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I love working the ranges.

One of the reasons they are increasing membership is to have more man hours available for public range days. Like you said adds to our bottom line.

There are indeed quite a few opportunities for service hours beyond range duty.

I am going to look at working the Washington County Fair this year.

I also really enjoy range duty (gets my service hours done in two days vs. ??? hours for miscellaneous other jobs) - I just prefer getting it done BEFORE deer rifle sight-in time. I dislike the mechanization of the deer rifle sight in.

hard h2o wrote:I love working the ranges.

One of the reasons they are increasing membership is to have more man hours available for public range days. Like you said adds to our bottom line.

There are indeed quite a few opportunities for service hours beyond range duty.

I am going to look at working the Washington County Fair this year.

The fair can be interesting.
Be aware that to work the front/ P R table, one must take an orientation class, and buy a shirt.
For the rear, I believe they still hold to the MN DNR FAS Instructor requirement, even though it's now essentially a video game.

xd ED wrote:

hard h2o wrote:I love working the ranges.

One of the reasons they are increasing membership is to have more man hours available for public range days. Like you said adds to our bottom line.

There are indeed quite a few opportunities for service hours beyond range duty.

I am going to look at working the Washington County Fair this year.

The fair can be interesting.
Be aware that to work the front/ P R table, one must take an orientation class, and buy a shirt.
For the rear, I believe they still hold to the MN DNR FAS Instructor requirement, even though it's now essentially a video game.

I could see the Fair being fun.

I like working the 200 meter range during Wisconsin sight-in days near end of season.

Wonder if they ever got me on the list.

OldmanFCSA wrote:I like working the 200 meter range during Wisconsin sight-in days near end of season.

Wonder if they ever got me on the list.

My understanding is that anything past July is still in a holding pattern.

Holland&Holland wrote:

OldmanFCSA wrote:I like working the 200 meter range during Wisconsin sight-in days near end of season.

Wonder if they ever got me on the list.

My understanding is that anything past July is still in a holding pattern.

From the April Newsletter:
Notes From the VP April 2018
An e‐blast last week announced the manual scheduling of duty 
hours for the first to months of the shooƟng season.  Within 24 
hours I received and responded to 215 email requests.  The 
results are published in this bullet‐in.  If you were not 
scheduled, there will be another opportunity to schedule the 
remainder of the year when the modified web site comes on 
line shortly,  An e‐blast will announce the opening of online 
scheduling. 

hard h2o wrote:

Holland&Holland wrote:

OldmanFCSA wrote:I like working the 200 meter range during Wisconsin sight-in days near end of season.

Wonder if they ever got me on the list.

My understanding is that anything past July is still in a holding pattern.

From the April Newsletter:
Notes From the VP April 2018
An e‐blast last week announced the manual scheduling of duty 
hours for the first to months of the shooƟng season.  Within 24 
hours I received and responded to 215 email requests.  The 
results are published in this bullet‐in.  If you were not 
scheduled, there will be another opportunity to schedule the 
remainder of the year when the modified web site comes on 
line shortly,  An e‐blast will announce the opening of online 
scheduling. 

Isn't that what I said?

Holland&Holland wrote:
Isn't that what I said?

Yes. Just quoting a source.

Most of this information is there if people would just read their newsletters and emails.

hard h2o wrote:Most of this information is there if people would just read their newsletters and emails.

Agreed. Just frustrating that it continues to lag.

hard h2o wrote:Most of this information is there if people would just read their newsletters and emails.

That's a fine idea. Wish I'd thought of it. When the newsletters come out after schedules are released, the newsletters don't do much good, and I never got an e-blast about anything.
As far as other opportunities go, I don't waste my time anymore with anything other than the minimum range duty. I've volunteered too many times and had the leader of the work crew (whatever it may be, County Fair, Clean-up, you name it) act Like they were doing me a favor by letting me work for them. I showed up one year for fair setup at the time I was told to be there, work was pretty much done and all I got was a hard time from the leader. So, forget them. I'll do my range duty and that's it. But, when I can't even schedule that, it's time to find something better. If this silly game of secret scheduling continues much longer, they won't have to worry about needing volunteers, they'll need to worry about finding anyone, period.
Oh, and forget contacting anyone about this problem, either. I got one email from the GM (Teresa), told me to contact the VP, Tom Mader. Too bad the email address doesn't work. And now, Teresa doesn't answer me either.

I liked it WAY better when ttousi was in charge. Nothing against Theresa at all.

j130wood wrote:

hard h2o wrote:Most of this information is there if people would just read their newsletters and emails.

That's a fine idea. Wish I'd thought of it. When the newsletters come out after schedules are released, the newsletters don't do much good, and I never got an e-blast about anything.
As far as other opportunities go, I don't waste my time anymore with anything other than the minimum range duty. I've volunteered too many times and had the leader of the work crew (whatever it may be, County Fair, Clean-up, you name it) act Like they were doing me a favor by letting me work for them. I showed up one year for fair setup at the time I was told to be there, work was pretty much done and all I got was a hard time from the leader. So, forget them. I'll do my range duty and that's it. But, when I can't even schedule that, it's time to find something better. If this silly game of secret scheduling continues much longer, they won't have to worry about needing volunteers, they'll need to worry about finding anyone, period.
Oh, and forget contacting anyone about this problem, either. I got one email from the GM (Teresa), told me to contact the VP, Tom Mader. Too bad the email address doesn't work. And now, Teresa doesn't answer me either.

Next Member meeting is June 13th if that helps.

photogpat wrote:I liked it WAY better when ttousi was in charge. Nothing against Theresa at all.

I too miss Tom being in charge out there, though I do like Theresa as well.