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The 59th Western Wildcats Championship Day One The 59th Western Wildcats Championship, the longest continuously running 6400 prone tournament, got underway at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Arizona in March 16th. Hard on the heels of the NRA Metric prone championship 40 shooters contest...

With the command “Commence Fire!” the 2017 Anysight Smallbore Rifle Metric Prone National Championships got underway. The pack of a half dozen competitors knotted up for the lead for the grand aggregate knew that every shot would count any there would be no quarter given. Starting with the Dewar Mat...

The 2017 National Rifle Association Smallbore Rifle Prone Metric National Championships opened at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility under bright skies, warm temperatures, and gentle but stealthily switching winds on March 13th. The field of 32 sling competitors featured a large contingent of National ...

It is reported that Pennsylvania's senior statesman of the sport and  shooting icon Elmer Schweitzer passed away on February 28, 2017 at the age of 93.  Schweitzer was well known for his  shooting skill as well as high quality gunsmith work, coaching, teaching, mentoring, and being a friend to all. ...

SPMTT,

If you are right handed just point your thumb in the direction you want the shots to go and turn the sight knob in the direction your fingers curl.

As you gain more experience it will become instinctive.

Best,

Hap

Only Olympian to medal on all five continents on which the Olympics have been held.

Interesting to note that, as talented as she is, this is the first medal she has won in international competition.

Where does one go from here?

Go to pronematch.com and the NRA website http://competitions.nra.org/championship-results/nra-national-smallbore-rifle-championships.aspx Mark Delcotto, a noted long range high power shooter had been in the top three in smallbore in the past but this was his year. Only two of his 640 record shots es...

Kenny, Competitive shooters are a miniscule percentage of the NRA membership. There are approximately 30,000 classification cards in all disciplines. Realistically we know that most of us hold at least two, but lets ignore that. There are 5,000,000 NRA members which means competitive shooters, at be...

Colleagues, Rick Hawkins, US Coast Guard Academy Coach, conducted the equipment check and reports that UK's Head Coach Harry Mullins was there watching the situation and the cutting. He didn't have to cut it, he just couldn't use a belt as the waist band was 2.7mm thick, the limit is 2.5mm if someon...

G'Day Giddaymate, Never having watched you shoot it is a difficult question to answer but after you reload, grasp the pistol grip and then put your elbow down. This should make your elbow placement more consistent. If you have a good natural point of aim when you start this with should help replicat...

Will,
Thanks for your support and the fact that you did not mention that most of the books in my library have not yet been colored in.
Hap

John,
If you are eligible to vote your ballot will be in your elected NRA magazine this month.
Thanks for the support.
Hap

Colleagues, I would appreciate your support. Feel free to pass this on to your shooting friends and mailing lists. Thanks, Hap Elect Hap Rocketto to the NRA Board Of Directors • Hap is a NRA Benefactor member, nominated by petition. • Supporter of Second Amendment and all NRA/ILA programs. • Vietnam...

JPK, I think you are using the wrong term in your question. Eye relief is the distance from the rear aperture and your eye. It is the point at which the your eye obtains the full viewing angle. It changes from position to position, closer prone than in standing, but is usually about two to six inche...

I was standing in the assembly area at Camp Perry when my Pennsylvania shooting friend Terry Lightner hurried past me in a crouch, a soft rifle case cradled in his arms and held close to his chest. A vision of Ygor scuttling off to Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory with a full brain bottle under his clo...

Dave, The following is from Shooting Sports USA . The program will be on the NRA website in March with registration to follow in April. If the last few years is any indication the NRA camp will be held at Camp Perry during the pistol phase. Information about it will turn up on the NRA website in the...

Marty, Your argument is sound. As I said, I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. I am not carrying the NRA's water, far from it, just making observations. The NRA has several things going for it in regard to Conventional prone at Bristol this year. They have brought ...

Jake, I am sure that Carl, and the rest of the vendors, would like to have some smallbore shooters spending money this summer on Commercial Row, and may be working in that direction with the CMP, but if there is any smallbore at Perry it won't be an NRA event. Although, Dennis Willing wrote in the c...

Jeff, There are three individual championships to be contested at Bristol, conventional prone; conventional position; and metric position. The Metric and Conventional position championships are each an NRA Smallbore 3-Position Championship. The Conventional Prone Championship is a standalone champio...