MEMBERSHIP AND FEES

FULL MEMBERSHIP

Annual full membership dues are $550 and entitle the full member to 22 pheasants or their equivalent in chukar partridge (44).

HALF MEMBERSHIP

Annual half membership dues are $275 and entitle the half member to 11 pheasants or their equivalent in chukar partridge (22).

INITIAL MEMBERSHIP FEE

Both full and half members are required to pay a one time $100 fee upon joining the Club in addition to annual membership dues.

ADMINISTRATION FEE

Both full and half members are required to pay a yearly administration fee of $15.

TRIAL MEMBERSHIP

A person who is considering joining the Club may pay in advance half the initial membership fee ($50) plus the cost of birds released for a one time hunt.

If that person decides to join the Club at a later date, he or she is required to pay the balance of the initial membership fee ($50) plus the normal (full or half) annual dues.

JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP

Annual junior membership dues are $160 and entitle the junior member to eight pheasants or their equivalents in chukar partridge (16).

A junior member must be ten years or older, still in school and not yet graduated from grade 12.

A junior member must be accompanied at all times during a hunt by a full Club member.

A junior member must release all his or her birds by November 1^st.

CRONMILLER YOUNG HUNTER PROGRAMME (CYHP)

An applicant who wishes to participate in the CYHP must be at least 10 years of age and no more than 18 years of age at the commencement of the Club season in the year that he or she is applying.

The successful applicant must be sponsored in his or her application by a Full Member of the Club and be supervised at all times during a hunt by that Full Member.

The maximum number of successful applicants in any year is two.

The successful applicant is entitled to eight pheasants or chukar partridge equivalents (16).

The successful applicant must have released all his or her birds by November 1^st

The successful applicant is entitled to hunt ducks on the Club Waterfowl farm(s) provided that his or her sponsor is a Full Member who holds the Waterfowl Option.

No guest fees are applicable to the successful applicant.

Application is made to the Executive.

The Executive may or may not accept applications in any one season.

The decision to award a spot in the CYHP is entirely in the discretion of the Executive.  The Executive’s decision is final.

EXTRA BIRDS

Members who use up their on card birds (pre-paid birds) on walk up shoots before the end of the season may purchase additional birds for $25 per pheasant or chukar partridge equivalent (2) prior to January 1, 2009 and $30 after December 31, 2008. .  Members will be invoiced by the Club Treasurer for extra birds.  At High Release Pheasant Shoots or Circle Shoots members may pay for extra birds in cash, $25 per pheasant equivalent prior to January 1, 2009 and $28.50 after December 31, 2008.

ALL REMAINING BIRDS TO BE SHOT AT CRONMILLER SHOOT

The Cronmiller High Pheasant Shoot marks the end of the Club’s season.  This Shoot is normally held on the first Saturday in March.  Members’ birds that remain unused at this date will be forfeited to Club and shot at the Cronmiller shoot.

EXCEPTIONS AND HOLDOVERS BECAUSE OF HARDSHIP

A member who because of serious illness or other serious hardship is unable to shoot all his birds by the end of the Club’s season may apply to the Directors to be credited in the following season for the number of birds he was unable to use.  If the Directors accept the member’s application to be credited in the upcoming season for unused birds the member is required to purchase the balance of birds required for full or half membership.