CHEMUNG COUNTY Chapter

Scope Report July 2026

A special thank you to all who attended our June 24, 2026 Ladies Night meeting at Pine City. We had the largest attendance since we restarted this chapter in August 2025. And to our guest speaker representing the Armed Women of America. Though Bobbi Jo was unable to attend, Rebecca Allen provided great insight into the organization and the activities of the Steuben chapter of AWA.

In addition we had another guest speaker, Steve Leonard, who provided an update of SCOPE’s GOTV (Get out the Vote) initiative. Scope is proceeding with a strong statewide effort to increase voter turnout to hopefully avoid the continued persecution of normally law abiding gun owners in New York State.

For those who enjoy going to the Chemung County Fair, this year August 4 through August 8, be sure to visit the Chemung County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs at the Log Cabin where I’ll be manning the tables for the Federation and providing a large SCOPE presence. We’ll have information on what the Federation does within the county as well as informational materials for SCOPE and our GOTV efforts. Like last year we’ll have display maps of where various Federation members and projects are located, and the interactive map for you to indicate where you’ve seen various wildlife, such as Otters and Coyotes and Bears, oh my. Expect the exciting scavenger hunts for the young ones, who always enjoy searching the displays. And we’ll have various raffles available.

Be sure to plan on attending our next meeting of the Chemung County SCOPE chapter August 26, 2026 at 6:30pm, at Pine City Sportsmen’s Club 187 Mountain View Dr, Pine City, NY. While we are still working on getting guest speakers for that meeting, we plan to be informative and interactive. And we will take to heart the suggestions on limiting meeting length. We want to be informative without being boring.

One more thing. SCOPE holds their annual banquet in September of each year, and has numerous raffles and auctions to raise needed funds. Each year they request donations from chapters and local resources of items, events, offerings to put in for these auctions. We will be collecting any donations we can at our August 26 meeting to take to the banquet for fund raising. Anything you can think would be a donation item we can supply from our Chemung chapter would be greatly appreciated. Hope to see you in August.