The Antwerp Conservation Club, thru a grant from the Ohio Department of Wildlife, are proud to offer a youth introduction to firearms. This free event will be held September 29th, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at our club located at 17814 Road 53 ( just north of Antwerp, Ohio and yes you can find our club on Google maps).
This event has something for all kids aged 5 and up. For the 5 and up kids we have BB guns, shooting will take place in our Daisy inflatable airgun range. This range, blows up just like a “bounce house” you see at popular events, it is fully enclosed, and a wonderful place to introduce youngsters to firearms and proper firearm safety. Daisy airguns do not generally make these available for the general public to purchase, so being able to offer this to the youngsters of our community is just outstanding.
For the kids aged 8 and up we have 22LR Rimfire rifles, we will shoot these off the bench at both paper targets and reactive targets, at 25 and 50 yards, on our rifle range.
For the kids 10 and up we will offer them the opportunity to try out our 410 or 20 gauge shotguns. They will be shooting at stationary sporting clays, and the clays just turn into a cloud of dust when hit.
After a mandatory safety course, (by an officer from the Ohio Department of Wildlife): this safety course will include all aspects of proper gun safety, proper loading and unloading of firearms,and how to properly execute the act of firing a life round, participants will receive eye and ear protection, be paired up one on one with adult from our club, and go out onto one of our rifle range and then be able to do “live fire” with our firearms. No previous firearm experience is needed, as this is for the beginners in to firearms, hunting, and target shooting. All classroom safety course teaching will be done with our inert firearms. These are made by the Creams Manufacturers, to be identical to the firearm you will use, but in no way can chamber a round of ammunition or fire the round of ammunition. These are teaching tools, and we are very happy to be able to have them for these type of events.
Lunch will served, at no cost, lunch will be hot dogs and hamburgers.
PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR PERSONAL FIREARMS.
We at the Antwerp Conservation Club are proud of the partnership with the Ohio Department of Wildlife on this event, as well as hunters education, “field to feast” where we show how to butcher and prepare game that you have hunted, and reloading classes, where we will do a hands on, of reloading metallic rifle and pistol ammunition as well as shotgun ammunition. Please go to antwerpconservationclub.com for more information.
