The Service Rifle match continues to be conducted on the second Saturday of the month, and registration starts at 8:30am with the first relay being conducted at 9am (after the range safety and orientation briefs). The March results are attached.
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 1: 10:00 am
Squad 2: 12:00 pm
Squad 3: 2:00 pm
To sign up for a squad, please email [email protected] with your first and second choice.
Email signup will close at 12 Noon on Thursday 27 March.
Walk-ins are welcome, but may encounter longer wait times.
The match will be run is an IDPA like manner and we will follow the IDPA rule book.
The cost of the match will be $15 for non-members and $10 for members.
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.
| 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
How to Shoot Trap – NSSF Shooting Video
OSP Shooting School’s Gil Ash explains how he approaches each station on a trap field. By knowing the proper hold points and focal points for each station you can greatly improve trap shooting.
Swamp Shooters in the News
Our youth shooting team, the Airfield Swamp Shooters, mades the news. We congratulate them and encourage their success.
Events like this are the main reason our club exists so try to support them every chance you get.
http://www.tidewaternews.com/2013/09/14/teams-hit-their-marks-in-shooting-competition/
IDPA Style Match Saturday August 31st
Where: 50 yard range
Setup: 8 am
Sign-in: 8:30 am to 1:30 pm
Match begins: 10 am
Course of Fire Attached
Shooters may show up at any time between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm. Shooting will end at 4 pm. New shooter orientation 10 am – 11 am and 12 pm – 1 pm.
Cost: $10 for ASC members and $15 for non-members.
Traffic Alert – Downtown Tunnel
For our members that use the downtown tunnel or the high rise bridge, the downtown tunnel will be closed westbound on weekends from Aug 9th until next Spring.
This will probably cause backups on the high rise so give your self some extra time when traveling to the range on the weekends.
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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.
ASC Pistol Class on Dec. 8
On December 8, 2012, the Airfield Shooting Club (ASC) is hosting an NRA First Steps (Pistol) Class with additional sections on the Law of Concealed Carry and Self Defense and Methods of Concealed Carry.
The First Steps (Pistol) Class is intended to provide hands-on orientation to one specific pistol model and includes both classroom and live-fire training. Our instructors teach both revolver and semi-auto sections in this class. In addition to the NRA First Steps (Pistol) Class, over an hour long session is scheduled with Timothy W. Drewry, a Virginia practicing attorney, who will discuss some of the legal aspects of carrying concealed firearms and self defense in Virginia. There will be a question and answer period, and the attorney will remain 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. The legal instruction and the concealed carry portions of the course are non-NRA approved, but added by the ASC to better inform pistol shooters who may wish to carry concealed.
Those who successfully complete the NRA First Steps portion of the course will receive a certificate which will serve as proof of training for the purpose of obtaining a Virginia Concealed Handgun Permit.
The course is scheduled to commence at 9:00 a.m. in the Sussex Lodge at the Airfield 4-H Conference Center (near Wakefield). We expect the formal portion of the course will be completed by about 4:00 p.m., however several of the NRA Certified Instructors usually remain at the range to help those who want to get some additional practice with their handguns. It is not necessary that you own a firearm in order to attend these courses. The instructors will bring some of their personal firearms, which you may borrow. If you have your own firearm, you may bring it to the range for live fire practice, but please do not bring a loaded firearm to the classroom portion in the morning. We will do our first work with loaded firearms in the early afternoon.
Cost of the class is $65.00 (nonrefundable unless directed by ASC Board). Payment should be made to the “Airfield Shooting Club” and sent to ASC Vice President, Timothy W. Drewry at P.O. Box 247, Courtland, Virginia 23837. The course fee includes all NRA class materials, some .22 caliber ammunition and the attorney’s fees, but does not include the cost of any centerfire ammunition. You may bring your own centerfire ammunition to use in your own firearm or an instructor’s firearm.
Note: This course has limited space; the course is filled as payments are received.
If you have any questions, please contact Tim Drewry at 757-653-9999 or by email at [email protected] . If you already have a concealed carry permit, this is a great refresher course, especially if the first course you took to acquire your permit did not have a lecture on the laws in Virginia. If you have family, friends and neighbors who wish to acquire a concealed carry permit, then this course will fully prepare them!!! We hope you will register for this class and join us on December 8!!!