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Home  News Latest Golf club rocks with shooters on a mission
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Golf club rocks with shooters on a mission |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
 TOP BIDDER – The top bidder for the .44 Magnum handgun donated by Jerome Glimm to raise building funds for the Shooting Sports Club was Kurt Garman. Glimm is on his left and son Logan Garman on the right. Photo courtesy of Dan Picard, MSU Extension Agent, Pondera County
Chris Berg, treasurer of the Shooting Sports Club reported that 223 tickets had been sold for the auction-dinner and the club grossed about $24,000.
Proceeds from the dinner and an auction are going towards the raising of a new building which will be home to the 4-H Shooting Sports, small bore and shotgun leagues, an archery club, and Hunter Education. It will be located just west of the ball fields.
It will also be used to host tournaments, other public and educational events.
Berg also noted that it was a wonderful thing to have four entities come together and strive for a common cause.
At the dinner, Jim Greer did duty as Master of Ceremonies. Louise Glimm gave an invocation and Jack Judisch put out a report on the building progress and the Shooting Sports Club.
Pondera County Extension Agent Adele Stenson announced the Shooting Sports Club will sign a contract with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks for a matching grant of $139,868 to support the construction of the new shooting complex.
All grant funds must be matched with in-kind and actual funds toward the construction of the indoor range and improvements to the trap range.
The grant had already received preliminary approval last month and the 30-day comment period ended July 25, with only positive comments received by FWP for the grant.
Dr. Dick Kinyon oversaw the dinner with his more-than-tender Dutch oven cooking.
Meanwhile, auctioneers Zane Drishinski and Jim Fritz kept the bidding at a premium with their fast paced banter.
The highlight of the live auction was the .44 Magnum pistol engraved by Jerome Glimm that sold for $4,600, going to Kurt Garman.
The three-day Whitetail deer hunt for two from Bill McKinley sold for $2,775.
A stainless steel 7-Mach 2, donated by Harvey Hollandsworth sold for $1,750 and a cape buffalo skull and horns, donated by Scott and Sherry Johnson went for $350.
Paul Stenerson was a drawing winner of a youth model shotgun donated by Scott and Sherry Johnson and Kurt Garman won a Savage 17 HMR gun donated by Christiaens Meat, and Alex Frantz won a raffle for a Mark II Savage 17 rim fire rifle donated by Jerome Glimm.
The Shooting Sports Club still has a .45 caliber pistol, also engraved by Glimm that is still out for a raffle.
The projected date for the new shooting complex to be open is in November.
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