Welcome to WLOPA

WLOPA is a friendly shooting club nestled in 54 acres of beautiful Wolcott, CT.  We offer organized and informal trap and skeet shooting, pistol and rifle  shooting, air rifle shooting, and hunting.  We conduct onsite pistol permit training courses, personalized handgun and rifle training, and we host many community events.  We are located at  920 Woodtick Road, Wolcott, CT  06716, telephone number is:  203-879-9976.

NEWS!   NEWS!   AND UPCOMING EVENTS!

 

Need a Pistol Permit?  The next pistol permit class is Sunday, Feb. 12th, 8:45 am.  Click the Pistol Permit bar on the left under "MainMenu".

 

Our next monthly meeting is Friday, January 27th, 7pm.

 

We held a "New Years Day Fun Shoot" again on Jan. 1st, 2012 to start off the New Year exercising our 2nd Amendment rights.  It was really warm (around 40 degrees), no wind, and sunny skies.  There were several sport shooters at the rifle and pistol ranges and trap field. Great job organizing this shoot Julian, and kudos to those who provided pot luck chow.

 

 

For Skeet shooters, please help out if you can so that the work to maintain the skeet facilities does not fall on only one person.  The skeet house 5 and the 4 trap houses have to be loaded up for the winter.  Please help out if you can.

 

The Silhouette team had a great time and a great season.  Thanks to all participants and to Julian for running Silhouette.  The money raised was fantastic.  Thanks Julian and team.

By now you should have noticed the new Storage Building for clay bird and other  equipment.  So far it's been smooth sailing for truck shipments of birds and plenty of room to maneuver around.  Bravo to the builders, designers, and club members who helped make this building project a success.  Please be patient during the final phases of landscaping near the building.  

If anyone is interested in Archery, please contact Mike Conant at mec800@comcast.net.  The group is working through final construction and archery details.

 

Past WLOPA events:

Fall Cleanup was very successful.  This year we cleaned debris on two days, Saturday, Dec 3rd and Sunday, Dec 4th, 8:30 am to about 1:00 pm for Fall Cleanup.  There were many participating and the grounds look great.  Great job Mike Conant, the boss for the weekend cleanup activities.

 

We held another fun Silhouette Shoot on October 2nd.

 

The 4th Annual Breast Cancer Shoot / Emergency Relief Fund fundraiser was held on August 27th at 9am. The pre-Irene rainy weather did not deter people from having a good time. Frank Noble, the sponsor team, and everyone who helped did a fantastic job. The food was tasty, especially the award winning venison chili (thanks Doug). The raffle was a success, and the silent auction featured a Mossberg .308 ATR rifle donated by Mossberg (thanks George).

 

Our annual meeting was held on Friday Sept, 9th.  We had a great turnout.

 

We held another free Women's Self Defense class on Saturday, August 6th at the Club House. 
 

Spring Cleanup was May 14th.  Spring League started in April and is in full swing.

On April 29th the membership voted to accept the Board's recommendation to contract for construction of a new storage building. This building will replace the trailers for storage of clay birds. Work is underway.

 

We held our fundraising RAFFLE on April 17th and some lucky winners won a Kimber Pro Raptor II .45, a Kimber Ultra Crimson Carry II .45, ammo and gift certificates to Mike's Sportsman's Outpost.  We sold most of the 1000 tickets.

Our March 25th meeting had a guest speaker, Representative Rob Sampson, who discussed 2nd Amendment issues in Hartford.  Thank you Rob Sampson.
 

The 2011 Friends of NRA dinner on March 18th was a great event and for a good cause.  WLOPA had 4 tables and the food was great, the silent auction, live auction, and many gun vendor products were fantastic.

We held a "New Years Day Fun Shoot" on Jan. 1, 2011 to start off the new year.  It was really warm (over 50 degrees) and there were several sport shooters at the rifle and pistol ranges.  Great job organizing this shoot Julian.

Come and visit us and see all of the improvements made to the clubhouse, grounds, ranges, especially our new Trap Office / Warm-up House (now finished).  We''ve fixed the drainage run-off in the Trap fields also.
 

 

 

New storage garage for clay birds.  We finally got rid of all of the dilapidated trailers

 

 

 

The new Trap Office / Warm-up Hut is a beautiful addition replacing the old trap office

 

 

Remember the old trap office ?  It was donated to the Lion's club: