2017-06-27 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – June 27, 2017 TS: For each discipline a 40 x 40’ ft area would be ideal because we’d like to run them simultaneous. And then we have everything. We have all the target stands, back drops, everything so thanks to Jon and Wild Turkey Federation they jumped in and donated ten bows right off the top so that got us started there and then Friends of NRA donated the air rifles and we’re just responsible for the targets and pellets and we got the backdrops – everything was sponsored by the Friends of NRA. KD: Is finding the facility a concern? At Kau High School, students use the gym. TS: There are concerns about finding a place. Some schools use the eaves of the gym and it’s not safe due to the wind factor. Other schools use their gym but the gym is also used for other sports activity. For next year, Waiakea gym maybe a possibility but may pose as a dangerous sport activity with other folks bringing in rifles to the school setting. Will need to talk to Tommy Correa. NP: I wanted to say I appreciate the safe use of firearms – responsible – cause I remember my son and paint ball guns and nobody was teaching these kids. They’d go out and shoot each other and come home with giant welts. They weren’t nearly as safe. Yeah, a good mission. TL: We’ll work with you a little bit more. I’ll spend a little more time with you on this but we definitely would like to support this completely. And you’re around the island too, right. TS: Yes. Right now we’re looking for something on the East side just because that’s where everybody’s at here – with the committee and stuff – but we’d like to expand it more. That’s why we’re trying to look for a central location so we can get at least Hamakua and Puna, part of Kau to come. It might be a little more difficult for the Kona side but that’s why we’re having it this first time – it starts July 13 and it’s on a Thursday. The first one will be just for kids to come in – we’re gonna have just a kind of a fun shoot just a little bit of class and safety and get them to try to shoot little bit – see if they like it and if they’re interested then we’re gonna enroll them in 4-H and then we’ll have some classroom and discussions and then things like that and then the program will move on from there. After that, every Thursday will be practice st and then we’ll have a competition shoot on the 31. So it’s gonna be a short season – just capture them for that month and a half. TL: Air rifle shoots are a huge business. WJC: Is this something that they can go on to a national level? TS: Oh, yes. State then National. 5