New Ontario Shooters Association (NOSA)
2025 Recent Activities or Events and Pictures

Here find details of the shooting activities and related events at NOSA, the family-friendly Thunder Bay rifle and pistol shooting club. Events or subjects are in approximate date order (usually based on the earliest date if an activity is spread out).

Photos here are by Banacek unless otherwise attributed. This page is also intended to show some of our members' 2023 photos in club and related activities in and about Thunder Bay, Ontario -- or wherever our members travel for competitions or sport. Member photo contributions are much appreciated. And please be kind.

At the end of each calendar year, a particular year's activities and photos will still be available on its own NOSA page. Click on the year desired in the following table.

Nolalu Range Improvement Projects, pictures and text, during a particular year can be seen on the individual year pages above, but for your convenience several years of such projects have also been gathered together here on a summary webpage.

NOSA Members' Adventures and Hunts are similarly reported in each year's activities, but prior years have also been gathered here in a summary webpage.

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NOSA Annual General Meeting -- Sunday, 12 January 2025

Location: NOSA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Slovak Legion, 801 Atlantic Ave., Thunder Bay. Delicious refreshments were available.

NOSA Adult and Family Membership Renewals for 2025 become due effective 31 December 2024, and NOSA Membership had to be current in order to vote on club business, or to hold NOSA office. More information on the several types of memberships can be seen on the About Us page (link in column to left) and if you have more questions please contact Bob or Dana directly (Club Contacts link is in column to left).

This AGM's agenda included presentation of the NOSA annual budget and discussion of club business.

One major change for NOSA's upcoming summer gun show in 2025 is to hold it on one day only, a Saturday. Date yet to be announced.

Thanks to the Thunder Bay Combat Club, NOSA members are welcome to shoot with them at Nolalu on Saturdays starting now.

The current NOSA Executive members were applauded for their service and returned to office by acclamation.

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NOSA Gun Show in Thunder Bay -- Saturday and Sunday, 08 & 09 March 2025

This annual two-day NOSA Spring Gun Show featured the opportunity for the public to buy, sell, or trade: Guns, Knives, Ammunition, Collectors' Cartridges, Reloading Supplies, Optics, and Accessories. A food concession was also on site.

Location: The Slovak Legion, 801 Atlantic Ave., Thunder Bay, Ontario P7C 2S7 Canada.

Show Hours for the Public:
            Saturday 08 March -- 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
               Sunday 09 March -- 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Admission for the Public: $5.00 each day, and free for those under 12 when accompanied by an adult.

NOSA had an information display about our Club, and our activities promoting the shooting sports including our Junior Shooters' Program. This show provides some of the annual funding for the Juniors.

Our grateful thanks to the other NOSA, our good friends and affiliates at the Northwestern Ontario Sportsmen's Alliance, who generously donated a thousand dollars to help support our Junior Shooters' Program.

NOSA also sincerely appreciates the vendors and exhibitors for their participation and support towards making this show a success, and to the NOSA volunteers that made this show even possible.

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NOSA Members' Adventures and Hunts -- 2025

Every year we feature some of the members' photos of their recent outdoor adventures -- sometimes from their hunts, but mostly candid photos of wildlife and scenery that they have encountered and enjoyed while just observing through a camera lens. We're looking forward to seeing some new photos.

On a sunny 14 February this is all the eye, or a normal camera, might initially see on the hillside from a window. Zooming the very capable Nikon P950 reveals a young doe about to nap.

On a nice day in March there was a little less snow (shortly before more storms came in the next few weeks) in a view up the hillside. Once again the trusty camera (also not fully zoomed) found this doe snuggled under a tree.

In late winter/early spring Wayne set out a very fine trail camera that took an excellent daytime photo of a Black Bear, and at night it also recorded a Lynx, Moose, and Timber Wolf.

In mid June a Painted Turtle (adult with about a 9 inch shell) wandered onto my lawn. I carefully returned it a few hundred metres back to the nearest pond.

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A pleasant sunny day in February	finds this young doe about to nap
March finds the hill partly sunny	for an elder doe to curl under a tree
Wayne's photo of a fine Black Bear	and at night some pix of a Lynx
and then a curious Moose	and finally an alert Timber Wolf
Painted Turtle travelled onto my lawn

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