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Upcoming CMP Events:

Tuesday Night Open Public Shooting
Camp Perry Marksmanship Center, Port Clinton, OH
Shooters, including aspiring new shooters are invited to take advantage of a new opportunity to do practice shooting on Tuesday evenings at the Camp Perry Marksmanship Center air gun range. The Camp Perry 80-point, 10-meter air gun range is fully equipped with electronic targets that accommodate air rifle, air pistol or National Match Air Rifle shooting.  Instruction and equipment are available.  Visit http://www.odcmp.com/
MarksmanshipCenters.htm for additional information.
 
Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches
Phoenix, AZ
The 2009 Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches will take place at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility North of Phoenix, Arizona on 17-25 October. The Official Program for the 6th Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches is posted and available at http://www.odcmp.com/Competitions/
WesternGames.htm. The 2009 CMP Games program has been changed so that competitors can attend the popular new shooter clinic on Saturday morning, 17 October, and then shoot three Garand-Springfield-Vintage Military Rifle Matches on Saturday afternoon and Monday and Tuesday mornings. The As-Issued M1 Garand EIC Match has been moved to Sunday morning, 18 October, so that more shooters can compete for special 4-point EIC legs in that match. This year, CMP Games competitors will also be able to shoot in a Rimfire Sporter Match on Sunday afternoon and a Carbine Match on Monday afternoon. Creedmoor Cup competitors can attend a free highpower rifle clinic on Wednesday, 21 October, and then shoot on successive days, a practice match, a NMC team match, the 80-shot Creedmoor Cup Match and finally a Service Rifle EIC Match. You can register to compete in either or both the CMP Games Matches and the Creedmoor Cup Matches on-line at http://clubs.odcmp.com/
cgi-bin/matchInfo.cgi?matchID=4969.
 
Anniston Marksmanship Center Monthly Match
Anniston, AL
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) invites you and your club rifle team to participate in our Air Gun Monthly Matches. These monthly matches take place at the CMP’s brand new Competition Center in Anniston, AL.  The competitions will feature a Junior Air Rifle 3x20, NMAR 3x20, 60 Shots Air Rifle Standing, 60 Shots Air Pistol and 30 shots Novice Prone and Benchrest. Anniston (Alabama) matches are 24 October .  Visit http://www.odcmp.com/
MarksmanshipCenters.htm for more information and on-line registration.
 
Camp Perry Marksmanship Center Monthly Match
Port Clinton, OH
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) invites you and your club rifle team to participate in our Air Gun Monthly Matches. These monthly matches take place at the CMP’s brand new Competition Center in Port Clinton, OH.  The competitions will feature a Junior Air Rifle 3x20, NMAR 3x20, 60 Shots Air Rifle Standing, 60 Shots Air Pistol and 30 shots Novice Prone and Benchrest. Camp Perry (Ohio) matches are 24 October and 21 November.  Visit http://www.odcmp.com/
MarksmanshipCenters.htm for more information and on-line registration.
2009 Gary Anderson Invitational
Anniston, AL
You and your shooters are cordially invited to participate in the 2009 Gary Anderson Invitational, one of the major junior shooting championships in the country. The invitational offers three-position air rifle competition for middle and high school individuals and teams in both precision and sporter class divisions. Both divisions will have awards for competitors who fire the top individual and team scores. There will also be special awards for the best new shooters and junior varsity teams. The winning precision and sporter teams will receive trophy plaques and have their team information engraved on the Gary Anderson Invitational Trophy. The top three sporter and precision teams will also receive cash awards of $500, $300 and $200 respectively. Medals will be awarded to the top 25 open and top 15 new shooters in both the sporter and precision classes. Every shooter and team, regardless of the type of equipment they use or their level of experience, will have an opportunity to compete for awards in a truly high quality competition on one of the finest air gun shooting facilities in the world. This Excellence-in-Competition championship is one that every team should attend—we sincerely hope you and your team will join us in Anniston in December for a great competition.  Visit http://www.odcmp.com/3P/GAI.htm for more information and on-line registration.
 



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2009 Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches Ready for Entries

By Gary Anderson, DCM


The Ben Avery Shooting Facility will once again host the Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches on 17-25 October.

The 2009 Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches will take place at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility North of Phoenix, Arizona on 17-25 October. Shooters who want detailed information about the events on the program should examine the match program at http://www.odcmp.com/Competitions/WesternGames.htm. Shooters can now register on-line at http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInfo.cgi?matchID=4969

The 2009 Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches are the sixth in a series that started at Camp Pendleton, California in 2005. The fourth Western Games Matches were moved to the Ben Avery Shooting Facility near Phoenix, Arizona in October 2007. This year’s matches will be the third Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches to be held at Phoenix. Together with the Eastern CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches that now take place at Camp Butner, North Carolina, these competitions were established to give the nation’s best highpower rifle shooters two prestigious national-level competitions and to give recreation-oriented riflemen in other areas of the country more opportunities to experience the kind of competitions that competitors in the National CMP Games Matches at Camp Perry regard so highly.

The 6th Western CMP Games will kick off with a New Shooter Clinic on the morning of Saturday, 17 October. After the clinic, a 200-yard Garand-Springfield-Vintage Military Rifle Match will be fired that afternoon.

A CMP Master Instructor Training Course will take place at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility prior to the Western CMP Games. This workshop is open to all experienced rifle marksmanship instructors and shooters who want advanced training and certification to teach CMP-sanctioned GSM or Rimfire Sporter Clinics. Visit http://www.odcmp.com/Competitions/GSMClinic.htm for more information or to apply for a workshop.

On Sunday, 18 October, there will be a CMP Special As-Issued M1 Garand EIC Match in the morning. Shooters who do not have any EIC points can earn introductory “4-point legs.” As a further incentive to participation in this match, Bushmaster will provide a Bushmaster DCM-XR competition service rifle to be awarded to the highest ranking shooter who is eligible to win the 4-point legs (no previous EIC points). Sunday matches will continue with a Rimfire Sporter Match held at 1:00PM. This should give other shooters in the Southwest a chance to try the steadily growing Rimfire Sporter game. That afternoon, the CMP government-surplus rifle and ammunition sales will open, followed by a barbecue for all attendees.

Shooting opportunities on the third day, Monday, 19 October, include a second Garand-Springfield-Vintage Military Rifle Match that morning followed by an M1 Carbine Match that afternoon. The Carbine Match will give shooters in that part of the country an opportunity to fire that challenging and relatively new event.

The Western CMP Games Matches conclude on Tuesday, 20 October, with third Garand-Springfield-Vintage Military Rifle. With three days of Garand-Springfield-Vintage Military Rifle Matches, shooters will be able to fire all three events. Again this year, there will be awards for the top shooters in a special aggregate of all three As-Issued Military Rifle Matches. Special awards will also be presented for the top ranking competitors in the Handicap Rankings for the Garand, Springfield and VMR Matches.

Both the Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches begin with clinics. The CMP clinic on Saturday morning, 17 October, focuses on the needs of new As-Issued Military Rifle shooters. The Creedmoor Cup Clinic on Wednesday, 21 October, is a comprehensive clinic with lots of advanced information for service and match rifle highpower shooters.

The 2009 Western Creedmoor Cup Matches begin with a highpower rifle clinic on Wednesday, 21 October, and then offer four days of matches for service rifles and match rifles on 22-25 October. Members of the U. S. Army and U. S. Marine Corps Service Rifle Teams and Team Bushmaster will be on hand to assist with the clinic and subsequently compete in the matches. The matches include a 50-shot National Match Course practice match on Thursday, a 4-person team match on Friday, the 80-shot Creedmoor Cup Match on Saturday and a 50-shot EIC/Match Rifle course on Sunday. Creedmoor Sports will host a barbecue and prize drawing with many thousands of dollars worth of prizes on Saturday, 18 October.

The CMP South staff from Anniston, Alabama will be at the match with a supply of Carbines, Kimber .22 cal rifles and M1 Garands. CMP Sales will start on 17 October and conclude on 21 October.

Registration for the 2009 Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Match is now open.

The CMP and Creedmoor Sports of Oceanside, California, together with the Arizona State Rifle & Pistol Association, will host the 2009 Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches. Sign up today and plan to be apart of this exciting event!

The Ben Avery Shooting Facility (formerly Black Canyon Range) is one of the largest and most complete range facilities in the U. S. It was selected as the venue for the CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches because of its size, location near a major western city and interest in hosting this fast-growing major rifle competition. The Ben Avery Range hosted the 1970 World Shooting Championship and several national championships. It continues to host numerous regional and local competitions in a variety of shooting disciplines every year. The Arizona Game and Fish Department now operates the facility; it is the largest public shooting facility in the country.

On-line registration for both the CMP and Creedmoor Matches is now open. Click on http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInfo.cgi?matchID=4969 to register. The official match program is posted at http://www.odcmp.com/Competitions/WesternGames.htm.

An extensive collection of photos taken at the 2008 Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Match can be viewed at http://www.odcmp.com/Photos/08/WesternCMPGames/index.htm and http://www.odcmp.com/Photos/08/WesternCreedmoor/index.htm.

More information about Creedmoor Sports, Inc. is available from their website at http://www.creedmoorsports.com/store/home.php.

Information about the Ben Avery Shooting Facility is available at http://www.azgfd.gov/outdoor_recreation/ben_avery.shtml.

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