Indiana Forms Youth Clay Target Shooting League

December 6 was an historic day for clay target shooting in Indiana. A youth trap shooting league was formed for the state, with 14 youth shooting teams meeting at the historic Kingen Gun Club to plan the 2015 season for the new league, which will utilize SCTP rules and guidelines for its shoots. Ten competitions are scheduled in 2015 for the Hoosier youth shooters, including an SCTP State Championship and the SCTP National Championship. Among the attendees at the formative meeting were Mark Burgess, SCTP State Director, and Chet Tuinstra, SCTP Regional Field Representative. Formation of the league was due to the efforts of Derek Marshall, Superintendent of Attica Consolidated School Corporation in Attica, Indiana, who started by contacting every youth trap shooting program and every gun club in the state with the goal of organizing the people in Indiana shooting sports to create a statewide trap shooting league for youth. Student shooters will compete in one of five divisions according to SCTP rules, and awards will be presented at each event. In the future, the Hoosier Clay Target Association hopes to expand to encompass skeet and sporting clays.

SPP Announces Virtual Match Drawing Winners

Congratulations to the 11 Scholastic Pistol Program teams that have been drawn as prize winners at the conclusion of the 2013-2014 SPP Virtual Match Target Season. Winners were selected in a random drawing among teams that participated in the season. Your team can easily compete with teams from across the country in the 2014-2015 Virtual Match season without ever leaving your home range. All squads have to do is shoot the SPP course of fire at your local range or match and submit SPP score sheets via email to SPP Program Manager Tammy Mowry, tmowry@sssfonline.com. There is also a fee of $5 per squad/per match score. Every time a squad turns in a score, they get a chance to win some great prizes. The more you play, the more you can win! The prize winners for the 2013-2014 season are: 1 Case (1000 rounds) 9mm ammunition
    Hocking County Young Guns Coach: Andy Thompson Squad 3 – 8/16/14 WWCCA Straight Shooters Coach: Joe Cafarelli Squad – 5/31/14 Michigan State University Shooting Sports Club Coach: Paul Kuchek Squad - 5/31/14

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    Red Dawn Junior Marksmanship Academy ** Coach: Cathi Bray Squad 3 – 8/17/14 Ozaukee Squad Scholastic Shooting Sports Pistol Team ** Coach: Rick Leach Squad 2 - 6/16/14

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    Union Grove Pistol Team Coach: Mike Ditscheit Squad 1 – 4/26/14

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    Team Gotta Coach: Robin Taylor Squad 1 – 6/21/14 Straight Shooters, Tucson Coach: Bill Perkins Squad Blue - 5/6/14

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    Smokin’ Dragons Coach: Trent Keltner Squad 3 - 4/26/14

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    Leon County Sheriff’s Explorer Coach: Dustin Brock Squad 3/15/14

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    William Blount Shooting Team Coach: Paul Carrington Squad Junior C – 3/26/14
** Gun winners, please send an FFL to Tammy Mowry, tmowry@sssfonline.com

Randolph Engineering: How to Choose the Right Tint for Shooting Glasses

There is probably no type of shooting equipment that provokes more questions than colored shooting glasses. With so many choices, how do you know which colors to buy? In this interview by Field & Stream's Phil Bourjaily, Frank Robertson of Randolph Engineering, maker of the exceptional Randolph Ranger shooting glasses which are offered in numerous colors, explains how to choose the right lens tints for different lighting conditions.

Cyber Monday Is Coming! Support SSSF with Your Amazon and SSSF Store Purchases

Black Friday is in just two days, and that means Cyber Monday is close behind, kicking off the online holiday shopping season. You can support SSSF with all your Amazon purchases just by using a special link, smile.amazon.com, and designating SSSF as the recipient of a donation from Amazon, based on a percentage of your purchase price. It doesn't cost you a cent! Get started. You can also find just the right holiday gift for the shooter in your life by shopping at the SSSF online store! Shop there for shooting gear and SCTP and SPP logo items like hats, shirts, gun cases, shooting glasses, and much more. Visit the SSSF Store.
Myles Walker

SCTP’s Myles Walker Takes Gold at USA Shooting’s Fall Selection Match

SCTP shooter Myles Walker from Burlington, Wisconsin has won the gold medal for bunker trap in USA Shooting's Fall Selection Match. The match was held November 6-11 at the Delta Resort and Spa in Tillar, Arkansas. Myles Walker-1-350Myles was one of four athletes awarded a spot on USA Shooting's National Team as a result of his performance at the SCTP National Championship for international disciplines held in July in Colorado Springs. Hank Garvey and Nic Moscetti, who also earned their National Team spots at the SCTP Nationals, placed 4th and 5th, respectively, at the Fall Selection Match. Six bunker trap competitors withstood the intensity of 500 targets and four finals matches to emerge as 2015 World Cup selections for the USA Shooting Team as a result of the four-day competition. The Fall Selection Match served as the second phase of selection for the first three upcoming World Cup competitions to begin 2015, including events in Acapulco, Mexico and Al Ain, UAE in March and Laranaca, Cypress in late April where the top three athletes will compete. Fall Selection Match is also serving as the first of a two-part selection process for the Pan American Games (July), the last World Cup of 2015 in Gabala, Azerbaijan (August) and the 2015 World Clay Target Championships (September). Myles, a sophomore at Lindenwood University, participates in SCTP as a member of his college team's shotgun sports team. The win in Tillar places Myles in a great position to earn USA Shooting Team status come Spring Selection in April. “SCTP has provided me with the opportunity to flourish both as an athlete and an individual," Myles commented. "The benefit of the experience I have had surpasses any other activity I have been involved with.” Congratulations to Myles, Hank, and Nic for earning their National Team positions and representing SCTP well!

Video: SPP In & Out Stage

There's no better way to see exactly what the four Scholastic Pistol Program stages look like than from the shooter's eye view. Here's the first, the In & Out stage, as seen during the 2014 Collegiate National Championships at Ft. Benning, Georgia. (Video by Ben Lillegard, member of University of Wisconsin - Platteville SPP team)
NSSF Safety Flyer

Firearms Safety Depends on You

NSSF Safety FlyerFrom the time you pick up a firearm, you become part of a system over which you have complete control. You are the only part of the system that can make a gun safe -- or unsafe. Here are 10 basics of gun handling that you must know, courtesy of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF):
  • 1. Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.
  • 2. Firearms should be unloaded when not actually in use.
  • 3. Don’t rely on your gun’s “Safety.”
  • 4. Be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.
  • 5. Use correct ammunition.
  • 6. If your gun fails to fire when the trigger is pulled, handle with care!
  • 7. Always wear eye and ear protection when shooting.
  • 8. Be sure the barrel is clear of obstructions before shooting.
  • 9. Don’t alter or modify your gun, and have guns serviced regularly.
  • 10. Learn the mechanical and handling characteristics of the firearm you are using.
NSSF has developed a booklet that explains each of these gun safety rules in detail. You can view or download it here. NSSF also offers other safety literature for use by individuals, families, or shooting teams. You can find it at www.nssf.org/safety/lit/.

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