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19 JULY 2004 |
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NATIONAL RIMFIRE SPORTER—IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO ENTER. It’s still not too late to enter the 2004 National Rimfire Sporter Match at Camp Perry, Ohio on Saturday, July 24. Entry space is still available on the afternoon relays. Rimfire Sporter gives you a chance to shoot your favorite smallbore plinker or sporter over a new-shooter-friendly course of fire during the famous National Matches. Everyone is welcome to attend the Rimfire Clinic at 3:00 PM Friday afternoon, July 23, on Viale Range, whether you shoot in the match or not. You can register for the match on-line at http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInfo.cgi?matchID=273. You can review or download the match program at http://www.odcmp.com/NM/Rimfire.htm. The new 30-page CMP GUIDE TO RIMFIRE SPORTER can be downloaded at http://www.odcmp.com/Competitions/rimfire.pdf. The match promises to be a great family event; several husband-wife and father-daughter-mother-son combinations are registered. All participants will receive T-shirts and have an opportunity to earn Rimfire Sporter Achievement medals. The day will end with an informal cook-out. M16 EIC MATCH EXPANDED. The CMP and NRA National Matches range staff have been able to work out a range change that will allow all shooters who were previously on the National Matches M16 EIC Match waitlist to be added to the match. Some additional entry spaces have opened up and entries will be accepted until those spaces and a new waiting list is filled. GARAND AND SPRINGFIELD MATCHES ALMOST FULL. The Springfield Match that will take place at Camp Perry on August 6 and the John C. Garand Match that will take place on August 7 are both almost full. As of July 16, only a few entry spaces in either match remain open. The CMP will maintain a waitlist for both matches and will move as many shooters as possible into the match as cancellations are received. If you want to shooter either of these matches this year, go on-line at http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchRegistration.cgi?matchID=346 and get your entry in as soon as possible so that you can get in the match or on the waitlist.
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CHAMPION MARINE CORPS MARKSMAN LAUNCHES 2ND CENTURY OF NATIONAL MATCHES Olympic silver medalist and many-time national champion Jim Hill was the guest of honor at the 2004 National Matches First Shot Ceremony on July 12 at Camp Perry, Ohio. Hill, a retired Marine, was invited by the CMP to be the First Shot Ceremony speaker and fire the ceremonial first shot that inaugurates each annual National Matches.
NEBRASKA 4-H TEAM DOMINATES JUNIOR OLYMPIC SPORTER The leading team in the 2004 National Junior Olympic Three-Position Air Rifle Championship was the Homestead 4-H Shooting Club from Beatrice Nebraska. The Nebraska team’s rise to the top is part of a dramatic change in which parts of the country produce the best sporter class three-position air rifle shooters. Just two or three years ago, most winning sporter juniors hailed came from the southeast U. S. In the 2004 championship seven of the top eight individuals came from the Plains states of Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma and Minnesota, while only one came from a southern state, Louisiana.
Junior Olympic Precision Championship Heats Up in Corvette City Bowling Green, Kentucky is best known for two things: being the home of the Chevrolet Corvette and the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers. On July 13th, it became the center of the most important junior three-position air rifle competition in the United States as the National Junior Olympic Three-Position Air Rifle Championships came to a close. |
