Open letter from CNSCA president

[hnachaj1]

Your CNSCA board of directors would like to welcome you to the 2024 season with a bit of an update.

Your new board of directors used the 2023 shooting season to transfer and understand roles from the previous board, spend some time going to different shoots across the provinces that they hadn’t been to, acquaint themselves with local club needs, (which are different everywhere) and spent considerable time updating the Leaderboard functions to make it more and more useful to club and shooter needs.

Although we didn’t manage to get to every club, collectively, we have learned a lot, and have a better handle on why some things work better in some markets, and why some things don’t work so well in others. We’ve identified some weaknesses and some strengths in our systems and plan to work on exploiting the good parts and re-work the sluggish bits. We’ve got a number of new things we’re considering, and we’ll share those when we are ready.

We had planned to communicate this 2024 opening letter using regular mail, however we found that the mailing database has not been updated and isn’t current. This email gives us a chance to request an update to confirm your current mailing address. Please respond to this email with a current phone number, mailing address and current email so we can update our records.

Having said that, we will be utilizing our current digital mediums to communicate information to the membership. We already have a website and a Facebook page which we will use to provide any new information you need to know.

We intend the website and Facebook page to be information delivery spaces only at this time, but any director will be happy to take a call or email and communicate directly with you if you have any questions or comments about information provided. Remember, we’re all volunteers and don’t have a lot of time to engage in public online debate forums.

Hiring someone for communications may make some sense in the future, but until our growth pattern and membership numbers justify it, we’ll just simply be focused on delivering information about things we are doing and upcoming events.

One of our main focuses, going forward, is to bring more shooters into CNSCA and we are working on some some incentive programs that will be announced in the not-too-distant future.

Part of our growth platform includes bringing Eastern Canada back into the fold. There used to be a strong CNSCA presence out east, and we have been working behind the scenes to re-connect and re-establish that relationship. We hope to see some CNSCA shoots in the calendar at some point in the 2024 season.

Somewhat tied into that, is the fact that we have been working hard on behalf of CNSCA, to bring the World English Sporting Clays Championship to Canada in 2025. This is a prestigious world class event hosting a possible 400 shooters from all over the world that will certainly elevate CNSCA not only on the world stage, but all across Canada. In 2013, this event was held in Galt, Ontario and it looks like it will likely be held there in 2025. This will significantly help strengthen our East/West relationship going forward. Dates and details will be provided when known, but pencil in “sometime in mid-August 2025” for now.

In terms of dates for 2024, it’s a bit early but many clubs are now entering shoots into the CNSCA calendar online. One main event that we know of now and have been working toward is the 2024 CNSCA Nationals. This year they will be held either side of and through the August long weekend in Vancouver at Vancouver Gun Club. This shoot coincides with Vancouver Gun Club’s 100th Anniversary so you can expect this to be a major event.

We’re hoping to engage/train more clubs in the use of Leaderboard and the CNSCA calendar to publish shoots and track scores for league and CNSCA Registered shoots. Leaderboard has become a valuable tool for those clubs who are using it and uptake is beginning to increase. If you want to explore this for your club, contact one of the board members and we’ll set you up.

Speaking of your CNSCA board, you have 12 people working on your behalf, in various roles in different provinces. If you have any questions you can connect with any one of the directors through the CNSCA website where their contact info is held.

Name/Position/Prov
Fraser Campbell - (President) (BC)
Paul Trommler - (Vice President) (AB)
Candis Endresen - (Treasurer) (AB)
Tiffany Sprenkels - (Secretary) (BC)
Joe Schemenauer - (Past President) (SK)
Jason Willis – Director (BC)
Ron Nemecek – Director (BC)
Allan Duan – Director (AB)
Kate Hadley – Director (SK)
Brian Domney – Director (SK)
Henry Nachaj Director (QC)
Vacant – Director (ON)

In closing, 2024 looks like it’s going to be a very busy year, and we hope that you all have a great and safe season.

On behalf of the CNSCA board of directors we wish to also thank each and every one of you for remaining a CNSCA member through whatever time you have been connected. We really appreciate your support. It makes the effort your board members collectively put out, worth it.

Visit the CNSCA website and Facebook pages from time to time for updates.

Cheers;


Fraser Campbell
President, CNSCA
president@cnsca.ca
On behalf of the entire board of directors

 

[Pete G]

Henry, as you know, Quebec sporting clay shooters have little if any chance to shoot a CNSCA event. We do, however, shoot NSCA events south of the border and in Ontario. Is there any chance that our NSCA results could be accepted and entered in the CNSCA data base results even if the event was held in the USA ?

 

[salter]

Henry, as you know, Quebec sporting clay shooters have little if any chance to shoot a CNSCA event. We do, however, shoot NSCA events south of the border and in Ontario. Is there any chance that our NSCA results could be accepted and entered in the CNSCA data base results even if the event was held in the USA ?

It didn't get explained in any detail in the open letter but there is no reason why sporting clays clubs in Quebec can't host a CNSCA shoot. The requirements are minimal and straight forward. Why not become part of a Canadian organization. Your target fees and annual dues remain in Canada to help grow the sport and part of the target fees paid to CNSCA are paid back to the provincial sporting clays organization (if there is one). This works well in Western Canada, no reason that it won't work in the remainder of Canada as well.

 

[Pete G]

salter, last season I believe there were only two registered sporting clays events held in QC. There had not been any registered sporting at all for several years prior to those two shoots last season. Quebec shooters who wish to shoot registered sporting clays have been travelling to Ontario or USA for the past 10 or 15 years as far as I know.

 

[hnachaj1]

A Canadian National or Canadian regional is for Canadians and not a foreign entity. To shoot a World English, one has had to shoot CANADIAN targets sanctioned by a CANADIAN recognized shooting association. If one wishes to shoot Internationally, one has to be a member of a CANADIAN shooting association and not a foreign entity. This has worked for me for nearly 30 years. I have carried the Canadian flag at International and foreign events more than any Canadian sporting or FITASC shooter as a member of a Canadian clay shooting association.

 

[Westward1]

I have great respect for your national pride and unwavering support for the Canadian Sporting organizations Henry. Unfortunately, those feelings are not shared by a large number of Canadian Sporting shooters and as a result we are in a state of divisive dysfunction in Canada when it comes to Sporting competition. I wish the most sincere good luck to anyone pursuing a solution to the situation.

 

[Rob!]

Thanks for the update. I'll just keep supporting both organizations that promote our sport in Canada. Appreciate all you do.

 

[pauls]

Forgive my ignorance as I've only been serious about clays for a couple years now, but I've never heard of the CNSCA before this thread.

I'm registered for the world sporting in New Jersey this May, and for the world FITASC in Wisconsin in June.

What is the CNSCA, and how would my ability to register for events outside of Canada be any different if I had heard of them before today?

 

[Westward1]

The World Sporting in New Jersey is a shoot that the CPSA from England and the NSCA from the US hold every year. Its location alternates between the US and England. This shoot has no connection to any Canadian association. The FITASC Sporting World shoot in Wisconsin is regulated by the FITASC organization out of France and shooters register as members of their respective countries association, which in Canada’s case is the CCTSF (Canadian Clay Target Sports Federation). I am not certain, but it may be possible for a Canadian member of the NSCA to register for a FITASC Sporting shoot through that association. The World shoot the CNSCA (Canadian National Sporting Clay Association) is pursuing is the ICTSF Worlds that is held every three years. The ICTSF (International Clay Target Shooting Federation) is an organization that includes most of the world’s clay shooting associations but not NSCA, which only recognizes the CPSA/NSCA Sporting Worlds.