Questions & Answers
Just exactly
HOW does the membership fee system work?
It works like this. Memberships
are on a fiscal year from October to September. Everyone's
membership begins in October
and ends the following September. We prorate the fees if someone
joins or renews their membership somewhere in the middle
of the year. Fees are prorated by quarter (three month
periods of time). The first quarter of the membership year is the
autumn.
The months of October, November and December. The second quarter
of the membership year is the winter. The months of
January, February and March. The third quarter of the membership
year is spring with the months of April, May and June.
The fourth quarter of the membership year is summer with the months of
July, August and September.
You pay $21 for each quarter of the year that you belong. Joining
or renewing in the autumn costs the full year fee of $84.
Joining or renewing in the winter costs $63 (three quarters at $21
each). Joining or renewing in the spring costs $42
(two quarters at $21 each). Joining or renewing in the
summer costs $63 (one quarter at $21).
(All members are also required to be current
members of the National Rifle Association. We do this for
insurance purposes.
Before joining the Club, we need your NRA number and expiration date.
If you are already an NRA member, simply show
us your card or the label on the NRA magazine that you receive.
You can join the NRA through us, but it will be at the
full price of $35 for one year. If you need to join the NRA,
we suggest that you first try them online. Sometimes, they
offer a discount.)
What is the Club money used for?
Half of all dues collected are used
for the range rebuilding program. The rest of the money is
used for regular range
maintenance, water bills, electric bills, newsletter and postage and so
on.
What about
this newsletter?
The Pharr Rifle & Pistol Club, Inc. has a newsletter that is mailed to
all members four times a year. It is mailed out at the
end of each quarter. The new newsletter provides information
for the next quarter coming up. For example, the spring
newsletter is mailed out at the end of March. Inside the spring
newsletter are all known details for the Club for April, May
and June. The newsletter front page has written information of
interest. The other three pages are a calendar. The
calendar lists dates and times of Club events and meetings. We
also list known gun shows and interesting dates in
history.
The summer newsletter is mailed
out at the end of June. It is special because it always
contains the first membership
renewal notice for the next Club year. We give you plenty of
time, three months, to renew without losing any range time.
The fall newsletter is mailed out at the end of September. This is a very important newsletter. Inside the fall
newsletter will be your new membership card and key OR another
membership notice.
Another
membership notice? What's that all about?
It's about responsibility. There are three things that you
have to do in order to get your key to the range every year.
# 1 - Turn in a completed membership form. A form
that can be read. If we can't read it, how are we going to
know
who you are?
# 2 - Pay the membership fee.
# 3 - Attend the required safety reorientation course.
Doing one or two of the requirements above will NOT get you a key.
You have to do all three.
Okay,
what is this "required safety reorientation course". I'm a
safe shooter. I've been shooting all my life.
Agreed. However, we have the duty of documenting that every
person who has a key to the range has been duly
instructed in basic firearms safety. It is NOT cool to go 20
years between safety courses. At our range, you are
required to do our safety course every year. Everybody's busy,
we know that. So, we offer the course at every
membership session. Membership sessions are held three times a
month. Before each session begins, you are
required to PRINT you name on a log in the "red book". If your
name is not in the "red book" then you will not be
given a key. Those who do not enter their name in the "red
book" will have to repeat the course...at a later date.
So,
when are the membership sessions held and at what time?
* First Sundays of each month at the range at 1:00PM. Be
early. If you show up even a couple of minutes late
you will be asked to come back at a later date. We don't mean
to be rude, but we have very strict rules. After
all, these are REAL guns that we are using. We don't slide any
rules. That includes start times for membership
sessions.
* Third Sundays of each month at the range at 1:00PM.
* First Tuesdays of each month at the Pharr Kiwanis Club building in
Pharr.
The building is at the corner of Bluebonnet and W. Park. Right
across the street from the Pharr Post Office.
You can find it easily. Go to Glick Twins. Then drive
east for a couple of blocks to Bluebonnet.
Turn south on Bluebonnet. Drive for one short block.
There you are.
Where
is the Club shooting range?
The shooting range is at 600 E. Rancho Blanco Road in Pharr.
Well, almost in Pharr. We're officially in the county,
but Pharr is across the street.
Directions from Hwy 281:
* Go to the City of Pharr.
* Drive south on Highway 281.
* You will pretty much leave the city.
* Look for "The Plantation" housing development on your left.
* Turn left at the next blinking light...Rancho Blanco Rd.
* Drive straight for 3/4 mile.
* We're on the right.
Directions
from Veterans Blvd:
* Go to the City of Pharr.
* Drive south on Highway 281.
* Turn left on Moore Rd...located north of Rancho Blanco.
* Drive straight until you get to Veterans Blvd, ("I": Rd.).
* Turn right...there is a stop light at this corner.
* Drive straight until the road veers upwards and turns right.
* When the road turns right it also turns into Rancho Blanco.
* We're up ahead a short jog on the left.
And
when I'm at the range...how am I expected to behave?
Good question, even if I did write it myself. The answer:
* You behave according to the procedures laid out in the safety
orientation.
* You control the muzzles of any firearm in your
possession...remember the 180!
* You share the range with everyone else.
* You don't ricochet...ever.
* You shoot so that every round that you fire ends up in the bullet
stop.
* You use eye and ear protection.
* You DON'T act like a selfish oaf simply because there's no one
there to call you on it.
Shooting is half safety and half courtesy. Unless you have
both we don't want you.
If you have nothing good to do, don't do it here.
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