Category Archives: Other Smallbore Information

Upcoming matches

These matches are on the match calendar but here are the match programs if you need them.  2009_NH Indoor Junior State Championship  2009_CT Quaker Hill Outdoor 3P  2009 MA USA Shooting Prone   2009_CT Presidents Match  2009 MA State Championship (Prone … Continue reading

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2009 RI Sectional Roundup

2009 RI Sectional Roundup By Digby Hand The Massasoit Gun Club hosted a trio of National Rifle Association National Indoor Smallbore Rifle Championship sectionals during the grayest days of this winter. Starting on the last weekend in January competitors converged on … Continue reading

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RI Champ and West Point Pics

Myself, Don Norris and Erik Hoskins shot the RI Championship this past Saturday and then traveled down to West Point for a 60/40/40 match on Sunday. There was much revelry and some good stories that I dare not share here. … Continue reading

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NCAA Rifle Championships

The NCAA will be webcasting the NCAA Rifle Championships. You can help competitive shooting by going to the webcasting tomorrow (Saturday 3/14) to view the video of the air rifle championships. The NCAA will be counting the visitors to the … Continue reading

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Mass State Rifle Team at Palmyra, PA

The Mass State Rifle Team traveled to Palmyra PA to compete in the 10th Annual Palmyra Invitational. The match continues to be well attended with many college teams competing. The matches fired followed USAShooting rules and consisted of a 60 … Continue reading

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What’s ahead For NRA Smallbore?

What’s ahead For NRA Smallbore & Air Rifle? from Mike Krei, Director, NRA Competitive Shooting Division NRA Distinguished Smallbore Rifleman The NRA Distinguished Smallbore Rifleman program, established in 1965, has added a new pin, patch, and certificate for those distinguished … Continue reading

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Shooting Sports USA

NRA’s publication Shooting Sports USA is now available monthly for free in digital format. http://www.nrapublications.org/ssusa/index.html

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Anschutz’ new ad campaign

A friend sent this over to me today. It seems that Anschutz has resorted to sex in order to maintain world domination. I think this was shot in 2006 but if you haven’t seen it……

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4P and 3P Sectional Updates

Both the post on the 3P Sectional and the 4P sectional have been updated with some new pictures (thanks, Nicole). There is also a write-up  for the 4-position match.

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RI 4P Sectional

Massasoit Rifle Club sponsored its third NRA smallbore rifle sectional of the year on Sunday February 22 and the third time was the charm for Rhode Island’s geriatric rifleman Hap Rocketto.

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RI 3P Open Sectional

This weekend (February 14th and 15th) was the 3P Open Sectional in East Providence. Below are a couple

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Vote for our new domain name

Well, we got a number of suggestions on what our new domain name might be. Some names were unavailable but some of the available names are listed below.     Vote for the domain name you like best ( surveys)

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Reading Rifle Smallbore Prone Matches

If you’re up in the North Shore-ish area of MA, the Tricketts are running some 100 yard smallbore prone matches on Thursdays this summer. The course of fire is the same as the Hopkinton matches, 40 shots at 100 yards. … Continue reading

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Say Cheese!

Want to have a fancy picture of yourself next to your comment when you post on a website? It’s called a Gravatar and all you have to do is go to http://en.gravatar.com/ and upload a picture and you’re done!

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The after-match…

Regarding the RI 3P Sectional, I forgot to mention that after the match, many of us went over to Miller’s Roast Beef and ate copious amounts of cow.  Lunchtime topics of conversation included: • The history of the NRA National … Continue reading

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RI 4P Sectional

Don’t forget that there are a few slots left for the RI 4P Sectional this Sunday. The sitting stage is only 20 shots on the A-17…c’mon!

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New Match Calendar

The other day Rick Johnson sent me an email suggesting that pronematch.com should have a calendar that has upcoming matches and events on it.  It’s a great idea but I was struggling with the best way to implement it on the … Continue reading

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2009 CT Indoor 3-P State Championships

Lisette Grunwell just sent out the match bulletin for the CT Indoor 3-P State Championship on April 4th at Niantic Sportsmen’s Club. You can download it here.

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Lou Dobbs Report

An interesting segment about gun-owner concerns about the Obama administration on the Lou Dobbs Report.

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Jim Scoutten Interviews

There are some interesting video interviews with Jim Scoutten (host of the Shooting USA TV show) posted on the Outdoor Television website. There are 6 videos, and he discusses everything from the Obama factor, increased gun sales, to increased NRA memberships.  You … Continue reading

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“The-Backup”

I just had to share this one! Apparently “many customers are ordering one for each side of the bed.” 

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