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21 SEPTEMBER 2004 |
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You Can Still Register for the Youth Leadership Conference. Openings are still available in the National Youth Shooting Sports Leadership Conference that will be held at Camp Perry, Ohio on 8-10 October. Openings are also available in most of the coach training and competition officials courses that will be taught at Camp Perry between 5 October and 7 October, before the conference starts. To register, open the CMP Competition Tracker web site at http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchInfo.cgi?matchID=353. Links on that page will give you the conference and school program and let you register on-line. The conference begins on Friday afternoon with everyone having an opportunity to shoot a John C. Garand match (CMP will provide rifles and ammo). An impressive list of conference speakers includes Major Mike Anti, U. S. Army, who won a silver medal in the Athens Olympics; David Johnson, the National Rifle Coach whose shooters won gold and silver medals in Athens; and Dr. Dan Durben, coach of the 2004 USA Paralympic Shooting Team and Director of the CMP Junior Rifle Camps. How-to session will focus on conducting competitions, gun safety training and equipment preparation. Several shooting sports equipment companies have now provided door prizes for the conference. |
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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/0904/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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2004 Springfield and Military Bolt Rifle Match Sets Attendance Record Each year for two days in August, fans of vintage military rifles take over the National Matches ranges at Camp Perry, Ohio in what has become the most popular two days of the matches. This year, the 3rd Annual Springfield and Military Bolt Rifle Match and the 6th Annual John C. Garand Match took place at Camp Perry, Ohio on August 6-7. They were once again the biggest draws of the National Matches with a record 816 shooters entering the Springfield Match and 1401 shooters registering for the Garand Match.
CMP Employees Hang Yellow Ribbons for Deployed Troops CMP employees took an hour out of their day on September 9th to converge on Oak Harbor and festoon the light poles and signs that line Water Street, the main street that passes through downtown Oak Harbor, the next town west from Camp Perry and the home of the 200th Red Horse Squadron. The yellow ribbons will remain as a symbol of the pride and appreciation that the local community has in the 200th Red Horse Squadron and as a wish for a quick and safe return of these men and women to their families, homes and country. |
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2004 John C. Garand Match Was A Sell-Out Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, “The Birds” has given moviegoers the willies for decades since its debut in the 1960s. For competitors at Camp Perry shooting the John C. Garand Match on August 7th, the birds had an entirely different meaning. More accurately, it was one bird that caused anxiety for shooters and match officials. With Camp Perry’s proximity to Lake Erie, it is a natural hunting and breeding ground for a number of hawks and eagles. |
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National Three-Position Air Rifle Council Elects Chairman, National Jury of Appeal. Gary Anderson, who represents the Civilian Marksmanship Program on the National Three-Position Air Rifle Council, was reelected Council Chairman at its meeting in Bowling Green, Kentucky in July. Mike Buss, who represents the American Legion, David Woodard, from the National Guard Marksmanship Training Unit, and Larry Pendergrass, a retired JROTC instructor and veteran competition official from Georgia, were elected as members of the National Jury of Appeal. USA Shooting Hires New National Pistol Coach. Bob Mitchell, USA Shooting Executive Director recently announced the hiring of Sergey Luzov, former World Champion and Olympian, as the new national pistol coach. Luzov was the 1986 world champion in running target. He also won three World Cup gold medals in that event. He coached the running target team for the country of Belarus from 1991-94. In 1996, he moved to the USA and became the coach of the USA running target team. With the elimination of that event from the Olympic program, it is hoped Mr. Luzov will now be able to use his coaching skills and the respect that he is accorded throughout the world to build pistol participation in the USA, develop a larger grass-roots program and help elite USA pistol shooters get to the medal stand in international events. American Legion Awards to Junior Olympic Winners. Joseph Caouette, Jr., Chairman of the American Legion National Americanism Commission provided letters of congratulations to accompany award plaques that were presented to the highest-scoring juniors from American Legion-affiliated programs in the July 2004 National Junior Olympic Three-Position Air Rifle Championship. American Legion award winners were Jace Bures, Beatrice, Nebraska (sporter individual); the Homestead 4-H Shooting Club, Beatrice, Nebraska (sporter team); Joseph Hall, Carrollton, Georgia (precision individual) and the Wolf Creek Young Shooters (precision team). USA Shooting Volunteers of the Year. USA Shooting recognized Creaestia Hall of Carrollton, Georgia and Larry Pendergrass of Stockbridge, Georgia as their 2003 Volunteers of the Year. They were honored at the 2004 USA Shooting National Championships.
CM2 Youth Target Rifle Endorsed by USA Shooting Team. USA Shooting and the European American Armory recently announced an endorsement program that will make a well-designed junior target rifle available on the American market at an attractive price. The rifle, a Russian-manufactured Izhmash target rifle, comes equipped with adjustable target sights, a rail and sling swivel, an adjustable butt plate and a target-style stock. It is small enough and light enough to be used by younger junior shooters. The rifle is endorsed by USA Shooting as a junior target rifle. Russian target guns have earned a reputation throughout the world for their excellent design and performance qualities on the range. Recommended retail prices range from $439 to $499. The rifles may be ordered through local dealers. More information is available from EAA at eaacorp@eaacorp.com. |
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CMP Offers New National Matches Poster. Junior clubs or teams looking for an attractive shooting poster to put up in their range should order the new CMP marksmanship poster that can be purchased from the CMP for $12.95 plus shipping/handling. Order item #706AIMS from the CMP E-Store at http://www.odcmp.com/Services/estore.htm. The 19 ½” x 26” four-color poster is taken from an original Jerry Antolik oil painting that was completed in 2004 and now hangs in the CMP offices at Camp Perry. The painting and poster feature images of 2003 national champions and historic targets. |
