New hunting club member

rondoleanu

hy i am looking to join a hunting club so i can apply for my licence to garda and i am living in kilkenny city but at the moment i dont find a club that wants to take me as a member if there is somebody that can help me to become a member of hunting club anywhere in ireland i will pay all the fees for one year to the club i just want to apply faster for my licence

Eliot Rosewater

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bunny shooter

rondoleanu wrote: »

............... i will pay all the fees for one year to the club i just want to apply faster for my licence

And after year 1 will you be prepared to pay all the club fees?

kildare.17hmr

nargc.ie they will send you a list of all the clubs in your area

terminator2

...on what grounds did your local gun club refuse you,you never mentioned.....are you irish

Dusty87

bunny shooter wrote: »

And after year 1 will you be prepared to pay all the club fees?

can see where your goin:):)

bunny shooter

terminator2 wrote: »

...on what grounds did your local gun club refuse you,you never mentioned.....

Was probably obvious what his intentions actually are, 'cause they are to me from his opening post

This is happening in my area a lot. One club in particular are letting in anyone just to get more money from them to fill the club coffers. Then, these lads get guns and shoot the ****e out of EVERYTHING and permission or club territory don't bother them :mad:

clivej

rondoleanu wrote: »

hy i am looking to join a hunting club so i can apply for my licence to garda and i am living in kilkenny city but at the moment i dont find a club that wants to take me as a member if there is somebody that can help me to become a member of hunting club anywhere in ireland i will pay all the fees for one year to the club i just want to apply faster for my licence

What type of gun are you getting that will make a difference. If it's 22lr or shotgun then I have phone number that you could try.

pmac77

heres just a thought, why not join a gun club for the reason of getting involved in the club ie. vermin control, game rearing etc. its only if members will do these things that we will have clubs.

sorry about my rant but your licence is for 3 years, after your first year in the club and you dont renew your membership, the club tells the law that you are not a member and have no insurance, permission to shoot on club lands, and the garda comes and revokes your licene.

terminator2

no reply from on dole guy.......joining gun club for all the wrong reasons i guess....and getting slaughtered here:D

jap gt

terminator2 wrote: »

no reply from on dole guy.......joining gun club for all the wrong reasons i guess....and getting slaughtered here:D

there is talk of our club having new members pay 3 years membership, starting this year, not sure if it will happen but i think its a good idea

cavan shooter

jap gt wrote: »

there is talk of our club having new members pay 3 years membership, starting this year, not sure if it will happen but i think its a good idea

We are not going down that road but 5 people didnt re join this year and it has been decided that if these look to rejoin when the licences are due they will be charged for the full three years, one guy suggested they pay for the arrears.

bunny shooter

cavan shooter wrote: »

We are not going down that road but 5 people didnt re join this year and it has been decided that if these look to rejoin when the licences are due they will be charged for the full three years, one guy suggested they pay for the arrears.

Proper order! and you should notify local Super he/she might 'encourage' them to pay up or loose their firearms

cavan shooter

bunny shooter wrote: »

Proper order! and you should notify local Super he/she might 'encourage' them to pay up or loose their firearms

We have done that and guess what.............:(

bunny shooter

cavan shooter wrote: »

We have done that and guess what.............:(

I know :rolleyes:, but worth a try One of my clubs is charging for membership & NARGC contribution/s missed (nice bit of money for club kitty ), another is refusing re-admission to club

cavan shooter

We will let anyone into the club no hassel, subject to a couple of provisios which I have said before, but in year 2 of a three year cycle you decide not to rejoin then its either going to be very expensive for you next time or you can go away.

I wrote to all members who didnt re insure in line with Advises from the NARGC and then sent a copy of our updated membership to the Barracks, Thats all anyone can do. I do notice however that Lads are becoming very cynical of lads wanting to join which isn't good

bazza888

alot of genuine guys would be priced out of the sport if 3years membership had to be paid in advance with the way things are!i understand about charging for arrears if someone only joins every 3years just for alicense.

terminator2

cavan shooter wrote: »

We will let anyone into the club no hassel, subject to a couple of provisios which I have said before, but in year 2 of a three year cycle you decide not to rejoin then its either going to be very expensive for you next time or you can go away.

I wrote to all members who didnt re insure in line with Advises from the NARGC and then sent a copy of our updated membership to the Barracks, Thats all anyone can do. I do notice however that Lads are becoming very cynical of lads wanting to join which isn't good

our club did the same ,we handed a list of current gun club members into our local garda stn ,to stop lads doing exactly what you were saying CS

cavan shooter

bazza888 wrote: »

alot of genuine guys would be priced out of the sport if 3years membership had to be paid in advance with the way things are!i understand about charging for arrears if someone only joins every 3years just for alicense.

No we don't expect anyone to pay in advance unless you originally joined to get membership to cover the licence and then in year two decided not to join. In short its a big FO.

In fact with two of our members we took the €80 membership (including NARGC fund) in installments, its the sign of the times. We are loosing a good member to the sunnier climes of down under shortly:(

bazza888

ah iwas thinking it would be round 300 or more to joing the gun club,thats what it is round these parts.80e is great price!i can see yourproblem now!

jap gt

300 is mental money, its 100 here, id say some clubs are still going by the boom years

Dupont

its 80 here i think and most of that goes to nargc i think but there is no vermin competition, pheasant rearing or nothing and i would love to be at it but 300 is some price to be paying

bazza888

ididnt pay it as i had other lads tell me theres cost 100 -120,i think they just didnt want people join when i asked!

cavan shooter

Dupont wrote: »

its 80 here i think and most of that goes to nargc i think but there is no vermin competition, pheasant rearing or nothing and i would love to be at it but 300 is some price to be paying

€50 is your insurance €30 is the clubs bit, we get in €1200 a year in membership fees every now and again we will have a draw and push the kitty up a couple of grand. we will split the monies with the local charities/school

You dont need mega bucks to have a good working club.

A club is only as good as its members.

In our club (Your €30 gets you)

150 poults a year put out, (not many but enough to keep the numbers up alternate 2/3 cocks all cocks. Sometimes too many hens are a bad thing, older females not letting younger ones bread.

Since christmas we have been shooting foxes every Sunday except last.
We have the usual 1st September and 1st November competitions.
Mixed bag twice over christmas (assist getting the grub for the game night)
we are running a game to eat night in March.
We have 3 annual club shoots a year (More actually because the main clay shooters go to flappers and CSI shoots, practice for county shoot etc) and I keep the scores/league.

Ongoing vermin competition 2 cartridges for each mag, grey, etc etc.
(not much you say but at least your getting a couple of boxes of shells)

43 members on a good day 20 will turn up, and thats a good day.

I am also a member of a club where membership only is €80 and another where I pay €20

Hunter21

Im not shooting long, but joined a club this year. Thinking of not re-newing membership next season as the way I was treated by club officials on power trips was way out of line. Constant hassle from them.
I joined the club with the intention of putting work in with them and getting on and stay a member for many years.

Id feel hard done by if I decided to leave and a club official went to the guards saying I wa sin breach of my licence rules. I didnt just join the club for my licence. If some hierarcy in some clubs acted in a decent manner more people might be fond of the club as the club was a good sociable thing for the individual. I can honestly say my club is far from a friendly bunch! :mad:

Dusty87

Hunter21 wrote: »

Im not shooting long, but joined a club this year. Thinking of not re-newing membership next season as the way I was treated by club officials on power trips was way out of line. Constant hassle from them.
I joined the club with the intention of putting work in with them and getting on and stay a member for many years.

Id feel hard done by if I decided to leave and a club official went to the guards saying I wa sin breach of my licence rules. I didnt just join the club for my licence. If some hierarcy in some clubs acted in a decent manner more people might be fond of the club as the club was a good sociable thing for the individual. I can honestly say my club is far from a friendly bunch! :mad:

what kind of hassle?? Maybe the club would feel hard done by too, thinking you just joined for the licence. Im in a club, but dont have it as my reason for owning the guns. So i can leave no problem.

bunny shooter

Hunter21 wrote: »

Im not shooting long, but joined a club this year. Thinking of not re-newing membership next season as the way I was treated by club officials on power trips was way out of line. Constant hassle from them.
I joined the club with the intention of putting work in with them and getting on and stay a member for many years.

Id feel hard done by if I decided to leave and a club official went to the guards saying I wa sin breach of my licence rules. I didnt just join the club for my licence. If some hierarcy in some clubs acted in a decent manner more people might be fond of the club as the club was a good sociable thing for the individual. I can honestly say my club is far from a friendly bunch! :mad:

If you have the club as your "good reason" and you leave unless you have another "good reason" namely written permission/s from some landowner/s and/or membership of an authorised club/range etc your licence could be revoked.

You're giving your side. We don't have the "other" side so hard to know if you're the 'victim'.

You're saying you won't rejoin not that they're kicking you out. Lots of clubs are simply clubs in name only. Basically just a group of lads/ladies who use it to get NARGC insurance.

You don't have to be in a club to do vermin control, raise birds etc. I do my own thing and if the clubs I'm in do something I do that as well.

rondoleanu

clivej wrote: »

What type of gun are you getting that will make a difference. If it's 22lr or shotgun then I have phone number that you could try.

It is a semiautomatic shotgun Benelli Super Vinci and i would appreciate if you could help me to join a hunting club. Thanks.