We owe our thanks to the Air Force Skeet Teams and John Ramagli for the wonderful Kolar Gun donated by Kolar Arms. We will have pictures of it here soon.

Kolar MAX, 30", AAA Tubes & Custom AFSA Case.

Other door prize sponsors coordinated by Doug Newcomb, Mike Brazzell, and Pat are:

Remington donated an 1100 Competition 12 Gauge for award to the HOA Champion and knives for door prizes. Briley donated a tube set for another great door prize. NSSA donated a Remington 1100 and an entry to the 2010 World. Decot has donated three $100 gift certificates. The Virginia Ladies have donated a new quilt for another door prize. Gift certificates from Florida Skeet Association and Florida Police and Fire Games. More items will be added here when they are known.

JIM LEER

We sadly note that LTC Jim Leer, USA (Retired) passed away 2 Feb 10 in San Antonio. Jim was one of the original volunteers to AFSA and had been ill for many years.

Want to help AFSA make the 50th shoot better?

I need 4 more half ounce coins to cover the 50th shoot coin awards.

Please consider donating silver coins you no longer want to the Association for use at the 50th Shoot. You can send them to Pat:  AFSA, 517 Blands Landing, Hopewell, VA  23860. All donated coins will be used for awards. DOUG BURDETT from Canada sent me 16 coins, ED TRAYLOR - 19, WALLY BARDEN - 19, and I donated over 30 back for the shoot. JOE PIERCE just added 20. BOB MYERS donated 32 half ounce coins, but they were lost in the mail somewhere. ED HUGHES - 5. COTTON TALBOTT - 8. I found my last 12 more 1/2 ounce coins to donate. JOHN HENRY - 16. Mike Brazzell/Don McKown - 10. VAN BOERNER - 9. That means I need 4 more to make it.

2010 SHOOT NOTES

BEFORE YOU REGISTERclick here for available squad slots: CURRENT SQUADDING. Registration is now open for all shooters. Rotations 2 and 3 are full with 9 squads. 2 slots are left on rotation 1 and 9 slots on 4. Full squads will be added as needed. Click on the "Next Shoot" tab above for everything about this shoot.

8 Feb - 115 have registered and 171 slots are filled. Another squad will be added to allow for 200 shooters if that becomes necessary.

Those who paid a deposit in May must still register for the shoot. Call Pat directly if needed (804-452-5818).

SHIRTS and HATS will be ordered on 22 March. If you want one you need to tell me before then.

Photos will be available for purchase just like the World.

WHITE FLYER is making special 50th Anniversary targets for everyone to receive during registration.

FOOD: Monday - Cotton, Ed, and Texas shooters. Tuesday - NSSA sponsored meal. Wednesday - AO Bar will have a special meal available at a reasonable cost. Banquet location is Courtyard by Marriott San Antonio Westover Hills - $30 per ticket with three meal options. Andy Ulsher set this up for us.

Hugh Milner will run OPTIONS for our shoot.

Mike Brazzell forecasts nearly 200 entries for our shoot and even more for the Pletcher on 7-9 May. Letters went to all military and retired military shooters courtesy of Mike and Mac.

RV Spaces - Four free spaces are available to us. Be sure to include a comment in the remarks block of your registration form stating your desire to be included in the drawing. I will draw the names of the winners on 1 March and post the results here. Now in: Pierce, Jameson, Schwartz, Morrison, Jenkins, Maslowski, Miller, Traylor, Smith, Donnelly, Simmons, Wood, Friesz, Felton, Carter, Ingram, and Baylog.

Limited cheap lodging will be available on site for a small number of referees. Please include your interest on the shoot registration form - first come/first served. Ronnie Garlic is the POC.

Watches/buckles were ordered for McKown, Lucas, Bazaillion, Morrison, Alden, Traylor, Hunt, Marr, Bryan, Drennan, Jenkins, and Harris. A very small number of watches are still available for purchase.

GENERAL INFORMATION

TROPHIES - Please search your closets and let Clint know if you have any of the missing trophies.

50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOOT

The 50th Shoot will be at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas on 10-14 May 2010. Awards will include 13 Remington 1100s with 50th anniversary logo, 23 engraved knives, 61 leather pouches with belts and logo, nearly 200 belt buckles, nearly 200 watches, and over 100 ounces of silver coins.

The banquet door prizes will include an $18,000 Kolar Gun Tube Set with special engraving and case donated by John Ramagli and Kolar Arms.

Other special items are planned including mouse pads along with special participant pins.  Mike Brazzell and Brad Felton have been a huge help with this effort. 

The AFSA History document was completed by Cotton Talbott and Mike Brazzell. You can click on History in the Documents tab above to read it.

PLETCHER. Anyone who wants to referee the Pletcher Open on 7-9 May should contact Rick Stockstill at rstockstill@nssa-nsca.com or call him at 210-254-1517. He told me that he wants to let our shooters referee as much as they want to. There will be at least $5,000 added money for the Pletcher Open before our shoot.

Hugh Milner is the POC for the Marsh Goodwin Memorial Shoot that will follow our shoot at a nearby club. A program is on the preliminary shoot/host club shoot page

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SPECIAL INFORMATION

Kolar Arms offers special discounts to Military and Retired Military shooters. They offer a 15 % discount on tube sets and most other items. Special discount pricing is also available on Kolar Shotguns by calling John Ramagli at 1-262-554-0800.

Kolar and Briley have supported our shoot for as many years as I can remember. They are both great companies. Please support them when you get the opportunity.

Remington has provided our award shotguns for a number of years at special prices. They no longer make 1100 Tournament Skeet shotguns. AFSA has always paid for the guns with AFSA funds and donations from service teams and individual shooters.

White Flyer Targets and Phil Murray have developed a special target cost program for AFSA that will allow clubs to purchase targets at lower cost and enable clubs and AFSA to pass that lower cost on to our shooters at the ASSC. White Flyer is donating shoot off targets for the 50th Anniversary Shoot.

2010 NEW SHOOTERS

Welcome to the following shooters who have registered for their first Armed Services Shoot.

Gene Wagner, John Travas, Norm Rushton, Bob Barker, Dick Morton, Jared Jones, Robert Ennes, Josh Clemmons, and Bud Dubcak.

Contact Pat by email if I missed putting you on this list.