President's Newsletter

July 2025

Happy Independence Day! I hope everyone has a great 4th of July. It’s easy to forget how lucky we are to live in a country where we’re free to fish, hunt, shoot, and just enjoy the outdoors whenever we want. Take some time to enjoy it with your family and friends—and stay safe out there.

Shotgun Range

We’re still waiting on the card kiosk for Sporting Clays to go online. Progress is slow, but we’re inching forward. Big thanks to Howard for sticking with the credit card company—it’s been a challenge.

Josh held a NSCA match on the 21st of June that had close to 50 shooters for the main event and about 20 for the Super Sport. Hats off to Josh and Curtis for a great match. It takes a lot of work to reset 45 machines and fill everything. The next NSCA match will be July 5th. I also wanted to mention as of the 15th of July we will no longer be able to continue with the $0.30 discount for targets if purchasing 1000 or more. Like everything else prices are going up on our overhead. The new rate will be $0.40 for up to 500 and $0.35 for over 500. Hurry and buy now before the 15th if you want to save a few bucks. Let one of the board members know and we will make arrangements to get your purchase.

I believe John has completed his youth Trap practice until this fall when school starts again. SRS has still managed to provide free targets for the youth Trap programs. Remember John has the trap range open every Tuesday evening from 6-9pm if you want to check it out.

Pat Savage is our Skeet director and is working to develop a new program at Ontario. Below is his message to skeet shooters:

“On July 3rd we are having a workday. Come out about 10am and help remove the old stairs and build new stairs for the high house. Yes, we will shoot after the work is done as “All work and no play” is not fun. We want our club to be safe and look nice too.

Thursdays starting July 3rd, I will open the Skeet range for shooting every Thursday. It will be on the calendar. So come on out as we have two fields open for fun.

Just a reminder prices are $7.00 for members and $8.00 for guests. This is consistent with all the clubs in the area.

I would like to interest you in having a Skeet league. How this would happen is a fee of $20.00 for the league and $8.00 a round. Two rounds a week for 8 to 10 weeks. The money taken in after paying for the targets would go into the league fund for prizes and a luncheon. These are lots of fun. Everyone gets prizes. I.E a quail walk is where you don’t know which target is thrown. The league will start on August 3rd.

I also would like to bring back Registered shooting to the club.

Please contact me if you want to learn how to shoot Skeet and if you are interested in any of these games.

Pat Savage, 208-989-8426 or

Vale Range Update

Short Range Benchrest had 9 shooters on the 1st Saturday in June. It was a great match and very well organized as usual. We have several shooters who enjoy these shoots so much they travel a long way to shoot these monthly matches. The next match is July 5th.

High Power rifle held their match on the 14th of June with a reported 12 shooters. Thanks, Dave, for another good shoot.

.22 Benchrest is the 4th Saturday of the month - we had 5 shooters in May.

Jim holds his Practical Pistol matches on the 4th Saturday of each match and had 20 plus shooters in May if I remember correctly. Jim is also holding a PCC (pistol caliber carbine) match Sunday June 29th. Always a great crowd at these events.

George held his 600-yd Benchrest/F class match on the 21st of June. Four shooters showed up to this one. I missed it, stuck at the Sporting Clays match but I plan to join soon. I’m looking forward to embarrassing myself at this one. That wind-doping at 600 yards is no joke. The electric scoring system keeps things moving fast, which is a plus.

Thanks for sticking through this update. See you out there.

Bob Smith

President, SRS

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