On this date in history, January 29, 1829, Timothy Pickering died in Salem Massachusetts and was interred in the Broad Street cemetery. Pickering, for whom the nation’s most prestigious indoor prone postal match is named was a Senator and a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Mass., July 17, 1745; attended the grammar school [...]
New Hampshire Juniors fired their 2010 JORC the first two weekends of January. Congratulations to Brad Driscoll and Megan Polonsky who both exceeded the air Rifle MQS and earned a spot at the 2010 Junior Olympic Nationals in Colorado Springs this April. Complete results can be downloaded below:
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Steve Rocketto and the Montville High School Rifle Team were featured in The Day, a daily newspaper in Connecticut. You can view the video below.
By Megan Bard
Publication: TheDay.com
1/14/10 – Despite protest when it was created in 2004, the Montville High School Rifle Team has quietly become successful in turning out marksmen that make Coach Steve [...]
by Hap Rocketto
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall combined to touch off a chain of events that threatened to change the face of American Conventional Prone Shooting forever. Why events in Europe and Asia would effect the lives of such venerable Black Hawks as Marianne Driver and Earl [...]
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 23rd interview in the series.
Where do you call home?
Although a native of West Haven, Connecticut, I have called New Hampshire home [...]
The 2010 3-position New Jersey JORC was recently held at Somerset Rifle Club. You can download the results below:
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from the CMP
Gary Anderson, who served the CMP as the Director of Civilian Marksmanship for the past ten years, officially retired from that position on the 31st of December, 2009. Anderson, who celebrated his 70th birthday in October, announced his decision to retire at the last meeting of the CMP Board of Directors in October. [...]
Michigan held its 2010 International Sectional for smallbore and air rifle on January 9th and 10th in Jackson, MI. You can view the results below:
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The 2010 New Jersey 4P Sectional was held in Ridgewood, NJ on January 9th. You can view the results below:
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The Bridgeport Rifle Club in CT will be hosting a Gallery Match March 5-7th. You can download the match program below:
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by Hap Rocketto
I am sure that you are like many people who notice when little technical things in stories, or movies, are not quite right. If you are a SCUBA diver you might notice that the character is wearing the wrong type of regulator. If you like airplanes an interior that does not [...]
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 22nd interview in the series.
Where do you call home?
I grew up in Columbus, Ohio but have lived for the past 35 [...]
by Hap Rocketto
Imitation, it is said, is the sincerest form of flattery. Others say that plagiarism is simply another word for research. There is just a thin ethical dividing line between the two so when Pronematch.com considered running an indoor winter prone postal match we did our research and imitated, with some exceptions, the Southeastern [...]
The Bridgeport Rifle Club will be hosting an NRA 3P International Sectional on February 20th and 21st. You can download the match program below:
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by Martin Prince
The David Thompson Shoreline Classic Junior Rifle Match, hosted by The Niantic Sportsmen’s Club of East Lyme, Connecticut, was contested on December 4-6, 2009.
The Classic used the USA/NRA 50 target, which has replaced the A-36 target in NRA competition, and Lewis system awards schedule.
The three-position match was won by Libby Tallberg of the Bridgeport [...]
The 2010 Middlebury Junior Rifle Match
by Digby Hand
One of Connecticut’s classic junior matches is contested on a four point range in the basement of a church in Middlebury the first weekend of each January. The 31st Middlebury Junior Rifle Match was marked by cold weather, hot chili dogs, and tough competition.
This year 57 juniors from [...]
Pronematch.com is happy to announce that German Salazar has accepted an offer he couldn’t refuse. After a meeting with our staff recruiter he demurred, in his humble way, stating that he was not made of the stern stuff the site required in a writer. However, after waking up with a horse’s head at the [...]
by German Salazar
They say that a good lawyer knows the law and a great lawyer knows the judge. By extending that we may say that a good shooter knows how to shoot but a great shooter knows the rules. The NRA has promulgated rule changes for 2010 for all disciplines and of particular [...]
The 2010 International Three Position Sectional
by Digby Hand
RHODE ISLAND—The 2010 NRA Indoor Championship season got underway with the International Championship Sectional fired at the Massasoit Gun Club on January 10 and 11. Many things have changed in the smallbore discipline in the past few years and this year would be no exception as the old A36 [...]
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 21st interview in the series.
Where do you call home?
I am a life long resident of Holliston, MA, a small town about [...]
Complete story to come. Results below.
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