Dear Members,
Spring is here and we are in the full swing of things.
Below is our April 2024 Newsletter from our Board of Directors detailing range construction updates, a membership renewal due date reminder, highlighted season opening dates and much more.
Table of Contents
Range Access Road
We will be closing down the Winter Road due to summer clay shooting activities. Please Enter & Leave the new rifle and pistol range using the Primary Road for Summer on this Map.
Season Opening Dates & Announcements
Here are some key dates:
Mark your calendars! We kicked off the season on March 24, 2024. Please see our calendar as we start to fill it out events for the 2024 season.
- March 27 – Wednesday Individual Trap League Starts. You can still Join this!!!
- March 31 – Membership renewals are due.
- April 9nd & 11th – Tuesday & Thursday Trap Leagues Begin.
- April 6 – IDPA Match
- April 7 – USPSA Match
- April 21 – 5-Stand
- April 27 – Steel Challenge Match
- April 28 – 5-Stand
- May 4 – IDPA Match
- May 5 – USPSA Match
- May 5 – 5-Stand
- May 10, 11 & 12 – Scholastic Action Shooting Program WI Spring Regional Shoot
- May 12 – 5-Stand
- May 19 – 5-Stand
- May 24 – Intro to Action Pistol Monthly Training
- May 25 – Steel Challenge Match
- May 26 & 27 – Closed for Memorial Day
- June 8 – Memorial Trap Shoot
We are open for Trap & Skeet Practice:
- Sunday 12:30 – 4:00pm
- Monday 6:30 – 9:00pm
- Wednesday (Trap Only) 6:30 – 9:00
For any of our action pistol sports including IDPA, USPSA or Steel Challenge, please sign up using Practiscore. https://practiscore.com/clubs/saukville-rifle-and-pistol-club.
If you are interested in getting started with action pistol, we will have several introductory classes on 05/24, 6/21, 7/26, 8/23 and 9/27. The registration will also be in Practiscore with the link above with a cost of only $10 per member with guidance from many Expert & Master class competitors and safety officers. Non-members are welcome as well for $20.
Leagues have very strong participation this year which is outstanding. If you are still interested, there may be time yet, but don’t wait! Reach out today if you are interested and we can let you know if we have room yet on any of our trap or skeet leagues.
Please email [email protected] if you are interested in any of these activities and would like help getting signed up!
You can also view our full schedule of events on our Calendar.
Renewals Due by March 31
As a reminder, renewals were due March 31, 2024. By now, you should have either received multiple emails or a hard copy letter. Below are the steps to renew if you have not yet.
Visit https://saukvillegunclub.com/product/renew-annual-membership-2024-2025/
- Select your membership type.
- Note: You may elect to change between working & non-working if you are not an associate member.
- Enter your Saukville Membership Number
- Click Add to Cart
- Click View Cart, validate your selection, and click Proceed to Check Out.
- Please consider donating to help fund our New Range Construction or to support our Disabled Veteran Rifle Shoot event.
- Click Returning Customer to log in if you’ve renewed online with us before.
- Enter all remaining required information and click Place Order.
If you need your membership number you can find it on your membership card, in the renewal email you received from us, or by filling out this form.
If you would like to renew now, but don’t wish to renew online, please mail a check with your member number in the memo field to:
Saukville Gun Club
P.O. Box 13
Saukville, WI 53080
If you have any questions or concerns, please email [email protected]
Concordia Shooting Sports Team
Saukville Gun Club is proud to host Concordia Shooting Sports Team as well as the Ozaukee Scholastic Action Shooting Sports team. Below are the outstanding results from two national competitions that Concordia recently participated in.
Nationals Match Results
The CUW shooting sports team had a successful showing at the Scholastic Action Shooting Program Collegiate National Championships amid rainy conditions and stiff competition.
The best individual performance came courtesy of senior Nathan Fingeroos(Cedarburg, Wis.) in the pistol caliber carbine event, as he took third place overall with a time of 37.92.
As a team, the Blue and White also shined in the pistol caliber carbine event, as the team comprised of seniors Hank Bell(Saukville, Wis.), Nathan Fingeroos, Andrew (AJ) Theisz (Lake Geneva, Wis.), and Alexander Steiner (Kewaskum, Wis.) recorded a score of 171.39, snagging second place overall.
This squad also claimed fourth overall in the iron rifle, recording 197.23 points.
Meanwhile, the rimfire pistol event saw the Blue and White take sixth place with a total of 358.66 points while freshman Acoya Hotchkiss (Waukesha, Wis.) led the Falcons on the individual level in the rimfire pistol with a time of 62.71 seconds.
Nathan Fingeroos also led the flock in the centerfire pistol, taking seventh overall with a time of 52.54 seconds, and in the optics rifle event, finishing at 36.96 seconds. Fingeroos also took sixth in the centerfire pistol optic, claiming sixth overall with a time of 48.17 seconds.
The Falcons also placed fifth in the optics rifle event as a squad, scoring 171.09.
Another top-five finish came in the rimfire pistol optic, as Concordia Wisconsin’s squad amassed 223.17 points, locking up fourth place. CUW also secured fourth place in the centerfire pistol optic with 261.22 points.
To wrap up the spring season, the Falcons will return to practice and compete in the USA Clay Target Virtual League from April to May.
Valentine’s Classic Competition
The CUW shooting sports team performed well in the Valentine’s Classic Virtual competition, securing several high finishes across different individual and team events.
In the centerfire pistol optic, the Falcons claimed first place as a team as the squad comprised of senior Nathan Fingeroos (Cedarburg, Wis.), Andrew (AJ) Theisz (Lake Geneva, Wis.), junior Mason Schulteis (Kewaskum, Wis.), and senior Hank Bell (Saukville, Wis.) finished with a score of 205.24.
Individually, Nathan Fingeroos took first in the men’s division, registering a time of 43.81 seconds.
Meanwhile, in the centerfire pistol, that same squad claimed another first-place finish with a total score of 245.31 points. Like the previous event, Fingeroos also led the Blue and White, compiling a time of 51.63 seconds. Also in the top 10 was Mason Schulteis at 58.11 seconds, while Hank Bell recorded a time of 64.16 seconds, good for seventh overall. Behind Bell, Andrew (AJ) Theisz was in eighth place, with a time of 71.41 seconds.
CUW’s squad also took second in the optics rifle event, totaling a score of 146.62 points, while individually, Fingeroos and Bell led Concordia with a time of 34.16 and 36.33 seconds, respectively, for sixth and eighth place.
The Falcons also performed well in the pistol caliber carbine event. CUW claimed first as a team with a score of 144.47 points, while Nathan Fingeroos took first at 33.4 seconds. Hank Bell finished in third with a time of 35.12 seconds, while Mason Schulteis had a top-10 finish, securing ninth with a time of 37.56 seconds.
Concordia Wisconsin continued to rack up top-10 finishes, as Nathan Fingeroos took fifth in the iron rifle event with a time of 34.61 seconds. Fingeroos also led the team in the rim-fire pistol with a sixth-place finish, while senior Alexander Steiner(Kewaskum, Wis.) took ninth.
Meanwhile, Alexander Steiner led CUW in the rimfire pistol event, recording a time of 61.19 seconds.
Conservation Easement
The club is looking into creating a Conservation Easment with a portion of our land. If any members have experience with this, or are attorneys that would be willing to assist & support our club with investigating this, please reach out to us at [email protected].
Bay A & Bay B are Open!
We are happy to announce that the two forty yard bays, Bay A & Bay B, are now open and have benches for your use.
Bay A & B are 40 yards deep. You can shoot pistol, rifle or shotgun in the bay. Please pick up your shells, especially if shooting shotgun.
To access the range, you can use the entrance by our archery range or from the parking lot near our pistol house. The road to the range by our pistol house will be closed when we have bullseye pistol, trap, skeet or 5-stand going on as that road is downrange from those shooting activities, so the entrance by the archery range would be the only open road.
Be aware, until the construction is complete and we have a opportunity to complete final grading, seeding and simlar, the area will be muddy. Please plan accordingly when planning footwear, clothing, etc. to come to the range.
We have placed some target stands in both Bay A and Bay B for your use. See our December newsletter which shows these stands. It is recommended you bring 18″ wide (or wider) cardboard or similar backing to staple to target stand sticks to hang your target. Please don’t shoot the sticks as these are needed for all members to use.
Rifle Range Update
We are currently estimating completion by the end of April pending weather.
About half of the range and berms are built and topsoil is covering half. The other half still needs to be dug out and that dirt will be used to finish building the berms and backstop.
Our new rifle range will be close to 150 yards deep and a very comparable width to our old range. We intend to have targets at distances of 50 yards, 100 yards and 150 (or max depth). We will also have benches and hope to have a roof reinstalled as soon as funds allow.
While rapid fire is permitted in the two new 40 yard bays A & B, we won’t be able to support rapid fire in the rifle range, once complete, for safety reasons. At ~150 yards, the muzzle elevation change required to point above the berm is very minimal relatively and we need to make sure we don’t have shots leaving the range. Rifle shooting in the pistol bays is permitted so those seeking practice may use these bays up to the 40 yard distance.
Donations to support the New Range Costs
UPDATE: We’ve received just under $15,000 in donations from members to help support the costs of the new range construction. This has gone a long way in helping our club cover the costs of this construction. A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone that has contributed!
This move will be costing our club approximately $100,000 to build a new access road, remove trees, build new berms and add other amenities like benches and roof to the new range.
We are asking any members that would be willing to donate to the club to help offset these costs to please do so. We are able to take donations online or from mailing a check.
Donations online can be made by clicking here:
https://saukvillegunclub.com/shop/product/range-construction-donation/
Please note: Donating by mailing a check, especially for any large donations, is preferred due to avoiding processing fees from online payment processors.
Please make out and mail any donation checks to:
Saukville Gun Club
P.O. Box 13
Saukville, WI 53080
Please note the purpose of the check in the memo field or with a note that it is to help with range construction costs.
We sincerely apprecate a donation of any size to assist with large outflow of cash we will have to cover these expenses.
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Thank you for reading,
Saukville Gun Club