Out with 2007 & in with 2008!! As we look back a case of targets 4 years ago was $4.25, in January 2007 was $7.10 and today they are $8.20. Propane was $1.62 and today is $2.40 and climbing. We set out in 2007 scheduling 12 ATA Trap events, 7 Sporting Clays registered shoots, 1 Skeet Shoot and a MUCC State Championship weekend, as well as our league Fun Shoots, the Jim Schillaci Shoot, Pheasant Forever Youth Day and a segment on TV with Michigan Out of Doors covering the youth weekend.
It has been a very busy and fast paced year, all done with some awesome volunteers. The Board of Directors is always looking for ways to improve the club but most of all good people “the volunteers”, who will help carry the torch into 2008 with great enthusiasm as we have had this past year. New ideas and games are in the making as we speak. Already scheduled for 2008 are 7 ATA registered shoots, 6 sporting clays registered shoots, a registered skeet shoot, the Jim Schillaci Memorial shoot, Pheasants Forever Youth Day- June 7th, Delta Waterfowl Shoot-May 17th, and many fun shoots including our Wednesday mornings “Sporting Clays Clutch” headed up by our own David Bolen and Mark Trent, two of the mightest volunteers this year. Not a day goes by when someone is not at the club improving the grounds or just walking the course and shooting the automated sporting clays course.
By mid summer we will have an automated skeet & trap field in place where you can come and shoot the fields even when we are closed. Your club, your game, 7 days a week!! In 2007, Michigan United Conservations Club “MUCC” was contacted for a bid to host a state Sporting Clays shoot. Once arriving and seeing our facilities, we ended up being the first club ever to host a skeet, trap and sporting clays state championship in one weekend. With lots of planning, it went off without a hitch. Over 200 shooters and 200+ spectators, all the fields were full for 2 days. Camping sites were full and thanks to Don Ackerberg, we even had camping overflow and parking in his field. All from a simple idea “just try”.
And try we have to make and keep Seaway “West Michigan’s Premier Shotgun Sports Shooting Facility”. Late in the year we added a website thanks to Patrick Bowen. Patrick, one of our trappers at the time, studied web design in school. He came to us after hearing the board was looking for a web designer. Now up and running, www.seawaygunclub.com and you need to check it out!! So you think we are just another gun club…..well come out and get shooting as the birds are flying at Seaway!!

President – Dennis Blankenship – 893-4510
Vice President – Dave Bolen – 861-0307
Treasurer – Sharon Prus – 670-1647
Secretary – Mike Dykstra – 616-899-2644
Trustee – Mark Trent – 893-3720
Trustee – Mike Allen – 861-5858
Trustee – Frank Kinsley – 744-5536
Trustee – Jimmy Bronson– 744-2957