Arizona Team Arriving in Camp Perry for National Championships!

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Arizona Team Arriving in Camp Perry for National Championships!

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Shooters!

Members of the Arizona rifle teams are arriving at Camp Perry!

Since 1907, Camp Perry, an Ohio National Guard base (right on Lake Erie between Detroit and Cleveland) has held the annual National Matches. http://thecmp.org/competitions/cmp-national-matches/ .

NRA (founded 1871) and CMP (started as NBPRP in 1903) conduct a two month long series of Rifle and Pistol Matches. Starting with just smallbore (.22) rifle, pistol and high power (.30) rifle, Over the decades they have added so many new events were added such as various C&R shoots, long range, mid range prone, etc that NRA had to move smallbore and some of their less attended high power events to different ranges in neighboring Indiana, but the NRA Pistol Matches (Arizona team won civilian team!) and a whole slew of CMP High Power classes and matches are still held at Camp Perry.

The Service Rifle stages sponsored by CMP, which start next week, are the best attended precision shooting event in the western hemisphere. Over 1000 shooters, side-by-side shooting 200, 300 and 600 yards! Standing, Sitting and Prone, slow fire and rapid fire! Nearly every single shooter using an AR-15!

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2016 team match at Camp Perry.

Arizona is sending two teams!

A junior team, http://www.arizonajuniorhp.com/ sponsored by ASRPA http://asrpa.com/

And an adult team, this year sponsored by PRGC's High Power division http://www.phoenixrodandgun.org/

All the shooters, 6 or 8 on each team, will shoot the individual matches, then the teams will shoot, as teams, in the team matches. This is about 7 days of shooting!

AZ's junior team is VERY strong! for decades, almost every year, they win one of the big team matches. The problem with the Junior team is.... the best shooters leave! They "age out" at 21 or earlier if they join the military, and a lot do, we put an average of one cadet in a military academy every 2 years! So every year, they need to find NEW TEAM MEMBERS! So if you have a teenager (12 is about the youngest) who would like to shoot AR-15's with the best shooters in the state, get in touch with me, the team will be having a recruitment session in the fall!

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2016 team!

Our adult team needs shooters too! In fact, so many adult shooters are busy with careers or drift off into bolt action 1000yd shooting, that we really need to find as many AR-15 shooters as we can! We will be holding recruitment sessions in the fall too!

Here is my write up from the 2016 National Matches
http://arizona-rifleshooting.com/AZ-SR-Perry16.html


CMP Western Games is coming to Ben Avery in Phoenix in October
http://thecmp.org/competitions/cmp-trav ... ern-games/ with beginner's classes on Friday and Saturday 19-20-Oct. A bunch of serious AR-15 matches and a bunch of FUN, beginner-friendly M1/C&R shoots before and after!

Rio Salado in east Mesa http://www.rsscaz.com/ holds a twice yearly beginner's High Power Rifle class, usually the 4th sunday in April and October, this year, it will be 28-Oct. http://www.riosaladohp.com/clinic.htm .

Also, if you want to get into this type of shooting, all of our monthly club shoots, at all the ranges in town, are open to everyone, they are somewhat beginner-friendly and experienced shooters always go out of their way to teach the new guys! A few of us do one-on-one coaching. So there are LOTS of chances to learn the sport!

The National Matches start in just a few days! results will be posted here:
https://ct.thecmp.org/app/v1/index.php? ... atch=16353

Hope to see you all on the firing line soon!

Poole
http://arizona-rifleshooting.com/
(I will post this on multiple sites, PM or email arizona@rifleshooting.org for more info)


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Good luck! Hope someone from AZ can win it
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Thank you Bill for posting !!!!!!!!!! Go AZ !
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