It’s not too late for your club to participate in the Summer Multiplex just email sue@shootpita.com with your dates and contact information. The website listing shows those clubs already registered. Find on near you!
These are fun 50 bird registered events with lewis purse payouts. At the June event ONLY 1st time PITA members join FREE. A great way to introduce your club membership to registered shooting.
The Hermiston Gun Club in Hermiston, Oregon (75772 Gun Club Road) is hosting a shoot on August 18-20, 2017. They have picked up the date Madras cancelled. Friday the 18th will be the Oregon Doubles Classic with the Oregon Magnums offered on Saturday and Sunday. For more information contact John Adams – jadams@eotnet.net.
The Jefferson County Rod & Gun Club in Madras, Oregon has cancelled their May shoot due to conflicting shoots in the area. They have also cancelled their August shoot due to the influx of people in the area for the solar eclipse viewing. They hope everyone will join them at their September shoot and hope they have not caused any inconvenience for anyone.
Bulkley Valley in Smithers, BC has added the following shoots:
For more information contact Greg Zavaduk at zavaduk@yahoo.com
Due to the amount of water in our trap houses and the field conditions we are cancelling our April shoot. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Old Skagit March PITA Shoot
March 11 & 12, 2017
Old Skagit held its spring shoot on another cold, wet, and windy weekend on March 11 and 12. Seventy-eight shooters gathered and participated in 300 singles on Saturday and 100 handicap and doubles on Sunday. There were some good scores (and some not-so-good scores) but everybody enjoyed getting the spring shooting season started.
There were even some highlights to the days despite the gloomy weather. Brian Hazen came down from Canada and shot a 100 straight on Saturday in the middle event of 300 singles. His name will join that of several other shooters on the plaque at the gun club. Mark Arnold of Graham, Washington, scored his first ever 25 straight also on Saturday. On Sunday Parker Jensen of Burlington, Washington, joined PITA and went on to win the Handicap event, scoring his first 25 straight as well. Good job Parker! (Please see our Trophy Report for full list of results.) Charles Stacey also had a good weekend and won HOA with his 475 after tying (with Don Meece) for A Class on Saturday and winning Doubles with his 98.
Thank you to everybody who participated in the shooting (and to the families and friends who came and supported them) and also to all our volunteers who helped to make this a successful shoot.
Results and photos for the 2017 AZ State Shoot have been posted on the RESULTS page. Congratulations to all the winners!
Congratulations to our HOA winners for the winter season:
The HOA shooters will receive a custom made High Over All name tag.
The random draw winners were Bud Hoffman (shooting at Del Norte, CA), Scott Julian (shooting at Hillsboro, OR), Benjamin Keller (shooting at Pawnee, CO), Tammy Mariluch and Aaron Simpson (shooting at Winnemucca, NV), Jeff Mitchell (shooting at Yakima, NV).
Each of the random draw shooters receives a handcrafted White Flyer clock compliments of our Multiplex sponsor White Flyer Targets. Bill Daniels of White Flyer will mail your clock directly to you.
Checks for January and February will be mailed March 6th.
The SUMMER SEASON starts the first full week of June (5th-9th). Call 541-258-8766 or email sue@shootpita.com to register your club!
My name is Kay Reynolds. I was born and raised in Rupert, Idaho. I have two children and three grandchildren. I currently live in Twin Falls and am the treasurer at the Twin Falls Gun Club.
I have been involved in trapshooting since 1997. I started shooting league at Twin Falls and Burley and have shot a few registered shoots. In 2003, I was offered my first cashiering job and have since grown my cashiering business to eight different clubs in Idaho. I have cashiered the Grand Pacific since 2007 and helped at two Oregon State Shoots.
I love my job as a cashier and seeing the accomplishments from the juniors to the veteran shooters.
I am looking forward to working with everyone as PITA Secretary. The shoes I have to fill are very big but I am looking forward to starting this very exciting adventure.
Thank you all for your support!!!
Kay Reynolds
208-312-0314
NOTE: Club managers and cashiers – please visit the FORMS page for updated forms.
On the Line with the Corps of Discovery
By Dale Nelson
On February 18, 2017 the Douglas Ridge Youth Shotgun Team traveled to the mouth of the Columbia River to compete at the BKS Pacific International Trapshooting Association Tournament. Officially BKS stands for Brownsmead, Svenson, Knappa which are small communities near the range. Unofficially, I understand, BKS stands for “Because Kristin Says”. Kristin Webb works very hard and runs a tight ship.
The clubhouse at BKS was built by Lewis and Clark for members of the Corps of Discovery to practice trapshooting. Ok, maybe I don’t know the true age of the clubhouse but some of the youth on our team are convinced that some members of the Corps of Discovery were shooting the Tournament with us. The clubhouse is rustic and beautiful and very well kept. The BKS members were welcoming and a lot of fun for our families. Our Team Photographer, Dave Phipps, has posted pictures of our day at BKS at https://www.flickr.com/photos/133457771@N08/sets/72157669627496456/. What, you don’t have a Team Photographer? You should get one.
For our team, the big story of the day was our teammate Wyatt Copeland. Wyatt has tried to break his first 25 straight for a couple years now. He has scored 24/25 several dozen times but that first 25/25 had become an elusive obsession for him. The cheering was deafening when Wyatt broke his first registered 25 straight on the first trap at BKS. Being witness to the fleeting look of accomplishment and pride exchanged between these teens and their parents when they turn back from the line is payment in full for all my efforts as coach. I highly recommend it.
So, just to prove that the first 25 was no fluke, Wyatt broke another 25 on the third trap. He ended the day with 95/100 in singles taking high Junior Singles and a second overall. Well done Wyatt!
Wyatt’s story does not end there. Dylan Nelson has been top shooter on our Youth Team for a couple of years now. Dylan shot on a later squad. I was working on some paperwork when Dylan finished singles. I looked up to ask Dylan how he shot and Wyatt was with him coming from the scorers stand. They were both grinning broadly. I wondered briefly “What is Wyatt doing out there?”. Then it dawned on me; Wyatt had beaten Dylan. Wyatt had rushed out to check the score and, sure enough he won the internal competition between friends and teammates! I knew that was on Wyatt’s bucket list but I failed to realize how very important that was to him. Dylan is as proud of Wyatt’s accomplishment as anyone.
We held a hat shooting ceremony at BKS to celebrate Wyatt’s accomplishment. All the youth participants and several adults got in on the action. Wyatt must now start working on a new lucky hat.
Our families and young athletes had a great time at the BKS PITA Tournament. Our team will be returning to BKS; it is a special place run by some special folks. I hope you have a chance to shoot there too.
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