In individual competition, the winner of the President’s Pistol Trophy
was Sergeant Robert Park, United States Marine Corps. Sergeant Park
bested all other shooters in the President’s Match with a score of
381-15x out of a possible 400.
(click here)
The Camp Perry Eagles: Bald eagles have been
a regular sight on Camp Perry since the mid 1970s when the nesting
site was one of only four known in the state of Ohio. Ohio Rifle and
Pistol Association member Mark Witt, as an officer of the Ohio Department
of Natural Resources, on May 30 successfully collected two young bald
eagles from their nest seventy feet high in a cottonwood at Camp Perry.
(click here)
Other Features:
THE CMP BULLETIN
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In Sight of the Northern Lights: Glenn Dubis'
new job as coach of the University of Alaska Fairbanks rifle team
is quite different from his previous assignment. For one thing, on
some days on the sun never really comes up, and on other days it never
really goes down. (click here)
A Little Background on the University of Alaska Fairbanks:
UAF first sponsored a rifle team in 1937--over 20 years before Alaska
was recognized as a state.
(click here)
From the Editor's Desk: In May, The First
Shot conducted an on-line survey of people who visit our site. For
survey results, (click here).
News from USA Shooting: Results from the 2003
USA Shooting National Championships (click
here), and news from the Grenada World Cup (click
here).
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| A Camp Perry eagle is tagged and returned to the wild.
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1961 National Collegiate
Women's Rifle Champions from: UAF: (L-R) Diane Sherrif, Linda Dahl,
Kathleen Powers, Judith Pattinson. Photo courtesy of UAF
COL Hoidahl Retires after 30 years: COL Robert
Hoidahl was honored in a USAMU Change- of-Command ceremony on June
4. (click here)
Other News from USAMU: 7 soldiers make the
team for the Pan Am Games. (click
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