Andover Sportsmen's Club

To all ASC members having an active interest in archery, there will be a meeting at the main club house on Saturday,October 17th at 10:00 AM.

As Archery Director pro tem, I will lay out clearly the specific operating objectives and our zero tolerance policies with respect to personal conduct. I will also be happy to respond to questions anyone may have

-Dick Reichter

The Indoor Range will be closed for repairs beginning at 9am Wednesday, October 14th through Saturday October 17th. The range will re-open Sunday, October 18th.

The outdoor range will be closed to members on Monday, September 28th through Friday, October 2nd from 9am to 3pm for North Reading Police training.

This year, we will be hosting our annual pig roast on Saturday, September 26th. The meal will begin at 1pm.

We supply the pig and the facilities (along with a few sides) -- you supply your presence, and a dish of your own: Rice Dish, Baked Beans, Mac & Cheese, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, Green Salads, Green bean Salad, Brownies, Cookies, Pies, or whatever is your special dish! Volunteers are also needed to setup, cook and cleanup. Contact Frank Bleszinski (fjbasc@aol.com) or Tom Lumb (TheLumbs@Comcast.net).

This year we are also having morning competitions at the Trap and Outdoor Ranges:

Trap: 50 round shoot

• 9:00 am to 11:00 am
• Only $5 for the birds - Prizes to the top 3
• Questions: Tony Capone (aceaceallin@yahoo.com)

Outdoor Range: bowling pin shoot 

• 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
• Rifle any caliber w / iron sights
• Pistol any caliber w / iron sights
• Questions: Dave Williams (dwilli3584@verizon.net)

We will be having our 2015 Spring Work Party on October 10th (rain date is October 17th)!

Breakfast is from 8am to 9am (free), work starts at 9am, we break for lunch at noon (also free), we finish up jobs after lunch and are generally done by 3pm. All ranges are closed until 3pm.

There will be eight $25 drawings at lunch awarded to those in attendance.

People are needed for all typical work party projects, including:

• Cleaning kitchen
• Cleaning windows
• Field clean up at outdoor range
• Field clean up at Trap range including hanging nets, picking up "whole" clays, etc.
• Path clean up at Archery
• Use of club backpack blower to clean walkways, drive, etc.
• Power washing: parking lot stains, concrete stains, kitchen exhaust ducts, etc.
• Wood cutting, splitting, stacking
• Your insight, advice, suggestions are welcomed even if you don't want to do some of the heavy "lifting"

Tools needed:

• Power washing equipment (ideally gasoline powered)
• Containers of gasoline
• Rakes, shovels, brooms, leaf blowers
• Any other useful tools