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ASC has published a new Range Rules document. A quick overview of the changes: Pg 10, Section I-G4 provided clarity on electrical conduit being ok to be used for supporting steel Pgs 10 and 11, have been revised to account for frangible ammo with steel.  Non-Jacketed frangible ammo is safer because the bullet is made of a compressed material that when it hits steel is breaks into particles like sand.  Please understand that there is Jacketed frangible ammo which has a jacket that will ricochet so it is NOT the same thing. Pg 19, RSO section – added additional guidance on how to run a range. Please take a look.  As always if you have any questions please feel free to give us a shout!  

Airfield Shooting Club Members, We regret to inform you that the Rimfire Challenge scheduled for this month has been canceled. Please keep an eye on future announcements for details on next month’s Rimfire Challenge and other upcoming sporting events. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We look forward to seeing everyone at future events. Best regards, Tom Sanford

Gentle Shooters, We are almost back to practice season, and judging by some of the scores, the timing seems appropriate. But yet there is time to ponder a few things. Will Art ever shoot the match clean? Will Cort ever miss again. But one thing is for certain, after Tuesday at least for TV ads it will be truck month again. Finally, the election and all of the noise that goes with it will be over. Until then, consider that our last match of 2024 will be on Pearl Harbor Day, Saturday December 7th. Whilst you wait, contemplate the results below. ASC Bowling Pin Match Results November 2024 Finish Competitor String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Cort Tompkins 3.31 3.04 2.23 2.23 10.81 2.23 2 Paul Lynch 4.84 3.11 2.32 2.30 12.57 3 Taylor Strickland 2.73 3.69 2.70 3.48 12.60 4 Kenny Hardee 4.73 3.87 3.71 5.77 18.08 5 Art Schoner 3.22 4.16 9.85 5.79 23.02 6 Courtney Bolze 7.63 8.56 5.96 3.89 26.04 7 Habib Bararat 8.71 7.78 7.66 6.81 30.96 Major 1 Kenny Hardee 4.47 6.71 3.89 5.17 20.24 2 Paul Lynch 3.97 4.23 5.85 8.02 22.07 3 Cort Tompkins 7.68 …

Gentle Shooters, We only have two more Bowling Pin Matches this season. We know the weather will be good for this one, so come on down to the idyllic Airfield Shooting Club range in pastoral Wakefield for the match this Saturday, November 2nd at 9:30 AM. If you are curious about Bowling Pin Shooting, you can get more information here. For specific questions, we have a pinhead available at [email protected]. He doesn’t know much, but that never impedes an authoritative answer. Steven

Gentle Shooters, This Saturday, October 5th. at 9:30 at the bucolic Airfield Shooting Club in scenic Wakefield Virginia, we will hold a heroic bowling pin match. With Halloween just around the corner, you can’t be too careful about those zombies. Bowling Pins are just like zombies. You have to hit them square or they will just hurt your brain. (Or at least your ego.) So select your semi autos, corral your carbines, and round up those revolvers and ride down to the range for the match. Brush up on the rules or get directions from our web page and then come on down to the shoot. Specific questions can be directed to our pinhead at [email protected]. Steven  

Modified Metal Madness SRB – 50 yd Range is reserved for the next Rimfire Challenge – Modified Rimfire Steel Challenge for 22LR Pistols and/or Rifles only. This month’s challenge on Sunday, October 20th, is a speed shooting competition for 22LR pistols and rifles consisting of several modified stages with five steel targets. Competitors are scored solely by the time it takes to complete each stage by shooting five strings in order except the stop plate, which must be shot last. Throw out the worst score; the winner is the lowest overall time. The course of fire is designed to be completed by even the most inexperienced shooter using one 10-round magazine without reloading “on the clock.” Recommend a minimum of two magazines; suggest five mags. This is a timed event designed to have 90% of the shooters hit 90% of the targets 90% of the time. It is open to all, and even the young and old can easily participate. $5.00 entry fee for members, $10.00 for guests. I need help to set up the range at 7:00 am.  Safety Meeting 8:30-9:00 am. The safety meeting is mandatory to shoot the match. The match starts promptly at 9:00 am. Contact Match Director: Tom Sanford, [email protected]

The semi-annual NSSA registered skeet shooting competition will be held at the Airfield Shooting Club on 19-21 October. The competition will have all categories:  12 Ga, 20 Ga, 28 Ga, .410 bore, and Doubles. There will be a cash prize for first place in each category. The cost is $30 per gun. In order to participate you please notify intent to shoot (day, gun, etc.) and be a member of NSSA.  Walkups are subject to waiting and possibly shifting to Sunday or Monday. On the day of the shoot you will need: Cash or check for full amount for each gun. Checks are to be payable to Airfield Shooting Club NSSA membership card. You may join the NSSA at the shoot, the yearly membership is $30.00 Classification Sheet. The competition will allow mixed guns each day so you may compete on any of the 3 days.  Once we have all shooters sending their preferences, a draft schedule will be made available to all. Ties for Gun Championships will be decided by long runs from the front or back whichever is longer. Email day(s), gun(s), NSSA number and address to: [email protected] Additionally, if anyone needs to get their service hours in, …

Gentle Shooters, While we missed several stalwart pin shooters this month Like Cory and Art, who were working a service project for the club, the shooters who made the match were greeted with comfortable temperatures and friendly if overcast skies. As is often the case, best friends battled for supremacy in the carbine class. In what was supposed to be the battle of the Buckhammers, Taylor Strickland and Paul Lynch were set to duke it out on the gray sands of Airfield. But Taylor’s gun jammed in some prematch testing and he dropped back to a 45 ACP carbine. The 45 still reigned supreme, as the results show. While you are only going to see pins do a 360 and nearly land on their bases erect by attending a match, the next best thing are our results, which are listed below. ASC Bowling Pin Match Results September 2024 Finish Competitor String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Taylor Strickland 2.39 2.24 2.90 2.64 10.17 2.24 2 Paul Lynch 3.09 3.78 4.29 2.74 13.90 3 Courtney Bolze 3.22 4.99 2.90 3.30 14.41 4 Kenny Hardee 3.68 3.69 2.97 5.74 16.08 5 Cort Tompkins 7.25 4.51 …

Gentle Shooters, If you are a shotgunner, you know it is dove season. If you are a bowler, it is time for new leagues for the fall. When those start, tehy replace the existing pins with new ones. That makes it bowling pin season. They are available now and we will lose them if we don’t act. We need to haul 80 cases each from two bowling alleys. We would like to do it next Tuesday, September 10th at 7PM. I need volunteers with trucks or SUV’s to haul pins from Lynnhaven in Virginia Beach and Indian River in Chesapeake to our warehouse near Northampton Blvd and Diamond Springs Rd in Virginia Beach. We will award service hours for your effort. If you can assist, please contact me at [email protected]. Thanks, Steven