Kern County Gun Club

Foley wins HOA at Orlando Memorial; Wagoner claims first 100 in 20 gauge

Brian Foley, the reigning 12 gauge world champion, won HOA honors at the 2009 Orlando Memorial Shoot at the Poor Boy Skeet Range in Pumpkin Center. Foley posted a 396 to win high overall, followed by Kern County's Ben  Wagoner with a 394. Wagoner shot his first 100 straight in 20 gauge at the event. KCGC's Richard  Beene won HOA in B Class and Kern County's Mike Miles won HOA in D Class, while wife Cherie won Lady's Champ.

Win a Krieghoff trap shotgun and support our youth program

It's not every day you get a chance to win a world-class shotgun while doing something good to support our youth program, so here's your chance. Club manager Cyndi Benson is selling raffle tickets to win a K-80 trap combo (not the one shown in the photo but you get the picture) for just $75 each. It will be raffled off on July 24th. If Cyndi sells the ticket locally, half the proceeds go to our youth shooting program. Other clubs in the state also are participating but only 500 tickets will be sold. The K-80 is valued at $15,000! Contact Cyndi at 661-205-8569 or see her at the club to bu...

Brian Foley claims HOA championship at Desatoff-Pacific skeet tourney

Bakersfield's Brian Foley won the high overall championship at the Desatoff-Pacific Sporting Arms Open at the Kern County Gun Club May 15-17. Foley, who is a high school senior headed to Lindenwood University in the fall, outlasted Larry Sifers in a shootoff after they both posted 399s. Dan Jones was 3rd with a 398 and three shooters posted 397s: John Nugent, Richard Fukatsu and Mike Power. The tournament drew about 110 shooters under near perfect conditions at the club, even if the temperature did soar to around 105 on the final day Sunday. (click on headline to read full story) Ha...

Jimmy Heller wins Golden 400 trap shoot

Jimmy Heller took top honors at the all handicap Golden 400 trap shoot held at the Kern County Gun Club. Heller posted a 370 to end up as champion, with Allen Pinoli posting a 364 to take runnerup. Ruby Erwin won top lay shooter and Norm Etchinson top veteran. For complete results, go to "shoot results" in the yellow toolbar.

Donations sought for State Skeet Shoot raffle drawings

The California State Skeet Shooting Championships will be held here at the KCGC over the July Fourth weekend. It's certain to be a well attended shoot and  to help make it a success we're seeking donations for raffle prizes - anything from a few boxes of premium 410 bore shells to gift certificates (think Woolgrowers or Luigi's). These will be handed out during raffle drawings at the Saturday night Hall of Fame dinner. Contact Hal Stewart at the club if you have any items to donate.

Scholastic Clays: a year of accomplishments

 Our second year ended with much success this month. We had 46 kids that were involved faithfully this year which is an outstanding number. I hope to see more next year, we start our 3rd year in September. This is our 1st year with 2 teams going to the state shoot for trap. We also have our skeet teams returning to shoot state here at KCGC this year, we are very proud of all the kids. We have had a couple of kids that earned scholarships for college, and we would love to have more kids use the scholarship program. There are many thanks I would like to give, first to all the...

Scholastic Clays director Cyndi Benson reviews the year

 Our youth program ended in June on a positive note. It was a successful year during which dozens of kids participated from September through June. I'd like to thank all the kids and parents for taking the time to come out and participate. We enjoyed having you all here and we look forward to seeing you all again in September. I want to give a very special thanks to all of our coaches and all of our volunteers who helped make the program a success.  Of course we are always looking for volunteers (click on headline to read more), as well as donations to help pay for targets and ammo for the kids. If you are interesting in donating or volunteering contact me at 661-205-8569 or Charlie at 661=205-2914.   ;  Cyndi Benson, director KCGC Scholastic Clays