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fubar said:There are 1500 members , i had to get 2 members to vouch for me to join , I don't think you can just walk in.
Outdoor 100 yard rifle , outdoor pistol , indoor pistol , Big outdoor archery range with "stands" , indoor archery , a blackpowder scene I don't know about , a woods course for archery , trap & skeet ranges , plate shooting , stocked fish pond. Various classes - like fly tying, etc.
Lots of older retired men , Lots of blue collar "younger" guys like me ( 41) haven't seen one woman there yet , very friendly bunch of people. I don't think there's a Democrat in the bunch.
dwarven1 said:Danvers also has a great Game Supper each January; I have a friend who invites me each year. Not being a hunter yet (although I'm hoping to remedy that this year), I appreciate the opportunity for some Boo-boo Stew and Roast Bambi. One year they had elk chops... I don't think I've ever tasted ANYTHING that good before or since.
My Masonic Lodge has a Venison collation each year at the March meeting. Seems that one of our Past Masters has a son who works for Mass Fish & Wildlife and gets to get some of the poached (and confiscated) venison from him. He makes up a nice big pot for the Lodge, so I do get Bambi stew once a year.
Ross
Martlet said:What Lodge?
KMaurer said:My youngest brother is a fire captain with California Department of Forestry. A few years back he had a rural station that had the only walk-in freezer in the vecinity. (Neither of us have the slightest idea how that came about.) As a result the game wardens would drop in all the confiscated deer and black bear, as well as the occasional sheep or elk, that they'd confiscated from illegal hunters. At one point they had about 600 pounds of meat in the freezer, even after significant portions of the best stuff had mysteriously vanished at the end of shift.
Ken