3rd Qtr 2009 – Club Results

Although it appears that we had a big setback for the July – September quarter of 2009, in reality we did not. Our attendance was 124 people, which was our seventh best for this quarter, and was far behind last year’s record of 184 for this quarter.  However, for the first time, I did count the FCS members and guests attendance at the Drott Dove Lease near Buda or the Sullivan Dove Lease near Woodson, as the hunts at these leases are not truly FCS hunts (they are hunts comprised of dove lease members, who are also FCS members, and their guests).  Last year, for example, we had 25 FCS participants at Drott lease hunts and 11 FCS participants at Sullivan lease hunts (a total of 36 FCS participants).  If I had not counted the attendance from those hunts, our attendance would have been 148 during this quarter last year (instead of 184).

We started reporting the FCS member and guest attendance at the Drott lease hunts in 2006 and the Sullivan lease hunts in 2003.  So without that attendance our attendance for this quarter for those years would have been:

2008 – 148 (plus 25 participants at the Drott lease and 11 participants at the Sullivan lease)

2007 – 91 (plus 37 participants at the Drott lease and 10 participants at the Sullivan lease)

2006 – 93 (plus 51 participants at the Drott lease and 11 participants at the Sullivan lease)

2005 – 118 (plus 19 participants at the Sullivan lease)

2004 – 95 (plus 23 participants at the Sullivan lease)

2003 – 86 (plus 27 participants at the Sullivan lease)

Therefore, if we had not counted the FCS participants at the Drott and Sullivan leases, this would have been our fourth best attendance for this quarter.  Also the attendance from this quarter last year included 39 attendees from the Buda Chapter.  As the Buda Chapter is not presently functioning, if they had duplicated their efforts we would have had 163 attendees this quarter, which would have been 15 more than this quarter last year (and our best yet for this quarter).

We also blew away what was our average for this quarter (89).

We had 14 events, which was also our fourth best for this quarter.  However, if we had not counted the FCS participants hunts at the Drott and Sullivan lease hunts our numbers of events would have been:

2008 – 12 (plus 4 Drott lease hunts and 3 Sullivan lease hunts)

2007 – 9 (plus 3 Drott lease hunts and 4 Sullivan lease hunts)

2006 – 7 (plus 5 Drott lease hunts and 3 Sullivan lease hunts)

2005 – 10 (plus 3 Sullivan lease hunts)

2004 – 4 (plus 2 Sullivan lease hunts)

2003 – 5 (plus 2 Sullivan lease hunts)

Therefore, if we had not counted the FCS participants hunts at the Drott and Sullivan leases, we would have had a record number of events for this quarter.

Also during this quarter, we had one man join the Club, 11 men renew their memberships, and 11 first time guests.

We had one active members vote and one officers vote during the third quarter of 2009.

Yearly Attendance Grid

 Yearly Events Grid

* = Record

# = Includes Drott and/or Sullivan season dove lease hunts

The next quarter promises to be an exciting one for FCS members and guests.  We have 15 events planned, including:

• Concealed Handgun License (CHL) Class at a date, time and location to be announced.  This event is contingent on getting at least six people to commit.
• Chartered Hybrid Bass Fishing Trip at Lake Belton on a date and time to be announced.  This events is contingent on getting at least four people to commit and on how the fish are biting in October or November.
• Friday, 10/2/09 through Sunday 10/4/09 – Dove Retreat (Central Zone) on Frank Hamilton’s ranch near Trickham.
• Monday, 10/5/09, 7:00 – 9:30 PM – Club Meeting at Charles Cutchens’ home (2704 Buckeye Trail, Cedar Park, 512-918-8205 – Home).
• Saturday, 10/10/09, 9:00 – 11:45 AM – Sporting Clays and Skeet Shoot at the Capitol City Trap & Skeet Club ( 8707 Lindell Lane , 512-272-4707).
• Saturday, 10/17/09, 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM – Shooting Range Shoot at the Eagle Peak Shooting Range near Jonestown.
• Friday, 10/23/09 through Sunday, 10/25/09 – Non-Chartered Coastal Fishing Trip at Corpus Christi/Port Aransas/Aransas Pass.
• Friday, 11/6/09 through Sunday, 11/8/09 – Chartered Bay Fishing Trip at Port O’Conner.  This event is contingent on getting at least two fishermen to commit.
• Saturday, 11/14/09, 9:00 – 11:45 AM – Sporting Clays and Skeet Shoot at the Capitol City Trap & Skeet Club ( 8707 Lindell Lane , 512-272-4707).  The date is tentative.  Also Capitol City will have a sporting clays tournament on Sunday, 11/15/09.  If their hunter sporting clays course is closed we will either shoot five stand or move this event to the 21st.
• Saturday, 11/21/09 – Guided Duck Hunt with Bill Sherrill near Wharton.  This event is contingent on getting at least four hunters to commit.
• Friday, 12/4/09, 6:30 – 8:00 PM – Shrimp Boil at Great Hills Baptist Church ( 10500 Jollyville Road , 343-7763).
• Monday, 12/7/09, 7:00 – 9:30 PM – Austin Chapter Meeting at Mr. Charlie Batts’ home (9706 Bordeaux Lane, 258-8773 – Home, 512-257-8778 – Work, 512-750-2225 – Cell).
• Saturday, 12/12/09, 9:00 – 11:45 AM – Sporting Clays and Skeet Shoot at the Capitol City Trap & Skeet Club ( 8707 Lindell Lane , 512-272-4707).  The date is tentative.
• Saturday, 12/26/09 – Trout Fishing Trip on the Guadalupe River.
• Saturday, 12/26/09, 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM – “Bring in the New Year” Shooting Range Shoot at the Eagle Peak Shooting Range near Jonestown.

I hope to see you at an FCS event soon!

Following His trail,

Randy Rowley

FCS President