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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.
Dixie Double
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) invites you to participate in its first annual Anniston Marksmanship Center Dixie Double. This new match offers 60-shot international air rifle standing and 60-shot air pistol events for open men and women and junior men and women. USA Shooting is sanctioning this match as a PSA/PSI match sanctions; it is also sanctioned as a PTO. Members of the National Rifle and Pistol Teams will attend. National Rifle Coach David Johnson will present a coaching clinic for all interested persons on Saturday afternoon, 14 November. The match is a two-day event where competitors will fire one 60-shot event on each of two days, 14 & 15 November 2009.
Visit http://www.odcmp.com/3P/DixieDouble.htm for additional information.
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. The next Camp Perry (Ohio) match is 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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 Registration Open for Junior Air Rifle Individuals and Teams in the
U. S. Army Junior Open Air Rifle State Championship Postal Competition
- The U. S. Army Junior Open Air Rifle Championship is now taking entries for the 2009-2010 State Championship postal competition. This Championship is sponsored by the Army Marksmanship Unit and is open to all junior shooting organizations that have school-age juniors as members or enrollees (high school seniors or below). Participation by as many junior teams, clubs, 4-H clubs, JROTC units or other organizations around the country is encouraged.
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 2009 Western Creedmoor Cup Matches
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The 2009 Western Creedmoor Cup Matches, the third held at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility near Phoenix since moving from Camp Pendleton, California, are now in the books. CMP and Creedmoor Sports of Oceanside, California, together with the Arizona State Rifle & Pistol Association served as hosts of the matches and games events.
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 6th Western CMP Games
- The objective of the CMP Games Matches is to encourage participation, to get more people out on ranges for “rifle practice” and competitions. The four days of shooting during the 2009 Western CMP Games at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility north of Phoenix surely fulfilled that objective. The Games saw competitors complete a record 476 event entries in six different CMP Games rifle events.
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 More Camp Perry Improvements
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Two Ohio National Guard ceremonies on 13 October, one a Dedication Ceremony and one a Groundbreaking Ceremony, highlighted the most recent endeavors to make additional improvements to Camp Perry, which is the home of the National Matches and CMP North Headquarters. A photovoltaic solar field that is now producing power for the Camp Perry Training Center was dedicated and ground was broken for a new barracks that will provide housing for both National Guard Soldiers and National Matches competitors.
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 JROTC Postal Season Opens
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Targets Can Now Be Ordered
- The task of acquiring a spot in the 2010 JROTC Service Championships starts this week for JROTC cadets across the nation, as Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force JROTC Cadets will begin preparations to compete in the 2009-2010 Air Rifle Postal Competitions.
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 100-foot Antolik Mural Commemorated during Fall Open House and Turkey Shoot
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than 300 shooters and guests attended the second annual Camp
Perry Marksmanship Center Open House on Saturday, 19
September, commemorating the center’s second year of
operations and a new shooter’s mural.
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 2009 Western CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches Ready for Entries
- 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.
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Camp Perry Marksmanship Center Mural – A Sight to See!!
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Award-winning wilderness artist and friend of the Civilian
Marksmanship Program, Jerry Antolik, has captured the character of competitive shooting at Camp Perry on a stunning new hand-painted mural at the CMP Marksmanship Center air gun range.
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