November 21st, 2010
October 2010 CIGDC Meeting
November 18th, 2010October 27th, 2010, Central Iowa Gun Dog Club held their monthly meeting at Doc’s Club House, with President Mike Espinosa calling the meeting to order around 6 P.M.
Members present; Brad Rodemeyer, John Martin, Don Walsmith, Dave Driscoll, Mike Espinosa, Jason Russell, and myself.
A Fun Trail was to be held October 23rd, but was called off as the group could not get birds. Another Trail will be planned this next Spring after the preserves have closed, like the first weekend in April 2011.
The Annual Banquet was talked about for location and start planning prizes. Mike asked if anybody knew of a place, there has been around forty to forty-five people in the past for this outing. The group is looking at the first weekend in February 2011.
Member pheasant hunt was discussed again at Doc’s, Bensink or another location; sometime after the first of the year.
December 1st, the officers will plan another Monthly Meeting at the Legend’s on 86th Street to plan more for the Banquet. Meeting to be at 5:30 P.M.
Motion to adjourn – carried.
Chet Chedester
Club Secretary
September 2010 CIGDC Meeting
November 18th, 2010September 15th, 2010, Central Iowa Gun Dog Club held their Monthly Meeting at Doc’s Club House; with President Espinosa calling the meeting to order around 5:40 P.M.
Members present: Mike Espinosa, Ahman Douglas, Brad Rodemeyer, Dean Inskeep Dave Driscoll, Don Walsmith and myself.
Club Secretary arrived around 6:10 P.M.
Dean Inskeep talked about a Fun Trail to be held October 17th with the price of birds to be set later depending on available. Fun Trail to be held at Kitters father-in-law place around Mercher Dallas. Having food was discussed and pay based on an honor system. Fun Trail for club members only, guest permitted to watch. First twenty club members, with those entered will need to sign a wavier. Mike to send out an e-mail to the members. Motion – carried.
Mike to check with Gene Nosco about Club By-laws for Scholarship Fund.
Discussion about a Trap Shoot to benefit The Tom Goodrich Scholarship Fund. It was decided to hold such a shoot on October 24th at the New Pioneer Gun Club. Chet passed out a flier he had made up and the general agreement was to go with the way the Poster was made with a few changes. Trap, skeet, 5-stand and annie oakley would be available to shoot. Mike brought up about having the name of the shoot as 1st Annual Tom Goodrich Scholarship Fund/Pre Pheasant Opener Tune- up Trap Shoot. Motion – carried.
A Club Hunt was talked about during the spring time at Doc’s, Bensink or another place. More to be discussed at a later meeting.
Motion to adjourn 6:30 P.M. – carried.
Chet Chedester
Club Secretary
Last Training Night for the Season
October 25th, 2010Hello,
I wanted to let everyone know that this upcoming Wednesday 27 October 2010 is our final training night. Get your bird order into me by noon on Wednesday. I will reply to all orders.
I’m also going to bring a bunch of beer out. So come on out and have a beer.
Mike Espinosa
Tom Goodrich Fun Shoot
September 22nd, 2010The Central Iowa Gun Dog Club along with New Pioneer Gun Club Presents:
THE
1st ANNUAL TOM GOODRICH SCHOLARSHIP SHOOT
PHEASANT SEASON OPENER TUNE UP
NEW PIONEER GUN CLUB
OCTOBER 24
NON-REGISTERED FUN SHOOT – YOUTH, WOMEN & MEN
STARTING 9:00 A.M.
TRAP, SKEET, FIVE STAND
AND ANNIE OAKLEY
PRIZES GIVEN FOR EACH GROUP
WITH SHOOT OFFS – IF NEEDE
COST IS $8.00 PER ROUND OR
3 ROUNDS FOR $20.00
8 OR 9 SHOT SHELLS REQUIRED
For more information, visit our website at www.cigdc.com
or
Send an email to: info@cigdc.com
or
Call 515-314-6869
May 2010 CIGDC Officer’s Meeting
June 8th, 2010CIGDC Officer’s Meeting
Date 5-10-2010
6:30pm @ Legends on 86th St.
Officers Present: Mike Espinosa, Dean Inskeep, Kritter Hayes, & Dave Driscoll
Not Present: Randy Unger
Agenda / Meeting minutes
1) Going to Saturdays? Email was sent out by Mike Espinosa for feedback from all club members about moving our training days from Wednesday evenings to Saturday mornings soon rather than later. We no know that the 1st Saturday training day will be June 12th, 2010.
2) Officer Elections will take place the 1st week in August. With nominations open now.
3) Fun Trial for Spring 2011 (advanced planning is needed) Looking for someone to chair this event. More discussion is needed and advanced planning with Doc’s Hunt Club / Russ Brown.
4) Pigeons (Homers to be purchased by the CIGDC) for use by CIGDC members only as the pigeon pen is kept locked at Doc’s for protection of the birds.
5) Club Picnic - Email has been since sent out regarding this. It will take place the weekend of July 17th at the Hayes Cabin just South of Afton, Iowa. Please email Mike or Kritter if you need more information.
BDC National Champion
April 5th, 2010
Rizzo and I after winning the Bird Dog Challenge National Chamionship in the amateur pointing division. March 28th, 2010 at the K-Bar-C Hunting Ranch near Davis City, Iowa
Notes from CIGDC meeting at Doc’s 3/31/10
April 5th, 2010Here are the minutes from the meeting:
21 members and non-members attended.
Mike E went over the rules for the training sessions.
Mike E will send out an email every Sunday for bird orders.
Everyone must pay for their birds when they pick them up.
Orange required in the fields.
No scratch hunting.
No alcohol until after you have finished training.
We discussed having a five-stand shoot once this summer along with grilling food at New Pioneer.
We discussed donating some of the money in the club account to a conservation effort this year. I brought up donating $500.00 to the Great Oudtdoors Fund and specifying that the money go to a project in Chichaqua. The members present approved donating the money by an overwhelming majority. The club will get recognition for our donation in the newsletter put out by the Great Outdoors Fund.
We discussed having a youth hunt sometime during the upcoming year. Chet was going to contact Pheasants Forever, Chichaqua, and Doc’s about having this.
If any members had other ideas about where we could donate money, they were encouraged to send an email to any of the officers in the club.
Steve Foster volunteered to help Don Walsmith with the website.
Mike E thanked Dominic Chiavaro for his $250.00 donation to the scholarship fund. The members present gave him a round of applause.
* (Please note - this has not been finalized and may not take place at all this year). We discussed the fun trial. We plan to have it on 24 April 2010. We will limit it to 30 people with a cutoff on 20 April 2010. Everyone will pay the same price(members and non-members). We will determine the price once we have the cost of the birds. The members present all agreed to put the money made from the fun trial into the scholarship fund. Various club members volunteered to help at the event.
The following members paid their membership fees:
Jason Hockstetter
Steve Haefner
Ben Nieland (new member)
Stephen Foster
Jerry Kemperman
Chris Carlton (new member)
Rob Crosby
Ken Buck
Jerry Husted
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:30 PM.
Summer 2009 training photos
March 1st, 2010
CIGDC member Scott Allen and Brittany pup Byam
Randy Unger & Brittany pup Chip (owned by Kritter Hayes)
