RSO’s NEEDED

Want to get your volunteer hours and have some fun too?  We will have Boy Scouts using the ranges on May 10th and will need RSO’s.  They will be using all ranges so we need 4 RSO’s for the day. If you are available for the day you can satisfy your service hour requirements all at one time. Please contact me at [email protected] or call me at 757-572-2835. We also have Scouts using ranges on May 24th and May 31st  If you can help with any of these events please contact me. Thanks for your support. Mike Bromley

Defensive Pistol Match 29 March 2014

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER The March Defensive Pistol Match will take place on Saturday 29 March. Setup will begin on the 50 Meter range at 8 AM. The weather forecast for Saturday is not looking good. It it rains Friday or Saturday, the range will be a muddy mess and we will have to cancel. Keep refreshing this page and we will update as soon as we make a decision. Everyone is encouraged to help paste targets and Airfield members who help setup can earn service hours. We are expecting a good turnout. In order to decrease wait times, there will be three different squads. Please be there at the designated time; each squad will begin with a match brief. The only stage walk-through will be at 10 am. If you cannot make it, please read the stage descriptions and talk to the other shooters. If the shooter is not “ready” when walking up to the line, the on-deck shooter will shoot instead, so that the first shooter has additional time to review the stage. We need to work expeditiously to minimize wait times, and we need help from all with pasting and resetting. The squal starting times are: Squad …

Women on Target 7 June 2014

Ladies ONLY Shooting Clinic – Saturday,  June 7, 2014   Airfield Shooting Club is holding another Women on Target Event!! Our Women on Target events are fun and educational. Women on Target Program Page Where: Airfield 4-H Conference Center, Wakefield, Virginia  23888 Cost: $50.00 (pre-registration required). Cost includes loaner firearms, all ammunition, targets, instruction by NRA certified instructors and lunch.     Attendance limited to the first 40 applicants. When: Saturday, June 7, 2014, sign-in begins at 9:00 a.m. Contact: Dale Mullin (757) 420-4419 (please, no calls after 9:30 p.m.) or via email at [email protected], registration form can be found at the following link. Agenda: 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Sign-in   9:15 – 9:30 a.m. Safety briefing – all disciplines (Rifle, Pistol, Archery & Shotgun)   9:30 a.m. Divide into four groups and proceed to your first discipline   9:40 – 10:50 a.m. First discipline   11:00 -12:10 a.m. Second discipline   12:20 – 1:50 p.m. Lunch   2:00 – 3:10 p.m. Third discipline   3:15 – 4:25 p.m. Fourth discipline   4:25 – 4:35 p.m. How to keep improving your marksmanship skills   4:35 – 4:40 p.m. Awarding of certificates.

CMP Online M1 Garand Maintenance Clinic

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is offering an online M1 Garand Maintenance Clinic. Registration is now open for the CMP’s online M1 Maintenance Clinic, for those wishing to learn more about assembly, disassembly, cleaning and other techniques used to ensure your rifle’s peak performance. The clinic will be the first live online class ever offered by CMP. Check out the details. http://www.odcmp.org/0214/default.asp?page=M1WEBINAR  

Shooting Sports One of 25 Core Sports for 2020 Olympics

Shooting is among the 25 core sports listed by the IOC Executive Board for the 2020 Olympic Games. “Shooting remains a core sport world wide, as well as one of the most universal disciplines. The ISSF represents 161 National Federations, and athletes from 108 countries qualified to compete in shooting at the 2012 Games; shooting ranked fourth among all Olympic sports in this principal measure of universality.” Secretary General Schreiber reminded. International Shooting Sports Federation article

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