Author: Rich

Club clean up day – June 8

June 4, 2025

We are asking all able-bodied members, friends, and family members to turn out and help with the annual ground’s cleanup on Sunday, June 8th. This annual spring cleanup is one way to get your volunteer hours in and at the same time make your club property look its very best for the coming summer season. Please volunteer for part of the day, but the whole day would be even better! Meet at the clubhouse at 8 AM ready for coffee & donuts and individual work assignments. We plan to work from 8 AM to 4 PM on this day. The more people the better. It will take less time to spruce the grounds up. Please bring a pair of gloves, a rake, a shovel, brush cutters and lopping shears, and (if you can) a wheelbarrow or other useful tools with you to the club. We need enough volunteers to include cleanup on the outdoor and indoor ranges as well as around the clubhouse. We would suggest that the junior shooters participate. Many hands make for light work, so please put this activity on your calendar. Mike Barry mentioned that the kitchen really could use a good cleaning too. Please think about getting your hours in by sprucing up the kitchen! Bring gloves and a Mr. Clean eraser pad, if you have some. If someone had a small tractor with grading and grooming tools, the range access road could be improved due to the spring ruts and potholes. Please speak with President Jeff Blute at (978) 973-6109 ahead of time about volunteering your equipment and help with this task. The club would be able to pay for fuel for the task as well.

Lunch will be provided around noon for the crew members. What a great way to begin the outdoor season with all of your friends and families working together to clean-up your gun club.

Annual Membership Dues

June 4, 2025

Membership Secretary Patty Blute or membership assistants will be at the club starting at 6:00 PM on Tuesday evenings.

There are 5 categories

  1. Standard Members owe = $125.00
  2. Reduced Members owe = (10 hours documented volunteer club work) = $60.00
  3. Senior Members owe = (62+ as of June 30, 2018) = $25.00
  4. Junior Members owe = (12 years old to 21 years old) = $20.00
  5. Life Members owe their Insurance Fee = $4.50

You can pay in person, by mail, or by drop box in the clubhouse front door.

Outdoor Club Clean Up Cancelled (Indoor help needed)

May 1, 2025

Due to the predicted weather this weekend, the outdoor portion of the Club clean up day has been cancelled.

The indoor clean up will continue.

We will still be looking for help to clean up the indoor range. We have the lead pit to clean out, along with buckets of brass and lead to be moved into our recycling dumpster.
Start time will be at 8:00am. This can be a dirty job, so dress accordingly.

CMP – Match Clinic

April 30, 2025

Please come down and join us on Saturday May 10, 2025 from 9:00 AM – Noon (weather permitting) for our CMP Match Clinic.

These match clinics allow people the opportunity to shoot M1 Garand or AR-15 rifles in a structured but fun setting. M1 Garand or AR-15 rifles can be provided.  If you have your own favorite centerfire rifle please bring it.

The event is conducted in a match format (5 rounds for practice, 10 rounds prone, 10 rounds sitting or kneeling, and 10 rounds standing), but the competition is secondary to the experience of firing these two iconic military firearms.

The cost for each match is $20 for ammunition (.30-06 or .223) and there is no cost if you bring your own ammunition. Minors must have a parent or guardian present.

Come down and shoot a piece of history!

Summer Pistol League

April 22, 2025

Every Monday, starting on May 5th through the middle of September The Tewksbury Rod & Gun Club will be holding a Bullseye competition at our 50 foot indoor range.  These matches are open to the public, membership is not required.

This semi-formal setting is a great way to become accustomed to the calls used on the firing line, and to learn how to score targets. 

This competition is intended to get new shooters involved in the sport, as well as maintaining the edge during the long summer break for the experienced Bullseye competitor.

Shooters may compete in rimfire (.22 cal), centerfire, or both.  There is a nominal fee of $2.00 for one match or $3.00 for both matches.  The shooter competes against his/her own average, so everyone has a chance to win. The League will provide the targets, however the shooter must bring their own ammunition.

Each shooter gets one point for shooting each night, and additional points are awarded for first through fourth place for each night.  At the end of the season an awards banquet is held to honor those who persevered.

The Ranger Officer calling the match will enforce all range and safety rules.  These matches typically start around 6:00 pm and the last relay typically goes off around 7:45 pm (depending on the number of shooters who show up on a given night).

Club clean up day – May 3

April 21, 2025

It’s that time of year again, for us to all get together and clean up around the club.  Please come down with gloves, rakes, leaf blowers, shovels, wheelbarrows. etc on May 3rd at 8:00am.

The more help the less time it will take!  Work off those hours!!  Please note all ranges (indoor and outdoor) will be closed during the clean up, as there is work to be done on each range.

We have plenty of projects to be worked on around the clubhouse, indoor range, hi-bore, trap and archery fields.

Indoor Range we will be looking to have a crew to clean up the lead pit, haul brass, as well as other projects.

Spring Trap Shoot

April 14, 2025

On Saturday, April 26th, we’ll be hosting The TRG Spring Trap Shoot from 9am to about noon. Come down and kick off spring with a BANG! The ham raffle will held after the Adios.

This is a great time for all, if you would like to try shooting trap, this is a great no pressure fun event. The fee is $5 per round, each round is a total of 15 targets.  3 shots per station, 5 stations.  Ammo is NOT supplied.

The Rules
1.) Every entry gets one ticket in turkey raffle.
2.) Yellow targets hit earn an extra ticket in turkey raffle.
3.) targets per station (15 targets total per round).
4.) “Backup” format – two shooters mount guns, the first shooter calls for the target and if they miss the target, the “backup” shooter can shoot at the
target. If the second shooter fires, that is his/her shot for the round regardless of whether or not the target is hit.
5.) Shooting out of turn is a lost target regardless of the actual target result.

By-Law Changes Approved

April 6, 2025

The following By-Law changes have been approved by the body and confirmed by the Board of Directors of April 1, 2025.  Note the two additions highlighted in Yellow.

Article VI, Section 3.
Special meetings may be called by the president. Notices of Special Meetings shall be made by either US mail or e-mail to each member at least ten days prior to the date of such meeting. No business may be transacted at a special meeting except as specified in said notice.
 
Article XI, Section 1.
Guests shall be welcome to attend meetings and use Club facilities, if accompanied by a member in good standing and is introduced as a guest. Each guest shall be encouraged to join the Club and abuses of guest privileges shall be controlled by the board of directors.  A member in good standing can bring a maximum of two (2) guests at one time. Each guest shall be limited to five (5) visits in one year, except for Club functions open to the public.  No attendance restrictions shall be imposed on an immediate family relative of a member in good standing provided such person cannot become a member because of age limitations.
 

The full set of updated By-Laws can be found here: http://tewksburyrodandgun.org/wp/about-2/by-laws/