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Fairfield County Fish & Game Protective Association

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DUCKS UNLIMITED

SPORTING CLAYS SUMMER TUNE-UP

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Fairfield County Fish and Game Protective Association

310 Hammertown Rd.,

Monroe, CT

Take this opportunity to improve your shooting prowess and help conserve wildlife habitat in the process. Includes 100 rounds of challenging sporting clays, buffet lunch, raffles and silent auction. Pre-registration required if you want to be assured of getting something to eat!

Contact Chris Ferris.

Dear Community Member,

Thomas Berlinghoff was a well known member of the Hudson Valley.  He lived, worked, went to school and played sports here for his entire life.  In memory of our close friend Thomas Berlinghoff, who was unforunately taken from us prematurely due to a brain aneurism at the age of 23, we have established the THOMAS J. PERLINGHOFF MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.  The purpose of the foundation is to purchase a scoreboard for the Webutuck soccer field and to create a scholarship fund for college bound soccer players from our community who attend Webutuck High School.

Tommy was an avid soccer player and loved every part of the game.  He especially loved playing soccer at Webutuck with all of his friends.  Tommy was a Varsity soccer player for four years and was Captain of the team his senior year.

In order to raise the funds we are asking local businesses and other community members to make charitable donations through the Webutuck Funds for Educational Excellence in Tommy's memory.  Once we have sufficient funds we will present a check to the Webutuck School Board to purchase and erect the selected scoreboard.

We hope to have the scoreboard purchased and in place for the first home soccer game of the fall season at Webutuck.  Athe that time we will dedicate the scoreboard to Tommy before the game Begins.  The scoreboard will have a sign that reads, "IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOMAS J. BERLONGHOFF."

How many times has a fellow squad member offered you some unsolicited free advice that influenced your shooting ability in a positive manner?  Hard Question?  I think so.

Hard because it is a two part answer to a two part question. The first part of the answer has to do with our great fraternity of shotgun shooting.  We engage well meaning individuals of all abilities that just want to be helpful.  At any opportunity they volunteer advice to any shooter who they feel could use it.  Nothing they say or do is meant to be anything but positive.  If you disagree with me just ask any beginner this question.

To answer the second part of the question, they are often incorrect or don’t adequately project what they mean so that the “student” may understand how to enact the instructions. Some shooters discount such advice because the “coach du jour” is not even showing as much ability as he is.  Not that a good coach has to be a great shooter, but it helps to be above-average to gain as least some of the shooter’s confidence.

Have you checked out our Links section lately?

We've added a link to Whitetail Solutions LLC.  Whitetail Solutions is a residential deer herd management company located out of Ridgefield.

If you're really looking for that Whitetail hunt of a lifetime, you should check out Illinois Whitetails.  If you'd rather be fishing in the streams of Montana or the shores of Florida, give Brett Greco of Greco's on the Fly a call.

You also might want to check out Sporting Photos Shop.  "The Lone Canadian" may be taking a picture of you!

And last, but certainly not least, our old good friend Bruce Buck has the Shooting Sportsman Technoid Talk blog over at Shooting Sportsman.com.  There's two things you can never get enough of; clay targets and the Technoid.  And Hot Dogs.  And Cupcakes.

"Boots off.  Beer open." as the famous one says.