Calais Rod & Gun Club HOME Page

The Calais Rod & Gun Club
1939
First in Washington County
Best in Maine

Round Pond Clubhouse ~ Charlotte, Maine

HOME PAGE

The Calais Rod & Gun Club Home page URL (web address) is:

http://chiplakenews.org/CalaisRGChome.htm

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DIRECTIONS

The Calais Rod & Gun Club's Round Pond Clubhouse is located on the Charlotte Road about eight miles west of US Route 1, as Charlotte Road meets Round Pond, just northeast of Sweet Meadow Road.

Travelling south on US Route One before you get to Calais and as you enter the Moosehorn NWS, immediately after crossing the old railroad tracks, turn right (west) onto Charlotte Road and go through the Moosehorn National Wildlife Sanctuary area...the club's driveway is on the left, directly across from the beach and boat launch area at Round Pond.

The Calais R&GC holds regular meetings on the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 at the clubhouse usually accompanied by a Pot Luck Supper at 6:00.

Individual dues are $15.00 per year and are payable annually on January 1st. Family dues are $20.00.

Ben Brown is President and Bruce Nelson is Secretary (2007-08).

The membership is open and you are invited to JOIN the Calais Rod & Gun Club. Mail us at: P. O. Box 301, Calais, ME 04619

We regularily shoot:
Trap on Thursday mornings after 10:00

Trap or Skeet on Tuesday afternoons (during Daylight Savings Time)

Skeet (and sometimes Five Stand or occasionally in the summer, Sporting Clays in the woods) on Sundays after 10:00 but you never know what discipline we're gonna shoot...so come prepared.

For more information, e-mail: BrownBE<AT>ptc–me.net OR NelsoB<AT>link2usa.com
(Replace the <AT> with @ in your mail program. This site doesn't display actual e-mail addresses so that automated web crawlers can't recognize our e-addresses)

Club facilities include a large clubhouse with a kitchen and meeting room, a trap field, a skeet (and Five-Stand) field, a Sporting Clays course through the woods, a 25 yard outdoor pistol range with 8 indoor firing ports and falling steel plates...target holders are provided (no rifles larger than .22 cal. on the pistol range - no full metal jacketed bullets on the falling steel targets). The 200 yard rifle range is always open (except when we're shooting Skeet or Sporting Clays) and our running deer range is open, usually on our annual Field Days. There was no Ice Fishing Tournament in early 2007.

Clay targets are $3.00 per round of 25 for skeet and five-stand, $2.50 per 25 for trap on Thursdays and $20.00 for sporting clays.

Guests are welcome.

Currently Scheduled Events include:

Skeet OR Five Stand on Sundays, Skeet OR Trap on Tuesday afternoons and Trap on Thursday mornings (as noted above).

Annual Meeting - First Thursday in April at 7:00 (after Dinner).

Monthly dinner meetings are held at 7:00 PM on the First Thursday of each Month with Pot Luck Dinners starting at 6:00.

New Clay Target Shooters: Check this link for Skeet Tips
or here for some Trap Shooting Tips

...and here for Official Skeet Excuses :-D
Although most excuses work well for both disciplines, Trap shooters may need to use slightly modified excuses.

If you haven't tried it, "Five Stand" is a blast! Bring plenty of ammo. Sporting Clays will help prepare you for patridge and timberdoodles.

The Calais Rod and Gun Club was formed on 1 March 1939 in Calais, Maine. The initial by-laws were accepted at the 1 March 1939 meeting indicating that several work sessions had taken place prior to the March meeting. The object of this organization are social, educational and scientific for the promotion of the fish and game interests of the State of Maine, and to assist and encourage in every possible way the enforcement of the fish and game laws.

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Revised: April 01, 2008.

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