08 January 2009
Five 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/0109/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.
Registration Opens for 2009 Eastern CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches - The Official Program for the 3rd 2009 Eastern CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches that will take place at Camp Butner, North Carolina on 2-10 May, is now posted and available at http://www.odcmp.com/Competitions/EasternGames.htm. Competitors who want to compete in either the CMP Games Matches or the Creedmoor Cup Matches can register for on-line at http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInf ... tchID=4147. In 2007, the inaugural Eastern CMP Games and Creedmoor Cup Matches drew over 300 competitors to Camp Butner, North Carolina for the nine-day shooting extravaganza. In 2008, the Eastern Games competitor count increased to 350. With three new events on the 2009 program, the total number of competitors is expected to go up again.
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2009 Achievement Medal and Achievement Pin Cut Scores - One of the most popular goals for competitors in CMP As-Issued Military Rifle and Rimfire Sporter Matches is to fire a score good enough to earn a Gold, Silver or Bronze Achievement Medal or Pin. Competitors in the CMP Games Matches at the National Matches are awarded medals with neck ribbons when they fire scores that exceed Achievement Medal cut scores. Competitors in the Eastern and Western CMP Games
Matches also are awarded medals with neck ribbons. Clubs that sponsor As-Issued Military Rifle or Rimfire Sporter Matches can award, Gold, Silver and Bronze Achievement Pins for scores fired in CMP sanctioned matches.
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2009 CMP Three-Position Air Rifle Summer Camp Registration Opens - As the holiday break ends and schools start back across the country, it is already time for students to begin planning how they want to spend their summer vacation. For air rifle shooters we hope that one of the events that will be marked on their new 2009 calendars will be a CMP Three-Position Air Rifle Summer Camp. To help make this planning easier, the 2009 schedule has already been posted online, and registration forms will begin being accepted on 19 January.
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Enter Now--the 2009 U.S. Army Junior Air Rifle Open Championship - Junior shooting clubs and school teams can now make on-line entries in the 3rd U.S. Army Junior Open Air Rifle Championship. The annual U.S. Army-sponsored event offers state championship postals and a shoulder-to-shoulder national championship in two events, sporter air rifle three-positions and precision air rifle standing. Organizations interested in this major junior air rifle championship can download the official match program that is posted at http://www.odcmp.com/3P/Army_Jr_Championship.htm and make their entries on-line at http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInf ... tchID=4148.
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CMP Conducts Junior Air Rifle Clinic for American High Schools in Germany - The CMP Three-Position Junior Air Rifle Camp and Clinic programs are always expanding in attempts to reach more juniors across the country, but on 22-24 November 2008, this concept was taken to the extreme when CMP instructors Brad and Vicki Donoho traveled to Germany to work with American high school student-athletes stationed with their families on U.S. Military bases. This is the first time that the CMP has carried its camp program outside of the United States and only the second time that a CMP junior camp has been held outside of the lower 48 states.
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MAJ David Cloft of the USAR Service Rifle Team featured in the ALPENA News of Alpena, Michigan. Alpena native finds tremendous success as a marksman - By CHRIS DOBROWOLSKI. You can feel it from the moment David Cloft starts talking about shooting a rifle. It oozes out of him, as if it consumes him. It doesn't matter if he's describing the first time he went to a shooting range as a 10-year-old. Or the time when he became the first American in more than 600 years to win an annual Schutzenfest competition in Germany - an honor that got him knighted by Princess Elizabeth von Ysenburg. You could also include all the target practices, the competitions, or simply the feeling of squeezing a trigger and nailing a target that could be as far away as 1,000 yards. To read the full article, visit http://www.thealpenanews.com/page/conte ... 03863.html.
Columbus State University Adds NCAA Rifle Program - Columbus State University in Columbus, GA announced in early December that it will add four new athletic programs for the 2009-2010 school year, one of those being a Co-Ed Varsity Rifle Team. This is exciting news for both the NCAA rifle program and for high school athletes in Georgia, where Rifle is a high school varsity sanctioned sport. North Georgia College and State University is the only other NCAA shooting program in the State of Georgia. As a result, many of state’s top shooting athletes have to venture to other parts of the country to pursue college shooting careers. The new team will practice and compete in Army Marksmanship Unit’s (AMU) International Shooting Range at Fort Benning, which is only a few miles away from the University’s campus. This will give CSU’s athletes the unique opportunity to train and compete on one of the best electronic shooting ranges in the country. Heading the program will be CSU staff member Mike Green who has served as Athletic Facilities Coordinator for the last four years, and Sergeant First Class Mike Moore of the AMU. For more information about CSU athletics go to www.csucougars.com, or visit the University’s website at www.colstate.edu. For more information about NCAA Rifle programs across the country go to www.collegerifle.com.
Attention Highpower and Air Rifle Shooters! The CMP is introducing a new event called “National Match Air Rifle.” The event features two courses of fire similar to the highpower rifle standing and John C. Garand courses of fire that will be shot on reduced highpower 200 and 600 yard targets on 10-meter ranges with air rifles. There will be three rifle classes, sporter, match/precision and AR-type air rifle. The CMP is conducting a test match at the Camp Perry Marksmanship Center on 10 January. The CMP invites both experienced highpower shooters and recreational air gun shooters to try the 10 January test match and provide feedback to assist in finalizing the rules. The CMP has produced 10-bull paper AR-SR and AR-MR targets that will be on display, together with some industry prototype AR style air rifles. For program and registration information, visit http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInf ... tchID=4045.
Western Washington State JROTC JMIC Course Scheduled. Chief Hull, JROTC JMIC Master Instructor, will host a JMIC Course (Junior Marksmanship Instructor Course) on 10 January at Burlington-Edison High School, NJROTC Classroom Room 584 located at 301 North Burlington Blvd, Burlington, WA 98233. Class is scheduled from 9:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. Registration is required and there is no cost for the JMIC Course. Contact Chief Hull via email at rhull@be.wednet.edu or phone (360)757-4074 x3583 for more information.
2008 CMP Monthly Match in Anniston, Alabama - Air Rifle and Air Pistol Marksmanship Competition. The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) invites you and your club or school rifle team to participate in a new series of matches. The first matches will take place on 23-25 January 2009 at the CMP’s brand new Competition Center South. The competition will feature a Junior Air Rifle 3x20, 60 Shots Air Rifle Standing and 60 Shots Air Pistol matches. The CMP will offer these matches on a monthly basis and will feature two days of competition. For more information, visit http://www.odcmp.com/Programs/ANN_JanProgram.pdf or contact James Hall at jhall@odcmp.com or (256) 835-8455 ext. 1145.
3rd Annual Camp Perry Open. The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) invites junior and adult competition air rifle shooters to participate in the 3rd Annual Camp Perry Open. This year’s match includes a three-position air rifle event, 40 and 60 shot international air rifle courses of fire (all standing) and an optional clinic at Camp Perry, Ohio. The match will be held on 16-18 January 2009 in the new 80 firing point Camp Perry Marksmanship Center that is equipped with electronic targets. There will be a super final at the conclusion of both the men’s and women’s finals on Sunday. The super final/guts match will have cash prizes. The super final will be a coed match, pairing the top 16 males from the 60 Shot Match and top 16 female shooters from the 40 Shot Match in a bracket style tournament. Several National Team and National Development Team members and members of the Army Marksmanship Unit have already registered to compete. This is a great opportunity to shoot with some of the best shooter’s in the U.S.! For more information or to register for the 2009 Camp Perry Open, visit http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInf ... tchID=3950. Contact Vicki Donoho at vdonoho@odcmp.com or (419) 635-2141 ext. 1102 for additional information.
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