A huge thanks to Braden Willis, Boys Scouts Troop 16, and his father, David, for building and donating new shooting benches, rifle racks, sitting benches and a scorers chair to the club for his Eagle Scout project. All the shooting benches were placed at the 25 and 50. A couple rifle racks and benches were also placed at the 50 and the rest along with the scorers chair were placed at the shotgun range.
The locking procedure to secure the main gate has changed to a much simpler process. When it is time to secure the gate we no longer place both locks together. We just wrap our portion around the gate and secure the chain only on the gate. The Centers lock is secured to the main post and locked to the chain. Please continue to zero out the lock when you open the lock though. If you have any question please reach out to me the MO, the President or the Provost for guidance.
Cory
The AED has been temporarily moved into the men’s restroom. This will ensure that we don’t cold soak the battery and shorten its life expectancy. Signage has been placed at all the key places to advise that the AED is in the men’s restroom.
March 2nd, at 9am, will be a chance to get your service hours complete before the renewal period starts.
We will be having a work party to build replacement frames for the ranges and to build the pin tables for the upcoming bowling pin season commencing in April. You Pinheads know who you are that shot up all the tables. Also, general range cleanup will be accomplished. We will need leaf blowers, power saws(table saw and/or miter saw), power drills and general hand tools for the projects. We will also need some extension cords to run from the building as power is currently limited at the SRB/50. A bonus would be a power washer to cleanup the concrete at the range and the bathrooms and also the doors on the building. There will be some other small jobs planned if time allows.
If you have any questions or have specific skills or tools please reach out to me.
Cory
ASC Maintenance Officer
Folks, our first steel challenge for Rimfire was a huge success last month and with the increasing member requests we just had to give it another try for this month. The Rimfire Steel Challenge will challenge even the best of our members on this Sunday, February 18th.
The Steel Challenge is a speed shooting competition consisting of several modified stages using five to eight steel targets with one being the red stop plate. Competitors are scored solely by the time it takes to complete each stage. The course of fire is designed to be completed by even the most inexperienced shooter using one 10-round magazine without the need to reload “on the clock.” Suggest 22LR semi-auto pistols or rifles with 2 to 5 magazines, but bring what you have and we will make it an enjoyable event. There will be some firearms and ammunition available if you want to just come out and give it a try.
Members – $5.00 & Guests – $10.00. The range set up at 7:00 am, Safety Meeting 8:00-8:30 am, the safety meeting is mandatory to shoot the match. Match starts promptly at 9:00am. Contact Match Director: Tom Sanford, email at rimfire@airfieldshootingclub.
Another defensive shooting match in the books we had a record setting day with a grand total of 24 shooters the most we’ve ever had thus far I would like to thank everyone that came out and joined us
Going forward in an effort to condense things down a little bit we will be combining a few categories predominantly all handguns including 22 Rimfire and revolvers will be under the pistols category with the semi-automatic pistols so going forward there will only be four categories pistols rifles shotguns two guns additionally shooting the same category multiple times with different firearms will be listed on the official scores not marked not for score as it would have been in the past
The next defensive shooting match will be March 2nd 8:00 a.m. set up 8:30 Shooters brief if you plan on attending please send me an email letting me know at [email protected] so that I can get an idea of how many people to expect
The shooting scores are in the attached PDF hear —->Defensive shooting scores<—–
For any questions please contact me at [email protected]
Additionally someone had loaned a leather single magazine pouch to a fellow competitor and left before that competitor was able to give it back it has been placed in the Shack on the rifle range for the individual that loaned it to get it back
Gentle Shooters,
We need your help. We will be buying our annual 100 cases of used bowling pins next Tuesday, February 13th at 7PM. They are heavy and bulky and they don’t fit in our Corvettes very well at all. We need able bodied shooters to assist with moving the pins from the bowling alleys to the warehouse where there are stored until that wonderful first Saturday of the month. Trucks and SUV’s are very helpful as well. We will be going to two bowling alleys and then to a storage facility in Virginia Beach to unload. Hopefully we will have enough people that we can go to both alleys at once and just meet at the warehouse. Please email me at [email protected] if you can help. Once I see how many people can help, I will tell you where to meet up.
Thanks,
Steven
If you’re headed to the range tomorrow for the defensive shoot, you’ll notice some work has been done to improve the road to the range. A truckload of asphalt millings has been applied to the roadway. I’m not sure how much of the roadway is covered, but we’ll find out tomorrow. I did not what anyone being startled the next time they went to the range.
Art Schoner
ASC President
This Saturday defensive shooting match set up 8:00 a.m. Shooters brief 8:30 everyone come out let’s have a fun run and Gun
Just a heads up stage one requires shooting from retention and if you utilize a compensated or ported pistol there are some added risk with shooting for retention with this type of pistol because of the gas redirection.
Those that are not familiar with shooting for retention there will be a lesson in proper technique for safely shooting from retention in the shooter’s brief and if at any point during the match you have questions ask one of the directors we can go over technique again
