The Naperville Trapshooter
The Official Newsletter of The Naperville Sportsman’s Club
........Member/Board Meeting Date: 7:30 P.M. -June 13, 2006
June 2006 Issue
ATA Donation
President’s Message
In Honor of Dennis
New Board Member
I just wanted to let all of you know
that I collected $593 for the ATA Hall
of Fame. I rounded up and sent a
check for $600. Dennis will be listed
on the donation board at the Hall of
Fame, and the ATA Magazine will list
our contribution in an upcoming edition.
Thanks to all who contributed.
At the May Board of Directors meeting
Ron Tanski was unanimously selected to fill
the vacancy on the Board. I would like to
thank Ron for agreeing to serve on the Board.
...Scott Calhoun
Vice President & Webmaster
Father’s Day - June 18, 2006
Annual Dinner
Please don’t forget to mark your calendar
and RSVP for the Annual Dinner to be held
June 24, 2006. The party will start around 2:00 and dinner
will be around 5:00. You can RSVP by sending an email to
[email protected], by fax 630-717-0785 or
leave a note at the counter. Please tell us how many guests
will be attending. Barbecue on Wheels will provide a fabulous Pig Roast again. The menu will include Whole Roast
Suckling Pig with Boneless Pork Loin and BBQ Chicken
some Dogs and Pie. I’ll talk Fred into making his “famous”
Baked Beans. We will also have soda, lemonade, beer and
wine. Guests 11 and up will be $10.00. Children up to 10
will be free. As always members are covered by their annual
membership dues. We are prepared for another great party. I
hope to see you there!
Specail Work Party
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President’s Message ..................................... 1
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ATA Donation ............................................ 1
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The Fred Section......................................... 2
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Straight Runs .............................................. 2
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Wanted Classified ....................................... 2
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Club Info .................................................... 2
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Dates to Remember .................................... 2
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Reloading at Sportsman’s Park ..................... 3
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Shotgun Instructor Class ............................. 4
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Classifieds ................................................... 5
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Calendar ..................................................... 6
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What’s Inside
We will have a special work party on Sunday June 11th at
8:00 AM. We will be doing the routine maintenance on the
Pat-Traps and painting the Trap Houses. Everyone interested
in learning how the machines work should attend. We need
as many members as we can get to help with machine
maintenance and repair.
Open House Volunteers Needed
The Club needs a volunteer to co-chair the Open House
with Jay Spitz on Sunday September 17, 2006. I also need
every able bodied member to volunteer to help out that day.
Please call me or email me at
[email protected]. If you can only help
out for a couple of hours it will greatly help the cause. This is
the event that shows the community what we are all about.
We have had great turn outs in the past.
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The Fred Section
President’s Message continued
Members & Board Meeting
The next new member orientation (informal history and
workings of the club) will be at the club on Sunday June 25th
at 10:00 AM. Please RSVP to myself at 630-842-0391. The
Range Volunteer clinic will begin at 11:00 AM.
New Member Orientation
We’ll have our next members and board
meetings on Tuesday, June 13th starting at
7:30 PM. (Members’ meeting followed by the
board meeting.)All members are invited and
requested to attend both meetings. Doors
open at 7:00 PM.
...Jim Monk
President
...Fred Turek
Secretary
Straight Runs
Shooter’s List
Flag Day June 14, 2006
A clip board has been posted next to the shooter’s entrance at
the club for a listing of straight runs by shooters. When you
shoot 25, 50, or even 75 straight clays, fill out the date, your
name and number of targets on the lined sheet of paper and
we’ll post your name in the newsletter. There’s even a column
to log whether your series is a personal best. First shooter to get
100 straight gets a free patch on me! Jay Spitz is first on the list
with a 50! Who will be first to get 100???
...Joe Kuhn
Director
The Naperville Sportsman’s Club
Officers & Board Members
President: Jim Monk
Vice President: Scott Calhoun
Secretary: Fred Turek
Treasurer: Tom Coleman
Directors:
Aaron Harriman - ’06
Ron Tanski - ’06
Ed Heasley - ’07
Art Jablonski -’07
Bob Beyer -’08
Joe Kuhn - ’08
Park District Liaison: Brad Wilson
Newsletter Editor/Publisher: Rosemary Jendras
Club Information
The Naperville Sportsman’s Club
P.O. Box 27, Naperville, IL 60540
www.napervillesportsmansclub.org
Clubhouse Phone: 630-420-9816
Hours of Operation:
Thursdays: 6:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
Sundays: 12:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Final sign up at 4:00 P.M.
Board/Member Meetings: 7:30 P.M., 2nd Tuesday of every month
Wanted:
Remington 58, 12 ga. autoloader.
Contact Joe K at the club.
Dates to Remember 2006
Mark your calendars with these important dates!
Graduation Day - Club Closed
Member/Board Meeting
Annual Dinner
NPD Trap Fundamentals Class
Member/Board Meeting
Member/Board Meeting
NPD Trap Fundamentals Class
Open House
NPD Trap Fundamentals Class
6/1/2006
6/13/2006
6/24/2006
7/9/2006
7/11/2006
8/8/2006
8/13/2006
9/17/2006
10/8/2006
June 2006 Issue
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Reloading at Sportsman’s Park –
Update: VP60
There is a new name at Sportsman’s Park that many of
you can expect to hear a lot about very soon. His name is
Vagner, from the Vagner Plast Company of Denmark.
Vagner Plast is an injection molding company that since
1986 injects molten polymer into a mold, under pressure, to
produce shot shell wads. They use polyethylene, “which is
environmentally neutral,” according to the company
website. For the past several months, Joe K. has been
communicating with Ivan Vagner, the Managing Director
and Administrator of Vagner Plast, about providing an
alternative to the MG42 steel shot wad that NSC reloaders
have been using for several years. Communications have
been primarily through E-mail, with some rather rough
translation in the middle. Ivan Vagner is not coming to
shoot at Sportsman’s Park, but 120,000 of his wads are.
After examining Vagner’s product line, Joe K. and Art J.
expended considerable amounts of time, effort, money, and
brainpower to come up with some recipes to reload steel
shot with American powders and Vagner wads. Reloading
recipes will not be included in this article, but can be
obtained by talking to Joe or Art. Many thanks are due to
Art and Joe for their efforts, so please don’t forget to thank
them when discussing the new recipes, or when you pick up
your components. The Vagner wads have been reloaded by
Joe, Art, and I with very positive reviews. Below I will
summarize my reloading notes to compare the Vagner VP60
wad with the MG42 wad.
Outwardly, the VP60 is very
different than the Mg42. The
overall length of the VP60 is
slightly smaller, 50 thousandths of
an inch. The Vagner wad has 4
pre-slit petals with no ridges,
compared to the MG42’s two
petals with multiple ridges. The
VP60 petal slits are beveled.
Between the shot cup and the
powder cup the VP60 has straight
legs, compared to the oval cushion of the MG42. The
powder cup is taller on the VP60. Both wads have the same
external diameter.
Inwardly, both shot cups have an air vent to assist in petal
opening, four in the Mg42 and one in the VP60, and both
hold one ounce of steel shot. However, the VP60 has a shot
cup 50 thousandths of an inch deeper. The MG42 has four
plastic vertical ridges that protrude into the inside of the
shot cup at the base, forming a kind of hinge for the shot
cup petals, but the VP60 is smooth down to the base of the
shot cup. Both wads are non-tapered.
While these differences may seem very minor, they have
a big impact on how the wads function on a MEC 9000G
reloader. While the VP60 and the MG42 have the same
external diameter, the VP60 causes less rippling of the
completed shot shell. The MG42 causes at least three
ripples (see above), while the VP causes only one and
seems less pronounced (below).
This may be why the VP60 feels easier to insert on the
down-stroke. The oval cushion between the shot cup and
the powder cup on the MG42 is very easily compressed,
leading to a high incidence of the powder cup going into
the hull slightly crooked. The more rigid, straight, and
short legs of the VP60 are far more resistant to compression, and I did not observe a single crooked powder cup in
the first batch of 120 shot shells.
The slightly shorter overall length and the slightly
deeper shot cup means that the VP60 will have greater
clearance between the rammer tube and the wad guide on
a MEC 900G. The 50 thousandths of an inch shorter
length, added to the 50 thousandths of an inch deeper
shot cup, combines to give the VP60 one tenth of an inch
greater clearance over the wad guide, resulting in easier
placement on the MEC.
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Reloading Update continued
At the time of this writing, the VP60’s are expected to cost
under $28 per thousand wads, compared to about $38 per
thousand on our last order of MG42’s.
But how do they shoot? So far, I haven’t noticed any difference in performance between the two wads, but I have not
patterned the VP60. Perhaps if we can get the VP60’s into the
hands of some of our league-leading shooters like Bob A. or
Scott C., we could get an honest appraisal. But until then, I
will continue to use up the last of my MG42 wads and anticipate the arrival of the Vagners. And don’t forget to thank Art
and Joe for all their efforts!
If your wad guide fingers are going into the hull more
than 1/8 of an inch, greater force can be needed to insert
the wad, and accelerated crimp wear may also result. Here
is your chance to raise the wad guide due to the extra
clearance. How far into the hull are your wad guide fingers
going? Well, it’s not easy to see when the handle has been
pulled down. However, you can see how far below the top
of the crimp petals the outside bottom of the wad guide is.
The wad guide fingers are 1/8 of an inch higher than the
outside bottom of the wad guide, so the outside bottom of
the wad guide should be _ of an inch below the top of the
crimp petals.
If you are using a 12 gauge steel shot rammer tube
instead of a 16 gauge rammer tube, you are going to notice
a lot more clearance between the rammer tube and the wad
guide with the VP60. This is because the MG42 has those
four ridges inside the shot cup that prevent a 12 gauge steel
shot rammer tube from going completely into the shot cup
by about 0.2 inches. Since the VP60 does not have them,
you will see 0.3 inches of increased clearance (0.1 inches
due to the dimensions of the VP60, plus 0.2 due to the
lack of the ridges). Use that extra clearance to raise your
wad guide, since I am certain that you had to lower it too
much to accommodate the MG42 wad when you set up
your MEC9000G for MG42’s. The difference can be seen
below:
...Tom Krolick
NSC Member
Shotgun Instructor Class
Perhaps due to all the above, the VP60 wads seem to
crimp better. I have noticed less doming of the crimp, and
it is easier to get a deeper crimp. Combined with the easier
insertion into the hull, and less outward rippling, it is easy
to see why many reloaders would want to switch to the
VP60. If that weren’t enough to make you consider
switching, the cost will be lower than the MG42’s as well.
We are looking for people who are interested in
taking a NRA certified Shotgun Instructor Class to be
held at NSC. Cost is approximately $120 for the
course and takes two days. We need at least 10 people
to schedule the class.
We always need certified instructors to help with
the Trap Fundamentals classes and the Open House.
Help a new shooter learn how to shoot safely and
enjoy the shooting sports.
If interested. please call Ed Heasley at 630-3573640.
....Ed Heasley
NSC Director
June 2006 Issue
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JUNE 2006
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MONDAY
TUESDAY
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
SATURDAY
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Club Open
6-10PM
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Club Open
6-10PM
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Club Open
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Club Closed
HS Graduation
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Club Open
12-6PM
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Club Open
12-6PM
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Father’s Day
Club Open
12-6PM
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Club Open
12-6PM
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NSC Board
& Member
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Members welcome
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Flag Day
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Club Open
6-10PM