Volume 15, Number 4 • November/December 2007 The Official Publication of Olympic Shooting Sports Amber English shoots her way to a third place finish at the 2007 Shotgun JOs TableofContents Volume 15, Number 4 • November/December 2007 Editor’s Corner: USA Shooting Web Store Now Up and Running .....................5 Director’s Column: The Bunker Club..................6 FNAWS: 30 Years of On Target: FNAWS ..........................8 Putting Sheep on the Operation Know How: Mountain 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...............10 8 Competitions Corner: Volunteer of the Fall .............11 Blount Captures Gold; Club Spotlight: Richmond, Hancock Venture Crew 935 ................12 and Blanchard Claim Youth Programs: What’s New .....................13 Bronze at 2007 World Coaches’ Corner: Clay Target So You Want to Make a Shotgun 22 Team? ..........................14 Championships AMU Corner: Match Pressure..................15 Emmons Captures Inside the Blue: Gold and Silver, Earns A Look at the U.S. Air Force Shooting Team ..................17 Two Nominations to On The Firing Line 2008 Olympic Team at Intangibles......................19 Rifle/Pistol World Health and Nutrition ..............21 25 Cup Final Feature Article: 2007 World Clay Target Championships ...........22 SCTP Combined with World Cup Final: 2008 Rifle/Pistol World Cup ......25 USA Shooting for 2007 Around the Range: Shotgun Junior 2007 Shotgun JO National Olympic National Championships..................26 2007 International Trap 26 Championships Senior Open ....................28 Recent News & Events: Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife .......28 Dave Baskin Retires .............29 USA Shooting News is published six times a year, 1 Olympic Plaza, Colorado Springs, CO 80909. 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Lloyd Woodhouse 4 November/December 2007 USA Shooting News Editor’sColumn By Mary Beth Vorwerk, Media and Public Relations Manager New USA Shooting Web Store Up and Running; 2008 Calendars Now Available The USA Shooting website continues 2008 USA Shooting Calendar to make progress with the launch of our brand new web store on October 8! Click on the “Store” tab at the top of the page of USA Shooting’s website, www .usashooting.org, or go directly to www .usashootingstore.com to check out the new store, which features a wide variety of USA Shooting merchandise. We would like to extend a very sincere thank you to Kim Miller for designing and implementing our new online store. Kim is a former Marketing Coordinator for USA Shooting and began the process of building the web store before she left the organization last November. Kim volun- teered her time the past few months to help rebuild the store and get it back up and running on USA Shooting’s website. She spent many hours of her free time working to make the store as user friendly as possible to ensure the easy purchase of USA Shooting merchandise. She did a fantastic job with the store and we The 2008 USA Shooting calendars are now available! This year we took a dif- are very appreciative of her hard work ferent approach with our yearly calendars and decided to change up the look and effort in helping us get the store and feel by including unique photos exclusive to USA Shooting. The antique back online. guns we have used in our calendar in the past have been very popular, but we wanted to showcase real USA Shooting athletes and guns to our supporters Be sure to check back to www.usa this year. shootingstore.com for weekly specials on select USA Shooting apparel and This year’s calendar was designed specifically to give you an inside look at gifts, especially with Christmas right USA Shooting; who we are and what we do. Inside the calendar, you will see around the corner. some stunning photographs of our shooting team members who are taking aim at being the best in the world. If you would like to give a donation and receive a copy or extra copies of the calendar, please contact the USA Shooting office at 719.866.4670. Story Ideas & Photos As always, I am looking for unique shooting story ideas and photos. Do you know of any fascinating human interest stories that may entice the media or that would make a great feature article for USA Shooting News? If so, please contact me in the USA Shooting Media and Public Relations office with your latest news stories. Whether you want to promote your favorite shooter or local event, have news clippings or exciting photos from your region or simply want to write a letter to the editor, send your information via email to me at [email protected] or call (719) 866-4896 with details. USA Shooting News November/December 2007 5 Director’sColumn By Robert Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer THE BUNKER CLUB with Colonel Behrens, who frequently takes exclusive groups bird hunting to Argentina and Europe and big game hunting to Africa. People identified with the U.S. Shooting Team, promoting the shooting sports and helping the United States get on the victory podiums at the Olympic Games and other high level international competitions. Through the group’s efforts, the financial commit- ment was met and our shooters have benefited from the excellent equipment at the International Shooting Park. With the Capital Campaign completed, the Bunker Club did not dissolve, but rather recognized the ongoing need for funding USAS expenses and projects. Bunker Club member Paul Facchina has hosted very successful sport- ing clays fundraisers in Maryland to benefit our organization, with the most recent event last May netting $40,000. Others have continued to provide gifts If you have been a USA Shooting a sponsorship as Nasta provided the and services. member for any significant period of equipment and installation at favorable USAS has long discussed the need time, you have likely heard or read pricing. The founding members of the to establish an endowment program. about the “Bunker Club.” The Bunker capital campaign, which transitioned Such a program was initiated in 2002, Club had its origin in 1998. At that time into the Bunker Club, were Colonel however, USAS had to change its the trap machines at the International Behrens, Albert Menefee, Guy Avedi- focus to preserving the 1996 Olympic Shooting Park required constant repair sian and Dr. Steve Holtzclaw. Numer- Shooting Complex at Wolf Creek in and service. Coach Lloyd Woodhouse ous gifts followed from the shotgun Atlanta. As a result, the endowment more often resembled a mechanic community to help support this project, effort was temporarily abandoned. than the National Shotgun Coach. The but the heavy lifting was borne by sup- The Wolf Creek efforts were not only replacement cost far exceeded the porters who became the Bunker Club. frustrating, but fruitless as well, with financial capacity of USAS at the time. Fulton County eventually converting As a member of the board of directors, Bunker Club membership initiation the Olympic shooting venue into public an avid hunter and international trap was, and remains, at $3,000, although safety administration offices. shooter, Colonel Dennis Behrens not most members have made additional gifts. Members were provided a life only recognized the need, but took The Bunker Club has again stepped for- membership to USAS, a distinctive action and committed to conducting a ward in committing to raise the found- baseball cap and a “team” jacket. capital campaign to fund the replace- ing gift for an endowment program. To The full amount of the Bunker Club ment equipment at the Colorado date the group has established a fund membership was earmarked to the Springs venue.