Events at Dryden Fish & Game Club and in the area

2025 Spring Rifle Range Clean-Up

Dear DFG Club Members,

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 have not answered the original e-mail or if your availability has changed, it will help with planning.

The range is still quite wet; it is probably a good idea to come with rain boots or other shoes that fare with water well. Weather forecast calls for some showers so we may not be able to paint the benches, but we should be able to carry out all other tasks.

I will need help from someone with a pickup truck to pick up wood, especially 4x8 plywood and 8ft 6x6, it will be likely on Friday 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 the vertical post on 50-yard target
6. Replace horizontal 4x4 on 25-yard, 50, and 100-yard targets.
7. Replace large plywood on 200-yard target.
8. Replace rubber flaps on 25-yard and 50-yard targets. I will bring the rubber flaps.
9. Replace steel pipes for hanging steel targets at 100 yards.
10. Hang new steel target at 100 yards.
11. Rebuild all three portable targets, I will bring pre-cut lumber, we will need to build them.
12. 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.

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/dustpan for cleaning. We will need shovels, pole diggers and a chainsaw for work on the vertical target posts. It would be helpful to have extra cordless drills with screwdriver bits to work on portable targets and hanging rubber flaps.

Best regards,

Jarek