Membership Meetings
Meetings are held the 3rd Monday of the month. Please try to attend & offer your voice & ideas. This is your club! Meet your fellow enthusiasts.
Next meetings: 4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20 @ 7:30pm
Membership
In order to maintain our current level of lavish lifestyle at the club, we will need to increase our dues by $5.00 every other year over the next 10 years until we have increased the current membership by $25.00 to $100.00 per year.
This is because of a myriad of reasons and, as staunch Conservatives, we blame these increases solely at the feet of Kathy Hochul; however, to our Liberal members, we acquiesce that Donald Trump may share possible blame for some of this. Our diminishing membership role is not helping either.
Regardless, I recall the words of a wise contractor when I told him the price of roofing was going up. “They only go one way!” That was true 40 years ago and still holds true today.
One thing you can know about your membership dues. We are doing our best to keep our costs down. Fixing the heating duct up in the attic, changing out the lights with more efficient LED lighting, and Isabelle negotiating down our electric bill have also saved costs. The calendar and raffle tickets are important to help cover our expenses, so sell those tickets please.
How to Earn Credits Towards Your Membership Dues (max. 25 points):
- Meeting Attendance – 1 point for each meeting attended
- Work Details – 1 point for each hour of work
- Equipment (brought to work detail) – 1 point for each hour used
- Elected Officer – 5 points
- Committee Chairman – 5 points
- Monthly Chairman (work detail, meeting dinner) – 3 points + work
- Delegates (Federation, 1791) – 2 points + 1 point for each meeting attended
- Tickets – 1 point for every 10 Gun Raffle Tickets sold / 1 point for every 3 Lottery Calendars sold
Each point is $1 off your next year’s membership dues!
Requirements for members in good standing:
- Must have current paid up dues card
- Purchase and or sell Gun Raffle tickets 5 minimum
- Purchase and/or sell Calendars 5 minimum
- Attend monthly meetings on the third Monday of each month @ 7:30 PM
- If not an NRA Member, fill out a form to renew through the club (we receive a rebate from NRAfor each new/renewed membership)
- Fill out an insurance waiver form
Membership applications can be printed from the BVCS web site https://bostonvalleycs.com. Marc Kerr, our membership chairman, may be reached at membership.bvcs@gmail.com.
What's Happening @ Your Club?
Spring Cleaning
We will be meeting at the club on Saturday, April 11th at 9am (until finished or 1:00pm) to clean and organize for the Appreciation Dinner on the following Saturday (April 18).
Indoor: kitchen, bar, restrooms, main area, and pistol range clean up.
Outdoor (depending on the weather): pick up debris, rake rocks, rebuild backstop at rifle range, and dig or open trenches to allow drainage of the rifle range.
Incentives for attending: baked goods, coffee, juice in the AM. Hot Dogs for lunch.
Text your name to my cell 716-583-3612 to let me know you are coming. If you have yard hand tools, bring for yourself.
Dave Rood
President.
Appreciation Dinner
Saturday, April 18, 2026 – at the BVCS Clubhouse
6:00pm Appetizers & Cocktails
7:00pm Dinner
Tickets: $15 per person
Contact Isabelle Schmitt ASAP if interested in attending (716-941-3877 call or text / samwrph@icloud.com)
Basket Auction: Baskets/auction items would be greatly appreciated. Contact Sharon Kerr if you have one to donate (716-462-0218 call or text / celticgal23@gmail.com)
Gun Raffle
The drawing for the currently-running gun raffle will be held at the April club meeting on Monday, April 20. First Prize is a choice of $600 gift certificate to S&S Taxidermy (to apply however you’d like) OR $500 in cash. Second Prize is $50 in cash. So, please sell as many as you can and make sure the ticket stubs are turned in on or before April 20. Tickets are available at the BVCS clubhouse.
BVCS Apparel
The on-line store for BVCS clothing was closed at the end of February and will reopen in a couple of months. So, when you swap your lighter Spring clothing for your heavy Winter clothes in your closet, check out what you might need from the on-line store! We’ll keep you posted on when it will reopen.
Open Pistol Shooting
Tuesday nights; doors open @ 7pm. Members’ range fee is $5 and nonmembers’ fee is $10 per night. All are welcome but we encourage frequent non-members to become members and support the club. Please be aware that non-members must fill out a one-time waiver. Forms are on hand at the range.
Trap
The Spring Trap league started on Sunday March 22nd. We have 2 hopes: good weather & many shooters.
Trap person: Ernie
Young Guns
For information on Young Guns contact Howard Hoelscher at 716-445-2423.
Website
Please check it out as it has the newsletter, additional postings and other information. https://bostonvalleycs.com
Newsletter
The next Newsletter will be out in July; deadline for information will be June 30th, 2026. Please email information you would like to have published, or to add/edit/remove your email address, to Ryan Rosiek at ryan.rosiek@gmail.com. A copy of the current newsletter will be posted at the club.
Elected Officials
Hon. Charles Schumer, U.S. Senate, 716-846-4111
Hon. Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senate, 716-854-9725
Hon. Chris Jacobs, U.S. Congress, 716-634-2324
Hon. Kathy Hochul, Governor, 518-474-8390
Hon. Letitia James, Attorney General, 716-853-8400
Hon. Thomas DiNapoli, Comptroller, 518-474-4044
Hon. Patrick Gallivan, NY Senate, 716-656-8544
Hon. Timothy Kennedy, NY Senate, 716-826-2683
Hon. David DiPietro, NY Assembly, 585-786-0190
Hon. Patrick Burke, NY Assembly, 716-608-6099
Hon. Mark Poloncarz, County Executive, 716-858-8500