Text Box: 03 July 2008

Text Box: Three new articles are posted on The First Shot On-Line, the CMP’s electronic newsletter.  Check The First Shot front page at http://www.odcmp.org/0708/default.asp to see summaries of all recent articles with links to the full articles.  The First Shot On-Line front page also displays readers’ comments and a link to the popular CMP Forum.  The latest articles posted are described below.

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Text Box: Camp Perry Air Gun Range Open and Active - The CMP’s Camp Perry Competition Center with its 80-point electronic target air gun range opened this month with a flurry of activity. Since use of the new range began on 9 June, CMP programs have already trained 276 junior shooters and 45 adult leaders or coaches there, while utilizing the assistance of 20 volunteer instructors and several CMP staff members to carry out four different training programs.   More Details

Text Box: The Grand Island Independent of Grand Island, NE, recently highlighted the National 4-H Shooting Competition.  Read the full article at http://www.theindependent.com/news/x415945899/400-youths-in-Grand-Island-for-National-4-H-Shooting-Competition. 

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Text Box: IN MEMORIAM--James (Mac) McCollum from Duncanville, Alabama, passed away on 12 June from complications following surgery.  Mac was an expert on the M1 Garand rifle and an avid Garand collector.   During the first years after the CMP was privatized in 1996, he played a key role, as a nationally-renouned M1 Garand expert, in the establishment of the Civilian Marksmanship Program and its government surplus rifle sales program.  Mac earned his Distinguished Rifleman Badge as an Alabama Army National Guardsman in 1979.    National Matches Pistol Shooters’ Handbook.  The latest information for students in the 2008 Pistol Small Arms Firing School and 2008 National Trophy Pistol Matches is contained in contained in a Shooters’ Handbook that the CMP posts on the website and prints for distribution to competitions as they check in at National Matches In-Processing.  The handbook generally contains more detailed information about the matches and Camp Perry that is not available when the Official Program is released in the spring.  The 2008 National Matches Pistol Shooters’ Handbook has now been posted.  SAFS students or competitors who are going to Camp Perry can download the handbook at http://www.odcmp.com/NM/PistolShootersHandbook.pdf.   National Matches Air Gun Events.  This year the air pistol and rifle events that are a traditional part of the National Matches have moved to the new CMP Camp Perry Competition Center with its electronic target equipped 80-point 10 meter range.  The official program listing the events that will be offered this year together with the schedule is now posted at http://www.odcmp.com/NM/AirEvents.htm.  There will be 30-shot re-entry air pistol matches during the pistol phase plus a 60-shot squadded championship match on Sunday, 13 July.  There will be 30-shot re-entry air rifle matches plus a 60-shot air rifle championship that can be fired any evening during the smallbore phase of the Nationals.  During the CMP and NRA highpower matches, air rifle shooters will be able to fire 20-shot re-entry standing matches on a 200 yard SR target reduced for air rifle firing at 10 meters.  A 20-shot sporter air rifle standing event to be fired on the reduced SR target will be offered throughout the National Matches.  Shooters who are coming to the National Matches are encouraged to bring their air pistols or rifles along so they can also shoot in these matches.  Air gun shooters who are not entered in the National Matches pistol, smallbore or highpower events may want to plan a trip to Camp Perry just to shoot in these air gun events.   National Matches Garand, Springfield, VMR Entries.  Entries in the combined Springfield-Vintage Military Rifle Matches for the four AM relays on Viale Range on Friday morning, 1 August, now exceed range capacity.  For shooters who plan to enter the Springfield and Vintage Military Rifle Matches, there are still entry spaces on the four PM relays for Friday afternoon, 1 August.  There are also plenty of spaces to fire one of these matches on Rodriguez Range on Saturday afternoon, 2 August. Entry spaces are still available for the four AM Garand Match relays, although requests for Rodriguez Range AM relays now exceed range capacity.  Further requests for Garand AM squadding on Rodriguez Range are now being moved to Viale AM.  When capacity there is reached, and this is expected soon, all remaining Garand Match entries will be squadded on Viale Range PM relays.   Blue Trail Range Closure Threatened.  The Blue Trail Range in Wallingford, CT is currently threatened with closure because of threats from nearby neighbors.  This range was founded by the Lyman Gun Sight Corp. and has actively served thousands of rifle, pistol and shotgun shooters and competitors for decades.  The Blue Trail outdoor ranges have been voluntarily closed while these allegations are being investigated.  Anyone who wants additional information or is interested in assisting with the effort to keep this great range in operation should go to the website http://www.savebluetrailrange.org/.     Please Share. . .Forward this copy of CMP Shooters’ News to coaches, parents, friends and fellow shooters whom you know would enjoy reading it.  They can also subscribe to these CMP email updates at http://clubs.odcmp.com/subscribe.    

Text Box: National Service Rifle and Service Pistol Shooter Rankings Released - Sergeant Brandon Green and Staff Sergeant James Henderson, both assigned to the U. S. Army Marksmanship Unit, are the country’s top ranked service rifle and service pistol shooters in national rankings just released by the CMP. Current lists of the Top 100 Service Rifle Shooters and the Top 100 Service Pistol Shooters can now be viewed on the CMP website at http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/nationalRanking.cgi.    More Details

Text Box: 2008 Eastern Creedmoor Cup Matches - Army Marksmen Take Top Places in the EIC, Creedmoor Cup and Team Matches - The 2nd Eastern Creedmoor Cup Matches took place at Camp Butner, NC on 8-11 May 2008. These matches were held in conjunction with the Eastern CMP Games Matches that concluded earlier in the week. 343 competitors attended the Camp Butner competitions this year.   More Details