Some news from the NRA

Posted on December 10, 2009 by H

Here are a few interesting snippets from the NRA’s latest newsletter:

college_webNRA Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship
We are extremely excited to announce that our brand new championship has been locked in for 2010! The NRA Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship will be hosted by Purdue University, April 8-11, 2010. Purdue University is located inWest Lafayette, Indiana, has approximately 40,000 students attending, and boasts over 200 major areas of study. The Boilermakers are fortunate to have a 40 point indoor firing range in their armory located on campus.

The NRA Intercollegiate Rifle Championship will include NRA Collegiate Rifle Clubs, Varsity Rifle Teams, ROTC and “Independent” shooters. Qualification will be determined through NRA Collegiate Sectionals. The championship will include a training summit for the student athletes and their coaches.

The NRA Intercollegiate Rifle Championship will be a key factor in fostering collegiate rifle shooting in the USA. This championship will give shooters the opportunity to prove their talents and skills in front of their peers, their families and friends, their mentors, their university administrators, and their idols. The rewards will be endless. The tradition will be steadfast. The experience will last a lifetime.

Please join us in supporting the inaugural NRA Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship! If you would like to become a sponsor of this fantastic event, please contact Woody Arenas, by phone 703-267-1469, or by e-mail, warenas@nrahq.org. If you would like to become a part of our volunteer family for this event please contact Victoria Croft via e-mail, vcroft@nrahq.org.

Thank you, to all of the collegiate shooting community for all of your steadfast support! We really look forward to 2010 and all of the spectacular events we have in store!

2010 National Metric Championship Causing Excitement
Excitement is building as the NRA Staff readies for the first 2010 National Metric Position and Prone Championships. The National Metric Championship will feature a Three-Position Championship and a Metric Prone Championship contested in July 2010. These Championships will be fired over two days each using metallic and any sights.

Located just off Interstate 80, and about three hours from Camp Perry, theWa-Ke-Da Range in Bristol, IN features a 100 point asphalt covered firing line. The range sits in a large grove of trees providing a beautiful setting and shelter from the wind. The range is ideal for metric competition.

Competitors who like to camp will have plenty of opportunity with a KOA Camp ground located just a mile away from the range and, in addition, the range has 20 RV hookups to support twenty early birds.Competitors who want to stay in a motel or hotel do not need to look very far for a place to stay. There are a few motels located about two miles from the range in Bristow and about 15 miles away in Elkhart, IN, there are plenty of hotels and motels.

There are also many restaurants in the area to support the competitors and staff. Food service will be offered at the range for folks who want something to eat during the day.

The Position and Prone Team Championships will have a different twist.The teams will be made up of two shooters. The team matches will be a “paper match” with the scores coming from the Individual Championships. A Metric Team Champion and an Any Sight Team Champion will be awarded for position and prone. There will also be a National Metric Position Team Champion and a Metric Prone Team Champion whose scores will come from both the Metallic Sights and the Any Sights Team Championships.

Tournament Program is planned to be ready in March in time to begin accepting registrations beginning April 1, 2010. When a competitor or a coach calls to register and pays the tournament fee they will be given their squadding and a confirmation will be sent to them in the mail. Only 200 competitors will be accepted for the Position Championship and 200 competitors for the Prone Championship will be accepted due to range limitations.

More information will become available in 2010. Right now, the NRA Staff is planning the tournament details and working with the Championship Sponsor to get specials at the local hotels and motels for the competitors. Keep watching for more information as it becomes available.

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The Real Trophies are in Here

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Hap Rocketto

by Hap Rocketto

Some years ago, when I was a young pup, my National Guard Rifle Team won the US Army Combat Rifle Championships. Each shooter was given a small Blackington medal and a handshake by the general. Back in the barracks, after the awards had been passed out, I was bewailing the fact that our great achievement warranted a much greater token than the medal. Roger McQuiggan, who had taken on the rather difficult job of mentoring me, finally had his fill of my juvenile carping and quietly took me aside. When we were alone he simply tapped the spot on his chest under the top button on his fatigue shirt and said, “Hap, the real trophies are in here.”

While we all love the outward signs of our success symbolized by the medals, trophies, and NRA points that we garner what we really love is the satisfaction of performing well. And, while the applause of our peers is very gratifying, it doesn’t approach the internal glow one gets from pleasing the toughest critic of all-one’s self. Roger’s lesson was neatly driven home to me a little while later in a smallbore match.

I was shooting an NRA 3X40 Sectional at Fort Benning. For a rather new shooter to the All Guard program this was very heady stuff. At that level in the shooting game you have to be careful that the altitude does not get to you. It is the big time and I was well aware of my surroundings. I had shot a 397X400 kneeling and was eagerly awaiting the scores to be posted because I knew the match was mine. As it turned out not only was the match not mine but I didn’t even place! The score was seventh overall. To my surprise Olympian Bill Beard stopped me and complemented me on the score. I replied that it wasn’t that good, it didn’t win anything. He agreed on it not winning anything but he reiterated that it was a good score. He went on to tell me that when you are shooting with the best it is roll of the dice as to who will win.

In fact, the recognition of the performance was a far greater trophy than anything made of wood and metal. The truth of the matter was that score was my personal best and while it was not good enough to win the match it was good enough to help establish myself in the minds of others, and most importantly, in my mind as a contender. If I had won the match I would have expected the comments on the good score and a valuable lesson would have been lost. But, by shooting well and not winning I came to understand what Roger so clearly knew and tried to teach me. We enter competition not to triumph over others but to triumph over ourselves. That is the real victory and that is why the real trophies are of the heart.

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Shooter Spotlight: Hap Rocketto

Posted on December 8, 2009 by H

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 16th interview in the series.

Hap Rocketto

Where do you call home?
Quaker Hill Rod and Gun Club is my shooting address, but I like to think that every rifle range is my home.

How long have you been shooting?
I first shot when I was about eight, but that was just a little plinking.

How did you get involved in shooting competitively?
I started competitive shooting as a high school freshman in 1961 at New London High School, following in my brother Steve’s foot steps, under the great teacher and coach George H. Gregory, Jr.

What is a little known fact about yourself that your fellow competitors might not know?
I believe that I am the only living person existant who has held in his hands the Dewar, Pershing, Randle, and Roberts trophies.

What do you consider your finest shooting achievement.
The 35 or so years I have worked with juniors and new shooters as a coach and mentor is what makes me proudest about my shooting career. I have been at it so long now that most of my present Mohegan Rifle league team is made up of my old juniors.  Some of their children are now competing which sort of makes me their shooting grandfather.

What is your favorite pre-match meal?
An onion roll with cream cheese and a glass of orange juice is my favorite way of filling the pie hole before a match.

What is your favorite post match drink?
An ice cold Coke in a glass bottle is my preferred way of rehydrating after shooting.

Do you have a favorite shooting range?
Like food, I have never come across a shooting range that I have not liked-just some more than others.

Do you have any short term and/or long term goals?
Long term I am looking at making a run on the NRA 3P Outdoor Smallbore Rifle Senior Championship in 2012 when I turn 65.  Look out Lenny Remaly and Jay Sonneborn!

What shooting skill are currently focusing your energy on?
I am working at improving my prone so that I might earn the Perry leg I need to earn prone Distinguished as well as my standing position, which has been suffering from neglect.

Thanks Hap for sharing a little bit about yourself with the pronematch.com community!

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Day 3 Results from the 3xAir

Posted on December 7, 2009 by H

2009 Winter Airgun Championships Conclude with Emmons, Turner, Beard & Uptagrafft Claiming Day Three Titles

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Day 2 Results from the 3xAir

Posted on December 6, 2009 by H

Emmons, Szarenski, Scherer and Uptagrafft Claim Top Spots on Day Two of Winter Airgun Championships

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Day 1 Results from the 3xAir

Posted on December 5, 2009 by H

Emmons, Scherer Shoot Perfect Scores; Capture Day One Winter Airgun Championship Rifle Titles. You can read view the complete results below.

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10 Rules for How to Win

Posted on December 4, 2009 by H

I stumbled accross this article by Bob Rotella (a sports psychologist) on how to win at golf. The similarities between golf and shooting are so similar that I thought I’d share the article with our pronematch.com readers here. The orginal article–“10 Rules For How To Win Your Major”–can be viewed on Golf Digest’s website at http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2009/06/bobrotella_10rules

01 Believe you can win.
I still remember my first major, the 1985 city championship in Charlottesville, Va. Back then I didn’t play a lot of golf, but I wanted to see how good the players in my town were. I shot in the 80s and finished third from last. When I got done, I decided to follow the leaders so I could see how my game compared. After watching them for 18 holes, my evaluation was this: They hit it farther than I did. They hit it straighter. Their bunker play was fantastic. And they chipped and putted better. But I left there believing that if those guys could win, so could I. I worked on my game, and over time I got better, including one winter when all I did each day after work was hit bunker shots. Eight years after I first competed, I made a 12-foot putt on 18 to win my city championship.

02 Don’t be seduced by results.
How can Trevor Immelman get to the 18th green of the final round of the 2008 Masters and not know where he stands? It’s called staying in the present, and it’s a philosophy I teach all the players I work with. It means not allowing yourself to be seduced by a score or by winning until you run out of holes. Instead, you get lost in the process of executing each shot and accept the result.

Before Trevor teed off on Sunday with a two-shot lead, he decided he wouldn’t look at leader boards. He had a plan: Pick a target, visualize the shot and let it rip. As Trevor walked up the 18th fairway, Brandt Snedeker put his arm around him and nudged him to walk ahead. Trevor told me it was the first time all day he allowed himself to think about the outcome. After marking his ball, he asked his caddie how they were doing. His caddie said he had a three-stroke lead over Tiger. Trevor said he went from being quiet and calm inside to thinking, How can I not five-putt this?

03 Sulking won’t get you anything.
The worst thing you can do for your prospects of winning is to get down when things don’t go well. If you start feeling sorry for yourself or thinking the golf gods are conspiring against you, you’re not focused on the next shot. When Padraig Harrington won the British Open in 2007, he got up and down for a double-bogey 6 on the last hole to make a playoff after knocking two balls into the water. Padraig told me he had a level of acceptance that earlier in his career he didn’t have. He said it never entered his mind that he might blow the tournament. His only thought was getting his ball in the hole so he could win the playoff.

04 Beat them with patience.
Every time you have the urge to make an aggressive play, go with the more conservative one. You’ll always be OK. In a tournament, the rough is thicker, the pins are tougher, and the greens are faster. The moment you get impatient, bad things happen.

The best example of patience I ever witnessed was Tom Kite at the 1992 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. Kite had been 0 for 20 in U.S. Opens until then. On Sunday, wind gusts reached 35 miles per hour, but Kite didn’t get flustered. On a day when a lot of players didn’t break 80, Kite shot even par and won by two. In tough conditions, stay patient and let others beat themselves.

05 Ignore unsolicited swing advice.
Not too long ago, I was working with this player who was struggling. But a couple of strong finishes had him feeling better. At the next tournament he makes, like, eight birdies in the first round. Now he’s feeling really good. He stops by the putting green to hit a few, and a player he knows walks up to him and says: “I don’t know what you’re doing with your putting, but that’s not the way you used to set up.” A few minutes later another player comes over: “You don’t have your eyes over the ball the way you used to.” Now my guy doesn’t know what to think. He went from making everything he looked at to being a mess the next day.

You’ll have lots of well-meaning friends who want to give you advice. Don’t accept it. In fact, stop them before they can say a word. Their comments will creep into your mind when you’re on the course. If you’ve worked on your game, commit to the plan and stay confident. Continue reading →

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New Issue of Shooting Sports USA

Posted on December 3, 2009 by H

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The latest issue of Shooting Sports USA is available here.

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You can’t buy them, they must be earned

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Hap Rocketto

by Hap Rocketto

There are a few of Lee Marvin movies that I very much enjoy, in part because he was an excellent actor and in part because of the story line. The Professionals, Heck in the Pacific, Cat Ballou, and, of course, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance are films which come to mind. The last because it features the line that inspires my writing, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

I recalled a lesser film of Marvin’s after an internet discussion on Shooters Journal that meandered its way around shooting equipment and just how did the greats of the old days of smallbore shooting, like Bill Woodring, Bill Schweitzer, or Dave Carlson, manage to win so often and so well with what we consider primitive rifles and mediocre quality ammunition.

The movie is The Emperor of the North Pole in which Marvin plays a Depression era hobo called A#1 who is willing to put his life on the line to become a hobo legend as the first person to make a complete ride aboard the train of the sadistic railway bull, a hobo term for a railroad policeman, Shack, played by Ernest Borginine. Along the way a pesky greenhorn, who titles himself Cigaret, played by Keith Carradine, attached himself to A#1like a remora. The intertwining story lines of A#1 riding the train as Shack attempts to throw him off and the irksome Cigaret’s claiming he is as good as the veteran A#1 culminate in a line which sums up the arguments given on Shooters Journal.

The discussion opened with Jim Morrison wondering what type of custom equipment, what accessories, what type ammunition, and shape bullet Bill Woodring used in winning three consecutive national prone championships, a never repeated feat. Continue reading →

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Shooter Spotlight: Bill Reynolds

Posted on December 1, 2009 by H

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 15th interview in the series.

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Bill Reynolds

Where do you call home?
Raleigh, NC

How long have you been shooting?
I am 24, so 24 years, 9 months.  My mom competed in prone matches while she was pregnant with me.  She said that shooting with two heart beats was a special challenge.

How did you get involved in shooting competitively?
I traveled with my parents to Open and Collegiate matches starting at birth.  I think I competed in my first match at age  7, shooting a prone match from a bench.  I think I shot my first match for real at 8 or 9.

What is a little known fact about yourself that your fellow competitors might not know?
Most of my notoriety revolves around shooting, but I am currently in my 5th season coaching tennis for my old high school.

What do you consider your finest shooting achievement.
Either mmaking the Dewar Team at age 19 and finishing that Perry in 11th place, or finishing my Smallbore Double Distinguished at age 21.

What is your favorite pre-match meal?
McDonald’s sausage, egg, and cheese McMuffin with a large OJ and hash-brown.

What is your favorite post match drink?
Pepsi, drink of champions born in North Carolina.

Do you have a favorite shooting range?
Asheville Rifle and Pistol Club, Asheville, NC

Do you have any short term and/or long term goals?
My immediate goals concern shooting in my area.  I would like to fill all 40 spots of our No Excuses Indoor Metric 2400 (Oct 31-Nov 1).  In addition to that, the junior program I’m involved with has just started it’s indoor season.  I hope that we will have more of our juniors receive JO invites this winter. Looking further out, I’d like to get a job coaching collegiate rifle.  I’d also like to continue placing in the top 10% at Perry for both prone and 3P, and make the podium at Perry at least once in my career.

What shooting skill are currently focusing your energy on?
I have been focusing on improving my offhand.  I have revamped my position and plan on honing it the same way I did with my kneeling.  I am going to shoot our local 1200 and 1600 prone matches all standing.

Thanks Bill for sharing a little bit about yourself with the pronematch.com community!

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Last Day to Shoot

Posted on November 30, 2009 by H

Today is the last day to shoot the November pronematch.com postal! Make sure you get your scores in ny December 5th. Email your scores to hap@pronematch.com

http://pronematch.com/new-indoor-prone-league/

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His Parting Shot Was His Best Shot

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Hap Rocketto

by Hap Rocketto

There is pleasure in being a necromancer. I recently resurrected Harry Seeburger. You will remember that Harry was the character that vainly chased Distinguished designation for more than four decades. Some years ago he went on to his reward lacking but 24 points to earn the badge. Heaven, for Harry, must be a rifle range where only leg matches are fired and where his name always appears at the top of the match bulletin.

Another Harry Seeburger epic story has surfaced and I have no reason to disbelieve its veracity. I also have no qualms about passing it on to you as the truth I know it to be. It is such an unbelievable a story that it cannot be anything but true. Again, Harry is at a leg match shooting the 300 yard rapid prone stage. As the range officer began his litany a puff of wind, worth about one click left windage, lifted Harry’s scorecard from beneath his scope base and wafted it downrange.

Instinctively Harry scuttled after it. He was oblivious to the dozens of shooters to either side of him, with loaded rifles at port arms, who were prepared to flop down prone and fire away. Let’s face it, that card represented a great deal to him and he must have been blinded by the fear that the card would escape him, and with it another chance to leg. He wasn’t going to let a little gust of wind stand between him and his goal of a lifetime. As he picked up his card and turned to scamper back to his point the enormity of the range violation he had committed suddenly dawned upon him.

He stopped dead in his tracks. Slowly, like a bull eyeing the matador before the fatal stroke, he swung his head from side to side eyeing the line of armed riflemen. His mind must have flashed back to other similar hopeless military situations and instinctively, like the true infantry NCO he was, he bellowed out at the top of his lungs, “FIX BAYONETS! CHARGE!” He then bolted back to his point, did a neat about face, and resumed the ready position. Unbelievably the range officer continued and the relay fired the stage.

By the time the smoke had cleared the officials had regained their senses and descended upon Harry like a swarm of angry hornets. They were, they said, sad to inform him that he had violated safety rules to such an extent that they must disqualify him as an abject lesson to others. Harry agreed that he had sinned grievously. Mustering his dignity he looked them straight in the eye and said, “Ya coulda at least told me before I shot! At this stage in my life the last thing I needed was another practice string at 300!” He then turned his back upon them and slowly trudged back into the mists of Leg Match legend from which he had emerged.

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Happy Thanksgiving from pronematch.com

Posted on November 26, 2009 by H

We at pronematch.com are very thankful for all of our loyal readers and contributors that help to make pronematch.com an interesting and useful destination for competitive rifle shooters. Happy Thanksgiving!

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GA: RBGC Smallbore Prone Conventional 1600 Results

Posted on November 25, 2009 by H

from Tommy Steadman

RBGC Conv 1600 11.21.09

Dear Friends,

Attached to this message is a PDF file containing the official Summary Match Results Bulletin for Saturdays RBGC season finale conventional 1600 and a digital photo of the competitor group.  I had a great time on Saturday and I hope you enjoyed the day as much as I did.

Congratulations to David Dye, match winner and to Bill Hocker and Keith Perry, class winners.

I’d also like to thank Dennis Lindenbaum and the others who helped him set up everything and put it back where it belongs when the match was over.  That was a great help.  Thanks also to, Linda, for so ably handing the stat office and photography chores.

The next RBGC smallbore match will be our 2010 season opener conventional 1600 on Saturday, March 20.  I’ll send the complete match schedule and official match programs as soon as I complete them.  I’ll also post them on the RBGC website at www.rbgc.org.

I look forward to seeing all of you at matches next season and I hope to see the regular River Bend gang at the range during the off-season.

I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving, a very merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year.

Regards,
Tommy Steadman

Complete results can be viewed below:

pdf 2009-ga-conventional-november

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Shooter Spotlight: Erik Hoskins

Posted on November 24, 2009 by H

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 14th interview in the series.

Erik Hoskins

Erik Hoskins

Where do you call home?
Rehoboth, MA

How long have you been shooting?
I started in 1984, retired in 1995 and started back up in 2000.

How did you get involved in shooting competitively?
My Dad’s friend was a competitive pistol shooter and thought it would be a good idea for my brother and I to go to his club in East Providence RI and try out the NRA Jr. Rifle Program.

What is a little known fact about yourself that your fellow competitors might not know?
This is a tuff one, since I like to talk so much, especially about myself and my family, but I bet no one knows that I was very close to going to seminary school, but none of them had a shooting team, so I picked Sports Medicine instead.

What do you consider your finest shooting achievement.
Boy that is a tuff one, I think it is a tie between the fact that I am a Double Distinguished small bore shooter, and the fact that I was inducted in to The Norwich University Athletic Hall of Fame as an individual athlete on my first nomination.

What is your favorite pre-match meal?
(1) Cinnamon Apple Cereal Bar and a bottle of water.

What is your favorite post match drink?
The Old Number 7, with “crushed” ice not “cubed”.

Do you have a favorite shooting memory?
All of my best memories took place during my college shooting years, and the very best one was when I shot a 595 day 1 and a 595 on day 2 of the fall selection prone match in 1992 to put me in first place in the final. What I didn’t expect was to be ahead of Great shooters like Bill Meek, Glen Dubis, Bill Beard, and the like. My first shot was a 10.9, I almost jumped out of my shooting jacket. That was a great time in my life as a shooter.

Do you have any short term and/or long term goals?
No, I really don’t have either right now. One thing I learned a long time ago was that if you are going to have goals, you must make a plan on how to achieve those goals, and then set out and do it. Right now shooting is a lot of fun for me, but is just one thing I do. I have 3 young sons, a great wife, a job, I’m the Cub Master in town, a soccer coach, a baseball coach, I am part of a Dealer Council for the semi trailers that our business sells. I just really don’t have the time to have a plan for shooting. I just shoot, and I love to do it, and I am blessed every day that I get to.

What shooting skill are currently focusing your energy on?
I am trying to improve my site picture with Iron Sites, trying a lot of different combinations so I can see better.

Thanks Erik for sharing a little bit about yourself with the pronematch.com community!

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CT: 2010 JORC

Posted on November 23, 2009 by H

Here is the info on the 2010 Connecticut State USA Shooting Junior Olympic Air Rifle and Smallbore Rifle Championship:

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11 days left to shoot this month’s postal [UPDATE]

Posted on November 21, 2009 by H

A reminder to turn in scores in six target format, i.e. 98+99+99+97+99+99=591.

60 shots prone indoors, USA50 target, individual, team, irons, or scope. Mix and match, collect all 4! pronematch.com is sponsoring this new match prone series and we want you to be a part of it. Learn more at http://pronematch.com/new-indoor-prone-league/

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Camp Perry Cannon

Posted on November 20, 2009 by H

I came across this cool HDR image on Flickr of the cannon at Camp Perry. In 2008, myself and Erik Hoskins were squadded right in front cannon during smallbore prone. Each morning before our National Anthem, we were treated to an eye-popping blast and a cloud of smoke…ah, I can still smell the sulfur!

Camp Perry Artillery Piece

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Right Between the Running Lights

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Hap Rocketto

by Hap Rocketto

When I was a young unmarried pup I usually went to Camp Perry for the both phases of the smallbore matches, The DCM Board Matches, NRA High power, and rounded out the stay with attendance at the long-range matches. It was about 30 days of the most intense kind of shooting. In 1976, during the long-range matches I was in the pit and my shooters had finished. With a little time on my hands I had wandered down to where my brother Steve was pulling targets. I thought I’d either pick up a new joke or perhaps some hot range gossip.

As I approached I noticed that he and the two other pullers, Paul Leberge of the famous Vermont shooting clan being one of them, was ankle deep in sand, splinters, and scraps of burlap. This meant that 1,000 yards away someone was not having a good day. As I approached, my ever helpful and concerned older brother suggested that I get up against the pit wall as there was debris flying all over the place. I leaned against the concrete in a nonchalant manner trying to look worldly and experienced in the art of long range shooting. Continue reading →

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Shooter Spotlight: Dean Herron

Posted on November 17, 2009 by H

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 13th interview in the series.

Dean Herron

Dean Herron

Where do you call home?
Estill Springs, TN  mid way between Nashville and Chattanooga

How long have you been shooting?
Since 1961

How did you get involved in shooting competitively?
We started a DCM/NRA club at work, and I started shooting with a DCM 03-A3.  Later, found the TN NG shooting program, and got involved with that.

What is a little known fact about yourself that your fellow competitors might not know?
No idea

What do you consider your finest shooting achievement.
Farr trophy

What is your favorite pre-match meal?
Anything

What is your favorite post match drink?
Cold beer

Do you have a favorite shooting range?
AEDC (Arnold Center) at Tullahoma, TN

Do you have any short term and/or long term goals?
Keep promoting and enjoying the shooting game

What shooting skill are currently focusing your energy on?
Prone, both smallbore and 1000 yds.

Thanks Dean for sharing a little bit about yourself with the pronematch.com community!

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CT: David Thompson Shoreline Classic Junior Rifle Tournament

Posted on November 16, 2009 by H

The David Thompson Shoreline Classic Junior Rifle Tournament is coming up December 3-6. There will be lots of awards including Tenex ammo, a savage rifle, Eley team jackets, hats, shirts, stickers, pins, USAShooting gear, and more.

You can download the program here.

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