Club President   

By: Al Wiscovitch - Club President

Happy New Year Oranco Bowman hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!

It's been nice to see all this rain not expected but surely needed. As we start the New Year, we are surely challenged with range duties. The rain is needed but it has given us challenges with the amount of rain we have gotten so far.

As we start the new year there will be some new changes moving forward as you all know we lost Mark Houston last year god bless his soul. He was our Range Secretary, a great club member and father and yes, a great friend to all of us. His position will be taken over by Brad Belvedere. Brad has been our League Chairman for the last three years and will be our new Range Secretary. Brad will be handling our annual champ shoot and 3-D championship shoot. Mark Van Patton will be taking over as our new League Chairman I would like thank Mark and Brad for taking on these new roles. We will also have one other change for this year, Louie Lopez, our long-time treasurer, will be stepping down as our treasurer. Louie has served Oranco for over twenty-five years on his twenty-five years he has been responsible for keeping all our bills paid, Taxes properly filed and a great adviser to me and the board as well. Louie will continue to help our club with our annual taxes and advice when needed.



Louie, I would like to be the first to say thank you for all you have done for Oranco and its members It is my hope that your successor will be able to carry on with the long dedication that you have given to this club. With that I would like to introduce to our club members our new treasurer for this year his name is Michael Nunez he has been a member of Oranco for the last six years and his daughter as well. She is

a very successful Joad Archer for our club. Michael has a very impressive resume he comes from a banking background and deals with 501-C-3 501-C-4 and is quite knowledgeable with actual accounting he will be a big asset to our club. It's my hope that he will bring his enthusiasm and his knowledge to our club and help us to continue to grow in the right direction. So please take a moment to thank these men for taking on these new duties!

More news:

Things to come please look at our web site and make plans to support our up coming events Malinda our cookshack foremen needs volunteers to help with the cookshack on our range these are all day positions and are double credit towards your membership. So please make the time to help your club and reach out to Malinda and become part of the team.

Annual banquet is set for May 16th this year and will be our 73rd year as a club. We will be sending our RSVP’s soon so please get your invite ASAP back to us as we will have 100 seats at our banquet. It’s always a fun evening with great food, awards and a very nice raffle.

Now for a bit of our club history, last month I shared who was responsible for our present location, if you said Bruce Kipley, you were right! Bruce served three years as our club president 1980 to 1983 now for some histories. Have you ever wounder how we started out? Our club was always a paper shooting club Bruce and some of his board members back then started talking to a 3-D manufacturer call critter factory Bruce got them to come over to our club and show them what these critter factory animals look like, now remember there where no 3-D events any where yet so Bruce made a deal with this company to sell

us 42-3-D animals with no money down with the promise to pay them off with the proceeds from our tournaments we would put on. That was the beginning of 3-D shoots. Wow! Yes, Bruce and Oranco Bowmen started the 3-D movement in Southern California. Our club is rich in history, and it is my goal to make sure that our club members can appreciate the hard work our past and present members have given us.

As always thank you for reading this newsletter.



Al Wiscovitch

alwisco@msn.com

(909) 322-3869

Club Vice President

By: Pete Whitworth - Club Vice President

Nothing to report.



Pete Whitworth

ob.vicepres@outlook.com

(909) 223-5822

Range Captian

By: Jim Teel - Range Captain  

State of the Range

Big thanks to the members who showed up to Saturday's work party. The entirety of the chipping pile has been reduced to wood chips and a lot of the bucked branches were split and relocated to the front gate for whoever wants firewood. Everyone with range assignments has been rallying to meet the challenges that all of the recent rain handed to us. Big nod of respect to each and every one of you for the work that you do to keep our club in top form. 

The next scheduled work party will be a target gluing party this Thursday night from 6 to 9 PM. We need 10 to 12 volunteers for this effort. Please RSVP directly to me if you want to be a part of this effort. We need to replenish our usual range targets inventory and also prepare targets for the upcoming Stump and Varmint shoot taking place this weekend. You MUST RSVP to me if you intend to help out. We only have equipment and room for 10 to 12 volunteers. People who show up without having RSVP-ed to me will not get work party credits. Please send me a text along with your full name and membership status. 

My number is (818) 317-9110. 

I've got a few projects that I'm looking to complete in the next couple of weeks and I could use some help. If you're a prospective member that needs work party credits to satisfy your membership requirements or an already established member with some extra time on your hands - please call or text me directly to coordinate. If you want to be added to the waiting list for a range assignment, please send me an email with your full name, membership status and contact information along with the type of assignment you would prefer. 

Until then, I'll see you on the range.

Jim Teel

ob.rangecaptain@outlook.com

(818) 317-9110

Range Secretary

By: Vacant - Club Range Secretary

Nothing to report.

Vacant

Tournament Chairman

By: David Bacon. - Tournament Chairman

Hi All,

I just wanted to give you an update on our State Target (900) Championship. We had 131 total archers over 4 days of shooting which was off by 6 from last year and all together we had 69 awards. I would like to thank all the archers who braved the heat and humidity to compete. The weather was a little cooler than last year which helped a bit but it was still hot.

On September 6th, our JOAD ONLY event went very well with a full line of archers from several different clubs all competing together. It was great to see them all out there working hard on their goals.

All that said, I can’t imagine putting on this tournament without the help of our JOAD Coordinator Vernie Urbano and Hector Wong who managed the shooting line and helped with registration, not to mention our parent volunteers who helped with setup, take down and clean up. Thanks to you all for all your hard work.

David Bacon

ob.tournament@outlook.com

(909) 217-4441

Membership Chairmen 

By: Steven Baker - Club Membership

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. As renewal time approaches, please take a moment to check the expiration dates on your CHB and NFAA cards. If your expiration date ends in a 5, it's time to send me an updated card.

A quick reminder that March is the final month to earn work party points. We have many upcoming events, so there will be plenty of opportunities to participate. Volunteers are always appreciated, especially during our tournaments.

Earlier today we were still short on help, but I’m happy to share that several members have stepped up. We now have coverage for the Main Cook Shack and Bear Valley. We are still looking for a volunteer for Tree Stand.

Thank you all for your continued support and involvement.

Steven Baker

ob.membership@outlook.com

(951) 285-1550

League Chairman

By: Brad Belvedere - League Chairman

The winter league shoot is in the Quiver. 

To all the people who placed on their division, trophies will be handed out at the banquet in May. 

I would like to thank everyone who shot the Winter league shoot, whether it was one weekend or all 5 weekends, it was a real pleasure meeting our members and serving as your League Chairman. 

As many of you who were there at the last shoot, I stepped down as the League Chairman. 

I introduced you to Mark Van Patten, who has been a huge help in putting on these shoots. He has already been in touch with me about coming years shoots. He has a real grasp of the weekends conflict to other club shoots, so as to not have you miss their shoots. 

I will still be around to help Mark as he takes the helm as you League Chairman. 

Brad Belvedere

ob.leagues@outlook.com

(951) 545-9462

2026 Calendar

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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