Beaver Snaring with PGC Cadets
Charlie Sykes and Barry Warner instructing PGC Cadets on the art of beaver snaring.
2021 PTA Rendezvous
The 2021 Rendezvous will be held on June 24-26, 2021 at the Clearfield Co. Fairgrounds in Clearfield, PA. More details will be released as we move forward.
Rendezvous-CombinedD1: Gun Raffle Updates
From John Chase:
District 1 will not be having the annual gun raffle open to the public due to the pandemic Coronavirus, known a COVID-19. We will be still be drawing the tickets live at Edinboro Outdoors on Saturday April 4th starting at 4:00 pm. The drawing will be broadcast live through the Edinboro Outdoors Facebook page and we will try to link the broadcast to the PTA Facebook page. Please mail your tickets by March 28th, to our gun raffle chairperson Donna Murphy, her address is 980 State Street Conneaut lake, Pennsylvania 16316 .
I would like to recognize all of our sponsors at this time.
2020 Gun Raffle Sponsors:
Kress Auto Center • Ten Point Beer Distributor • Joel Meader Painting • Dr. Dave’s Wildlife Control • Wildlife Peststop •
Sparrow Pond Campground • Duke Traps • Stanford’s Fur Post •
Miller’s Food Factory • Chase Trap and Supply • Knepp Buildings • Scott and Mellissa Grieser • Bill and Sharon Cummings • Robert and Jennifer Marley • Eric Ruhlman • Boo Rendulic • CEI General Contractors • Hilde Taxidermy Inc. • Great Eastern Cutlery • Smith Provision Co. • Maxfield Pet Resort • Dave and Carleen Fowler & Gang • Bossard and Son Pump Service • Farmers Insurance-The Brockman Agency • Rex Ridge Redbones • CRS Energy LLC • Cattaraugus County Trappers Association • Ellwood Farmstead • Barnes Automotive & Off-Road • Fiber Gel • Jr. Troyer Masonry • Gonstead Family Chiropractic • Paul Crowl • Trapper Paul’s Supply House • Coon Creek Trappers • Joel Meader Family in Memory of Austin Meader • Solid Rock Builders, Inc. • Jim and Kathy Stoops • Osborne’s & Sons Trapper Supply • CRIT – R – DONE ® • Skeets Elite Trucking LLC • Howard Hanna • Seger & Sons Construction • Lake View Ford
D1: Meeting Cancelled
The District 1 spring meeting that was scheduled for April 11th at the Presque Field Archery club is postponed until further notice.
Sincerely,
John W. Chase
District 1 Director
814-823-5429
D7: Beaver Sale Cancelled
The D7 Beaver Sale scheduled for April 5, 2020 has been cancelled.
D2: Banquet Cancelled
In light of the COVID-19 situation, the District 2 banquet schedule for March 21 has been cancelled.
2020 PTA Banquet
Due to COVID-19, the PTA State Banquet has been POSTPONED and tentatively moved to August 1, 2020.
(It is to be held at the same venue and on the same schedule.) If you have already purchased tickets and cannot make the August 1st rescheduling, please mail your tickets to Steve Senn, PO Box 74, Uwchland, PA 19480 and you will be reimbursed. Thank you for understanding the situation.
Please Sign A Waiver:
In light of the current pandemic, if you are planning on attending the banquet, you must complete the following waiver and bring it with you. View and download the waiver here.
Hotel:
If you plan on attending on the August 1, 2020 date, please contact the host hotel and reserve your room. (There will be shuttle service to and from the venue as before)
Hilton Garden Inn Exton/West Chester
(610) 458-8822
720 Eagleview Blvd, Exton, PA 19341
Banquet Details (Still accurate, except the date)
- 2 Day on the line instruction in Virginia with Bryan Nelson, VTA past president. Bryan has caught over 500 canines in Virginia
- 3 Day Kansas coyote line instruction with Frank Lane, over 200 coyotes last year.
- 2 Day instruction on Rusty Johnson’s South Carolina trap line.
- 3 Days with Dave Rodgers and Rick Amieson in Virginia canine/bobcat land trapping and beaver/otter water trapping.
- 1 Week trapping or hunting bear package in Maine with Brian Flowers
- 2 Day ice out beaver trapping adventure with Jeff Dunlap in Michigan for 2021
- 2 Youth Spring Gobbler Hunts April 25, 2020 with Dave Rodgers and Steve Senn in Bradford County PA, including a box call for each youth.
D8: Cancellation
I regret having to announce that our PTA District 8-5th annual Spring Sportsman’s Show on April 4, 2020 has been cancelled. In light of the worsening situation with the Covid-19 virus I felt it was the right thing to do to protect our members, vendors, attendees, and their families. We will be back next year!
My thanks you for your continued support!
George McEntee
717-732-8099