fixing the brass catcher used for the Speed Challenge shoots and the duelling tree
Creating moving targets
Creating more mesh barricades and fixing the existing broken barricade
Obtaining a measuring tape wheel to be available to the whole club
Holding an Action Range Officer Level 1 Training Course for all those interested

If there is anything else you would like considered, if you know of any way to make the proposed changes happen (ie knowing someone with extra astroturf lying around) or if you have any qualms with the above, please contact me.
Also remember to get in your registrations for the Invercargill Shiver and Shoot!
Antonia

June Report from Lester issf

Greetings fellow ISSF shooters, hope you are enjoying your pistol shooting, & concentrating on those sights. June has 5 Sundays, so we will be having a working bee on the 5th Sunday, 30th June. Need to clean out the shed of old backing targets (loaded to David's ute), & renew cardboard targets to current backing boards. There is more wallpaper paste in the shed to be made up when needed, (read the instructions), & the fuel container for the generator has been re- filled.
With the Cowboy Section holding a 3 day event in early July, hopefully they will complete work on our target frames, presuming they will be wanting to use our range for some of the competition. They will be looking for volunteers to help over the 3 days; if you can help, contact Euan.
Programme for June:
Sunday 2nd June, "B" cats Std Pistol 10.30am R/O David Mc
Sunday 9th June, "B" cats Std Pistol 10.30am R/O Rhys W
Training non-"B" cats 12.00 midday
Sunday 16th June, "B" Cats C/F, 25M 10.30am R/O John S
Sunday 23rd June, "B" Cats C/F, 25M 10.30am R/O Brett Mc
Training non-"B" cats 12.00 midday
Sunday 30th June Working Bee 10.30am Please be there to help!
See you on the range. Don't forget to pay your subs, & always sign in when arriving at the range!!
Tight groups. See you on the range.
Lester K
Section Director ISSF

Annual General Meeting was held
1:00 pm on the 28th April

Reports below

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

Ipsc

Mike C received a Bronze medal at the IPSC shoot in Invercargill this month. Good on you Mike

Photos From the old days

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

PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2018
So me 60 newsletters are being sent out each month, and we have 51 members “on the books”. 59 reminder texts go out 4 times a month, with only one not having given me a cell phone number. This is quite a gain on last year. The average attendance each Sunday is just 15, about one third of our members. A reminder that if you shoot at another club please write it on the back of an attendance sheet. A change will be coming to the e-mail/txt system.

Two competitions were run over the last year. A Cowboy Action / Wild Bunch shoot was held in December for “The Deep South”. This match, as just a “local club” event, was well attended by shooters from around the district. Unfortunately I only lasted until the middle of the first day. Thanks to Alec and Charles who attended to me. The Scouts were also accommodated, as were students from the Polytechnic. The Police also used our range over a period as part of their firearms training. They were very impressed with our facilities and would like to use them in future. (Discussions on this have yet to take place, a year from my last comment.) And of course, we held the recently completed South Island Cowboy Action Champs. Thank you to those that have assisted with the running of any of these events.

We have supported shoots at Kaitangata, Dunedin (Misty Valley), Ashburton, Wanganui, and Hokitika. By supporting them, they support us when we run a shoot.
The quantity of scraper-blades steel has been cut into targets of varying shapes and sizes, and more stands have been made to hold them. A set of smaller “poppers” has been made, and the large “poppers” re-engineered to fall forward.

Range 1. The new gun stands were trialled at the CAS Champs, and need some modification.
Range 2. Training courses are being held for all new members over their 6 month “probation”. While this appears to be working well, it needs to be written/documented to ensure that all new members cover all parts of the course.
Range 3. The users still will need to ensure that ALL desks and targets etc are put away.
Look ahead! Order (through Robert) patches/targets in plenty of time please.
All disciplines are now looking after their own scoring system, reporting the results of their shoots directly to the new Newsletter Editor, Katrina. Thank you Katrina for taking over the newsletter, and starting to “impose” your style on it.

Many thanks to Wayne K for running the training programme. The new (last year) Range Standing Orders assume that everybody has a Range Officer Qualification for the event that they are in. If you aren’t R.O. qualified or need a Holster Certificate – see Wayne.

Please, if you come out to practice during the week (or even at the weekend!), tidy up after you. Put targets away, rubbish in rubbish tins (take it home!), and leave the range clear.

Thanks also to Sec/Treasurer Robert who handles all the paperwork and the finances of the club.

More 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. There is no good reason why major events in ISSF or IPSC can’t be run here. We have the facilities, and proven catering ability.
John Holley 2018

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