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SPRING WORK DAYS APRIL 16 – 17
Spring is
finally here, which means its outdoor shooting season! To get the CRC ranges ready for the busy
summer ahead, we’ve scheduled work days Saturday April 16th and Sunday April
17th. All ranges will be
closed to shooting on Saturday, and most will be closed to shooting on
Sunday. But they will definitely be open
for work! There is a lot to do and this
is a great chance for you to get your workbond completed early and make your
efforts really count. Come up to the
ranch house on either Saturday or Sunday morning (or both!). We’ll be organizing the various projects and
work parties there. Please contact Dave
Paananen by email at dpaananen@netzero.net, or call him at (303)
673-0106 for more information or if you have any questions.
If you
can’t make it out for the April work days, check out the list of events below
that need volunteers to make the matches run smoothly. Contact the Match Director ahead of time.
See you April 16-17!
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Date |
Event |
Contact |
Phone |
Email |
# req’d |
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4/10 |
Sporting
Clays, 9 AM |
Kingcade |
303.644.3523 |
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2 |
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4/16 |
SPRING
WORK DAYS |
ALL
RANGES CLOSED SATURDAY |
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4/17 |
SPRING
WORK DAYS |
SOME RANGES CLOSED SUNDAY |
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4/24 |
Hi Power
1000 Yard Bench Rest |
Brummerstedt |
303.772.5145 |
jr338@juno.com |
2 |
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4/24 |
Silhouette
IHMSA Pistol |
Funk |
303.690.5219 |
TMKTHKRN@aol.com |
4 |
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5/8 |
Long
Range Black Powder, Hi Power Range |
Dillman |
303.751.1116 |
les.dillman@comcast.net |
2 |
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5/14 |
CMP Garand
Match, Schuetzen Range |
Manley |
970.493.1168 |
bob_manley@agilent.com |
4 |
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5/15 |
Pistol:
Kaser Memorial Sliver Trophy Match |
Harris |
303.431.4009 |
wwharris@comcast.net |
2 |
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5/15 |
Sporting
Clays, 9 AM |
Kingcade |
303.644.3523 |
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2 |
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5/21 |
Hi Power
600 Yd. Any Rifle, Any Sights |
Prebyl |
303.622.9694 |
Prebyl@tds.net |
2 |
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5/22 |
Silhouette
IHMSA Pistol |
Funk |
303.690.5219 |
TMKTHKRN@aol.com |
4 |
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5/22 |
Hi Power
1000 Yd. Any Rifle, Any Sights |
Prebyl |
303.622.9694 |
Prebyl@tds.net |
2 |
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5/28 |
Pistol:
ISSF Zone 9 Championship |
Maxwell |
303.431.1420 |
dkmaxwell0@lycos.net |
1 |
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5/29 |
Hi Power
1000 Yard Bench Rest |
Brummerstedt |
303.772.5145 |
jr338@juno.com |
2 |
COWBOY RIFLE SILHOUETTE MATCH
By
Bob McAlice
Saddle up pardner and head to the silhouette range on Saturday, April 30th for a lever action rifle silhouette match. Bring your favorite lever action shootin’ iron (iron sights only) in 30-30, 32 win spcl, 35 rem or any other cowboy lever rifle caliber. Plan on havin fun knockin down iron critters. This will be an informal fun match loosely run on the NRA’s rules. Chickens at 50 yards, pigs at 100 yards, turkeys at 150 yards and rams at 200 yards.
We plan on shooting only one 40 round match this time. Match will start at 10 a.m. Plan on being there as early as 8:30 a.m. for range set-up and practice time. A $10.00 match fee will be collected with half of the proceeds returned as prizes. Scoring and cash awards will be based on a math system used by the match director.
You will need 40 rounds of ammo for the match and bring as much ammo for practice as you think you will need. So dust off that old shootin’ iron of yours and plan on havin some fun on April 30th. This should be a fun event to watch or participate in. Come on out and check out the action.
Contact Bob McAlice at 303 403-4063 for more information. Hope to see ya’ll there.
RIMFIRE
BENCHREST MATCHES
April 30 & August 27, 2005
The Frontier Gun Club in Colorado Springs is hosting two Rimfire Benchrest Matches Saturday April 30th and Saturday August 27th. For each match practice will begin at 8:00am, and the matches will start at 9:00am. Bring your own lunch, as no food service will be available.
Any smallbore rimfire rifle with telescope and any bench rest equipment can be used. Bring hearing protection and your own windflags. You must shoot off the bench at 50 yards. There will be two relays of 16 shooters each.
There are five Match Targets for each competitor. Each target has a time limit of 20 minutes with 25 bullseyes, one shot per bullseye or a total of 125 record shots for the five match targets. Each bullseye is worth a maximum of 100 points and each target worth a maximum of 2500 points. They use the old BR 50 rimfire target. Sighter shots are unlimited within the time limit.
Entry fee is $20 per shooter for the five individual matches and the aggregate. Merchandise will be given as awards. This match is sanctioned by the American Rimfire Association.
The National American Rimfire Matches are in the St. Louis area on September 3rd and 4th. They shoot eight targets over two days and will have approximately 180 shooters. Join us for these matches and get ready for the Nationals!
For directions to the Frontier Gun Club, more information, or to sign up contact Lones Wigger at (719) 488-0369, or at 639 Wuthering Heights Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 80921. E-Mail: Lones.wigger@usashooting.org
CRC 80th
Anniversary
The pins celebrating the 80th Anniversary of CRC have arrived! If your lapel or shooting hat needs a new look, contact Ron Best.
Bigger Bang!
For all you cannoneers, Bill Luetzens advised that there will be a fifty caliber and up (!) shoot May 13th - 15th at Cheyenne Wells. 50 BMG is about the smallest thing you can use and they include all sorts of artillery as well. It ought to be noisy! This event is conducted by the Rocky Mountain Fifty Caliber Shooting Association. Visit their web site at www.rmfcsa.org, or contact Bob McBride at email fcsavhp@hotmail.com, or phone 303-934-1915 for more information. Make sure you bring your hearing protection along! CRC Member Jim Adell is the safety officer for the event, and he can be reached at 970-663-4779. There is also an event called the Artillery Games later in the summer at Camp Grayling, Michigan.
Keep in touch
Don’t forget that we’ve made it even easier for club members to contact CRC. Secretary/Treasurer Ron Best has created a new email address for members. If you have questions about your membership, workbond, club info, whatever, send an email to crci@comcast.net, or send mail to P.O. Box 280251, Lakewood CO 80228-0251!
FOR SALE
CRC has a Dell Color Photo Printer, Model 720 for sale. New in the box and never used. Contact Ron Best at (303) 986-0836.
Spring
Fever hits Colorado Garand Shooting
By Jim Adell
An all time high of 50 shooters competed
in the first CMP sanctioned John C. Garand rifle match of the year at the
Colorado Rifle Club on Sunday, April 3rd. (See our web site at www.crci.org.)
A spring snowstorm hit the area on Thursday, closing the local county
roads and even I-70 ten miles south of the range. The Weather Channel reported that a
town two exits west of the range exit had twelve inches of snow. The roads were
still impassable to automobiles on Friday even though the sunny temperatures
hit 60 degrees. Conditions had improved
enough on Saturday with sunny 65-degree temperatures that the range was
reachable for the match to be set up. With a forecasted high of 70 to 75
degrees for Sunday, spring fever hit the Garand shooters in Colorado causing
the record turnout.
The weather was starkly different for the
two relays. The first relay shot in
cloudy and cool conditions with little
wind. The sun came out while the first
relay was scoring their standing targets.
The second relay shot in clear and warm conditions and a twenty-mile per
hour wind directly in the face of the shooters.
The scores in general were quite good with
Kevin Albert shooting a Garand to win
the match with a fine score of 282-7X.
Richard Thuche, Jr. of Commerce City, Colorado shot a M1903 Springfield
rifle to come in second place with a score of 273-8X. There were twenty two new shooters at their
first Garand Match. They included three
juniors and one woman.
After the awards ceremony presented the
club’s commemorative coffee cups,
T-shirts, caps and the CMP Club miniature Garand Match pins the shooters
comments were that they were looking forward to the Garand Matches on May 14th and July 17th.
Western Wildcat Smallbore Prone
More
details are on the way, but quite a few CRC smallbore prone shooters went to
Arizona for the Western Wildcat match, and report some great scores. Cal Cooper shot a perfect 1600 on scope
day! More to come when the bulletin is
printed.
Silhouette
News
by Bob McAlice
Windy conditions made for a challenging
(frustrating) highpower silhouette match on Sunday, March 6th.
Twelve shooters were greeted with 10-12 mph wind out of the south for the first
half of the match. The wind switched to
out of the west and then switched to out of the north and increased to 18-20 mph for the last half
of the match. Shooting offhand is
tough enough in this game without being pushed around by the wind. Several gusts knocked over the turkey and ram
targets causing us to re-set them several times to continue the match. Scores were much lower as a result of the
conditions.
The
following shooters won their classes, with a possible total score of 40.
Standard Rifle
Master: Lee O’Neil 16X40
(Match Winner)
AAA: Steve Hawks 12X40
AA: Ed Pabst 12X40
A: Bob Reed 10X40
Hunting Rifle
Master: Lee O’Neil 11X40
AAA: Bob Snyder 17X40
(Match Winner)
AA: Ed Pabst 10X40
Recently a few of the die hard highpower
pistol silhouette shooters have been shooting alongside the rifle shooters to
stay in practice during their off season.
Veteran pistol shooter Bill Stark posted an outstanding score of
36X40. To score that high in the
terrible conditions was simply “unbelievable”.
Great shooting Bill!
Our next matches are: May 1st,
and June 5th. If you would
like to try shooting silhouette, your first match is free. You don’t need fancy equipment to compete in
these matches. An ordinary scoped
hunting rifle will be fine (sorry, no magnums).
Come on out and watch a match. It
is a great spectator sport. Call one of
the silhouette match directors for more information.
Top Kid
The Denver Post has a weekly
feature called “Top Kid”, which honors an outstanding youth for their
accomplishments. The honoree in the
March 14th edition of the feature was junior – soon to be Army
shooter – Harry Gauthier! “Champion
shooter set sights on Army team” was
the proud headline!
The article noted that Harry is the 2005
Colorado State Junior Olympic Air Rifle Champion, he has earned many honors and
wins shooting for the Arvada Rifle and Pistol Club, and also the fact that
Harry has been shooting since the sixth grade!
I withdraw any snide comments I have made
about local papers not carrying shooting articles.
Congratulations Harry!
NCAA SHOOTING
NEWS
Though basketball gets all the attention,
it’s not the only NCAA championship that is determined in March. The 2005 NCAA Rifle Championship was held in
Colorado Springs, and it was exciting shooting!
The CMP online magazine The First Shot reports it was the closest
team contest in the 26-year history of the championships – and it had a
surprise ending! The SIX time defending
champion University of Alaska-Fairbanks was finally knocked from the top
spot. This year’s aggregate Champion is
the US Military Academy! It’s the fist
time in 50 years the military team has earned the title.
10 schools and 22 individuals competed
this year, and in the individual finals women shooters distinguished
themselves. In Smallbore Rifle, current
National Outdoor Prone Champion Jamie Beyerle took second place to her UAF
teammate Matt Rawlings. They were tied
till Matt won the sudden death shoot-off to take the Championship. 3rd place went to Kristina Fehlings
of the University of Nebraska. In Air
Rifle the new Individual Champion is Beth Tidmore from the University of
Memphis. Second was Andrea Franzen of
Nebraska, and third was UAF’s Matt Rawlings.
But it was the team matches that held the
surprises. UAF looked like they were
right on track for a 7th championship, winning the Smallbore Rifle event, while
Army took 2nd, Alabama’s Jacksonville State team took 3rd
and University of Nebraska earned 4th. But in the Air Rifle team event, the tides turned
for UAF. Jacksonville State and University of Nebraska went one-two after a tie
breaker. Army tuned in a solid third
place score, but UAF’s team total was only good enough for 6th
place!
When the math was done, the consistency of
Coach Ron Wigger’s cadets paid off. They won the National Championships by one
point! Jacksonville State took second –
one point ahead of 3rd place team University of Nebraska! UAF ended up in 4th place.
It’s hard to put aside my personal bias
towards my alma mater UAF team, but I think it’s even better for the sport of
shooting to see such strong performances from such a variety of school
teams. Nothing like tough competition to
make everybody better. Congratulations
Army and good shooting all! For complete
results visit:
www.ncaasports.com/rifle/championship-results/nc
Another
surprise ending….
In a related, but much sadder note from
the collegiate shooting scene, Ohio’s Xavier University has announced they are
cutting the championship winning Rifle team from the schools athletic
program. The program may survive as a
club, but it was cut – for among other reasons – because University
administrators feel that rifle’s position as an NCAA sport is no longer secure.
The Xavier team has been in the top 5 at
the NCAA Championships in the past 5 years – the only other team besides UAF to
achieve this - and has produced 3 Olympians, a World Champion and 51 NRA
All-Americans. For more on this visit www.savexurifle.org
CRC Board of
Directors Meeting
The CRC Board of Directors held a meeting
March 13th at the Arvada Rifle and Pistol Club. To follow
are highlights from the meetings minutes from Ron Best.
All directors were present and 8 members
were also in attendance.
Officer’s reports were given by
Dennis Reul, Jim Brummerstedt and Ron Best. Dennis reported on an
inspection by a USDA representative of our CRP range. Our acreage was
reduced by 10 acres because of encroachment by the silhouette range parking
lot. A discussion of the proposed toll road was held. The eastern boundary for the road corridor is
about 15 miles from the CRC western property line. Dennis also reported
on the public ranges planned for Albuquerque (800 acres) and Las Vegas (3 mi by
1.5 mi property). The Ben Avery range north of Phoenix was cited as an
example of a hugely successful public range with 150,00 annual shooter days
attendance.
Jim Brummerstedt reported that additional
turkeys were to be released along the Bijou, but fewer toms were trapped than
expected so none were brought out. Additional trapping is scheduled for
next year.
Ron Best reported that the transition to a
new Secretary/Treasurer is proceeding but not without difficulty.
In old business, the return of the grader
to CRC was discussed. A new driver has been trained and rebuilding of our
roads is underway. A brief discussion of maintenance and operating costs
was held. A work bond report by Andy was given. A discussion of
raising the cut off to age 67 for members was brought up. Revision of the
definition for nonresident members was also discussed. For example, a
member living in Kansas or Wyoming is exempt from the work bond yet some
Colorado members actually live farther from the range. A new policy
toward military service by members also was addressed. Dennis Reul asked
Dave Paananen to prepare some concrete proposals on changing work bond
requirements for members for consideration by the board of directors.
New business discussed included the
prairie dog problem on the high power range. The use of poison including
lead poisoning and the encouragement of raptors on the range were
discussed. The board and the members agreed that no poison will be
used. The upcoming work days April 16 the 17th were discussed. A
walk-down of the ranges will be conducted April 2nd by the match
directors. Other issues discussed were the purchase of clay birds, the
planting of 60 trees, weed poisoning, electrical power to the sporting clays shelter
and the purchase of picnic tables. A motion was made and seconded to purchase
six (6) new picnic tables.
A committee including Dennis Reul, Marty
Everitt, Stan Dial and Ron Best were named to review the club’s investment
portfolio. Marty Everitt will schedule a meeting with the club’s
investment advisor at USB.
Additional old business included the
member’s petition to revise the club by laws. A discussion of the
background and point of some of by-law changes was held. No action on the
by-law changes was taken by the board.
A brief discussion of changing the club’s
nonprofit status from 501(c)(4) to 501(H) was held. A motion was made and
seconded to contact the club’s lawyer to clarify the advantages and
disadvantages of changing our status and draft articles of incorporation as a
501 (H) nonprofit organization. The motion passed 9-0.
The last item covered was the new wireless
system installed on the high power range.
The directors would like to thank Doug
Maxwell for hosting the meeting in the Arvada club’s meeting room.
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