50 take part in Youth Field Day

For the past seven years, the 10 organizations that make up the Susquehanna County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs SCFSC hold a Youth Field Day (YFD).
These field days have been held on the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s National Hunting and Fishing Day on the 4th Saturday in September. National Hunting and Fishing Day brings together sportsmen and women to commemorate the rich tradition of fishing and hunting with national, state, regional and local organizations hosting fishing- and hunting-related events.
The 2017 YFD was held at the Canawacta Rod and Gun facility in northern Susquehanna County. This is the second year that the Canawacta group has opened up their grounds to host the SCFSC youth field day. The club owns a mountain top area with a three-quarter acre pond, pistol range, rifle range, two trap fields, 100 acres of forest and wildlife areas, and an updated clubhouse. These facilities make it an ideal area for the field day.
This year’s youth field day was attended by 50 youth and their parents. The youth took part in canoeing/kayaking, orienteering, shotgun safety talk and shooting at clay birds, 22 pistol/rifle safety and target shooting, BB gun shooting at turkey paper targets and a talk on the wild turkey and the National Wild Turkey Federation history in Pennsylvania.
This year the instructors at the various stations were: Shotgun station: Lou Mebus, John Ord, Steve Radicchi and Aaron Herbert; 22 Pistol/ rifle station: Greg Stewart, Fred Pittack and Lou Schreiner; Canoe/Kayak: Stan Rockwell; Orienteering: PGC Officers Rebuck and Raub; NWTF BB Gun turkey shoot – Jack Sorber, Michele Cuevas. Inside the clubhouse – Registration: Mike DePaola, Ed Smith, Delores Goodger and Bob Wagner, Kitchen: Stan Wojochowski, Ed Smith, Mike DePaola and friends.
This 10 clubs and organizations that make up the local Federation are: Canawacta Rod and Gun, Silver Lake Rod and Gun Club, Hallstead/Great Bend Rod and Gun Club, New Milford Rifle and Pistol, Rush/Middletown Sportsmen’s Assoc., Susquehanna County Snowmobilers Association, Blue Ridge Sportsmen’s Club, Pa. Trappers Association – District 9, Wilson F. Moore Memorial chapter of the National Wild Turkey Foundation and the Susquehanna Branch of the Quality Deer Management Association.
The Youth Field Day is attended by Wildlife Conservation Officers from the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Waterways Conservation Officers from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
Every meeting of the Susquehanna County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs begins with the Conservation Pledge: I give my pledge as an American to save and faithfully defend from waste the natural resources of my country – its soil, air, minerals, forests, water and wildlife.
Article submitted by Bob Wagner, SCFSC Secretary, Board member of the Wilson F. Moore Memorial chapter of the NWTF and the Susquehanna Branch of the Quality Deer Management Association.