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STATE SHOTSAffiliated with the NRA and CMP www.ncrpa.org Vol. 46, No. 2, 2017

The President’s Columnby Fred Edgecomb

IN THIS ISSUE:

President’s Column Page 1

Full Bore Nationals Page 2

Women Shooters Page 3

Shooter Trash Page 4

Highpower Regional Page 5

Smallbore Silouhette Page 6

.45 ACP Page 7

NCRPA Directory Page 8-11

The other day a friend of mine was discussing gun control with a gun control advocate when the guy said something like “you just care too much about freedom.” Wow! It is incredible that there are Americans who apparently don’t see the value of the United States Bill of Rights. Perhaps they have never had to deal with issues that are covered by our Bill of Rights.

Nations that we call our friends have restrictions in areas where we have freedoms. A friend of mine had a visit from a friend from Toronto, Ontario, who asked first thing “Can I watch Fox News because we cannot get it at home?” Many Americans do not realize that nations, we consider

in the same league as the US, have state controlled media. When a country has state controlled media it gives the government years and even decades to promote ideas like gun control, limited free speech, and even genocide like in Germany and the Soviet Union.

The People who say we have too much freedom say that ‘it’ will never happen here because our government would never take away our rights. They do not realize what keeps government from going bad is at least in part our Bill Of Rights.

In the last hundred years, nearly 100,000,000 people (gypsies, Jews, dissenters, educators, professionals, artists etc.) have been slaughtered by governments around the world. How could this happen? It happened because the government had control of the media and the people were disarmed and could not resist. When the round ups started in Germany in the 1930’s, any kind of resistance might have changed the dynamics of the whole roundup. But the German people neither had a free press nor the means to resist. Imagine the resources it would have taken to round up millions, if the people did resist and the press was free. Freedom of speech could have thrown a cloud over the issue, but the dissenters were also rounded up so that there was little public discussion about taking people from their homes, stealing their property, and sending them to extermination camps. Germany was considered a real player in western culture, but in just a few short years it became a warmonger that slaughtered millions. Other countries like Cambodia, the Soviet Union, and China have also been guilty of despicable practices.

The more freedom we have the less likely we will fall into disasters like citizens of other countries. A free people’s rights can be snatched away in a very short time and we all need to be vigilant. Pay attention to what is going on in Washington, Raleigh, and in your local government or you can lose freedoms and not even realize what you have lost, until it is too late.

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2017 Sinclair Fullbore East Coast Nationals

On Monday May 15 sixty of the finest marksmen in the USA gathered in Butner N.C. to compete in the 5th Annual Sinclair Fullbore East Coast Nationals. Fullbore is a shooting sport imported from the UK. It is Fired from the prone position in strings of 2 sighting shots and 15 shots for score. The ranges are 300, 500, 600, 800, 900 and 1000 yards. The only calibers allowed are .223 and .308. The sights allowed are iron sights. Fullbore shooting is much like Palma shooting. In the F-TR category the rifle may use a scope, a bipod and a rear bag. Again the caliber can be only .223 or .308. In the F-open category any type of front rest may be used and the rifle may be any caliber.

The firing began on Monday May 15 with an open practice day. The competitors got to fire practice shots on each yard line used in the match. On Tuesday the match started with firing at 300yds, 600yds and 1000yds. Each day 3 yard lines were fired, 15 rounds on each. The individual matches ran for 5 days with the 6th day (Thursday) set aside for team matches.

In the individual matches a total of 225 shots for score were fired for a total of 2250 possible points.

In the match rifle category (iron sights, rifle supported by a sling and the shooters shoulder) Kent Reeve Fired a 2235-135x for the win. 2nd went to John Friguglitti fired a 2230-113xfor second place with Nathaniel Guernsey firing a2230-103x for 3rd place. In the F-open Category Arellano Ramirez won with a 2221-109x. 2nd went to Danny Biggs firing a 2220 with David Kokoszka in 3rd with a 2213-114x. In F-TR top honors went to Phillip Kelly Jr. With a 2195-89x. Second place went to Lane Buxton firing a 2195-78x with Wade Fillingame one point back with 2194-78x. Now that is good, close, competitive shooting all across the board.

The team matches were fired on Thursday. Each team member fired 2 sighting shots and 10 shots for record at the 300, 600, 900 and 1000 yard lines. With the conventional rifle Team USA Guernsey fired a 1588-88x to set a new Open National Record. The team members were Brandon Green, Amanda Elsenboss, Daniel Altman and Roman Podshivalon with Nathaniel Guernsey coaching. Brian and Amanda are both members of the Army Marksmanship unit. Second place went to NSSC #2 Trey Frguglitti, Vinc Sferrazza, Adam Fitzpatric, Keith Hoverstad with Norm Crawford coaching. They fired a 1585-71x to set a new Civalian National Record. In the F-TR category team USA Reeve posted top honors. Ffiring members were Bobby Burton, al Barnhart, Lane Buxton and John Dorella with Kent Reeve Coaching. They fired a 1571-68x to set a new Open Civilian National Record. Second Place F-TR team honors went to the Da Bulls. Team members were Tom Hittle, Jim Hittle, Berry Ellis and Berry Ellis with Jim Crofts coaching. They fired a 1570-57x.

All week the weather was good with a little good old Butner wind to make things interesting. So next year if you want to see some truly amazing marksmanship, come on out to range #4 in Butner and I can assure you that you will see it.

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You can always count on dissent in dis-cussions among gun owners—except for when the topic is whether women are better shooters than men. In that rare case, opinion seems to be unani-mous, and there’s plenty of evidence to bring to bear on the subject. Statistics from competitions, analysis from se-rious shooting experts and anecdotal reports can give us clues as to whether and in what ways it is true. Are there gender-based differences in shooting ability? If so, do physical, mental or cul-tural factors explain them? I don’t pre-tend to have all the answers, but after 32 years of military coaching and training, I do know this:

1. Every woman I ever trained on the Army .45 fired Expert on the first day of training. 2. My wife and both my daughters can outshoot me.

During the years from 1965 to 1985, my assigned handgun was the notori-ous M1911A1 .45 ACP pistol. For many soldiers, the .45 was daunting. Lore had it that it kicked like a mule, was hard to shoot and not very accurate. Many soldiers bragged that its weight made it a good weapon to throw. We all know now that it is a wonderful, accurate and effective pistol.

Having shot “Expert” with the .45, I got to run the ranges and train new shoot-ers. It’s important to note that qualify-ing Expert does not mean that I was or am an expert competitive shooter. Dur-ing that period we shot at pop-up E-Type silhouettes or fixed paper targets at relatively short ranges with generous amounts of time, and could score Ex-pert having missed one or more targets completely.

Are Women Better Shooters Than Men?

by Col. Kenneth Haynes (Ret.)Wednesday, February 1, 2017

In one Infantry Di-vision assignment, I had about 95 of-ficers authorized to carry the .45. Part of my company was the division’s Marksmanship Training Unit (MTU). One day at a training range I was killing an E-type silhouette at 30 meters. By “killing” I mean I was kill-ing it thoroughly—the target had holes scattered over its entire “body.” It was really, really dead. In the next lane was one of the MTU guys with his tuned-up, accurized .45. He asked me how I was doing, and I said that my old arms room .45 wasn’t nearly as good as his. He politely took my pistol and put sev-en shots into a half-dollar-sized group in about five seconds. One-handed. Smiling, he agreed that his firearm was a little more accurate. Humbling? Yeah, you betcha!

In the next 10 minutes he put me through what I now know as the “Ball and Dummy” exercise. After only eight rounds with his quiet coaching, I was putting all my shots in a coffee-cup-sized group at 30 meters. He was SSG Rojelio “Ray” Arredondo, later to fire on the U.S. Olympic team, and one of our great all-time pistol coaches.

From then on I got serious about help-ing other shooters, and trained lots of officers to fire the .45 during the rest of my service.

As a military logistician, my units (after the Women’s Army Corps disbanded) had around 20 percent female person-nel in both officer and enlisted ranks. All the women fired Expert their first day, but less than a third of the men did so. Several men had to re-train and re-peat the course to qualify. This pattern

continued when the 9mm replaced the .45 in 1985, until I retired in 1997. It also appeared that differences in mus-culature and hand size had no effect on the scores.

With only this unscientific history I of-fer this explanation: The women were more coachable. Told how to hold the gun, that’s the way they held it. Told to look at the front sight, that’s what they looked at. Told what I thought they were doing wrong, their first instinct was to believe me. Among the male shooters that had problems, those traits were less common. I believe Ray Arre-dondo was able to overcome my male “thickness” because he showed me in a way that I couldn’t deny that I didn’t know what I was doing, and that I could stand to benefit by coaching. Maybe the women I trained were already there.

Author’s note: The M1911A1s in the author’s arms room in 1978 probably included guns manufactured as early as 1924. In the meantime they had been fired by hundreds of soldiers and main-tained by dozens of different armor-ers, who had replaced or interchanged many parts one or more times. As long as the firearm was clean, fired reliably, passed a simple function test and had visible lands and grooves in the barrel, it would pass inspection. Made to be more reliable than accurate, the worst of them could group to 5 inches in 25 to 30 yards, making the gun entirely suit-able for its purpose. “Accurized” .45s have closer tolerances, require more care and are less reliable under field conditions.

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Shooter TrashBuckeye, AZ –-(Jeff Knox)- Over the past thirty years or so, gun owners have done a spectacular job of improving firearm safety habits.

By every measure, unintentional injuries involving firearms have gone down even as the number of guns has risen.

That fact is rarely reported in the general media, but it’s something gun owners can proudly point to.

We are, by and large, responsible and safe.

But there is one big area where all shooters can improve how shooters and gun owners are perceived by the general public.

We need to be more conscientious about where we shoot, what we shoot at, and especially about cleaning up after ourselves. Anyone who has ever spent any time wandering the outdoors has run across areas that have been used as informal shooting ranges. The ground is covered with bullet-riddled boxes, cans, televisions, washing machines, broken glass, and a carpet of empty cases and shells. The problem is more obvious in the west where there is less groundcover and vegetation to conceal the shooter trash.

Spent cases are an often neglected source of litter that shooters too frequently just leave, even if they clean up their targets. The metallic cases are pretty inert, and fade from view as the shine weathers, but plastic shotgun hulls and wads are a different story. They have been alleged to break down into some fairly nasty chemicals that we really don’t want leaching into our groundwater, and all of it is unsightly and should be picked up as much as possible.

Manufacturers might be able to help by producing more environmentally-friendly wads and hulls as well.

Much of the target trash is actually not generated by shooters, but rather simply dumped by others who don’t want to pay the fee at the county landfill.

Unfortunately, once the first would-be gunslinger fills an object with holes, the mess becomes shooter-trash and its existence will always be blamed on all recreational shooters.

There will always be those who won’t clean up after themselves, but that just means it’s up to the rest of us to cover for them, while doing our best to educate them about their inconsiderate ways. The number one rule is the same as with hiking or camping: if you brought it in, you take it out.

Putting down an old bed sheet or tarp, or simply shooting with a pickup bed to your right, makes brass collection a simple proposition. Not to mention, that stuff can be sold to reloaders or recyclers. Shooting glass or ceramics is generally a bad idea, but if you must, again, an old sheet or a tarp can make cleanup a simple matter.

News-Herald Photo/L.J. Frink A discarded washing machine apparently became the perfect target for gun enthusiasts, leaving it riddled with bullet holes. Shell casings can be found laying all over the ground.

News-Herald Photo/L.J. Frink – A discarded washing machine apparently became the perfect target for gun enthusiasts, leaving it riddled with bullet holes. Shell casings can be found laying all over the ground.

Another rule every shooter should incorporate into their ethic is the idea that if you shoot it, you own it. If some joker dumped an old washing machine in the desert, that’s on him. If you fill that washing machine with holes, it’s yours now. That’s a pretty tough rule to live by, but if we don’t police ourselves – and clean up after the inconsiderate idiots – the result is always the same: more areas will be closed to shooting, and we will have to travel even farther to find a place to shoot.

At a minimum, every shooter should always clean up their own mess and make it a point to clean up at least some of the mess left by the folks who came before. If most of us would practice that simple rule, we would not have the disaster areas we so often find. Instead, too many shooters find themselves practicing in an area that others have left a mess, and they decide that their little bit of extra trash won’t hurt, and that cleaning up a little of the last guy’s trash won’t help, so the problem areas just keep getting worse and worse.

Another rule, that I shouldn’t even have to mention, is to never shoot anything that belongs to someone else. Fence posts, water tanks, gates, “abandoned” buildings or sheds, electrical towers, and water troughs all make tempting targets to a certain class – a low class. And then there are signs. I don’t know what it is that compels some idiots to shoot at

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signs: road signs, trail signs, No Trespassing signs, safety and warning signs and “No Shooting” signs… Some morons just seem to be drawn to the idea of putting holes in signs.

Unfortunately, no amount of criticism or complaining is likely to have any influence over these jackasses. It’s likely that they can’t even read. All we can do is report them when we see them, and hope that they’ll get tagged with the heavy fines that are typically levied for vandalism.

Shooting is a fun and interesting pastime. It can be safe and enjoyable for the whole family. When gun magazines, shooting clubs, and hunting organizations started focusing on the importance of safety, and shooters started applying a few simple safety rules, we saw steady declines in unintentional firearm-related injuries. Now we need to apply the same sort of focus and awareness to the issue of shooter-trash, or we’re going to find ourselves fenced out with nowhere to shoot.

Do your part. Be a safe, responsible, and environmentally conscientious shooter, and encourage others to do the same. Remember “every litter bit hurts.”

2017 NRA High Power Regional Match and N.C. Shooting Sports Games Match

On April 22nd 29 competitors assembled at the on range #4 at the N.C. National Guard Training Center located in Butner to compete in the 2017 N.C. High Power Regional Rifle Match. In addition the 2017 N.C. Shooting Sports Games Match was fired concurrently with the regional. The match was an 800 point aggregate consisting of 4 two hundred point sub-aggregate matches. The 4 matches are 200yd Standing and Sitting Rapid Fire,300yd Prone Rapid Fire and 600yd Prone Slow Fire. Each sub-aggregate match is 20 shots for score and 2 sighting shots.

In the match John Firguglietti fired a 784-20x to win the regional championship. Tim Moore and Chris Blankenship fired a 779-20x and a 772-18x respectively for second and third place.

On the Shooting Sports Games side of the match the results were as follows: High Master: 1- John Friguglitti- 784-20x2- Alexander Arrieta 773-19x3- Chris Blankenship 772-18x.Master- 1-Tim Moore 779-20x2- Otha Kimborough 770-22x3- Doug Cornette 766-18x.Expert- 1- Savannah Andrews 750-16x2- Larry Strayhorne 749Matthew Engle 743-14x.Sharp Shooter-1- Cody Kimrey- 724-05x2- Grey Huffsterler- 722-04x3- Kaleb Williams707-05x.Marksman-1- Trey Friguglitti, 702-06x2- Hayes Lane- 646-05x, 3- Paige Sauer- 581-07x.Junior- 1-Matthew Engle- 1743-13x2- Cody Kimrey 724-05x3- Grey Huffstrtler- 722-04x.

The weather was good but windy on Saturday as a weath-er front was moving in. An EIC ( Leg ) match was scheduled for Sunday but the weather front came In during the night and it was rained out. The match was strongly contested and was a very good example of the excellent marksmanship we have in North Carolina. Congratulations to the winners and to everyone else practice hard and we will see all of you at the next match.

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45 ACP is not just a cartridge. 45 ACP is a way of life.The machine is a CMP. It was made by a small machine shop in Clyde Ohio. Clyde Machine Products disap-peared about 1980. With the machine is a Chevron case feeder also a gone company. The machine was pur-chased in 1977 and has loaded lots of ammo, mostly 45. It also has produced lots of 38 special for a S&W 52. On the bench around the machine are 500 45s loaded with 230 gr HAP (Hornady Action Pistol) bullets and 5.6gr CFE Pistol. The next 500 are on the bench are 230 truncated cone cast of wheel weights from a pair of 6 cavity H&G 292 molds and sized on a Starr lube sizer to .452. The pistol is a S&W Performance Center 1911 Com-mander size gun with a scandium frame weighing 29 oz.

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ALAMANCE COUNTYAlamance Wildlife ClubRoger Phillips PO Box 55Burlington, NC 27216(336) 584-7744www.alamancewildlifeclub.org/contact.html

Durham Pistol and Rifle Club Post Office Box 965 Durham, NC 27702 (336) 567-0981www.dprc.org

Handgunners Inc. 4325 S. NC 49 Burlington, NC 27215(336) 570-1015

ALLEGHANY COUNTYAlleghany Rifle Association, Inc. PO Box 986Sparta, NCContact: Lou Morrison (Sec/Treas)336-657-0878Email:lou@alleghanyrifleclub.comWeb: www.alleghanyrifleclub.com

ASHE COUNTYAshe County Wildlife Club PO Box 1229West Jefferson, NC 28694www.acwlc.org(336) 246-9705

BLADEN COUNTYKelly Sportsmen's Club944 Old Jones Road Kelly, NC 28448 (910) 669-3030 ksclub@intrstannet

BRUNSWICK COUNTYAnt Hill Shooting Club Richard E. Timberlake Leland, NC 28451Home: (910) 371-6391 Fax: (910) 371-6391 Email: barb9re@aol.com www.anthillrange.com/

Ant Hill Shooting Range Hwy 211 at Midway Road Bolivia, NC 28422(910) 371-6391

Buccaneer Gun Club, Inc.P.O Box 11339Wilmington, NC 20404 www.buccaneergunclub.org Outback Shooting Range 6019 Simmons RoadAsh, NC 28420(910) 287-5525

Ye Olde Gun Club &Shooting Range Route 211Southport, NC(910) 278-3763

BUNCOMBE COUNTYAsheville Rifle & Pistol Club100 Sandy Spring Drive Arden, NC 28704(828) 684-1013 (range)ashevillefirleandpistolclub.org

On Target Indoor Range George BlazierArden, NC 28704-1652 Home: (828) 779-0654 Work (828) 274-0028 Fax: (828) 654-8232 Email: oblazier1@charternet www.ncsection.org/OnTarget/ontarget.htm

CABARRUS COUNTYLong Creek Rifle & Pistol Club Concord, NC(704) 827-9077

CASWELL COUNTYCaswell Ranch Shooting Sports Dean BrevitProspect Hill, NC 27314 Office: (336) 562-2628 Email: caswellranch@embarqmail.com

CATAWBA COUNTYCatawba Valley Rifle & Pistol Club4457 Rifle Range Road Conover, NC 28613(828) 256-8755

Catawba Valley Wildlife Club PO Box 544Hickory, NC 28603(704) 462-2582 www.cvwc.org

Springs Road Gun Club Indoor Shooting Range3462 Springs Road NE Hickory, NC 28601(828) 638-6671www.springsroadgun.com

CHATHAM COUNTY Hickory Mountain Rifle and Pistol Club422 N. Holly Avenue Siler City, NC 27344(919) 742-3017

CHARLESTON COUNTY, SCPalmetto Gun ClubPO Box 12127Charleston, SC 29422-2127 www.palmettogunclub.org

COLUMBUS COUNTYThe Gun Exchange Shooting Range2440 Red Hill Road Whiteville, NC 28472(910) 642-5840

CRAVEN COUNTYB & R Guns Outdoor RangeRick WeigelHavelock, NC 28532Home: (252) 447-5826Work: (252) 447-5476Fax: (252) 447-5476Email: brguns@cconnect.net

Craven County Law Enforcement Of-ficers AssociationP.O. Box 823New Bern, NC 28563(252) 633-5091www.ccleoa.tripod.com

CUMBERLAND COUNTYCrosse Creek Rifle & Pistol Club, Inc.c/o 1798 Potomac RoadFayetteville, NC 28304(910) 977-6200Email:membership@CrosseCreekRi-fleandPistolClub.comwww.CrosseCreekRifleandPistolClub.com

Wagram Sportsman Association, Inc.9540 Giles RoadLinden, NC 28356-9329(910) 436-6264Email: wpngr@aol.com

DARE COUNTYOuter Banks Gun ClubPO Box 118Mann’s Harbor, NC 27953obxgc.org(252) 255-5055

DAVIDSON COUNTYPiedmont Handgunners AssociationP.O. Box 913Thomasville, NC 27361(336) 869-1865 www.phashoots.com

DURHAM COUNTYDurham County Wildlife Club 3616 Hopson Road Morrisville, NC 27560 (919) 544-1306 www.dcwc.info

NC Police Combat Pistol League7315 Cassam RoadBahama, NC 27503(919) 620-0114www.ncpolicepistolleague.com info@ncpolicepistolleague.com

Nor-Sou Hunting Club 421 Grist Mill Lane Durham, NC 27712

FORSYTH COUNTYYadkin Valley Sportsman Club PO Box 186King, NC 27021

GRANVILLE COUNTYNorth State Shooting Club Butner, NCwww.northstateshootingclub.com

HARNETT' COUNTYRange One Public Shooting & Gun Shop1333 Loop Road Bunnlevel, NC 28323(910) 893-9887 http://range-1.com

IREDALE COUNTYCompetitive Shooters of StatesvillePaul V. HendrixJamestown, NC 27282-0070 Home: (336) 819-8070Email: pvhendrix@yahoo.com

JOHNSTON COUNTYEastern North Carolina Pistol Club3966 Highway 70 West Princeton, NC 27569(919) 920-5933

Shooters Club, LLC PO Box 6183966 Hwy 70 West Princeton, NC 27569

JONES COUNTYTwin City Rifle Club, Inc. PO box 158Pleasant Hill, NC 27866-0158

LEE COUNTYSan-Lee Gun Club, Inc. PO Box 2544 Riddle Road Sanford, NC 27330

Deep River Sporting Clays284 Cletus Rd,Sanford, NC 27330Bill Kempffer919-774-7080

MECKLENBURG COUNTYMecklenburg Wildlife Club2301 Wildlife Road Charlotte, NC 28214 (704) 399-3733 Mailing Add: PO Box 668404 Charlotte, NC 28266

Richmont Hunt Club 426 Chillingnworth Lane Charlotte, NC 28211

MOORE COUNTYFayetteville, RSA Inc. Jon MerricksVass, NC 28394Home: (910) 245-4769 Work: (336) 613-3035Fax: (910) 944-7575Email: jmuspsa@yahoo.com www.ncsection.org/FPSAlfpsa.htm

Gun Clubs & Associations of North Carolina

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L&S Pistol Region Club P0. Box 1344Pinehurst, NC 28370(910)-295-4834Moore County Wildlife & Conservation Club, Inc. 1820 Camp Easter Road Carthage, NC 28337 vvww.mcwcc.org

Range 14 MarksmanshipCommitteeJon D. SmithWhispering Pines, NC 28327Home: (910) 949-2535Work: (910) 308-0302Email: range-14@hotmail.com

NEW HANOVER COUNTYShooter's Choice 6789 Gordon Road Wilmington, NC 28411 (910) 350-0GUN (0486) www.shooterschoiceplus.com

ONSLOW COUNTYFlatwoods Gun Shop, Inc. 357 Riggs RoadHubert, NC 28539Phone: 910-353-7593

PENDER COUNTYStone Bay Firing Range Camp Lejeune, NCCoastal Carolina Rifle Club 4th StreetSurf City, NC 28445

PERSON COUNTYHyco Shooting Club(336) 364-9700www.hycoshootingclub.com.

PITT COUNTYDown East Garand Shooters Greenville, NCClint Randles(252) 931-5575 (day)(252) 774-9338 (evenings) downeastgs@embarqmail.com

Paradise Hunting Preserve 3993 Bill Adams Road Grimesland, NC 27837 (252) 746-2748 www.paradisehuntingpreseive.com

Pitt County Wildlife ClubP.O. Box 101Greenville, NC 27835(252) 321-4378www.pittcountywildlifeclub.org

POLK COUNTYPolk County Gun Club 1243 Little Mountain Road Columbus, NCwww.polkcountygunclub.orgRANDOLPH COUNTY

Riverside Gun Club PO Box 2817Asheboro, NC 27204(336) 889-2772http://riversidegunclub.org

ROCKINGHAM COUNTYRockingham County Gun Club 2111 Scott RoadBrown's Summit, NC 27214 (336) 621-2513 after 6:00 p.m. www.rockinghamoountygunclub.com/

ROWAN COUNTYMarcel William's RangeEast Rowan High School175 Saint Luke's Church RoadSalisbury, NC 28146(704) 279-1408

Rowan County WildlifeAssociationP.O. Box 612650 Majolica RoadSalisbury, NC 28145(704) 202-3487www.rcwanc.com

RUTHERFORD COUNTYAsheville Practical Shooting Assoc.Tyrone PhillipsLake Lure, NC 28746Home: (828) 691-0801Work: (828) 691-0694Email: ladygunlover@yahoo.connhttp://apsagunclub.tripod.com/

Piedmont Gun ClubP.O. Box 1354Rutherfordton, NC 28160(828) 287-4736www/piedmontgunclub.org

Walnut Grove Gun Club Carmel LaneBostic, NC 28018(828) 248-1405Email: ross01@rfic.net

SAMPSON COUNTYCoharie Shooting League 201 West Arrowhead Drive Clinton, NC 28328(910) 592-5279

STANLY COUNTYBear Creek Gun Club Albermarie, NC

Efird's Rifle Range20766c Saint Martin Road Albermarle, NC 28001(704) 982-3196

Tuckertown BR Range Richfield, NC(704) 933-2885

UNION COUNTYCharlotte Rifle & Pistol Club (CPRC)12833 E. Independence BoulevardStallings, NC 28105 www.cr-pc.org

WAKE COUNTYPersonal Defense &Handgun Safety Center, Inc.301 Tryon Road Raleigh, NC 27603 (919) 779-6880 www.pdhsc.com

Sir Walter Gun ClubContact Martin LittleRaleigh, NC 27613Home: (919) 846-6740Work: (919) 323-5060Email: uspsa@sirwaltergunclub.comRange is in Creedmoor, NCwww.sirwaltergunclub.com

Shooting Sports, Inc. PO Box 58753Raleigh, NC 27658

Wake County Firearms Traning and Education Center3921 Old Holly Spring-Apex Rd. Apex, NC 27539-9147 www.wakegov.com/firingrange/ default.htm

WATAUGA COUNTYWatauga Gun ClubP.O. Box 2316 Boone, NC 28607(828) 264-6539

WAYNE COUNTYUS Practical Shootes Assoieation, North Carolina SectionRichard MoserGoldsboro, NC 27534 Home: (919) 735-9117 Email: rmoser38@bellsouth.net www.ncsection.org

WILKES COUNTYBlue Ridge Rifle & Pistol Association PO Box 269 Millers Creek, NC 28651 Wade Parsons (336) 973-3744

YADKIN COUNTYCarolina West Shooting Club P.O. Box 398Nebo, NC 28761(828) 659-9741 a6navy@hughes.net www.carolinawestshooting.org

Gun Clubs & Associations of North Carolina

The NCRPA Jr. Rifle Team

Would like to thank our generous supporters

East and West

DPRCDurham Pistol & Rifle Club

N S S C

N O R T H S T A T E S H O O T I N G C L U B

NCRPA Membership

Without your continued support, we would not be able to

continue our mission to teach,

encourage and support the young shooters of N.C.

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PRESIDENT 2018Fred Edgecomb106 Bluefish LaneKure Beach NC 28449910-385-7733fredgecomb@gmail.com

VICE PRESIDENT 2018Sam Summey 103 Gordon DriveFlat Rock NC 28731828-606-3080spsummey@bellsouth.net

SECRETARY 2018Charles “Chuck” Danzer177 Sury LaneHendersonville NC 28791Sfhabu10@gmail.com

TREASURER 2018Eli Colotta10417 Crestwood DriveCharlotte NC 28277704-847-8847elicolotta@aol.com

DIRECTOR 2017 George Valsame203 Tom AvenueCastle Hayne, NC 28429gtv@ipass.net

DIRECTOR 2017Clark Hardesty 1914 Basset TrailGreensboro NC 27410(336) 253-7302 clark2245@gmail.com

DIRECTOR 2017David Prest PO Box 4116 Pinehurst NC 28374910-295-2480dprest@pinehurst.net

DIRECTOR 2018 John Ayala

DIRECTOR 2018 Dave Meador2720 Big Daddy’s RdPikeville NC 27863919-735-2316lizmeador@earthlink.net

DIRECTOR 2018Vance Parker1035 Chester Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27104 (336) 768-0481vance@parkerlaw.com

DIRECTOR 2019Brian Silva656 Broadmoor CourtGrimesland, NC 27837silva_brian@hotmail.com

DIRECTOR 2019H.J. “Walt” Walter PO Box 39 Flat Rock NC 28731828-693-9904Hwalter2@earthlink.net

DIRECTOR 2019Keith Miller 210 Sevenstone DrCary NC 27513atlshrug@pobox.com

PAST PRESIDENTDavid McFarling2204 Old Oxford RoadChapel Hill NC 27514mcfarlingdh@gmail.com

SMALLBORE RIFLESam Ballard (v) 1297 Bumside Rd. Manteo, NC 27954 (252) 473-1395 Sam_sailor@yahoo.com

CONVENTIONAL PISTOL Clark Hardesty (336) 253-7302 clark2245@gmail.com

GUN SHOW COORDINATOR David E. Fitzmorris (v)P.O. Box 10173 Goldsboro, NC 27532(919) 736-2853 dfitznra@aol.com

HIGH POWER RIFLE David McFarling2204 Old Oxford Rd.,E. Chapel Hill, NC 27514 mcfarlingdh@gmail.com

HUNTER-SAFETY Rick Swaim212 Four Sons Farm Rd. Dobson, NC 27017 (336) 374-4822 rkswatm@mynra.com

LAW ENFORCEMENT LIAISON Brian Silva656 Broadmoor CourtGrimesland, NC 27837silva_brian@hotmail.com

MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN David PrestP.O. Box 3155Pinehurst, NC 28374(910) 295-2480 dprest@pinehurst.net

NRA TRAINING COUNSELORInstructor LiaisonEric Shuford207 Travilah Oaks LaneCary, NC 27518-2245(919) 363-0658eshuford@earthlink.net

RANGE DEVELOPMENT Dave Meador2720 Big Daddy’s Rd. Pikeville, NC 27863(919) 735-2316 lizmeador@earthlink.net

SILHOUETTE RIFLE / PISTOL Vacant

TOURNAMENTSDavid McFarling2204 Old Oxford RoadChapel Hill NC 27514mcfarlingdh@gmail.com

YOUTH PROGRAMS David PrestP.O. Box 3155Pinehurst, NC 28374(910) 295-2480 dprest@pinehurst.net

NCRPA Directory

NRA ContactsNRA REP - EASTERN NCLloyd EdwardsP.O. Box 608Norlina, NC 27563(252) 456-2097(252) 456-2154 fax(252) 722-3168 cellledwards@nrahq.org

NRA REP - WESTERN NCRobert “Doug” MerrillP.O. Box 441Fairview, NC 28730(828) 628-0410

NRA—ILA LIAISON Anthony Roulette 11230 Waples Mill Dr. Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 267-1215 aroulette@ghtrahq.org

NRA BOARD MEMBER Edie Fleeman5000 Mandel Road Durham, NC 27712 (919) 389-9710 edie.nra@gmail.com

NRA BOARD MEMBER H.J. “Walt” Walter (v) P.O. Box 39Flat Rock, NC 28731(828) 693-9904 hwalter2@earthlink.net

NRA Board Member Bob Sanders109 Candlewyck Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27104 (336) 659-2999 gunlaw@triad.r.com

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If your club would like its shooting schedule, Match Results or other

club information published in the NCRPA Newsletter, please send it to

newslettereditor@ncrpa.org

Match DirectorsPlease send us links to your match schedules and other club activities. We will post them on our web page and

in State Shots.Also if you have match results with photos of your great

events, we will present them also.

Rowan County Wildlife Association650 Majolica Road • Salisbury, NC 28145

www.rcwanc.com

Skeet, Trap and Five StandEvery Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday (Except Christmas Day)

First Saturday - Old North State Posse SASS/ Cowboy ActionMatch information – onsp.us

October 31-November 5, 2017 - SASS NC State Cowboy Shoot Match information – sassncmatch.org

Second Saturday - USPSA-IPSC Pistol Program Match information - rowanpracticalshooters.comSeptember 6-10, 2017 - USPSA-IPSC NC State Shoot

Match information - rowanpracticalshooters.comSecond Saturday (except Jan., Feb. & July)- Buffalo Rifle Match

Third Saturday (except Jan, Feb, June & Dec) - CMP/NRA High Power Rifle June 17th, 2017 - CMP Sanctioned - John C. Garand High Power Rifle Match

Fourth Saturday - Close Quarters Tactical Action Shooting (CQTAS)Match information – cqtas.net

Join the NRA and support Freedom in the United States

1. For Your Freedom 2. For Your Family 3. For Your Community 4. For your Country 5. For Your Future

The NRA offers education and training opportunities for all ages; from Eddie Eagle GunSafe program that has taught 26 million children firearms safety, to advanced personal protection courses for home defense.

NRA provides vital support that will keep your loved ones safe. Join today online at the following link.

https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp?campaignid=XC005400

Regular Member fee 1yr=$30, 3yr=$85, 5yr=$100 (These prices are only available through the link above)

Junior Member fee (under 18) 1yr=$10

Magazine Choices are American Rifleman, American Hunter, Americas First Freedom, Shooting Illustrated.

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Membership Application

Please print clearly and provide complete information so your membership can be processed correctly.

Mr/Mrs/Ms___________________________________/____________________________________/_____________ Last Name or Club Name First Name Ml

Street________________________________________________City________________State_____ Zip__________

Birthday ________/______/_______ Phone (________)_____________________ NRA#________________________

Email Address________________________________________________________

North Carolina Rifle & Pistol AssociationP.O. Box 4116, Pinehurst, NC 28374

Check Desired Membership INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPq Annual -1 year $ 30.00q Annual - 5 Year $ 125.00q Junior -1 year $ 15.00q Junior Life (under 12 yrs. old) $ 175.00q Life Membership $ 300.00q Term Life Membership $ 325.00 5 quarterly payments @ $65.00 eaq Senior Life—60 Year Plus $ 175.00q Endowment Member $ 500.00 q Patron Member $ 750.00 q Benefactor $ 1000.00

CORPORATE MEMBERSHIPq Annual Corporate Sponsor

Payment Enclosed $______________

q Club Affiliation Membership q New Membership q Renewal

State Rep District__________ State Senate District__________

U.S. Representative District___________ County___________________

mail to: David Prest, Membership Secretary P.O. Box 4116 Pinehurst, NC 28374

CLUB MEMBERSHIP ( - FOR GUN CLUBS -)q 1 Year Adult Club Membership $ 40.00q 3 Year Adult Club Membership $ 100.00q 1 Year Junior Club Membership $ 20.00q 3 Year Junior Club Membership $ 50.00

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