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Archive for October, 2009
October 30, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Matt Emmons Captures World Cup Final Gold in Men’s 3P
from USA Shooting
Matt Emmons Captures World Cup Final Gold in Men’s 3P
WUXI, China (October 28, 2009) – For the third year in a row, two-time Olympic medalist Matt Emmons (Browns Mills, N.J.), claimed the gold medal in the Men’s 50m 3 Position Rifle event at the ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Cup Final.
Emmons won today’s match and [...]
McPhail Claims Silver @ World Cup Final, Beyerle wins Bronze
from USA Shooting
McPhail Claims Silver @ World Cup Final, Beyerle wins Bronze
WUXI, China (October 27, 2009) – Michael McPhail (Darlington, Wis.) captured the silver medal in the Men’s 50m Prone Rifle event today, while Jamie Beyerle (Lebanon, Pa) earned the bronze in Women’s 50m 3 Position Rifle at the 2009 ISSF Rifle/Pistol World [...]
October 29, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Rising to the Challenge
by Hap Rocketto
In smallbore prone shooting there seems to be an underlying current of thought that if you can’t win the match on the firing line you might stand a chance in the stat shack. This belief seems to grow from the old statistical theory that given an infinite number of monkeys and typewriters one [...]
October 28, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Shooter Spotlight: Dave Cloft
The purpose of the “Shooter Spotlight” is to help shooters get to know their fellow competitors a little bit better. We cover a wide range of shooters from “Marksman to Master.” This is the 10th interview in the series.
Where do you call home?
I was born and raised in Alpena, Michigan. I’ve moved 13 times during [...]
2010 Sectional Changes
from the NRA
Changes for 2010: New National Championships for Adults and a Category for Veterans
VETERANS: Are you looking for more shooting opportunities? COACHES AND SPONSORS: Have you ever found yourself at wit’s end looking for an avenue of competition for the young adults who are no longer eligible for the junior category? Are you worried [...]
October 26, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
GA: Metric Regional/State Championship Results
Below are the GA Metric Smallbore Rifle Prone Regional 2400 & Metric Prone Georgia State Championship Results (wow, that’s a mouthful).
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October 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
MA: 2010 JORC
The 2010 Massachusetts Junior Olympic Rifle Championship will be held in Reading, MA on December 19th and 20th. You can download the match program here.
October 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Rifle and Pistol World Cup Finals
from ISSF
The ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Final will start the 24th of October in Wuxi, China. Eighty-five athletes, qualified throughout this year’s World Cup Series, will compete in the ten Rifle and Pistol events for the last title of the year. Meet the champions, check the Rifle and Pistol Finalists profiles!
October 22, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
2009 Great Pumpkin Match Results
Pretty wet and raw for the 2009 Great Pumpkin Metric 2400. Day 2 was cancelled. Results can be downloaded below.
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October 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Shooter Spotlight: German Salazar
The purpose of the “Shooter Spotlight” is to help shooters get to know their fellow competitors a little bit better. We cover a wide range of shooters from “Marksman to Master.” This is the 9th interview in the series.
Where do you call home?
Phoenix, Arizona, just 5 miles away from the 1000 yard range at the [...]
Colonels are Methodist, Married or Mad
by Hap Rocketto
A lull in the firing, as I sat behind the line as a scorer during the 2005 Pershing Match, allowed my mind to part its moorings from the job at hand and drift into distant waters. Idle thoughts about the British lead me to recall how that particular race prized eccentricity. The characters [...]
October 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
The RI 3P Smallbore Rifle League is Underway
by Joe Graf
The RI Smallbore Rifle League started its indoor season this past Thursday, Oct 15th. This is the second year the league is using a handicap system to determine the team results, and I am really pleased with the handicap system that has been put in place. The handicap system rewards shooters that perform [...]
NJ: International Air Rifle Matches
Citizen’s Rifle Club in Princeton Junction, NJ is running a series of air rifle matches this winter. The matches are on the third Sunday of the month, November through February. On the 10:00 AM relay they’ll run Air Pistol and Air Rifle. On the 12:30 relay they’ll have Air Pistol and Free Pistol. You can download [...]
October 17, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Noted Gunsmith’s Wife Passes
Zoe Kenyon, a resident of Ely, Nevada for 82 years, passed away in Sandy, Utah on Friday, October 9, 2009, at the age of 93. Zoe was born on November 20, 1915, in Monroe, Utah to Sophia Greco and Willard R. Anderson. Her family moved from Richfield, Utah to Ely, Nevada in 1927. Zoe graduated [...]
October 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
RI Shooter Featured on Evening News
There was a nice segment featuring RI junior shooter Catherine Green on RI’s NBC affiliate. Check it out below.
RI: Conventional Prone Regional and State Championship
by Joe Graf
Two days of heavy hurricane rain flooded the Newport Rifle Club range leading to the postponement of the 2008 Rhode Island Conventional Prone State Championship. A year later the rain started early in the day of the 2009 Championship. By the end of the match water covered the range and competitors [...]
October 14, 2009 | 3 comments | View Post
Shooter Spotlight: Megan Lee
The purpose of the “Shooter Spotlight” is to help shooters get to know their fellow competitors a little bit better. We cover a wide range of shooters from “Marksman to Master.” This is the 8th interview in the series.
Megan Lee
Where do you call home?
North Carolina
How long have you been shooting?
About 4 years
How did you get [...]
October 13, 2009 | 11 comments | View Post
NY: 2009-2010 New York Capital District Shooting Schedule
2009-2010 New York Capital District Shooting Schedule is available for download here. Of particular not is a series of monthly indoor prone matches.
October 13, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
NRA A-36 Target
from the NRA
NRA A-36 Target
Reminder for all Smallbore Rifle Indoor Tournament Sponsors and Competitors: Beginning January 1, 2010, the NRA A-36 Target will no longer be used for NRA sanctioned tournaments. This action was taken in 2007 by the Smallbore Rifle Committee for implementation in 2010. The NRA/USA-50 target will replace the NRA A-36 target.
For [...]
October 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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