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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
By Katie Harrington, CMP Program Staff
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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.
The State Championship postal competition gives both sporter and precision class position junior shooters of all levels of ability an opportunity to test their marksmanship skills against other juniors in their home states during the nation-wide postal competition. The postal phase features two separate events, a 3x10 sporter air rifle event (10 shots in each position, prone, standing and kneeling, fired in that order) and a 40 shot precision standing air rifle event (4x10 or 2x20 standing). Juniors may fire the State Championship postal competition in either or both events.
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Yvonne Swiontek, who represented Zion-Benton High School, Zion-Benton, Illinois, won the 2009 U. S. Army Individual Sporter Class Championship.
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The CMP manages the State Championship postal phase of this competition by taking online registrations, mailing target sets, scoring targets and posting results. Competitor information is printed on each set of targets before they are sent out to be fired on home ranges. Once the targets are fired, teams send the targets back to be scored by CMP staff members using the Orion scoring system. This program takes digital images of targets and has the ability to score shots quickly and accurately. Results from the postal phase will be posted on the CMP’s website as soon as the targets are scanned and scored.
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The CMP will award U.S. Army Air Rifle State Championship Medals in every state where there are participating teams.
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Registration opened 2 November, and will remain open until 8 January. Targets must be postmarked by 22 January, and preliminary results can be viewed on 1 February. Results will become final 8 February. The top teams and at-large individuals will be invited to attend the Championship on 20-24 March at AMU’s Pool Air Gun Range in Fort Benning, GA. Qualifiers for the National Championship will be officially notified as soon as possible after 8 February.
The Official Program is posted on the CMP web site at
http://www.odcmp.com/3P/ArmyJrOpen.htm. Team and individuals can register at
http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInfo.cgi?matchID=5020. Please note that that the home addresses of individual shooters should be used to fill in the contact information and not their club/school addresses, as this is how awards will be distributed. There is a $5.00 entry fee per individual. One hundred percent of the entry fees will go to provide funding assistance for teams traveling to the National Championship.
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