CAMP PERRY, OHIO - The National Trophy Rifle and Pistol Matches are quickly approaching, with the First Shot Ceremony scheduled for Monday, 11 July. Our official programs for the CMP National Trophy and CMP Games Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, are now posted on the CMP website and our Competition Tracker system is ready to receive on-line entries. Competitors who wish to reserve their places in this year’s matches are invited to do so. The easiest way to find the programs and the matches you wish to enter is log onto the CMP home page at http://www.odcmp.com. Simply click on the National Matches tab in the center of the toolbar.

To our Valued CMP Customers and Programs Participants. In order to keep you properly informed about our sales and marksmanship program activities, you can only trust information that is found on the Civilian Marksmanship Program Web site at www.odcmp.com and no other site with a similar URL. Any other URL or link cannot be trusted as the genuine CMP Web site. It has come to our attention that there are fraudulent Web sites on the Internet which may portray themselves as the Civilian Marksmanship Program. They are not to be trusted and CMP is not associated with them in any way.

Erik Anderson Ph.D., the inventor of the Orion Scoring System, will be leading a series of clinics on Orion in conjunction with the Three Position Junior Olympics at Camp Perry, Ohio, June 26th and June 29th. The clinics are open to the public. This clinic will primarily benefit existing Orion users, however coaches and shooters interested in learning more about Orion are encouraged to attend as well.

CAMP BUTNER, NORTH CAROLINA - The 2011 Eastern CMP Games brought new and old friends to the firing line under four days of sunny North Carolina skies 7-10 May. A few new champions were crowned and many came away with CMP achievement medals, but all took home some great shooting memories and experience in competitive marksmanship.

Blair Clowdis and Douglas Armstrong Set the Bar for the New Vintage Sniper Rifle Team Match at Camp Butner

CAMP BUTNER, N. CAROLINA – It was a couple of years in the making, but the CMP Vintage Sniper Rifle Team Match was worth the wait based on comments made during an after-event gathering in the awards tent following the first official match on 10 May. When match director Dennis DeMille addressed the group and asked the question, “What did you think of our first Vintage Sniper Rifle Team Match?” competitors gave him a rousing, positive reply.

CAMP BUTNER, NC – It was an unlikely sight – two ponytailed girls walking onto the firing line at the first official CMP Vintage Sniper Rifle Team Match on 10 May; and they weren’t there to get a sun tan while watching grandpa shoot. They came to compete shoulder to shoulder with some of the grittiest veteran rifle shooters in the country in a new match that requires excellent marksmanship, wind-reading experience and decisive communication skills.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said "Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that, upon other fields, on other days will bear the fruits of victory." On Thursday, April 14th 96 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines in Iraq had the opportunity to hone their warrior skills in such "friendly strife," but while also deployed to a combat theatre.

The CMP is contacting Adult and Junior Highpower shooters in Ohio and surrounding states to invite you to the National Match Air Rifle Monthly Matches that will take place at the CMP Marksmanship Training Center on 21 May 2011. The match program for these matches has two tracks, one for experienced highpower rifle shooters and a second track for new and inexperienced shooters so we’re also looking for new shooters who want to learn a new shooting sports discipline.

Davis and Atchley Cruise to National JROTC Air Rifle Victories As Shelby County and Ozark Win Team Championships

ANNISTON, ALABAMA – Connor Davis, 18, of Shelby County High School, Kentucky, set two new national Marine Corps Junior ROTC precision air rifle records only to break his own record the next day en route to winning the individual national championship here on 25-26 March. He amassed an aggregate score of 1291.05 with 87 center shots. Davis, a junior at Shelby County, fired a qualifying score of 593-41 out of a possible 600 on the first day of competition – giving him a five point lead going into the 10-shot final. He then shot a 103.6 in the final to set the new 3x20-plus final record of 696.6. Davis owns the current USMC JROTC record of 103.8 which he set in December 2010 at the Gary Anderson Invitational.

ANNISTON, ALABAMA – Three JROTC competitors received their Junior Distinguished badges on behalf of the National Three-Position Air Rifle Council and another six shooters earned badges during competition at the 2011 National Junior ROTC Air Rifle Championship on 25-26 March. Tyler Dayton, 18, of East Coweta High School, Georgia, received badge number 393; Charles Leonard, 18, of Marmion Academy, Illinois, badge number 394 and Sara Crampton, 15, of Des Moines North High School, Iowa, badge number 395. Badges were presented by CMP’s James Hall, who earned badge number 2 in 2002.