Leininger, Fraser Top the Podium at the 2019 CMP Three-Position Sporter Nationals
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Sarah Leininger, 18, of Nation Ford Marine Corps JROTC in South Carolina, claimed the overall win in the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) National Three-Position Air Rifle Championship – fired June 29 at the Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center in Ohio. Leininger gave a remarkable Finals performance during the event that allowed Continue Reading
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Your Hump Day Reading List for July 10, 2019
Welcome to the Hump Day Reading List! Here are what I believe to be the three most important articles you can read this week to enhance your personal and family safety:
This week in Defense and Training:
“Stop practicing shooting!”
It’s a provocative title, to be sure, but in this article Ralph Mroz makes the point that drawing and firing a handgun is one very small part of a defensive encounter. Yet, it’s the one almost everyone …
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Shooters Converge on Camp Perry for CMP Matches and 2019 ORPA State Championship
By Serena Juchnowski & CMP Staff Several service rifle competitors got a jump on the National Matches at Camp Perry by taking advantage of a series of matches on June 22 and 23, conducted by the Civilian Marksmanship Program and the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association. CMP shooters led off with an 800 Aggregate match, EIC Match and CMP GSMM Continue Reading
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Inaugural Target Sprint Event Featured at CMP’s 2019 National Matches
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Join us on July 16, 2019, as the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) adds a new event to its 2019 National Matches lineup at Camp Perry that is guaranteed to challenge marksmanship skills, physical fitness and endurance while also stirring up undeniable fun for competitors of all ages. The Target Sprint event Continue Reading
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Following up on the Three Easy Steps: Readiness as a habit
Last week I introduced Grant’s Patented Plan To Becoming More Self-Reliant In Three Easy Steps ™:
Buy a pocket knife.
Buy a small high-intensity flashlight.
Carry them with you every day.
My approach to preparedness, whether the subject is self defense or disaster readiness, is to start with becoming better prepared to handle common, daily sorts of inconveniences. I find it hard to believe that someone who isn’t equipped with tools or skills to open a …
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Your Hump Day Reading List for July 3, 2019
Welcome to the Hump Day Reading List! Here are what I believe to be the three most important articles you can read this week to enhance your personal and family safety:
This week in Defense and Training:
“He’s just a kid” can be a fatal assumption
There is a very strong tendency in the firearms training world to assume that a threat always comes from an adult male. (Frankly, I’ve seen too many instances where threats were …
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CMP & NRA Coordinate 2020 Calendars for the Benefit of Competitor Scheduling
The Civilian Marksmanship Program and National Rifle Association have coordinated timing of training, pistol and rifle events of the 2020 National Matches at Camp Perry and NRA Championships at Camp Atterbury to provide competitors greater planning flexibility. CMP’s Programs Chief, Christie Sewell and NRA’s Cole McCulloch, Director of Competitive Shooting, said “It’s important that competitors of both organizations have the Continue Reading
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Those pesky root causes keep popping up
As a recap: Root Cause: The fundamental reason for the occurrence of a problem Some news in the Washington Post Friday caught my eye with their article about suicide rates and reduction. Suicide Reduction Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides:...
New membership perk announcement!
Good stuff here, we were turned onto the folks over at CCW Safe by our lead instructor, Alessandro, and we decided to reach out to them to see if we could get something for our members- and they happily obliged with a 10% discount off of their already great prices....
Soundbites make for terrible policy
I know. We live in a world of soundbites. Particularly in the political realm. From "Lock her up" to "Zero-tolerance policy" towards undocumented immigrants, sadly the first round of Democratic debates in 2019 did nothing to improve this situation. To be fair, the...