March/April Issue of USA Shooting News Available
The March/April Issue of USA Shooting News is now available for download.
Category: Other Smallbore Information
March 5, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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pronematch.com website
Over the last few weeks we’ve made a few changes to pronematch.com. Below are a few highlights that are already in place:
• We changed the format and look to a magazine type format which allows for better organization of information and allows us to highlight certain information more effectively. The “Latest Posts” section in the [...]
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Award Ceremony Dress Code
Torn shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops….”Let’s go on stage at the National Matches!”
February 19, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post
Starter error Frustrates Biathletes
Starter error frustrates biathletes, guardsman
By Lauren Gustus – Gannett News Service. Posted : Wednesday Feb 17, 2010 13:08:46 EST
Article originally posted in the Navy Times here.
WHISTLER, British Columbia — Biathlete Sgt. Jeremy Teela is a veteran of three Olympic Games and countless World Cups.
Still, he had never experienced a start like the one that unfolded [...]
February 18, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
How They Train: Biathlon
TIME’s Sean Gregory gets a shooting lesson from U.S. Olympic favorite Tim Burke as he trains for the games in Vancouver.
February 17, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Best US Biathlon Finish in Olympic History!
Jeremy Teela takes 9th place in the Men’s 10km Sprint which marks the best U.S. finish in Olympic Biathlon history
2010 Olympic Biathlon
The 2010 Winter Olympics have arrived! Biathlon coverage starts right away on Saturday at 1pm with the Women’s 7.5km Sprint.
February 12, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Site Updates
We will be making some pronematch.com site updates over the next few days. We’re making some changes that we think you’ll like so please be patient as we make the updates.
NRA Offers Adult 3-Position Air Rifle Shooting
from the NRA:
NRA Offers Adult 3-Position Air Rifle Shooting
NRA wants tournament sponsors to know that adults can participate in an NRA Open or NRA Invitational position air rifle tournament.
The air rifle is an excellent training tool for all shooters to move from air guns to the powdered guns. While not very well known, adults have [...]
Ready. Aim. Breath. Fire
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 [...]
January 28, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Gary Anderson Retires as CMP Director
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. [...]
January 22, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
pronematch.com Welcomes German Salazar
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 [...]
January 13, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
2010 Rule Changes
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 [...]
January 13, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
NSSF Awards $109,500 in Grants to Colleges
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has awarded $109,500 in grants to colleges across the country in order to promote shooting at competitive and club levels. To read more and see the list of colleges, you can read the press release here.
January 8, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Don’t forget to get your postal results in…
The December Timothy Pickering postal scores are due tomorrow http://pronematch.com/pickering-postal/. Don’t forget to submit your scores to Hap Rocketto at hapATpronematch.com
January 4, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
USAMU Soldiers Embark on Historic Mission
There’s an interesting article by Michael Molinaro on the Army Marksmanship Unit website about the historic deployment of USAMU soldiers to Afghanistan. You can read the story here.
January 1, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
2009 Roberts Team Matches
There is a nice article in this month’s Shooting Sports USA on the 2009 Roberts Team Matches written by pronematch.com’s own Hap Rocketto. You can downdload a high-resolution PDF of the article by clicking on the image below.
December 31, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Merry Christmas 2009
Merry Christmas from all of us at pronematch.com! We hope you and yours have a great holiday and that the new year brings you GOOD LOTS, and CENTER SHOTS.
London 2012 Shooting Venues Unveiled
The ISSF has posted some information about the 2012 Olympic shooting facilities. Of particular note, the shooting venues will be temporary and disassembled or re-allocated for other uses after the olympics. You can read the whole story here.
