Armed Forces Skeet Association

General Membership Meeting Minutes

Richmond Gun Club, Richmond, VA

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Meeting convened at 1850 hours, Tuesday May 13, 2008 by President Newman Shufflebarger.

President called the meeting to order and made comments regarding the 20 new shooters that were in attendance, thanked the Richmond Gun Club for their support in making the shoot a success, reminded shooters to pick up their awards prior to 1500 Thursday and explained the details behind the quilt that is to be a door prize at the awards banquet.

Reading of minutes of 2007 General Membership Meeting waived. Dave Wood moved to approve 2007 minutes as written and previously posted, 2^nd Cotton Talbot. Motion carried.

Officers Reports

Secretary Clint Kreuser. Nothing new to report.

Vice-President John Daubenschmidt. Computer systems working well. Made comments regarding the new registration software that was tailored for our use and how well it is working. Thanked Brad Felton for his computer help during registration and throughout the shoot.

Treasurer Pat Knutson. Complimented members on pre-registration for the 2008 ASSC. Also thanked shooters and non-shooters for volunteering to referee. Reported that we had 134 pre-registered shooters and 121 showed up. The AFSA bond has reached the point in value where selling it is a good option. He asked the directors for permission to sell the bond and reinvest the proceeds since there are other higher yielding ventures. Reported that 2007 was a good year since we made money for the association through interest. Reported that the 50^th year shoot pins were on hand already and the award committee was looking into unique awards for that shoot. Stated that the AFSA banner that was approved last year is on hand and posted for picture opportunities. Told the members that we were awarding 474 knives this year due to the price of silver going up. The shoot would have cost each shooter approximately $30.00 more if we used the silver coins. Discussion on whether to keep the traditional silver coins, change to a unit coin type award or knives ensued. Mike Brazzell made a motion to vote on the awards, Dave Wood 2^nd. Vote was 82 in favor of keeping the silver coins, 0 in favor of the new unit coin type award, and 3 in favor of knives only awards. The motion carried to keep the silver coins regardless of the increased resulting entry fees.

New Business

Cotton Talbot introduced a suggestion for an association historian. After he explained why it was important to have one, Dave Wood nominated Mike Brazzell for the position and Mike accepted.

Site briefings were then given by Chuck Zelinske for High Desert Sportsman Club and Ed Dunivant for the Jefferson Gun Club. Pat Knutson briefed for Whitetail Ridge.

Geoffrey Byers started a discussion about the possibility of having the shoot over a 3 day period vice the current 5 days or having 2 concurrent shoots, one for retirees and one for the active duty members. The retirees would have the 5 day shoot and the active duty the 3 day shoot so they could leave early. Discussion ensued over the various pros/cons to having the shoot changed to accommodate one group of our members due to military commitments. The discussion ended without any decisions or motions made.

Suggestion was made and discussion ensued concerning sending out letters to the various branches to ask for support of the active duty members by the members units in order to get the active duty members released in order to attend the AFSC. Pat Knutson reported that this was done for a while with no evident results and it was discontinued. Bobby Scott reported that it worked in the past for a couple of members and it might work again if the letters were sent to the proper people.

James Mozisek introduced a suggestion to raise the price paid to referees. Pat Knutson reported that we are still getting enough referees to work the shoot for the current price. Brad Felton discussed how the association reports All-American points to the NSSA. Wanted the members to understand that points reported might not necessarily reflect the score sheets posted at the shoot. Discussed a couple of ways to change the way it is reported. No one had any issue with the current way it was reported and no motion was made to change it.

Dave Latimer posed a question about the possible link to the 2009 shoot location and the 50^th anniversary shoot location. No one thought the two were linked in any way and no further discussion was made other than to state that we had no bids from anyone for the 2010 shoot and wouldn’t until we solicited for the them next year.

There being no further business, Dave Wood moved that the General Membership Meeting adjourn. This motion was seconded by all. The General Membership Meeting adjourned at 1951 hours.

CLINT F. KREUSER

Secretary