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Rimfire Challenge – IBS Modified Benchrest 50-Yard Precision Skill Challenge on April 20th. Experience the fun of a friendly IBS-modified bench-rest shooting event uniquely designed to test and challenge your shooting skills. Join us on Sunday, April 20th, 2025, for a day of fun 22LR shooting. The shooters will follow a modified version of the IBS Benchrest Shooting Competition, shooting two to four official ARA 25 bull targets, depending on participation.  Each shooter gets 20 mins to complete each target: factory or unlimited target classifications. The cost is $5 for ASC Members and $10 for Non-Members. All participants must attend the Safety Meeting to shoot!  The range set-up/sighting-in period lasts until 8:30 AM, and then the range goes cold for the 8:30 AM Mandatory Safety Meeting/Instructions. The match starts promptly at 9:00 a.m. and lasts until noon. All participants must attend the Safety Meeting to shoot!  *** The 25 – 50 Meter Range is Closed for this Event. *** For more information about this event, Contact the Match Director, Tom Sanford, at [email protected].

Gentle Shooters, We has a nice turnout for this month’s match. I apologize for the late results and lack of witty comments for this month. Here are your belated results. ASC Bowling Pin Match Results April 2025 Finish Competitor String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Paul Lynch 3.16 3.51 2.82 2.70 12.19 2 Art Schoner 4.16 2.89 2.64 2.72 12.41 3 Courtney Bolze 3.19 3.57 4.83 6.15 17.74 4 Taylor Strickland 4.31 2.22 8.00 3.23 17.76 2.22 5 Cory Allen 5.81 6.83 4.25 6.00 22.89 6 Steven Gordon 4.82 4.71 6.60 6.96 23.09 7 Allen Moran 10.15 7.88 8.95 8.63 35.61 Major 1 Kenny Hardee 3.94 4.38 4.13 3.63 16.08 3.63 2 Paul Lynch 8.04 6.77 9.94 5.29 30.04 3 Cory Allen 6.18 6.45 10.10 10.63 33.36 4 Taylor Strickland 8.65 11.47 14.52 4.03 38.67 5 Allen Moran 10.45 11.79 25.00 7.63 54.87 6 Steven Gordon 11.63 11.24 8.03 25.00 55.90 7 Art Schoner 11.31 9.46 13.55 55.00 89.32 8 Courtney Bolze 14.17 35.00 11.57 35.00 95.74 9 David Petix III 45.00 35.00 9.72 45.00 134.72 Minor 1 Paul Lynch 7.62 6.02 6.45 5.85 25.94 2 Kenny Hardee 7.50 7.19 6.03 5.55 26.27 …

***REMINDER*** For those needing service hours, this is the last work party before renewals. There will be a work party on Sunday April 6th, 9am to 3pmish, weather permitting to start the work on the ballistic wall repairs. We will be attaching 2x6s to both sides of the wall and boring a 1/2 hole thru the wall and using carriage bolts to secure the 2x6s. We will also do a general range cleanup and can always have a few members help make up the remaining target backers. We have some tools on hand but items we will need will be listed below. If time permits we may have to remove some gravel from inside the wall to repair a few troubled spots and then restore the gravel from the top of the wall, good ole bucket brigade possibly. small generators and extension cords, 6 or 8 foot or small extension ladders , 1/2 in drills, 1/2 in wood boring bits at least 12-14 in long(we have a few), impact guns and deep well sockets(I believe it is a 3/4in nut for the carriage bolt) hammer or mallets, chop saw or skill saw, chalk strings, laser level if anyone may have …

It’s that time of year! Membership renewal invoices will be sent out beginning April 7th. There is a work party on April 6th for those of you still needing service hours! Please keep our Treasurer happy by not making any payments until you receive an invoice from me. In the meantime, if you are NOT interested in renewing your membership, please send an email to [email protected].

Due to extremely heavy rains, the road to the range is flooded.  To prevent any problems the Center is closing the road and locking the gate.  The center expects the water level to recede tomorrow and have a contract in place to have the culverts cleared and dredging performed to increase their efficiency,   Art Schoner   ASC President

There will be a work party on Sunday April 6th, 9am to 3pmish, weather permitting to start the work on the ballistic wall repairs. We will be attaching 2x6s to both sides of the wall and boring a 1/2 hole thru the wall and using carriage bolts to secure the 2x6s. We will also do a general range cleanup and can always have a few members help make up the remaining target backers. We have some tools on hand but items we will need will be listed below. If time permits we may have to remove some gravel from inside the wall to repair a few troubled spots and then restore the gravel from the top of the wall, good ole bucket brigade possibly. small generators and extension cords, 6 or 8 foot or small extension ladders , 1/2 in drills, 1/2 in wood boring bits at least 12-14 in long(we have a few), impact guns and deep well sockets(I believe it is a 3/4in nut for the carriage bolt) hammer or mallets, chop saw or skill saw, chalk strings, laser level if anyone may have one, back pack blowers and general hand tools. If you think you can attend …

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, March 16th, 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.” I recommend a minimum of two magazines; I suggest five. 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; 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 22-24 March. 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  $30.00  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 a 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.  Or you can just shoot for fun, not reporting the scores.  Cost is $20 for just targets. 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), …

On March 22, 2025, the Airfield Shooting Club (ASC) is hosting a Pistol Class including sections on the Law of Concealed Carry and Self Defense and Methods of Concealed Carry. The ASC Pistol Class is intended to provide hands-on orientation to the safe handling of handguns and includes both classroom and live-fire training. Our instructors teach both revolver and semi-auto sections in this class. In addition to the ASC Pistol Class, over an hour long session is scheduled with Timothy W. Drewry, a Virginia licensed attorney, who will discuss some of the legal aspects of carrying concealed firearms and self defense in Virginia. The attorney is a certified pistol instructor too and usually remains with the class until the very end so that he may answer questions which may arise. An additional segment of the course will include a brief discussion of some of the firearms appropriate for concealed carry and the holsters or other devices which might be suited for carrying a firearm concealed. Please note that the ASC Pistol Class, including the legal and concealed carry sections, is a non-NRA course, but it satisfies the handgun competency requirements set forth in Virginia Code § 18.2-308.02 (B). This course …

Calling all Pin Heads and members that need their service hours. We are in need of a post hole digger, I have a manual one, but if someone has a gas one that would be great. We need to bore 4 holes for 4×4 post to make frame holder for the SRB and 100. Also of importance: I listed all the projects we would like to work on, but they are now all a must do. We need to build pin tables and frames for the range at a minimum. Saturday March 1st, weather permitting 9am until we are done 3 pm-ish, we will be having a large work party. We will be building pin tables, frames for the all the ranges and also working on the ballistic wall repair project. We need some members to make up new target backers and also doing general range cleanup. Tools needs would be general carpentry tools for building the frames and tables also some power tools would be nice to have. For frames and tables: portable table saw, chop saw ,screw guns and extension cords. For the ballistic wall also general carpentry tools: chop saws, impact drivers with deep sockets(I believe 3/4″) …