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Fall 2012 & Winter 2013 Newsletter Fall 2012 & Winter 2013 Newsletter Remember to renew your MRRA Membership! A membership application is located at the end of the newsletter for you and your friends! 2013 MRRA MEETING SCHEDULE: and many, many of your fellow citizens have been taking their personal time to attend hearings write March 9, 2013 - 10:00 AM Board Meeting, 12:30 PM letters, sending emails and calling Legislators and Membership Meeting, Stars & Strikes Entertainment Congressional Representatives to defend our rights. Center, Wyoming, MN They cannot do it alone. They need your voices too. If you do not want to give up your rights, June 1, 2013 - Board Meeting after match, Northwest NOW is the time to contact your Legislators and Gun Club, Duluth, MN Congressional Representatives. Write, call or October 5, 2013 - Board Meeting after Fullbore match, email. Let them know your feelings and speak up Gopher Rifle and Revolver Club, Harris, MN. for our sport! December 7, 2013 - 10:00 AM Board Meeting, 12:30 Contact Information for your Minnesota PM Membership Meeting, Stars & Strikes Entertainment Representatives can be found at: Center, Wyoming, MN. http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/districtfinder.aspx and http://www.gis.leg.mn/OpenLayers/districts/ Remember, go to mrra.org for the latest updates! NRA-ILA website has information about how to MRRA SPRING MEMBERSHIP AND BOARD contact your Congressional Representatives and the MEETINGS: latest information: http://www.nraila.org/ The Spring MRRA Membership and Board Meetings is scheduled for Saturday, March 09, 2013 MRRA representatives are very active addressing at the Stars and Strikes Entertainment Center, 5063 these issues. The true voice and strength of the 273rd Street, Wyoming MN 55092. 651-462-6000 MRRA is it members. The more members MRRA has the greater its influence in addressing these The Membership meeting will start at 12:30PM. pressing issues. In order for MRRA to stay strong The Board meeting is scheduled to start at 10:00 we must retain and increase our membership. I ask AM same date & location. All members are all members to use the membership application at encouraged to attend. the end of the newsletter to renew you membership. If your dues are current, please use the membership PRESIDENTS MESSAGE: application to sign up you family members, friends or your shooting buddies. The annual membership As I write this our sport is being threatened by the fee is small, $15.00 but it is a big investment in our Minnesota Legislature and the United States sport. Congress. Both bodies are considering passing laws that will restrict your Constitutional Rights and On the bright side, shooting in Minnesota is ever affect all shooting sports in Minnesota. Your rights improving. We have more shooting facilities, are being defended by your fellow shooters and shooting activities and shooters than I can many pro-shooting oriented organizations such as remember. Our facilities are becoming well known the MRRA, NRA, MN Outdoor Heritage Alliance as top notch training facilities. This year the United and many others. Representatives of these group States Shooting Team came to Minnesota to train on their way to shoot at the Olympics in London. The the awards as they shot 391, and 387 respectively US Shooting Team spent a week at the Minneapolis for 1st and 2nd Intermediate Junior medals. Allie Rifle Club. One of the rifle shooters who trained in Taschuk also was in the awards as her 387 placed Minnesota, Jamie Gray, brought home a Gold st her in the 1 Jr. spot. The Sub-Junior class was lead Medal. This year the US Shooting Team, US Air Force Shooting Team along with members of the with impressive sub-junior scores by Elizabeth US Army Marksmanship Unit are discussing Ewert shooting a 380 and Samantha Peterson just a training in Minnesota. That folks says a lot about point behind with a 379. our state! Regards, George Minerich In 2013 Minnesota Juniors Patrick Sunderman went on to shooting with the West Virginia University Rifle Team and Allie Taschuk to the NCAA 2012 TOP NOTCH COMPETITION ONCE AGAIN National Champions Texas Christian University EXPECTED IN 2013 NRA JUNIOR (TCU) Rifle Team. SECTIONALS: By: Chad Danielson 2013 Competitors to watch and expected to again post impressive scores and performances would be This year’s Junior three position and four position Carmen Fry and Shelby Sandstrom, Superior’s Nick NRA smallbore sectionals are again on tap to be Learn and Scott Chester, Long Rangers’ Eric shot in Superior, Wisconsin March 15th , 16th, and Hazelton, and Centershots’ Luke Taschuk. Also 17th . Last year the 2012 Smallbore sectionals saw expected to push the top competitors are Samantha some of the closest and tightest competition in Peterson, Elizabeth and Sam Ewert, Superior’s several years. Sami Learn and Long Rangers’ Abby West. In the three position competition it was Patrick 2013 Match program, relay times, and details can be Sunderman’s 567 out of possible 600 that won him found on the Minnesota Rifle and Revolver website the gold, followed by Gopher’s Carmen Fry with at www.mrra.org under the Smallbore Radio 557 giving her the Silver, and Superior’s Nick Button. Learn taking the Bronze medal with 545. Scott Chester’s 543, and Allie Taschuks’ 539 won st nd Chester 1 Jr. honors, and Taschuk 2 Jr. Shelby AMERICAN LEGION POST 435 GUN CLUB: st Sandstrom took 1 Intermediate Junior shooting a By: Mark Havlik 538, and Eric Hazelton 2nd Intermediate Junior with a 536. Top Sub-Junior effort went to Samantha Post 435 Gun Club is a chartered organization of Peterson with a 525. the Richfield American Legion Post 435. The Club was founded in 1961 to provide post members and their families a place to practice their shooting In the four position competition it couldn’t have hobbies, compete, picnic and get ready for the many been any closer than it was at the top with Scott hunting seasons in Minnesota and surrounding Chester, Patrick Sunderman and Nick Learn all states. losing only 6 points in the entire match , and all posting 394. Scott Chester and Patrick Sunderman Our facility, located south of Lakeville just off I35 both posted 394’s with 31 X’s. The tie had to be is CMP, NRA and USAS affiliated. The recreation area consists of a campground, picnic area, trap and broken via rulebook tie breaking procedures, which skeet fields, pistol range, a general purpose rifle found Scott Chester being awarded the Gold and range and a 200 yard Highpower Rifle range with Patrick the Silver. Nick Learn won the Bronze pits. shooting the same 394 score but with 25 X’s. Shelby Sandstrom and Carmen Fry were again in We have an active CMP program which hosts an Using a trigger of this weight required different NRA approved Highpower Rifle league which control techniques to effectively break clean shots shoots Tuesday nights through the summer months. in the standing position- nevertheless, average We host an annual Service Rifle clinic for new standing scores for the best Minnesota High Power shooters first Saturday in June to introduce them to Shooters were probably better than the scores fired the sport of Highpower Rifle shooting. The Post in today's matches (more on this later). Using this 435 Gun Club Club also hosts the annual “Snow equipment, Bob fired scores that would be Storm of the Century” Mini-Palma 200 yard competitive/match winning in current times. Bob's Smallbore match in February aggregate score of 793/800 (fired over-the-course at 200/300/600 yards) is still the resident record for Our nationally recognized junior program attracts the 80 shot event. young shooters from all over the metro area and participation is expanding. Our junior program The 1981 State High Power Rifle Championship features Smallbore Rifle, Air Rifle, and Air Pistol. Match was fired on July 4-5 at the Northwestern The juniors practice smallbore rifle at our range Gun Club, near Duluth, MN. A total of 45 facility in the summer, air rifle in the Legion competitors took part in the tournament. The basement during the winter and Air Pistol at a tournament kicked-off on Saturday morning with a private indoor facility of one of our instructors. 40 shot warm-up match (fired at 200/300 yards). Former State Champ Rudy Wadekamper won this Our club hosts two DNR Firearms Safety classes preliminary event with a score of 397-10X. annually, and claims a cadre of dedicated DNR and Following closely were Wally Enga of Cologne, NRA certified instructors. MN (395-14X) and Dwight Barth of Duluth (392- 10X). Later that day, the North Star Rifle Club won the team match over the Northwestern Gun Club MRRA HISTORY - PAST HIGH POWER (the program did not list the scores). CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES: By: Steve Erickson On Sunday July 5, the State Championship Match commenced at the traditional starting time of 9 A. 1981- SAILOR'S LAST STAND On the firing line that day were 10 shooters who Between the years 1974 and 1981, Robert W. (Bob) had either previously won, or were to win, Sailor was the dominant over-the-course high power Minnesota State Championship titles. The shooter in the State of Minnesota, and arguably, one competition that day was closely contested- the of the best shooters in the USA. During the final result was not known until the last shots at 500 aforementioned time period he won a total of 4 yards had been fired. The winners of the individual Minnesota State High Power Championships, matches of the tournament reflected the efforts of numerous NRA Regional Championships, was a some of Minnesota's best known high-power member of the USA Palma Team that competed in shooters.
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