Author: Scott Sampson

ASC is hosting a Combative Handgun Course offered by Dave Jenkins from Rochester Personal Defense, Sept 23 & 24.  This course was developed and taught by Dave Spaulding before he retired.  Dave Jenkins is one of the few instructors that Dave Spaulding certified and recommends to teach his material! This 2 day course is $450 for members and $500 for non-members.  All payments are due no later than 15 August!   To register please contact Scott Sampson at [email protected] This is a great opportunity!!!! Description: This course takes the handgun from a sporting, plinking, or recreational implement, to a tool of combat- to be ready and willing to fight if avoidance and evasion fail. The purpose of this course is to build solid essential skills (grip, trigger control, body position, holster skills, reloads, malfunction clearances, etc.) and put them in the fight! Students will be trained to anchor and improve these essential skills under set time frames established in six (6) standards that will be shot during the course combining speed and combat accuracy. This is not a course for the brand new shooter. You must have a good foundation of skills (grip, stance, sighting, trigger operation) and a desire …

June 10th, 2023 – Calling all Ladies!  Join us for Women on Target!   All women, ages 12+ are welcome and encouraged to come out to experience firearm education in a safe and supportive environment.  This women only event will cover education in pistol, shotgun, rifle and archery.  The cost is $65/person this year and will be inclusive of all firearms, ammo and lunch at the Conference Center. Women will benefit from one-on-one instruction with certified instructors in each discipline.  Participants will receive materials and a certificate of participation. This is a fantastic event for those women that have never held a firearm before to maybe those that have experience in a discipline but not another. Don’t wait, spots are limited.  Sign up here Today! ASC Women on Target 2023 Flyer

Good Evening folks, In order to ease the pain of the range being closed for repairs and renovations, our Chief Instructor Scott Sampson will be offering a FREE Online United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) mini class this Monday night (4/24) at 7 PM.  The class will be about 1.5 – 2 hours long.  The mini class will be on “The Legal Use of Force”.  You will be required to provide your ASC membership number and will be registered for the class with USCCA.  Again there is no fee. The link to join is meet.google.com/bnk-mqpn-gwm Hope to see you online!  

For those that have always wanted to learn how to shoot Skeet, we have our very own Dale Mullin, who is willing to teach us!  You must be comfortable with the basic fundamentals of shotgunning.  If you took the shotgun 100 class a couple months ago you are all set. If you are interested you will need to do the following: send an email to Scott Sampson ([email protected]) – confirm that spots are still open You will need: Clays Card (RFID card) at least 100 targets. eyes and ears (Recommend plugs rather than muffs as muffs can interfere with the stock) A shotgun with an open choke Four boxes of target loads size (7 1/2 shot or smaller.) Lunch, beverages, snacks. Dress in layers so that we can adapt to the weather. Hope to see you out there!  

Register now for Handgun Combatives Course Sept 23/24,  2023 ASC is hosting David Jenkins, founder of Rochester Personal Defense to put on Dave Spaulding’s Handgun Combatives Class.  Dave Spaulding retired and has only certified a few folks to continue teaching his course and Dave Jenkins is one of them.  I have known Dave Jenkins for several years and taken instructor classes with him as well as taken classes from him and can recommend Dave completely. This class is something you won’t want to miss. If interested please contact Scott Sampson at [email protected].  Once you have contacted him you will be asked to pay on the ASC Payment Portal. Enter Handgun Combatives Class in the payment description.  Your spot is not held until payment is made.  Refunds will only be considered until 1 August.  After that refunds will not be granted as we have to commit. The cost is $450 for Members and $500 for non-members.  Sorry immediate family who are not members are not eligible for the member price.  To pay the $450 price you must enter a valid membership number.  If paying for two members put that in the Payment Notes.   Here is the class description: This course …

March 18 through March 20 the Airfield Shooting Club will be holding a NSSA registered skeet shooting competition. The competition will have four (4) categories (guns): 12 gauge 20 gauge 24 gauge 410 gauge Doubles There will be a cash prize for first place in each category. The cost is $25 per gun. In order to participate you must pre-register and be a member of NSSA. On the day of the shoot you will need 1.    Cash or check for $25 for each gun. Checks are to be payable to Airfield Shooting Club 2.    NSSA membership card. You may join the NSSA at the shoot, the yearly membership is $30.00 3.    Classification Sheet. The competition will allow mixed guns each day so you may compete on any of the 3 days. Ties for Gun Championships will be decided by long runs from the front or back whichever is longer. Email day(s) and gun(s) to compete to; [email protected]  

Good afternoon folks! The board just finished its February board meeting and we are happy to announce that we think we have a path forward.  The board approved two contracts to conduct necessary range repair/maintenance.  The first contract we need to execute is for the removal of the lead from the berms.  This contract is expected to be awarded to a company, MT2 to facilitate.  The 2nd contract is to a company for the repair of the Short Range Berm and build up of the 50yd and 100m ranges. The removal of lead is required before we can repair the berms for a number of reasons. The repair cannot start until the lead removal is complete. Because the Airfield Conference Center actually own the property we need our proposal to approved their Board.  The new Director of the Center was present at our meeting and will try to get it completed next week.  She is in agreement with the ASC Board’s direction. We don’t have specific dates as this is just breaking.  We are hoping to have MT2 out in March to remove the lead.  We are hoping to know dates next week or perhaps early the following week.  It …

Good Evening!  Saturday Feb 4th there will be a Tidewater Friends of NRA banquet at the Greenbrier Country Club in Chesapeake, VA.  Doors Open at 5:30.  If interested we need to get head counts to the Club by Tuesday.  Please go to the Friends of NRA website to purchase your ticket or better yet a Table (and get a gun!).  Our events average 1 gun for every 10 people.  This gives you a great odds to win a gun via raffle, game or live auction.  Dinner is included for your ticket price. Virginia Friends of NRA just got done assinging grants to the amount of $405K.  The majority of our money goes to 4-H shooting programs, Boy Scout Camps and Councils, JROTC, youth shooting programs and even some college shooting teams.  We also have awarded money to police departments for ballistic vests for K9s and Eddie Eagle Costumes and more.  None of the money goes to salaries.  This is the non-profit side of the NRA so we can’t do any of the politics etc.  We simply raise money to help ensure our shooting sports remain alive. Visit <here> to purchase tickets!  But don’t wait!!! If you are interested in volunteering …