Add these shoot dates to your calendar-Hermiston Gun Club:
Day one of the Hawaii State shoot is history. Click here to see results. This links to a scores website that Kay is posting to each night. Congratulations Spud – 100 in singles! Only a few of these have been shot at Big Island Trap Club. Boone Heinz and Dave Kelly tied in the handicap event. Saturday concluded with Dave Kelly having the high score in doubles – 99. Hawaiian shooters Earl Higa and Sidney Akiona topped the leader board in handicap with 94’s.
Congratulations to our HOA winners for the winter season:
The random draw winners below will receive a special item from our sponsor – White Flyer
Fellow Shooters,
As you have heard, a review of the PITA budget found that an increase in membership and daily fees was necessary. We have had a few questions as to what lead to these increases and I would like to offer the following in response.
The PITA is a non-profit corporation and our day-to-day expenses are covered by membership and daily fees. We keep some funds in reserve, but all other funds are returned to the shooters in the form of refunds to the state and provincial associations, added money at the Grand Pacific, and the production of the Grand Pacific itself.
The PITA membership and daily fees are set by the PITA Executive Committee and the last time the fees were increased was 2011. Since that time, the association has gone through some significant changes:
So, in short, the cost of running the PITA has increased and we have reached the point where our membership and daily fees have had to increase as well. Thank you for your continued membership and please feel free to contact me or any of the members of the PITA Executive Committee if you have any further questions or concerns.
Jennifer Carter, PITA President
Results are posted and final. Scores of 49/50 in the handicap earned 1/2 yard so be sure you stand at the correct place at your next event.
Highlights of the February event:
This was the last shoot of the winter season – checks for Jan/Feb will be mailed by the end of the month. Summer Multiplex begins mid-week as not to interfere with weekend shoots: June 4-8, July 2-6, August 6-10 – register your club soon!
The 2016-2018 PITA Rulebook with recent changes is posted below – bottom right corner. Please review the changes that have been made. Any questions should be directed to Nadene Pope, Chair of the Rules Committee.
The Hermiston Gun Club PITA shoot scheduled for July has been moved up a week to June 29-July 1. Please mark your calendar.
The Oxford Suites is once again offering discount rates for a limited number of rooms for the Grand Pacific. Click HERE for details. Given high rating by those who stayed there last year – book now.
REFERENCE: Change to Rule Book Section A, page 5. Information: Aid to State/Provincial Associations.
A review of the PITA budget during a scheduled meeting of the Executive Committee on December 20, 2017 found that an increase in daily fees and membership fees was necessary in order to cover the ongoing costs of operation for the PITA. As such, by unanimous vote, the daily fee charged to participants of a registered competition was increased from three dollars ($3.00) to the sum of four ($4.00) dollars per day, effective March 1, 2018. In addition, the Executive committee, also by unanimous vote, increased the annual memberships fee from twenty dollars ($20) to twenty-five dollars ($25), life memberships will also increase from four hundred ($400) to six hundred ($600) as of March 1, 2018.
These fees have been unchanged for the last seven years and it is the hope of the PITA Executive Committee that this change will cover our day-to-day operations for many years to come.
Please make your club/members aware of these changes. New reporting forms will be posted on the forms page March 1st.
Sincerely,
Kay Reynolds, Executive Secretary
Results are posted! All scores/results are final. Scores of 49/50 in the handicap earned 1/2 yard so be sure you stand at the correct place at your next event.
This was a record event – 70,700 targets shot in the 12 gauge events at 51 different clubs. There were 535 contestants which breaks the previous record of 485 – up by 50! PITA thanks those clubs/volunteers/shooters that made this happen.
Highlights of the January event:
The last shoot of the winter season is February 3 or 4 – checks for Jan/Feb will be mailed after that event is complete.
