Events at Dryden Fish & Game Club and in the area

2025 Spring Rifle Range Clean-Up

Dear DFG Club Members,

Thank you very much for all the responses, it looks like more members prefer June 14th.

Therefore our 2025 Rifle Spring Range Clean-up is on Saturday June 14 at 10am.

Please let me know if you have any comments or ideas about the clean-up.  Please let me know if you are planning to come but did not answer the original e-mail or if your availability has changed, it will help with planning.

I will need help from someone with a pickup truck to pick up wood, especially 4x8 plywood and 10ft 6x6, it will be just before the cleanup.

Here is the list of tasks I would like to propose for this year. Please let me know if you would like to add, change, or modify the list.

  1. Trash removal. We need to clean all the accumulated debris from the range (entire range). I will provide trash bags; we will need some rakes and brooms (leaf rakes work best for brass). It is very important to remove all solid objects scattered on the ground, otherwise mowing will be impossible.
  2. The benches and the table are in good shape, but it would be good to add some fresh stain/wood protector on the top. We may need to remove some paint and clean it up, please bring sandpaper or any portable power tool that can remove some peeling paint. I will provide the paint/stain and brushes.
  3. Repair anti-wasp mesh under the benches, I still have some mesh left from last year.
  4. Replace the vertical post on 25-yard target, we braced it last year but now it is degraded. We can dig the current one out and replace it or dig in the new one behind the current one and use what is there as protection. We will need a chainsaw to cut it and pole diggers/shovels to dig, please bring them if you have them.
  5. Replace horizontal 4x4 on 25-yard and 100-yard targets.
  6. Replace large plywood on 200-yard target.
  7. Replace rubber flaps on 25-yard and 50-yard targets, possibly on 100-yard. I will bring the rubber flaps.
  8. Replace steel pipes for hanging steel targets at 100 yards. Does anyone have steel pipes and a tool to push them into the ground? Please let me know as I don't have any. Otherwise, we can build portable target to hang steel target at 100 yards. Let me know what you think.
  9. Hang new steel targets at 200 and 100 yards.
  10. Rebuild all three portable targets, I will bring pre-cut lumber, we will need to build them.
  11. Replace the sign with range rules, the current one is in very bad shape. I can print and laminate the rules, but maybe we can do something more permanent? Let me know.
  12. We need to build a new bigger storage box to supplement one that is under the long table. There are a lot of things in the current one, and it overflows. Please send me ideas, I am not sure what would be the best solution here. Currently there is a simple box made out of plywood with hinged front attached underneath the long table.

There will be a lot of debris and trash to haul away. Please let me know if you have a truck registered in Tompkins Solid Waste Center, I may need help hauling the trash there, some may not fit into Club's trash container. I will of course pay all the fees for the trash.

It would be extremely helpful to have some extra tools and materials. For benches we will need sandpaper or similar tools. We will need leaf rakes, regular rakes, and a broom for cleaning. We will need shovels, pole diggers and a chainsaw for work on the 25-yard target post. It would be helpful to have extra cordless drills with screwdriver bits to work on portable targets and hanging rubber flaps.

Best regards,

Jarek

DFG Rifle Range Master