Club President   

By: Al Wiscovitch - Club President

Hi there Oranco members,

I hope this newsletter finds you all well and happy holidays. Thank you to all who came out and helped with the State 3-D Championship and our Christmas shoot/toy drive. Sorry, I was not able to participate with any help with these events. I was moving this past weekend and couldn’t be at two places at once as for the 3-D championship I was out of town on Business. Moving is never fun, I would have been a lot happier at Oranco this past weekend than moving.

Can’t believe that this will be my last newsletter for this year, what a year we have had. I would like to wish everyone at Oranco the very best holiday season as well as taking this moment to personally thank our board members for all their hard work and dedication and commitment to our club.

We are heading towards a new year and hope that all of you are excited for a new year of archery; I know I am as my health improves. I am looking forward to getting out and shooting with our club members. So please let’s welcome in the New Year with hope and lots of promise. We are working on some new things and would like to share more so standby.

Al Wiscovitch

alwisco@msn.com

(909) 322-3869

Club Vice President

By: Pete Whitworth - Club Vice President

Hi Everyone. I am Pete, the Vice President and as such it is my responsibility to run our club invitational shoots. Along with our President Al Wiscovitch, I also deal with the day to day running of the club in general, and specifically we handle any complaints or issues that any of you have. Naturally you are always free to voice any issues at our club meetings held on the second Tuesday of every month at 7:00 PM in the clubhouse, however; Al and I are here to keep things running smooth on a daily basis. So, when problems arise, you should always feel free to contact either of us for immediate help.

This weekend we just had our annual Charity shoot and Toy Drive. Today (Monday) before our take down crew got there, Steve and Harold went around the range and picked up all the trash (as they do after every shoot). We got there at 8:30 and took down all the animals, shooting stakes and water stations. We put them all away neatly and were finished by round 10:30. Then I came to my shop and updated the scorekeeping program to reflect all the new shooters that joined us for this shoot (36 additions this time, and that list is sitting at over 800 shooters as of now). I also converted the scores to PDF and sent them off to Dave to put on the website. From Saturday morning at 8:30 when our first crew started to put out the animals, through Sunday running the tournament, and today (it’s almost 5:00 on Monday evening right now). It takes a lot of hard working people and a lot of hours to put on something like this, and I can’t thank you all enough for your help making this happen.

I also need to mention that part of this work is still not done. Angie Butcher came out on Sunday like she always does to sort and organize all the toys from our toy drive. She has been doing this since she started helping her mom 40 years ago, and over time, all of her help has gone away leaving her doing the job with just one friend that came with her this time. Our toy donations through Angie, support a few families that are brought to her attention through local churches, as well as The Chino Neighborhood House, and one other larger organization that I do not know the name of. She will be delivering toys to these locations over the next couple of days. So, thank you Angie for your dedication to local families in need.

This shoot is in the books. The next one is the return of the Stump and Varmint shoot. It’s an ORANCO classic that many of our long time members have been missing. This shoot is all paper, two arrow, marked yardage, with 11/10/8 scoring. The targets are Stumps and a collection of strange looking creatures (some of which are shown on the flyer). This will be on January 19th. Mark your calendar. You don’t want to miss this one. There will be a work party the day before, for general cleanup and pinning up the paper targets. It’s a much easier job than putting out 3D’s.



That’s all for now folks.

Pete Whitworth

ob.vicepres@outlook.com

(909) 223-5822

Range Captain

By: Jim Teel - Club Range Captain

More progress has been made on the state of the target bales in need of rotation and replacement. Last year, Jose Lara presented an idea to safeguard the integrity of the bales by using 2x4s to cover the exposed sides of the bales. We’d all like to think that we put our arrows in the center of the target every time, but sometimes mother nature (wind) and equipment mishaps rob us of that rightfully earned 12-spot. Over time, those stray arrows can greatly diminish the structural integrity of the banded lumber on the sides of the bales. Jose’s idea was to provide an extra layer of protection in front of that exposed lumber to ensure that they last as long as the carpet layers between them. I recently fleshed out that idea and you can see that safeguard employed on the midrange target bales from 20 to 50 yards. 

Remember, this club is OUR club, so if you have any suggestions for improvement please do not hesitate to let me, or any of the other board members know about them. OR you can bring them up yourself at one of the monthly club meetings.

I recently checked all of the barn owl nesting boxes to see if any of them had been occupied yet. As of this writing, there are no mating pairs or eggs in any of them. Traditionally, I don’t expect to see them begin to get occupied until March or April. Last year was a surprise to me when the newly cleaned and re-stocked (with nesting material) boxes all acquired mating pairs and eggs within just a couple of weeks - and in November, at that! Turns out that winter clutches aren’t entirely unheard of, so I was optimistic that we’d see another winter clutch this year. That hasn’t happened yet, but I will continue to check them and keep all of you updated.

As we finish off what has been a fairly grueling schedule of tournaments and league shoots, we will have a bit of a break before the next scheduled invitational tournament. Pete is bringing back the Stump and Varmint shoot (on Jan. 19, 2025) which is a marked, paper target shoot. We will need to have a target gluing work party well ahead of that day to ensure we have all of the targets we need, ready to go. There are still some downed branches that are in need of chipping, and the chipper is once again ready-for-prime-time, so look for an email announcing that work party too. These work parties will probably take place during the last week of December, so be ready!  

We usually see the same faces showing up to help out, whether it’s for work parties or tournament set-up and break-down work parties. If you haven’t participated in one of these work parties in a while, now is the time to start. The more people that show up, the faster the work is done. And every work party you attend helps drive down the cost of your membership dues. It’s a win-win scenario and your club needs your help so please try to make of point of contributing some of your time and effort when you see that work party email hit your inbox. Thank you for your support and I’ll see you on the range! Happy Holidays!

-Jim Teel

Range Captain

Jim Teel

ob.rangecaptain@outlook.com

(818) 317-91109

Range Secretary

By: Mark Houston - Club Range Secretary

Nothing to report.

Mark Houston

houstoncru@aol.com

(760) 605-1155

Tournament Chairman

By: David Bacon. - Tournament Chairman

Nothing to report.



David Bacon

ob.tournament@outlook.com

(909) 217-4441

Membership Chairmen 

By: Steven Baker - Club Membership

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving; I know I did spend it with my family in Utah. I know with Christmas and New Years things will get crazier and the end of the year approaches. 

Have made a list of members that have work party point for this year and a printed copy will be available on Sunday in the club house, should your name not be on the list and you have done work parties please send me a photo of the sing in sheet to ob.membership@outlook.com so that I may update. Work parties credit run from April 1^st to March 31, 2025.

As a reminder, please check your CBH or NFAA membership card for those exploration dates, so that come June 2025 I will be able to send you your new membership card and gate code.

I would like to wish all Oranco Membership a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.

Steven Baker

ob.membership@outlook.com

(951) 285-1550

League Chairman

By: Brad Belvedere - League Chairman

Nothing to report.

Brad Belvedere

ob.leagues@outlook.com

(951) 545-9462

If you are looking for photos of previous shoots, check out Tony Nguyen's fantastic photography in the link below! He has an amazing gallery organized by shoots and dates he's participated in:

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