wish us luck!

i'm sure the powers that be have the deck stacked against us!

hopefully, no gunfire will break out in the clubhouse as tempers flare (a manly catfight with the participants being well armed!!). it's too damn hot to wear a kevlar vest and pasgt helmet!

All your gunclub are belong to us.

we won this battle!

by a vote of 210 to 76, the membership turned down the crappy land swap deal that would allow the trustees to blow 1/3 million dollars to extend the 600 yard range out to 1000 yards.

what this vote did was to effectively keep orpa (ohio rifle & pistol association) OUT of OUR club!!!

i HOPE the trustees got the message, loud and clear, that the membership wants tusco to be FOR the membership and not for some organization that is trying to buy their way into a club on the cheap.

we also voted to elect 2 of our 6 trustees. i did not stick around for the vote count, but it looked very good for 'our' (pro membership) candidates to get elected.

this 1000 yard range has been a thorn in our side for 5 years! it has split the club into factions and wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on a white elephant that would end up causing club members to PAY to be cheated out of their own club.

we will not relent in our efforts to keep tusco FOR the members.

thanks to all that showed up and voted and to those that supported the average 'joe member' of tusco.

i forgot to add...they DID seriously stack the deck against us!

everything from robert's rules of parliamentary debate to seriously skewed aerial drawings/graphic aides to outright lies were on the floor tonight.

thankfully, good men stood up and presented the real 'facts' and we were having none of their shit on this night!

everyone was well prepared to do battle, but our side had all the facts and common sense going for us. despite numerous attempts to obfuscate the deabate and word things in a confusing manner, the majority of the members stood fast and voted down the scam.

The group needed some form of order, and the end result is good for now...

More land downrange is nice, but 16 acres of hillside that is not likely to be built upon being traded for 32 acres of flatter open land which is more likely to be built upon is a deal that would make even Student's ass hurt.

It was not a discussion of ideas, it was more a discussion of rules of order !!!

the meeting was conducted that way DELIBERATELY in order to ofuscate the facts.

the aerial map was drawn IN corecetly for the same reason.

My question is now that that the land swap deal is dead does this stop the 1000 yrd. range idea PERMANENTLY or will the 1000 yrd. continue and hope for ther best when it comes to a buffer in the future?

this is why i said that we won the "battle"...but i suspect the war will continue! we must remain on guard against orpa and be very watchful of our trustees and president. they will stop at nothing to get their way!

i trust most of them no farther than i could throw them.

i strongly suspect that both the 1000-yard range AND the orpa incursion will be back to haunt us.

my opinion is that if orpa loves our range so damn much...why the hell don't they just join up as members? no man is above the next, in my book.

I was there as well, I've never seen so much confusion at one time...The roberts rules of order was making my head hurt, a nice try at confusing the membership. I'm glad to say it didn't work.

amen! the only reason the pro-orpa guys got there paltry 70+ votes was because they packed the joint with ringers. if the entire membership was involved an aware of what was going down, the vote would have been 800 to 100.

And if any ORPA guys are reading this....Go find another club to try to buy your way into, you're not buying into Tusco!!!

again...amen! i have NOTHING against orpa, but if they want to shoot here, let them join and shoot AS regular members WITH regular members.


now, i'll not be surprised if the morons threaten us with range closings, caliber limitations or other such drivel in the upcoming weeks!

did anyone hear of carman and hobart made it as trustees?

i think it's time to elect a new board and new prez, myself.