In spite of the below freezing start today, we had a good turnout and inaugurated our first Vintage Military Bench match. It went pretty well, but I need to pick up the pace a little more as grumblings were heard regarding a late lunch. Click here for the bench match information. We will be adding the 300 yd bench match whenever it is a good fit for our regular match. See the calendar for the planned matches. Thanks to all who came out to brave the cold today. Click here for the scores. Next month we have another fun one planned, our annual Winter War match. Click here for the details.

I have our 2025 schedule posted now, the only difference being the CMP M1 Carbine Match I have put on the schedule for August. It is a 100yd all M1 Carbine match. I'll post details as soon as I get them put together.

With our unofficial Swiss Rifle match we finish our 17th year of vintage military rifle matches at CCRPC. It really doesn't seem to have been that long. Mostly because of the great bunch of guys in our club who always make the matches easy to run. We have a couple of regulars I want to thank specifically; many thanks to Jim Popp and Jay Ferguson who have been with me since the start. These guys are nearly always there to help with running the match as well as providing input on every other aspect of holding these matches.

We will be posting our 2025 match schedule soon. The January match will be one of our regular vintage military double headers, but the remainder of the schedule is still being decided.

We had fun with the Swiss match and about half of us met the Swiss requirement in the Obligatorisch for our age group. Click here for the results. Since we are unofficial we allow any of our vintage military rifles to be fired. In the official matches the Swiss can shoot Sturmgewehr 57 and 90 which are modern select fire as well as their older rifles such as the Model 96/11, K11, K31. There may be others but since I can't read the official documents, that's all I can offer.

Have a happy new year!!!

A great fall day for shooting. We only get a few of these each year, so it was really nice. We had six bronze awards and one silver. Tim fired a 281-11X and a 282-7X, both impressive scores. But, those are bronze award levels in the Modern-Military Unlimited class, it is a tough one. Click here for all awards and scores.

In November, we'll be shooting our WWI memorial match to mark the end of that war. This is a fun match with bolt action rifles and a different target than we are used to. Click here for the info.

Thanks to all for coming out to shoot, and thanks to my fellow club members who always pitch in to make these matches run smoothly.

We had a great early fall day for a match. The sun was nice and bright and in spite of the rain we've had recently there were no puddles. I've missed a couple of matches lately, so I really appreciate everyone letting me win today.. Click here for the results. In October we'll be shooting our fall CMP double Header. The rifle categories are expanded to include more modern military rifles. Click here for the match information.

Hope to see you there.

As promised it was another hot one. We had a breeze today though and it wasn't bad at all. Maybe we're just adjusting to the summertime temps. We had five to shoot today. Click here for the scores. Next month we'll be shooting at range #1 in the shade and at shorter distances. Click here for our vintage military 3-gun match details.

Thanks to all for braving the heat to come out and shoot. Also thanks again to my fellow club members who help out with this match consistently.

After the match today, Jim, Jay , and I shot the 300 yard bench match target to see how it would be. Shooting from the bench, even in today's heat wasn't bad at all. We're evaluating the idea of adding this to our matches and will keep you informed.

Well, it was a hot one. Those of us who weren't smart enough to shoot under the shade soon saw the wisdom and relocated. We had only a few shooters today as some of our regulars were out of commission or otherwise occupied. We still had a good time shooting. Click here for the scores.

Next month will be another vintage military double header so plan ahead and come on out.

I'm looking into adding a vintage military bench match to run alongside our regular matches. It will be similar to the CMP VMR Benchrest matches. See the CMP Games rulebook section 4.6.6 and other sections that are referenced there. Right Click here and select open in new tab for CMP rulebook.

Well, once again we dodged the rain.  We saw only a slight sprinkle that didn't even wet the targets and had a nice day for a match. Jim and I posted the best scores today.  Click here for the results.

Remember, we will not have a match at our range in April.  That is the same weekend as the CMP Eastern Games at Camp Butner which several of us attend.

We will be back in May for our regular vintage military double header.

As predicted, a really great day to be at the range. We had 7 shooters with Swedish, Finnish, and US rifles. Tim and I put up the best scores today. Click here for all of the scores. Next month we will shoot our regular vintage military double header. Hope to see you there.