Watauga Gun Club

Boone, North Carolina

This site is provided to our membership and the shooting public to provide a readily available electronic access for pertinent information such as the club events calendar, newsletters, special announcements, and other information.

Club Meeting
July 9th at 6 pm

Club Picnic:

All members and family invited. Club provides hot-dogs, hamburgers and fixings. Members provide salads, side dishes and desserts. Not specified club match; all disciplines offered. Bring your favorite and have a bang-up good time!

A brief club meeting will be held at some point in the evening for essential club business and induction of new members.

Come prepared to have a big time.

Folks with last names beginning within these parameters are to bring the following;

A - F Drinks & chips
G - L Salad, slaw, beans
M - Z Desserts

      If there is something that you like to have at a picnic that's not listed ... bring & share! We are only limited by our imagination!

Discipline Events:

Check the Calendar of Events for what's next for the disciplines of ATA Trap, IDPA & NRA High Power. The links to each of the disciplines will also give you more information. Browse and see what you've been missing!

IDPA: The season starts up in January with the Winter Pistol Frolic that is held regardless of the weather. February is our annual IDPA safety officers class, March is a classifier and pistol match then the season starts in earnest in April and runs through October. The NC State IDPA Championship was held in August 2008. Second largest event of it's kind on the East Coast!

NRA High Power holds monthly matches on the 4th Saturday, March through September. Come out and enjoy the challenge of this discipline.

Trap is holding practice sessions Tuesday and Thursday nights and on Sunday afternoons. Cost is $3.50 a round for practice and league. Team trap and ATA match season runs April through November.

Benchrest 300-Yard match held two matches in 2008. Watch the website for the particulars prior to the matches for 2009.

 

NOTICE!

Dues for 2009 are being accepted. Renewals are $150 for the calendar year. Gate Code has been changed.

Renewed members for whom we have an email address on file will get a notice wth the new gate code before the March meeting.

Members with only a snailmail address on file will get the new gate code in the newsletter. If you are a renewed member and do not receive the code, contact the Membership Coordinator.

 

TACTICAL PRECISION .22 RIMFIRE RIFLE

New offering for your shooting enjoyment! Check it out

First match was held May 23rd.
Results are posted.

CONCEALED CARRY CLASS
at the WGC clubhouse

June 26-27

Contact:
Gary & Sandy Hoyle

963-6307

Call or email to sign up!

Club Links:

Calendar of Events

ATA Trap Discipline

Monthly Club Matches

NRA High Power Discipline

Newsletters & Minutes

WGC-IDPA Discipline

How to join Watauga Gun Club

300-Yd. Bench Rest

Directions to the club

Air Rifle Program

Shooting Tips & Tidbits

Schutzen Verein      

Tactical Precision .22 Rimfire Rifle

Tactical Weapons Training

Watauga Gun Club is dedicated to upholding the Second Amendment rights of the citizens and to maintaining a safe place to exercise those rights. As is stated in Article II - Object of the club bylaws:

"The object of this organization shall be the encouragement of organized shooting events among the citizens of the United States in our community, with a view toward better knowledge on the part of such citizens of safe handling and proper care of firearms, as well as improved marksmanship. It shall be further object and purpose to forward the development of those characteristics of honesty, good fellowhip, self-discipline, team play and self-reliance, which are the essentials of good sportsmanship and the foundation of true patriotism."


RANGE HOURS:

8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Wednesday is from 8:00 A.M. To 12:00 P.M. if mowing is being done. Check with the person mowing to see if you can use the portions of the range where mowing has been completed. No Outdoor shooting is allowed after 5:00 P.M. on Wednesday. Sunday is from 1:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.

Be sure to check by the two churches up the road to be sure they have finished their services
before you start at 1:00 pm.

Scheduled events such as ATA Matches, Highpower Matches, I.D.P.A. Matches, etc. and the monthly Club matches may run after 8:00 P.M. on any days other than Wednesday or Sunday. The entire range is closed during scheduled discipline events unless the discipline director agrees to open parts of it to the general membership for practice. The entire range is closed on the Thursday evening when the club match is being conducted. No exceptions. Read your club manual.

Check the Club Calendar and with the discipline director before you go out to the club on the date of a scheduled event so you don't waste a trip.

National Affiliations:


Executive Committee

President:
Joe Moody
828-264-2486
jfmoody@bellsouth.net
Vice-President:
Gary Hoyle
828-963-6307
garyh@wgcidpa.org

Secretary:
Bryan Wood
828-297-9593
trailjunkee@yahoo.com

Treasurer:
Walter McCracken
828-262-1521
oriongems@charter.net
Publicity Officer:
Mike Suddreth
828-758-9724
mjsuddreth@yahoo.com
Chief Instructor:
Rick Oakes
828-297-2238
OakesRL@appstate.edu
Range Officer:
Tom Bennett
828-773-2799
bennetttm@gmail.com
Membership Coordinator
Robert Niemi
828-446-8778
celticmith@yahoo.com
MAILING ADDRESS:
PO Box 2316
Boone, NC 28607
(828) 264-6539

Last updated June 16, 2009
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