Snake River Sportman and Gun Dog Association

March/April 2005 NEWSLETTER

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Upcoming club events:

April

    * Fun trial and training day – April 9th – Asotin County Wingshooters
  * SRSGDA sponsored NSTRA trial April 16th & 17th – Asotin County Wingshooters

May

    * Fun trial and training day – May 21st – Shea Meadows

June

    * Poker shoot – TBA

 * SBDC “Invitational” – June 11 –Espanola -go to www.spokanebirddog.org for more information

July

    * Family picnic – TBA

August

    * Sporting clays – TBA

September

    * Fun trial and training day September - TBA

November

    * Youth hunt
    * Turkey shoot

Do you have an event to share?  Want to let other members know about upcoming shin-digs?  Please email, call, or snail mail: Secretary Nance Ceccarelli secretary@snakerivergundogclub.org 208-883-0752 (eves), 1031 Showalter Road, Moscow, ID 83843

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DID YOU KNOW?  

All results from the fun trials are posted on the website within a very short time following an event.  The website is updated regularly and upon demand when YOU, a member have information to share! 

This is a way for you to retrieve old newsletters, learn about upcoming events, see/post pictures of club members, dogs, and so forth.  Check out:

http://www.SnakeRiverGunDogClub.org

Our Webmaster, Devon St. Pierre, can be reached via email at:  Webmaster@SnakeRiverGunDog.org

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The February Fun Trial and Training Day NEEDS YOU!

GET INVOLVED!  Bring a dog – bring a kid – bring a dish to share for lunch!

Reservations for braces on APRIL 9th are gladly accepted in advance – contact trial chairman –


Lunch is a potluck – club provides paper products and utensils.  Quail are quick and fast!  There are “competitive” fields and a training field.  Ribbons (and trial chairmanships) are awarded at the conclusion of the day.

Volunteers should arrive at 7am – birds planted beginning at 7:30 – first brace to go at 8am.

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This is a neat opportunity to participate in the NSTRA NW Region’s sanctioned trial circuit – we need timekeepers, scorers, runners, bird “baggers,” judge “handlers,” water bearers, horse holders, breakfast-lunch & dinner line helpers, maintenance crew members, and so forth beginning Friday April 15 through Sunday April 17.


This is our club’s annual “fundraiser.”  In previous years the club has made more than $1000 during a weekend sponsoring this event.  As the saying goes, “many hands make light work.”

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What's Newsworthy?

Winter, or the time between fall and spring turkey seasons, has passed with alarming speed!  All the projects I expected to accomplish indoors, because the weather’s too harsh to be outdoors, are still sitting on our “to-do” table at this house – how about you? 

The SRSGDA has hosted two trials and a dinner so far this year, and is looking at a full calendar of great events – just waiting for you and your dog.  In addition, the Spokane Bird Dog Club (SBDC), has issued an invitation to SRSGDA members to participate in a June FUN HUNT (a flyer is included in this mailing).  This event is styled a bit differently from our own fun trials and looks like a great deal of fun.  In the fall, the SBDC and SRSGDA hope to have a “challenge” fun trial between the two clubs.

We now have three different hunting preserve locations counted among our members:  Asotin County Wingshooters, Hatwai Hills, and Little Canyon.  Consider getting out and visiting one or all of these sites.  This gives you a chance to expose your dogs to different birds and terrain in a controlled setting.  Further, a few of our members have guiding opportunities arise out of contacts made at the shooting preserves. 

If you recall, last issue included a couple of articles from members – please feel free to send in your ideas, articles, pictures, advertisements, and comments.

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Classifieds

Dick Chapman has English Pointers available for sale to “approved” (loving) family hunting homes.  A telephone call and visit with Dick gives one an opportunity to see some of the best hunting and trialing pointer bloodlines in young pups and older dogs.  A number of the dogs are fully “finished” gun dogs; a few are super breeding stock; and of course, there are the fabulous “pups” with the exact same breeding as Wacko the Backhoe, Tanner the Terrific, Tippy the Tremendous, and Kenya-“I love to win”-Kinyon. …wiggles, wags, and a lot of energy ready for the right placement!  For specifics, please contact Dick 208-743-5548 or email chaps@syringa.net.

Also, for sale, are three (3) WAG-AG electronic remote control bird release traps as well as a “backing pop-up” dog.  For specifics, please contact Dick 208-743-5548 or email chaps@syringa.net.

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SAY…do you notice this blank space?????

Advertising rates for this space are the best in town…

Let us know if you have puppies for sale, are looking for a new dog, or a new collar, or a horse, or . . .

Secretary Nance Ceccarelli secretary@snakerivergundogclub.org 208-883-0752 (eves), 1031 Showalter Road, Moscow, ID 83843

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STILL In search of:

A roving reporter, or six, to provide salient and scintillating sagas of SRSGDA members’ adventures in training, trialing, and traipsing a-field (hunting)…I guess we could also include trap!  Any thoughts are appreciated; pictures are nice; can be in final form or just simply “blurbs” to be edited.  PLEASE send to SRSGDA Secretary Nance Ceccarelli via USPS or Secretary@SnakeRiverGunDogClub.org

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March Fun Trial at a Glance
 

Income
Brace Fees	$945.00
Donation	20.00
Food/Drinks	79.09
Birds	271.25
Total income		$1325.34
Expenses
Birds	$822.95
Porta potty	80.00
Food/utensils	43.94
Total Expenses		$946.89
Total Revenue		$368.45

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The next issue of the newsletter will include a membership roster.  Please ensure that you have updated your mailing, telephone, and email addresses with Treasurer Monica Dearborn before the end of April 2005.   


Also, as is our custom, the hard copy version of the newsletter is mailed to current paid members.  Following this issue, the newsletter is available to all, members and non-members, via email or on the website: