Your Committee consists of 5 members plus our office bearers. Our committee holds monthly meetings to ensure the smooth running of your club and to improve the facilities for our members. Committee members are elected each year at our AGM held in October. Our Office bearers include:

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Captain
Vice Captain
Scorer

The Club Constitution can be downloaded here



With the invaluable help of our club Historian, the committee has established details of the TLMPC past presidents and life members and a suitable honour board has been prepared and is displayed in the clubhouse.



Well, the time has come to detail our club history, hopefully some images will follow soon.

The club started with a meeting in the Underwood Street Bar of the Tuggerah Lakes Memorial Club on a Sunday morning, the 12th of April, 1970.

Clarrie Sloman was elected President, Tom Lucas Vice President and Bill Paine Secretary.

We started shooting air pistol under Rodd Gardiner's house at Terrigal. He was a member of the Terrigal Club and later joined us. We eventually progressed (if you could call it that) to using Terrigal's Pistol Range one night a week. Terrigal had three bays UNDER the swimming pool at the old Florida Hotel at Terrigal.

We finally persuaded the Secretary Manager of the Memorial Club to give up his car parking space and work commenced on our Air Pistol Range. All the work was done voluntarily by our members. The worst job, we think, was jack-hammering out the concrete floor area leading up to the targets. That was originally a driveway leading down to the loading dock, so was very thick.

The next big hassle was getting the retractable target system, which we imported ourselves from Germany. All the correspondence back and forth was in German, so had to be translated.

It all finally came together, and at the time was the most modern and best equipped Air Pistol range in Australia, other ranges at the time having hand operated wind back targets.

We quickly settled in to our new facility, with one of our members, Bruce Tubnor, winning the State Championship in Air Pistol.

The brown and gold jackets were being seen at competition shoots all over the State, and it was quite often asked how we were winning so many trophies when we only had an air pistol range to shoot on. It only goes to prove the value of basic training with air pistol and also shooting away at other clubs in open shoots etc.

Negotiations were continuing for a site for an outdoor range. Three sites were investigated, one near the dam at Mardi; one near the tip at North Entrance, and one at Bellevue Road, Forresters Beach. The North Entrance site was actually levelled and prepared for us, as one of the dozer drivers on the sand mining operations, was a member of the club. The leasing arrangements fell through for this area and our present site at Bellevue Road was settled upon.

After years of hassles and red tape, etc, we finally moved in and started work on the toilet block and earthworks. Working bees were on just about every second Sunday. The Memorial Club supplied us with steaks and salads for a barbeque and a couple of cartons of beer, plus softdrinks FREE (They were the good old days!!)

The final design of the range was settled on after visiting many ranges throughout the State.

After much hard work, Range 1 was officially opened for shooting in September 1978. We started off with hand operated frames, that is, someone would stand in Bay 1 with a stop watch and push or pull a lever at the appropriate times to turn the targets. You could imagine the variation in timing, especially in the four second Rapid Fire.

As we progressed to Range 2, new frames were built and we stepped up to electronic timers.

The 50 Metre range 3 was then added, and the 25 Metre turning targets for this range were designed by Steve O'Donaghue.

When this range was finally completed we decided it was time the Club held an Open Shoot. So in 1984 (not exactly sure of the date) we tentatively stepped into our first Open, and haven't looked back. It is today, one of the most looked forward to shoots on the rolling calendar.

Over the years, we have had tremendous support from the Mother Club without whose help the club wouldn't be where it is today. We can hopefully look forward to many more years of good shooting.

Extract taken from the April 1990 club newsletter.