Maryland Junior Feature: Shannon Moriarty
By Serena Juchnowski, CMP Feature Writer Ten-year-old competitive shooter Shannon Moriarty likes to keep her dad honest and her scores on the rise. Shannon is one of, if not the, youngest current high power service rifle competitor, having just entered the sport this year. She shoots almost weekly with her dad, Christopher Moriarty, at matches in Maryland, her home state, as Continue Reading
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Liberal Gun Club Bullseye Match #19 Now Open
Summer is here and so is the LGC Bullseye Match #19. I opened the match yesterday, June 17. It will close on August 12th, about eight weeks from today. This is a longer match than the previous one and the latest one-hand match but, due to reduced participation in...
National Air Rifle Athletes Travel to Camp Perry to Compete in June
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio – The 2019 CMP National Three-Position Air Rifle Championships will be held June 27-29 and July 13-15 at the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center in Ohio. After months of intense competition, over 350 hopeful junior marksmen, families and friends will gather to witness who will reach the podium Continue Reading
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Upcoming Matches
10/25/2019 – 10/26/2019
2019 Show Me Shootout
Ozark High School JROTC
Ozark, MO
2/28/2020 – 2/29/2020
2020 MO Junior Olympic 3PAR State Championship
Ozark High School JROTC
Ozark, MO
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What if you can’t get the ‘best’ ammunition?
The other day I got a message from a fellow who’s been asking me questions about a new carry gun purchase. He finally decided on the model he wanted and had bought it, and now wanted to know about ammunition.
Not what ammunition I recommended — he already knew that — but what he should buy. The question was “I know you recommend the Federal and Speer but if I can’t find any at the gun store what would …
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Your Hump Day Reading List for June 12, 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:
Defending against a dog attack
(Note: I hesitated sharing this article because of the rather violent techniques shown, and because it seems cruel to use them against an animal. However, vicious dogs do kill people, and knowing something of how to …
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There are no defensive shooting experts.
If, by “expert”, you mean someone with a significant amount of first-hand experience in the activity (i.e., shooting people who attacked them) .
Here’s the dirty little secret no one in this business will admit to: none of us have enough — in most cases any — shooting experience defending ourselves against a criminal attacker, sufficient to derive lessons worth teaching.
No one you’ll find — not on Facebook, not on YouTube, not on Instagram, not writing books …
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Your Hump Day Reading List for June 5, 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 parroting home defense fallacies
The defensive shooting world has worked overtime for the last few decades to teach people how to draw faster, shoot faster, and hit smaller targets at greater distances. Very rarely, however, has it addressed when to …
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CMP Reveals Important National Matches Updates for 2019 Season
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio –The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has announced the enhancement of numerous events scheduled during the prestigious National Pistol and Rifle Matches, held throughout the month of July and early August 2019. Striving to the organization’s mission of advancing the realm of marksmanship, the recent developments of the National Matches will provide guests Continue Reading
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Junior Athletes: Sign Up Now for the 2019 National Matches Smallbore and Air Rifle Camp
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Are you a junior marksman looking to move your shooting career into college? Add sophisticated knowledge and hands-on training to your journey by signing up for the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) 2019 National Matches Junior Camp. Open to junior athletes who shoot both three-position smallbore and standing or international precision air Continue Reading
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