This year’s Flat Rock Creek Fall Festival started on Friday, September 21 and lasted through Sunday. The weather started off on Friday to be windy and clear. The evening chilled the place off and it really felt like fall! The entire weekend was beautiful and around 150 vendors did quite well. The attendance this year…
Returning to the Fort Wayne area for the second time this year is the heralded Purdue Varsity Glee Club. The 65-member male chorus will present their entertaining brand of music and showmanship in concert at the John & Ruth Rhinehart Music Center on the Purdue Fort Wayne campus Friday, October 26. They’ll be joined by…
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…
We all have one, we cherish it, we love to talk about it, we will tell you how neat it is and how much fun it is, but seldom get it out… mine, you ask? A Winchester model 94, made during WWII (not many civilian guns being made then). What’s yours? A Mosin Nagant? A…
By: Aaron Kohler, Rifle Range Chairman Antwerp Conservation Club is very pleased to announce our fall rifle raffle, and new for this year, we will be giving away 2 rifles. The 1st prize is a WW2 M1 Garand and 2nd prize is vintage Marlin 22lr and the 3rd prize is $50 cash. After hearing about…
Saturday, September 8th started out raining and cold, but that did not stop members of the Antwerp Conservation Club, Gary Mabis and Aaron Kohler, from traveling to Harlan, Indiana to compete in the John Garand match at Ft. Wayne Rifle & Revolver. A total of 10 competitors shot the match, with one coming from Michigan to…
Saturday, August 18th, the Antwerp Conservation Club held a bench rest rifle match. A bench rest match is one of the easiest rifle matches to get started in competition shooting. All you need is a rifle and ammunition, most clubs have sandbags you pile up on the bench, sit down and get comfortable, and fire…
On August 4th, members of the Antwerp conservation club travelled to Camp Perry Ohio (just west of Port Clinton). Members in attendance were Gary Mabis, Aaron Kohler, Alex Campbell, Steve Nichols, Keith Mueller, Mike Walter & Jeff Walter.The club members were there to “check out” Camp Perry, watch some of the CMP U.S. National Rifle…
The Paulding County Ohio Amateur Radio Club held a repeater work day on Saturday, July 14th. Eight members removed the old coax and antennas and installed new hardline and antennas. The repeater allows amateur radio operators to extend the range of their handheld and mobile radios. It also allows the amateur radio operators in Paulding…
As you lay on the ground in a tight fitting shooting coat, cuddling with your rifle, you clutch a single round of ammunition in your hand, you go over a mental check list: Sling on tight? Rifle sights “zeroed”? Correct number of rounds to be shot at hand? Just then your concentration is broken by…
At their June 26th meeting at the Coney Dog Cafe, two new members were installed by PCC, PDG Herb Gaff. Pictured left to right, PDG, Lion Pres. Don Cooper, PCC, PDG Herb Gaff, sponsoring Lion, Kevin Berning, and new members, Nathan Berning and Emily Faulkner.
The Antwerp Conservation Club had a busy weekend. The club held three events over the weekend. A Curly Fry booth, 22 pistol shoot and a Hunter Education Class. The club ran a booth at the New Haven Maumee Valley Antique Steam and Gas Show August 19th and 20th selling curly fries and raffle tickets for…
The Leaders of Tomorrow 4-H club gathered at the Youth Leadership Building on March 30 to have their monthly meeting along with the required demonstrations given by each member. They started off with pizza for supper. A short meeting followed where they voted to have gray club t-shirts this year. You can watch for them…
