I will be moving the news from the Main page to this location when it has been up on the site for over a month.

This will keep the old postings accessible if anyone wants to see what was posted in the months past.

October 2026

September 2026

Thank you to all those that volunteered to clean and set up for the Bean & Ham Dinner

Special Thanks to Rich Hahn..who washed dishes and helped in the kitchen with food prep and clean up!!
There are many individuals that made this event happen.

9/25/2026 these people made quick work of cleaning and set up:
Paul Cardin, Mark Lancaster, Dave Davis, Mark Visneiwski, Mike Murray, Jonathan Flocke, Isaac Flocke, Isaiah Flocke, Rich Hahn, Don Clark, John Biele
9/26/2026 these individuals, some of which spent the whole day at the club, helped with the shooting events, finish of set up, washing dishes, selling raffle tickets, supper tickets and door prize tickets, drawing of the raffle and door prizes and then clean up after the event.
Rich Hahn, Jonathan Flocke, Grant Flocke, Isaiah Flocke, Isaac Flocke, Mark Lancaster, Vic Snell, Bev Lancaster, John Izzo, Dave Carbonneau, Don Clark and Paul Doolittle.

Have you seen the new sign ??

The old sign was showing it’s age…but don’t worry, we have not discarded it. The old sign has been kept and will be hung at the enclosed shooting area. This new sign was hung by some of the ‘usual players’. Paul Doolittle, Ed Fisher and Don Dodge. We are contemplating putting a little roof over it to protect it from the elements as well as adding a smaller sign below it saying “Established in 1924”.

August 2026

50 YARD BACKSTOP REPAIRED

We had 7 people working in the 90 degree heat on Friday to repair the 50 yard backstop.
Thank you to all the guys that came and endured the heat!

Mark V., Mark L, Scott B, Peter E, Don D, Paul D, John C made quick work of the tear down and repair. I tried to make sure the guys had plenty of water.
You will notice in the picture that we are sporting orange markings on the backstop.
These are to indicate the “NO SHOOT – NO HANG TARGET” areas of the backstop.
The 2nd post from the left was almost completely shot off, we sistered 2 x 4s to it, as well as to another one in the run.
Remember not to hang your targets to the top rail area please. We need to replace some posts but we will need to get a post hole digger.
We will need to replace the posts, and supports as well as the backstop at the 200 yard berm as well.

A Black Powder Shoot is on the Agenda for August

Black Powder Fun Shoot for Members and their Family – August 8th starting at 9 am
More to follow when I have the Posters Approved
Ed Fisher & Mark Lancaster are leading this event! It was a proven winner the last time we did this.
If you don’t have a muzzle loader – don’t worry
Firearms will be available for you to try out to see if this is a shooting sport that you would like be part of.

July 2026

22 Fun Shoot – July 12th 2026

We shot Trap starting at 9 am on Sunday with 18 shooters. We followed that session up with the 22 Fun Shoot at 11 am. We had 15 or so individuals, men, women and some youth shooters as well. Some of the activities included, help with sighting in your rifle, pop the balloon, paper targets at the 25 and 100 yard distances, and shooting water bottles with a bulls eye on them. Some skilled 22 shooters (one of which is a youth) then took to shooting off the strings that were attached to the water bottles rather than ‘break the bottle’. We had a lunch of hot dogs, you could add chili and cheese to your dog, chips, beverage and cookies and brownies for dessert.
Many thanks to our cook for the event – Rich Hahn. The helpers that worked to get the lunch set up then cleaned up after wards (Kristen, Rich, John, Philip, Ed) Special Thanks to Paul – who got the port-a-pottie back on it’s feet and cleaned up after the wind blew it over!!

Work Detail – July 9th at 4 pm

This was a short notice work detail to get the 25 yard backstop and 100 yard backstop repaired for the July 12th 22 Fun Shoot. We had 6 volunteers that made quick work of the repairs. Many thanks to Mark Lancaster, Don Dodge, Mark Visniewski, Brian Webster, Jeff McKelvey and Rich Hahn.
We will need another work detail to do some repairs to the 50 yard backstop sometime in the near future – Watch for this work detail email.

Fun Shoots

We have gotten two Members and Family Shoots on the Calendar for July – the July 12th Trap and 22 Shoot is definite! See the Poster above. We have moved the Black Powder Fun Shoot to August 8th, 2026. Watch for the poster, the date is on the August Calendar.

June 2026

May 2026

May 18th, 2026 Work Detail News

A very successful work day – Thank you Everyone that volunteered!

Thank you to all that came and worked. We got more done than we planned to do since we had so many volunteers. It was Sunny and Very Hot …but we got so much done!! If you came and worked but did not get your name on the sign up sheet, please send me an email so I can add you. We had 28 names on the list but we know there were more than 28 people that volunteered.
A BIG THANK YOU TO DON CLARK AND CHRIS GANSZ . . .they brought their tractors!!
Don Clark and his group tackled the tree!! He winched a couple of large tree parts from the river, they cut up the tree and the limbs, removed the old downed trees from beside the driveway, and cleaned up the brush removed from the paths to the riverside. That was basically all we had planned on doing on Monday. So the riverside is ready for the Kids Fishing Derby on June 6th.
Chris Gansz ran his leaf blower and got the wads into rows so volunteers working with him could rake them into piles. Then he took his tractor to have the rakers put the wads into his bucket for transport to the dumpster. Then he used the ‘equipment’ he brought to ‘pulverize’ the clays on the field, then used that same equipment on the area near the trap shooting stations of get that area that needs re-seeding ready to have seed spread.
Mike Bukowski ran the ‘sweeper’ to get the stones out of the grass around the parking area so we can get ready to mow. He was helped by his son Marcus (shout out to Marcus – Thank you !!) Then Mike and Marcus moved down to work with the group doing the wad clean up.
We then had two groups working on the shooting area. One group tackled the install of the frames for the window area on the front of the newly enclosed area. The also put up more of the corrugated material on the enclosed area. The 2nd group was busy running skill saws and cutting the material for the shooting bench tops. After them came the guys that were cutting the curved portion of the new tops, then the ones that were smoothing the edges and screwing the tops in place. We have a bit more work in that area as 3 of the newest benches were in the enclosed area where work was happening and 3 of the benches really needed to have the old top dry out some before the new material could be applied.
We are working on the list of ‘Inside work’ that is we would like to get to. The WATER has been turned back on – Thank you Bill Nunn!!
Now to clean the kitchen area.
WATCH FOR EMAILS AND POSTINGS FOR THE NEXT WORK DETAIL – AS WELL AS FOR EVENTS.

April 2026

Annual Meeting

Remember – the Annual Meeting is Saturday, April 4th, 2026 at 2 pm at the American Legion in Woodsville, NH. If you have not already renewed your Membership in the club – the Annual Meeting is a great time to do that.
We will have the Election of Officers & Directors.

Some news about that – Gary Griswold will not be seeking re-election. He has done a great job in this position but he wants to take a ‘lesser’ position with the club.

So we will have an opening for a President. We did not receive this news in time to take nominations for the Presidents position in February as our Bylaws indicate.

We will have a white board at the front of the meeting. We will put nominations and the position the individual is nominated for on the White Board. We will be asking for Nominations during the meeting, before we pass out the ballots for voting. You will have ample space to write in your choice on the ballot.

We also have an opening for an Alternate on the Board of Directors.

If you want to nominate anyone for any position, please come to the meeting to make the nomination at the time we call for Nominations.

The ballot will contain those that are current Officers or Directors, you can nominate someone else for any of the positions.

Please remember –
A person has to be a member of the club for 5 years to be an Officer.
A person has to be a member of the club for 2 years to be on the Board of Directors.

Agenda Items for the Meeting:
Drawing for the Spring Raffle – there will also be tickets on sale at the Meeting if you have not had a chance to purchase a ticket yet.
Nominations and Voting
Event Suggestions for 2026
Scheduling of Work Days for the Club
Update on the Kids Fishing Derby – Can we get native trout this year?
We will also have some of the new clothing items available for sale at the meeting. Some have limited sizes.

So it looks to be a very busy day.
Remember the new gate code goes into effect on 4/4/2026.

November & December 2025

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ….

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our members and their families from the Officers and Board of Directors.

Just a reminder….the next Club meeting will be January 7th, 2026 at 7 pm at the American Legion in Woodsville NH. Hope to see you there!

A little creative imaging here….The Club House in Winter…with a lighted Christmas tree….

December 2025

Wishing all our members, friends and supporters…Happy Holidays…and a Healthy 2026!

Membership Forms for 2026-2027 will be placed on the website shortly.
Remember our membership year goes from April 1st to March 31st. 
We will be sending out Reminder Cards in January / February.

More Clothing Items added – See the Clothing page for the new gray items added.

Consider the gray tee in short or long sleeve or a gray zip hoodie for a Christmas or Birthday gift. See Paul at Gateway Sports or avfgclub.secretary@gmail.com to place an order, put Clothing in the subject line please. We will have to check on what sizes we have left available.

October 2025

Fall Raffle Results

The Raffle Drawing took place after the Bean & Ham Dinner on October 19th, 2025 – Here are the results
We had another item donated after we had printed the tickets so we actually had 11 prizes for the Raffle

Gary Griswold volunteered to contact the winners
Congratulation to the winners!!
11th – Personal Trap Machine – Tina Heywood
10th – Game Camera Dave Carbonneau
9th – Binoculars – T. Robert
8th – Range Bag – Scott Burns
7th – Gift Certificate to Coreys Sport Shop – Emerson Burns
6th – Ruger 10/22 White Tail – Carrol Picknell
5th – Portable Generator- Ethan Riggie
4th – Ruger SR22 Pistol – Harry Williams
3rd – Traeger Pellet Grill – Janis Bliss
2nd – Fly Rod Built by Bill Creamer – Casey Drew
1st – Henry Golden Boy 44 Mag – Jay Cole

AVFG Club Fun Shoots, Bean & Ham Dinner and Fall Raffle

I hope you are in the area on October 19th and can join us for the Fun Shoot Events that start at 9 am with Trap Shooting, Then proceeding throughout the day with Trap Shooting for youth, Black Powder shooting, 22 rifle Lollipop Shoot, and some Pistol shooting.

At the other side of the Club House there will be Archery Shooting going on. Shannon MacKay, with the NH 4-H Shooting Sports program (a new member of the club), along with our members Mike Bukowski and Courtney Lantz will have equipment and targets. Shannon is bringing her members of her 4-H Youth Shooting group> Along with Mike and Courtney will be offering some Archery Shooting to all those interested. Come learn about the 4-H Shooting Sports Program. 

Then join us at 5 pm for a Bean & Ham Dinner – $15 per adult. The menu has Baked Beans, Ham, Coleslaw, Bread, beverages and for Dessert – we will have Apple Crisp with Vanilla Ice Cream. After the dinner we will be drawing the Fall Raffle Winners. We will have raffle tickets for sale during the day …if you haven’t gotten yours yet.

Bring your Family & Friends…if not for the shoot…definitely for the Bean & Ham Dinner at 5 pm.

Hope to see you on October 19th, 2025 …

Oh if you want to volunteer to help with any of the Shooting Events on Sunday or the Prep of the Club House on Saturday (10 am – usually about 2-3 hours) Please let me know.
If you have already volunteered to help on Saturday October 18, 2025 – please arrive at the club house at 10 am to start the clean up and set up for Sunday!!

Thank you very much ..

We also have some new short sleeve and long sleeve Tee Shirts for sale as well as zip Hoodies with club logo on them ..

September 2025

Fall Raffle Tickets have been mailed !!

Watch your mail. There are 3 tickets in the envelope with the instructions for purchase ..you can mail your stubs and the money to AVFG Club – PO Box 60 – Woodsville, NH 03785

You can get more tickets at Gateway Sports in Wells River, or catch me at the range on Tuesdays (4 pm) and Sundays (9 am) while Trap Shooting is happening.

We have the ability to add some Archery shooting to the Schedule for October 19th!! Bring the kids to check it out. We have some kids compound bows for them to try. Behind the Club House we have some members setting up that area so that Archery and firearm shooting can happen at the same time!!

Come enjoy the Fun Shoot Field Day we are working on ..and then join us for a Bean & Ham dinner and the Fall Raffle Drawing!! Bring your family and friends!

Bean & Ham Dinner and Shooting Events 
Rescheduled for October 19th, 2025

At the September 3rd meeting the Bean & Ham Dinner time line was discussed. Originally we had planned to do the Dinner and Shooting Events on September 21st, 2025. The amount of time between 9/3/2025 and 9/21/2025 did not give us enough time to print, distribute and sell the Fall Raffle Tickets that are also part of this Club Event.
Members at the meeting looked at the Calendar for October to find a weekend that would work best for this event. October 19th for the Dinner, Shooting Events and Raffle Drawing made sense to all present. The raffle prizes were decided on. The tickets need to be printed, as well as the posters for the Event.
The Shooting Events for Sunday, October 19th were discussed and the decision was made to have Trap Shooting, a Youth Trap Shooting event, Black Powder Shooting (since it is so close to Muzzle Loader Hunting season.) and a Pistol Shooting event. We will need volunteers to help with these events as well as volunteers for Cleaning and Set up on Saturday October 18th, 2025 starting at 10 am – it usually takes 2 to 3 hours. Volunteers needed for Sunday for Food set up and service as well as clean up after the meal.

NH 4-H Shooting Sports Program looking for volunteers to become instructors.

Shannon MacKay is the NH 4-H Shooting Sports Coordinator, she is also the Director for the Barry Conservation Camp. 
She is looking for volunteers to train as instructors for the Shooting Sports Program. Please take a look at the info below and email or call Shannon if you are interested in volunteering to take the Instructor course and work with the 4-H Shooting Sports Program.

The 50 yard backer has been repaired AGAIN!!

Please do not hang your targets on the top wooden supports.

September 6th & 7th, 2025 – Range Closed – Hunter Education 2 day Traditional Course

This weekend the club will be hosting a Hunter Education 2 day Traditional Course. The Range will be closed each day from 9 am to 3 pm. It looks like we may have a full class for this course. We have been getting an excellent turn out for the Hunter Education Field Days. A good balance of ages, both male and female attendees.

August 2025

Friday – August 15, 2025 – Range Closed starting at 8 am – Tree Removal

We will also be mowing the field tomorrow so please be aware you may not be able to shoot tomorrow.

July 2025

Trap Shooting returning to 4 pm effective 7/22/2025

We tried 2 weeks of starting at 5 pm. Instead of increasing the number of participants, we lost some of our regular Tuesday shooters.

The decision was made to return to the 4 pm start time. Come when you can, we are usually there until 5 pm. If Tuesday does not fit your schedule, join us on Sunday at 9 am. 
Thanks for understanding. . . 

New page ‘Members we have lost’…..

To see info on Members we have lost please go to the new created page. You can send in info to the club secretary for Members you would like to have placed on this page.,

June 2025

Change of location of the Super Raffle Dinner and Drawing!!

We have had to change the location for the Super Raffle Dinner and Drawing.
We will be moving to the American Legion Facility in Woodsville, NH.

We will still be setting up on Friday Afternoon – at the American Legion – I will confirm the time with the scheduler at the Legion and let all the volunteers know.
The Prime Rib will be cooked at the American Legion by Jim Marshall – who is skilled with this process as he has done this for the Legion activities a number of times.
We will be finishing the meal prep and set up on Saturday before 4:30 – I will have the time frame after talking with the scheduler at the Legion.
Please spread the word. If you don’t want to purchase a raffle ticket – you can still purchase a meal ticket for $25 and join us at the American Legion for the dinner and some visiting…..

The Range Rules have been revised to clarify the usage of the 15 yard & 25 yard berm.

Meeting Summaries from April, May & June are now on the website.

Revisions to June and August Calendars – Please Review the updates on these months.

Lew Mardin 22 Plinker Shoot – June 1st, 2025

The weather was cold and windy, but we had no rain. We had 32 shooters on the registration list. Among those shooting were some 1st time 4-H members from the area. Those young people shot with ‘borrowed guns and gun rests’ from Club members and did surprisingly well for their very first 22 Plinker Shoot.

The meal was enjoyed by all present – Burgers, Hot Dogs, Baked Beans, Mac & Cheese and another Pasta dish, chips and a beverage. The hot food was very welcome. 
We got our burger from Profile Meats in North Haverhill! The burger got rave reviews from those attending the shoot. Mac & Cheese made by June Griswold, Baked Beans and the other Pasta dish made by Mike Emerson. 

We had 2 tables full of door prizes that we did while the final scores were being tabulated.
Prizes were awarded in the Three Classes – Plinker, Tack Driver and One-Holer – We are waiting on an email from Dennis so we can post that info on the website. They will then be posted on the Shooting Events page along with some pictures from the day.
Thank you to all our Volunteers who worked in the wind and cold to make this happen!!

Annual Kids Fishing Derby – June 7th, 2025
Get ready for the 2025 Kids Fishing Derby!!

We are starting a little later in the morning this year. The Fish this year will be coming from Hy-On-A Hill Trout Farm in Plainfield, NH. They are going to deliver them to us, but we are not sure of an exact time. So we have pushed registration out to 8:30 am and start of Fishing to 10:00 am.

Super Raffle & Dinner June 21st 2025

May 2025

Ruger 10/22 Rifle Raffle Results

The drawing for the 10/22 Rifle was held 5/30/2025 at Gateway Sports. After some discussion and review of the raffle proceeds, it was decided that the club would draw 10 tickets. 
This was a great raffle item, we had lots of interest in this Ruger 75th Anniversary Edition 10/22. We have a second one that we are going to Raffle off…the club will be deciding on when that raffle will happen at the next Club Meeting. 

Thank you to all who sold tickets and purchased tickets. Watch for the next Ruger 75th Anniversary Edition 10/22 Raffle!

The Secretary will be emailing or calling those winning individuals.

Prize	Winner
#1 – Ruger 10/22 75th Anniversary Edition Rifle	XXXXXXXXXXX – winner wishes to remain anonymous at this time
#2 – 22 Ammo (Donated by Gateway Sports)	Ray Fuerschbach
#3 – $25	Boudreault Septic
#4 – $25	Sam Boutin
#5 – $25	Joe Truss
#6 – $25	Les Eaton
#7 – $25	Andy Lange
#8 – $25	Mark McKeen
#9 – $25	Natalee Spear
#10 – $25	Anthony Patti

We had a very busy and successful Work Day!!

Thank you to all who came and brought tools!!

Raking was done, the wads and broken clay birds were all cleaned up. 
Brush and debris at the river side was taken care of in preparation for the June 7th Fishing Derby. 
The 50 yard berm has had backstop posts and backstop material replaced. 
Then they moved on to the Trap Building, putting a door into the back room area where different supplies are stored. 
A group cleaned out the storage closet in the main club house, then a group moved there to build more shelving for there. 
Items to return to the storage closet were sorted out and moved back in after the shelves were put in. 
A group uncovered the stack of log siding, (we have 8 pieces of that) they moved it to a location to ‘get it dried out’ 
and maybe that will happen in the next couple of weeks, then it can be moved to a ‘off the ground’ storage location. 
The frig in the kitchen was cleaned and stocked with the water and soda that we have left.
The kitchen counters were all cleaned. 
Supplies for when we have events with food were inventoried so we can restock any that we are low on. 
The supplies for the bathrooms were inventoried, so we have know what we have at the club.
And we got almost all of this done BEFORE the rain. 

I know I saw some people working that ‘forgot’ to sign the sheet!! 
We had more than 30 very willing workers…some new members, some older members and the usual crew of ‘always volunteering’ members

Work Day – Sunday May 18th at 8 am

Bring your work gloves, your favorite rake, shovel, hoe or loppers. ‘
Chainsaws?
If you have carpentry skills and tools, please bring them.
We have started the construction of the enclosure for the shooting area.
Some of the chores for the day
Rake up the wads and broken birds
Rake & smooth the areas that had scrapes from plowing this winter
Clear brush from the riverside and any debris from the winter water level
The culvert area at the bottom of the driveway….the culvert is full, 
may have to dig it up, clear it out and re-install it.
(Ed Fisher will bring his tractor with backhoe if we are going to do that he said.
NEW backstops in a couple of locations
Uncover and inspect the log siding we found next to the gray shed and find a better storage location for it if it is still salvageable 
Clean up the storage closet in the club house so we can measure it for shelves
(Bring flash lights – no lights in that area)
There are probably more items that I’ve not gotten on this list
I will have a full list on Sunday

Mowing !!

First mowing of the field and around the club house will take place either Wednesday 5/14 or Thursday 5/15.
Mowing will take place starting at around 9 am – giving the grass some time to dry before the mowing begins.
Please be advised the gate will be closed and we are asking everyo ne to not attempt to use the facility while this first mowing is taking place.

I will get the mowing on the calendars as soon as a schedule is decided.

April 2025

March 2025

February 2025

January 2025

December 2024

Congratulations and Merry Christmas to our winners!

The drawing was held – we have the winners
just waiting for the first drawn name to tell us which handgun he would like….
1st Ticket drawn – Larry Adcock
2nd Ticket drawn – Joe Cullen

The drawing for the Winter Handgun Raffle will be held
12/04/2024 at Gateway Sports at 2 pm

Since we do not meet as a Club in December – we will be holding the drawing for the Winter Handgun Raffle on 12/04/2024 at Gateway Sports in Wells River VT at 2 pm. This will allow the President & Treasurer to be part of the drawing process as they will be working that day at Gateway. There will also be some of the other officers/directors there for the drawing as well. We would like to invite any that would like to attend the drawing to come to Gateway Sports and join us.

Let’s see whose Christmas we are going to make “Merry” this year!!

Do you have your Winter Handgun Raffle Ticket??

Drawing for the Winter Handgun Raffle is December 4th, 2024
Get your ticket stubs and payment into the club before December 4th, 2024. If you did not receive tickets in the mail and want one – you can get Tickets at Gateway Sports in Wells River or from Ann at the club on Sunday, December 1st. We will be shooting trap Sunday at 11 am – weather forecast indicated maybe in the 30 degree range at 11 am. See you at 11 – dress warmly. We will have coffee available …and some minimal heat in the trap house

November 2024

Out with the old …In with the new…

November 17th, 2024

Some of the regulars from the Trap Shooting Group pulled out the old trap machine today and got the new machine moved down and set into the trap house. Monday – November 18th at 10 am the guys will be back at the range to complete the install of the new trap machine. The old machine will be ‘reconditioned’ so it can be used as a backup.

Trap Shooting Sundays will move to 11 am starting this weekend November 3rd, 2024

This is the Time Change Weekend – Remember to roll your clocks back one hour.
We will be shooting Trap at 11 am on Sundays from now thru to March or April. If you want to receive notice of when we won’t be shooting please email avfgclub.secretary@gmail.com and request to be added to the Trap Shooting Group.

Tuesday – November 5th – We will not be shooting trap – it is Election Day

Watch for updates on the Tuesday Shooting – we may be able to get a couple more in before we have to pause the Tuesday Shooting until spring.

Wednesday – November 6th – November Meeting – 7 pm at the club house.

See the agenda items listed in the Posts above for what we will have on the agenda for this meeting

November 6th, 2024 – Last Meeting at the Club House for this year!

The November Monthly Meeting at 7 pm on 11/06/2024 will be the last meeting at the Club House before we do the winterization of the club house. We do not have a December Meeting – the Next Club Meeting will be in January at the American Legion in Woodsville – Date to be Announced – as the first Wednesday in January is New Years Day!
Watch for an email regarding a work detail to winterize the facility and get any needed work done before winter.

Winter Handgun Raffle

We have 2 handguns on the Winter Handgun Raffle – the Drawing will be December 4th.
Since we don’t usually have a meeting in December – We will let you know when and where this drawing will be done – if any want to attend.
3 tickets are being mailed out to each Active Member of the Club
Instructions are in the envelope with the tickets on payment methods
First Ticket Drawn will have 1st Choice – 2nd Ticket Drawn will win the other handgun.

Tickets are $10 each or 3 for $25

Tickets are also available for purchase at Gateway Sports in Wells River, VT. See Gary Griswold or Paul Doolittle at the shop. Here are some photos of the two handguns.

October 2024

Trap Shooting – October 27th moved start time to 10 am

Temperature on Sunday at 9 am forecasted to be around 32 degrees. Moving the start time to 10 am hoping for a bit warmer temp. Sighting In Day scheduled for
1pm to 3 pm on Sunday – We don’t want to conflict with this activity …..but still want to be able to shoot on Sunday.

Come to the range for a Sighting In Day
Sunday October 27th, 2024 from 1 pm to 3 pm

We will have Trap Shooting from 9am to 11 am – then at 1 pm we will have Members at the Range to assist with sighting in of your Rifles and Muzzleloaders for the Hunting Season. Members that would like to volunteer to assist with Sighting In Day please contact Gary Griswold at 1-802-757-3553.

Youth Deer Hunting Weekend in NH is October 26 – 27, 2024 so members, please bring your youth hungers to the range to sight in their firearms before October 26th

Deer – Muzzleloader is November 2 – November 12, 2024
Deer – Regular Firearms is November 13 – December 8, 2024 Closes on week early in WMU A

September 2024

Thank you to WYKR for all the advertising time they have donated to the Club

WYKR has been a long time support of the Ammonoosuc Valley Fish & Game Club. They broadcast info on our events! Listen to WYKR for events and happenings at the Club! Another resource to find out what is going on in our ‘neighborhood’.

Beautiful day to shoot Trap – this picture from Sunday 9/15/2024 – Come Join Us. . .

We have a great group of people that shoot trap on Tuesdays at 4 pm as well as Sundays at 9 am. Once the days get dark earlier the Tueday shooting will come to a pause until around April of 2025. We will move the Sunday shooting to 11 am at the end of Day Light Savings time on November 3, 2024. Watch the site, or Facebook or the Calendars for those schedule changes.

Suggested Add on Event for September 28th, 2024

We will be revisiting this proposed shooting event in January to get it on the schedule for 2025. We did not get enough response to allow us to squeeze this in on 9/28/2024.

This posting is at the request of Gary Griswold – President of the Club – we need to know if we can get volunteers and participants for this suggested add on event.

One of our senior members, Bruce Simonds has asked that we have a 100th Anniversary Field Day in conjunction with our Bean Hole Dinner.
It would be different targets for shooting at 50 yards, 100 yards, 200 yards, with open sights, and lower power scopes, off hand shooting. Rest shooting, Deer, Buffalo, playing cards and balloon targets. This will be open to the public.
Bring your own lunch, and drinks will be on sale at the club.

I know this is asking a lot and we need some new people to volunteer for this. We also need to see if there are enough that would participate in this event.

Thanks,

Gary Griswold
Email: gateway2325@gmail.com

Our First AVFG 22 Fun Shoot – September 8th, 2024

Email: gateway2325@gmail.com

Ammonoosuc FUN SHOOT – 22 Plinker Shoot Updated click the link to take you to the updated page
$500 and Under 22 Shoot – We would use a 100 yard IBS center fire target. We would use it at 50 yards for the 22 LR to give a larger target. These would be 20 minute matches for a seven member squad. We would have as many squads as needed so that everyone can shoot. Example: if we have 35 shooters there will be 5 squads with seven in each squad.
Check out the suggested rules for the shoot and the target that would be used. Watch for More info on this.

Bean & Ham Dinner 2024

Join us for the Annual ‘Bean Hole Dinner’ – Bean & Ham Dinner on September 29th 2024
We have a full day planned!

August 2024

August Plinker Shoot Pictures are up

The August 11, 2024 Plinker Shoot Pictures are up …..waiting for scores from Dennis…..

August 25th, 2024 – Hunter Ed Field Day Graduates and their Instructors.

We had a full class with 16 participants. Some really good scores! We hope to see some of these participants come to shoot with us in Trap Shooting or our hosted shooting events! Congratulations to all the participants.

JULY 2024

A Letter to all Members from Gary Griswold – President of the club.

First off some shoot results:
The 5th Annual Lew Mardin Plinker Shoot Results – 
We had 9 shooters in the Plinker Class, 4 shooters in the Tack Driver Class, and 6 shooters in the Open Class
There were 3 shooters that shot in 2 classes and 1 shooter that participated in all 3 classes.

Here are the Top 3 in each class. 
Plinker Class:1. Tim Beane 2. Israel Clark 3. Ron Eastman
Tack Driver Class: 1. Paul Savard 2. Mike Montininy 3. Peter Magoon
Open Class: 1. Danny Raymond 2. Mike Montininy 3. Kevin Clark

Shooters please see the website in a few days to see all the scores of all the shooters.

Next: A Letter to All Members
I hope everyone is having a great summer, even though it is going by so fast. This past weekend we had the first of our 2 Plinker shoots which was quite successful. It was really nice to have some of our own club members participate in this shoot and we are looking forward to have even more of our members in the next one. As I have always said, you can bring whatever you have for a rifle and we can put you in a group that you will be competitive. You do not have to have a very expensive gun.

At this time I want to thank all of the volunteers that help put this show on. As always we had the same group of people that are always there to help with the festivities, taking care of the food and cooking and serving.
Great job, Don and Ann Dodge and Rich Hahn.
Setting up all the targets and changing targets when needed,  thanks Eddie Fisher and John Cookson.
Getting everyone registered and the paperwork that goes along with it, Ann Dodge, Paul Doolittle, Brad Gilbert, Mark Lancaster, Mike, Donnie Clark.  Bill Nunn for all the work on the water, replacing the pump, pressure switch and pressure tank. Also all the footwork that goes along with getting donations from different businesses.  Thank you to our regulars show up for each time we have a work detail and those that come to every meeting to give their support and input on club matters.
Thank You to everyone that does this. All of you are GREAT!!! 
Most of these people are the ones doing all the maintenance out at the club, so when you see them please thank them. If I missed anyone I apologize.

  It would be wonderful if we could get some of the newer members and also some of the ones that we do not see very often come and help with these club functions. It seems that we always have the same core group showing up for all the times we need volunteers. We always have enough volunteers, but our core group could use a break sometimes. With over 200 members it seems we could get some newer members to help with these functions. There will be a sign up sheet at the Super Raffle for members that would like to help with our last three functions of the year.

    Please remember, Our 100th anniversary Super Raffle is being held this Saturday at the Clubhouse. There are many cash prizes and other door prizes to go along with a wonderful spaghetti dinner with all the fixings. There are still a few Tickets left for the Super Raffle for sale at Gateway, and they should be available at the door. You can get your meal ticket the same way. Everyone be sure and help with this dinner because this is our Major fund raiser for the year. Without funds it is hard to maintain the beautiful club that we have.

    For those of you that are upset that we will not be renting the club after this year, it was not decided by just the officers and directors. We had a lot discussion on this at the regular monthly meetings, and we did have a vote by the entire membership that was there at that meeting. We also met with attorneys that said we should not do it anymore because of the liability.

    In closing Thank You to all the members and have a safe and healthy summer.

        Gary Griswold

        President A.V. F.&G.

  

Members – Please remember it is not appropriate to put clay pigeons on the berms and shoot them.

You will see broken clay pigeons on the 50 yard berm, these are the result of trap shooting. Do not pick up the unbroken clay pigeons and put them on the pistol berm (or the 25 yd berm) and shoot them. We have been seeing clay pigeons on the pistol berm and been removing them only to have more appear there. This picture below shows a group shooting trap and a red arrow pointing to the 50 yard berm. If you visit the range you will see broken orange clay pigeons on this berm, the path of the birds is over that berm when they launch to the right, and the pieces and unbroken birds will land there.

A Letter to all Members from the Club President….

Super Raffle Tickets – Only 31 left available – Get your Tickets before they are all gone!

We will have them available for purchase at the Lew Mardin 22 Plinker Shoot tomorrow at the Club House – swing on in and get your ticket and watch some of the Plinker Shoot!!

Reminder – July 14th is the Lew Mardin Plinker Shoot !

Let’s all turn out and shoot in memory of Lew Mardin a former President of the Club. See the Events Page

A Big THANK YOU Bill Nunn – he made an emergency call to the Club
to replace the water pump.

We arrived for the Egg Shoot and discovered we had no water. The guys checked everything and could not find the issue. Bill Nunn was called and he was available.
He came right over and started his troubleshooting. It was discovered that the pump in the well needed to be replaced! A call to Fogg’s in Woodsville, located a pump, Gary went and picked it up, Bill installed it and we have water again!

Thanks to all the members that came to help with the shoot today:
Paul Doolittle, Michael Murray, Don Dodge, Rich Hahn, Brad Gilbert, John Cookson, Mark Lancaster, Gary Griswold, Ann Dodge and Dennis Diego from the Barre Club!

100th Anniversary Bash – July 20th, 2024

We will have Trap Shooting in the Morning ..time to be determined…watch for updates
The Archery Arena from Running Water Recreation from Bradford!
Ages 7 and up can enjoy a game of Archery Tag…..
Spaghetti Dinner at Noon – Get your reservation and tickets by
contacting avfgclub.secretary@gmail.com
The Super Raffle drawing will be held after the meal!
Get your Super Raffle Tickets now – ONLY 100 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD
Purchase them at Gateway Sports in Wells River VT

Super Raffle Tickets are now available

JUNE 2024

Re-schedule of June Monthly Meeting to June 12, 2024 at 7 PM

We apologize but we need to reschedule the Regular June Meeting from June 5 to June 12 at 7 pm
We hope this does not inconvenience anyone.

First Raffle of 2024

We have printed the raffle tickets for our First Raffle of 2024 – Glock G43X Handgun Raffle
see more info on this on the Raffle Page
Learn how to get your tickets!

Trap Shooting Returning to $5 per round

After lots of comments and discussion it has been decided that we return to $5 per round 
This goes into effect immediately

MAY 2024

Clothing Orders

If you placed an order for an article of Clothing at the Annual Meeting they are available for pick up
Please see Paul Doolittle at Gateway Sports in Wells River!!
If you didn’t place an order but would still like an item see the prices on the Clothing Page
Or stop in Gateway Sports

Youth Trap Shooting Program Info

Check the Trap Shooting Page for info on the Youth Trap Shooting Program we are looking into.

Membership Cards & New Member Orientation

Membership Cards & Gate Code
– If you have not picked up or received your membership card in the mail here are 3 other options to pick up your membership card:
1. Pick up your membership card at Gateway Sports in Wells River, VT
2. Pick up your membership card when Trap Shooting is happening – Tuesday at 4 pm or Sunday at 9 am
3. Attend a monthly meeting, cards can also be picked up then.
4. Email avfgclub.secretary@gmail.com and request that your card be mailed.

New Member Orientation
– If you are a new member there are different opportunities to do your Orientation 
1. Attend a monthly Meeting (the first Wednesday of each month at 7 pm at the club house
2. Check the Calendar to see when the Trap Shooting Group will be at the range. The group has members that can do your Orientation. Once you have done your Orientation a membership card with the gate code will be issued to you. Ann Dodge usually attends the Trap Shooting and will have those cards with her.

APRIL 2024

Haverhill Cooperative Middle School Community Night