Welcome to the last Stalk Talk for the year, and to the end off the official hunting season.
The snakes are out and about, and going fishing seems like a safer option, but having a chance at harvesting a mature Sambar stag,
has to much excitement for most of us. You just can’t turn it off.
Firstly I would like to welcome Otto and Frank into the committee . They are two great blokes who work hard for the benefit of the
Club. We thank them very much for giving their. time. And hope they stay involved for many years to come.
The raffle tickets have all gone out and from all reports the sales are going great, please try and have them back to the club as soon as possible.
The committee doesn’t want to be chasing people for tickets and money, after all it only makes the club look bad.
If you won’t be attending the meeting and you can’t post them please contact anyone in the committee and we will endeavor to pick them up.
Our Christmas party is on the 27th of November, there will be games for the kids and plenty of food, and drink. Come along , bring the kids, we can all
Have a great time in a family environment. Who knows Santa might make an appearance , if he can fit into last years costume. He has put on a few extra
Kilos lately.
The last General meeting for the year is also our AGM meeting, If you would like to get involved, please come along, voice your opinion.
I would also like to take the time, to thank all the committee members for your great work during the year, and also to our sponsors for their continued support .
Finally to all our members, thank you for your support throughout the year.
Hope to see you all at the meeting.
Hunt safe
El Presidente
George Katselis
PRESIDENT’S REPORT July 2010
Welcome everyone to my first official President’s report.
The hunting season is well underway and the weather has finally broken with plenty of snow beginningto fall.Good to see plenty of hunters getting out there and having a go. Due to the recent resignation of Geoff Taylor, I am now in the presidential hot seat.On behalf of everyone at the club, I would like to thank Geoff on a great job and wish him all the best in the future.I would also like to thank the committee for their hard work, and the members for their patience and support.Please help the committee as much as you can, so that we can make this fantastic club bigger andbetter.
Lastly, congratulations to Reg Gordon on his Life Membership, a greatly deserved achievement and a long time coming.
Hope to see you all at the next meeting.
El Presidente
George Katselis
PRESIDENTS REPORT MAY 2010
Welcome to the unofficial start of the Hunting season. Autumn always gives hope to hunters promising cool calm days, we live in hope awaiting that first hint of snow.
At our recent committee Meeting I announced my resignation as President, effective immediately. The pressure of running a small business has not enabled me to give my full attention to the GDSA.
Thankfully our membership is growing and we have found fantastic clubrooms at the Archery Club, my thanks to the Twin city Archery Club for being sympathetic landlords.
To those members who have invited me hunting, many thanks, am very grateful for your gesture and your friendship. And those who persistently taunted me with their hunting stories, yet never invited me along, hope you miss your next shot.
Having seen inside most of the Victorian hunting organisations I strongly believe the GDSA is the best Club in Victoria. The high Quality of our members can be measured by strength of character, hunting ethics, passion for the environment and rejection of any illegal hunting activity.
Please welcome and induct any new members to the Club, new members are the lifeblood of our Club. We were all new members once, there is nothing worse than walking into a room full of strangers and being ignored. To those blokes who cultivate a clique, join another club!
Hopefully the GDSA will be the first hunting Organisation in Aust to have a female President, who knows what the future may bring?
Please support new President George Katselis and your GDSA Committee,
Help out whenever you can, thanks for your support
Aim straight
Geoff Taylor
PRESIDENTS REPORT MARCH 2010-03-03
Welcome to the unofficial start of the Hunting Season.
As we go to print good rains are forecast, adding to the planning process in organising the first hunt of the Season.
As in all “off Seasons “we have experienced some changes at the GDSA
Reg Gordon has resigned from the Committee and from publishing the Stalk Talk Magazine. His efforts in collating and publishing the Stalk Talk have been fantastic! The Magazine is a major undertaking, demanding heaps of time and patience, Reg’s efforts have enabled the GDSDA to boast one of the best club publications of any hunting organisation in Australia.
Our deepest heartfelt thanks to Reg.
Karen and Mark Ballard have kindly volunteered to publish the Stalk Talk for the next 3 editions , to which we are extremely grateful .
All stories ,hunting reports, can be sent to Karen at
This is a huge very generous gesture from Karen and Mark please thank them in person?
Which brings us to the old question of committee support? Your Club needs more Committee members, there is an over representation of Melbourne based members on the Committee which considering time and travel factors will be short lived. I appeal to all Gippsland Based members, support your Club, lend a hand and join the Committee. “Too much is being left to too few”.
The more of you that join, the less work there is to do!
We are trying to recruit guest speakers to compliment our Meeting programs , all suggestions are welcome and considered.
I look forward to welcoming you all to our General Meeting on 11th March.
At this time our minds turn to early Spring ,should I chance the dry bush and snakes for that chance shot at a sambar? Or like one of our illustrious members taking a nap in the scrub to wake up finding a tiger snake metres away eyeing his skinny frame!!
The time is nigh to check your rifle and scope , sighted in ? All gear working ,radio ,headlight, binos clean and ready to go?
I suspect our resident ballistician ,”Tackleberry” will be besieged by “sighting in requests”, of course with appropriate incentives offered ,long range hunters exempted?
Our recent Committee Meeting augurs well for the coming year, good ideas and plans proposed, please all members contribute to all Club activities ,don’t l leave it to the usual suspects?
Your Club needs your help to keep it running!
Our General meeting guest speaker is DSE Game Manager, Andrea Brumley , to brief us on the coming Hog Deer Season and other related hunting matters.
Greetings all, welcome to the unofficial end of the hunting season. A few brave souls are still venturing out, braving the dry scrub and snakes for that last shot at the ever elusive sambar.
2009 has been a year of growth for the GDSA; our membership has increased, as has your Committee. It’s fantastic to see younger hunters joining the GDSA, showing strong interest by
Participating in Club activities, young members are the lifeblood of your Club.
Please submit your photos for our Club photo competition; this is a very prestigious award to win, recognition by your peers is the ultimate prize!
Our GDSA Christmas party has been planned with military precision to be held at Ben Williams Mirboo North “Ponderosa” on November 29th. This will be a fully catered for function, please bring your families and enjoy the beautiful surroundings and the good company of your hunting colleagues. There will be entertainment for the kids and a visit from Father Christmas; anyone who would like to suit up (dress in drag) and with a deep voice is invited to apply for the position!!! I think we have a few members who fit the description?
The GDSA finally has a proactive Committee, ideas and suggestions are free flowing, please contribute, don’t leave the workload to the “usual suspects”, help in any way you can, welcome new members, introduce them to Committee members etc ,help on the BBQ, help to set up and clean up , it is always appreciated.
You would have seen Parks Victoria WEPLAN on our website, we have liaised with the ADA in presenting our submission. It is disappointing Parks Vic have loaded the 14 member committee with bush walkers and environmentalists: mountain cattlemen and hunters have two reps each: We await the committee Draft Plan then will respond with vigour, this is an ideal opportunity for all of you to present your views to be compiled and submitted with our Club submission!
This year we have received fantastic support from our Sponsors, to whom we are very grateful, without their support and input we would struggle to even afford a Club Magazine.
Once again we owe them a huge debt of gratitude, many thanks.
This coming meeting will also see our Annual Election of Office Bearers, “if you want a say in running the Club, get involved, put your hand up”.
Finally I thank you all for being members of the GDSA, our culture and ethics are the envy of every hunting organisation in Australia.
Aim straight,
sshot
PRESIDENTS REPORT SEPTEMBER 09
Welcome to the later part of our 2009 Hunting Season.
Just when you thought the season had ended, heavy snow has fallen across the Alps, keeping the Spring hunters in the gullies and along the ridges, and off the Tops.
A few hunting reports have filtered in, was lucky to witness Ed Bailey breaking his duck and bagging a nice doe with Glen Patten along the McAllister River, managed to get it all boned out before the heavens opened, Mark Taylor bagged a nice 28 stag whilst on a back pack trip along the Moroka (where else?) with Terry McDonald and Gary Rogers in tow.
George Katselis shared his toys with Stan Anagnostou by calling him over to bag a stag during a recent midweek hunt behind Jamieson. Lovely bit of teamwork, unheard of in this sport until now, hope this sets a precedent! (Fat chance)
Darren Jaeger tried the impossible, fired a rifle that shoots around corners, which is now being repaired by Dr Tackleberry, (the thinner one)
We have experienced large Membership growth this year, please be an unelected Ambassador for the GDSA , helping and welcoming new members to our meetings , there is nothing worse than entering a room full of strangers , a kind word, offer of help ,anything just to make someone feel at home ,it’s for what our Club is Famous!
We have our Christmas break up planned at Ben Williams Ponderosa in Mirboo North. This is a first for the Club, we are going all out to make it a success!
All catered for , rides and entertainments for the kids ,Father Christmas ,a real family day, probably Late November/early December. Please tell Reg or Sshot of your intended attendance numbers.
We will finish the day off with a food fight and a bit of mud wrestling! (joking)
We have another top line Guest Speaker planned for our Meeting ,............from Beretta will be covering their varied product range. Should be very informative and entertaining, don’t miss it!
Get your photos in for the 2010 Calendar and for this year’s photo competition, your chance to immortalize in Club history.
This will be my last year as GDSA President; it is time to move on behind the scenes.
Thank you all for your friendship and advice, it’s been a privilege.
Hi all, welcome to the middle of the hunting season. There have been very impressive heads taken on both walk-in and backpacking trips.
GDSA members continue to be the “stand out”, quality hunters, congratulations both boys and girls on your magnificent trophies.
By all reports the Club Wonnangatta Trip was a success, a few sambar taken with many seen. Darren Ross and “Moonshank” are to be commended for their increasing ventures into gourmet food and beverage territory!!
Commiserations’ to Darren Jaeger for his unfortunate accident and equipment damage whilst carrying out venison.
Hopefully we will receive more rain during July, August, ; June has seen the bush very dry, crackling and unfriendly!
Shayne Swain and Gary Rogers have joined your Committee, their ideas and energy are most welcome. More heads together –more ideas, more bodies to share the load—there are good things planned!!
Our website has been running for over a month, please submit your hunting stories, photos, campfire photos, we‘d love to have em’
The success of your website depends on your contribution.
Congrats to Reg Gordon and the Stalk Talk Committee for an excellent quality publication.
At our July meeting members will be asked to vote on a Constitutional amendment to include trophy heads entered in our competitions taken with a Companion Dog, please keep an open mind on this and consider all arguments.
We have two guest speakers planned for this meeting ,
Aim straight ,
Sshot president@gippslanddeerstalkers.com.au
PRESIDENTS REPORT "MAY 09"
The rain, snow and icy winds have heralded the start of the hunting season.
This is the time we have been “hangin out for”, moist bush, no snakes, scent and noise diminished, secret spot intact/untouched, all mighty fine!
Congratulations to Tum McDonald for bagging her first sambar stag, a magnificent trophy taken at the secret spot under the tutelage of husband Terry and co hunter (Dark Horse) Mark Taylor. The odds have been forever shortening since Terry started looking for a suitable stag; it was only a matter of time.
Rumour has it one of our newer members has recently bagged a 33 inch sambar head, with an ounce of luck and coercion it will be on display at our coming meeting.
Apologies for the late announcement of the Gatta Club trip dates, 23rd and 24th May, the logistics of Committee agreement and discussion have been very protracted to say the least.
The search continues for a website builder, if any members are able to provide credible contacts these will be followed up, same goes for potential guest speakers.
Folks, your Club needs your help on Committee, as our membership base has increased so has the demands on the” usual too few”.
This year we would like to plan an end of year BBQ/Christmas party for our partners and kids, plan and promote next year’s calendar with our sponsors and other businesses, access more guest speakers and still run the Club meetings so everyone is happy(well almost everyone).
We need more bodies on Committee.
Bring your Hog Deer heads to the meeting and compare them with the monster Norm Nelson bagged on Sunday Island, very, very nice Norm!!!
Look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
