TUESDAY 10:00am to 1:00pm
Open Shooting 6:00pm to 9:00pm Practical Pistol (Bullseye)
WEDNESDAY 10:00am to 1:00pm Open Shooting 3:00pm to 5:00pm WF JR ROTC 6:00pm to 10:00pm NDSU
Marksmanship
THURSDAY 10:00am to 1:00pm Open Shooting 3:00pm to 5:00pm WF JR ROTC 1st
Thursday 6:00pm to 9:00pm Defensive Shooting Practice 2nd Thursday 6:00pm to 8:00pm Ladies
Night/Open Shooting 3rd Thursday 6:00pm to 8:00pm Family Night/Open Shooting 4th Thursday 6:00pm to 8:00pm Open Shooting
Area ROTC units participated in
a special Veterans Day shoot at the center.
Membership Drive
2012
Help support the range and
have the opportunity to win!
1ST Name Drawn Premium Membership & $100
Gift Card
2ND Name Drawn Premium Membership & $50
Gift Card
3RD Name Drawn Premium Membership
4TH Name Drawn Standard Membership & $50
Gift Card
5TH Name Drawn Standard Membership
Bring in a non-member to
join the range. Each new member you bring in that joins places
your name in for the drawing.
A new premium member will give you two chances
to win. A new standard member will give you one chance
to win. You must accompany the new member to the range
to qualify.
Drawing will be the same time as the gun raffle
drawing, March 17, 2012.
Volunteer Profile
Her bright smile and cheerful greeting
are familiar to the Thursday shooters at the RRRMC. Jan Luptak,
of Horace, has been a range member since April 2010 and a front
desk volunteer since May 2011. She’s the first – and last - face
many shooters see during Thursdays’ open shoots.
“Meeting and greeting are my favorite
part of volunteering,” Jan says. She enjoys communicating with
people and getting to know them better. And no one leaves the
center without sharing. “How was your experience?” she asks with
a smile.
A former deer hunter, Jan joined the
range to get back into shooting, and began volunteering as a way
to contribute. Her volunteer duties include “whatever needs to
be done”: sales, desk work, clean-up, managing the phone and
checking in shooters. She also volunteers during events such as
December’s gun show. With her characteristic enthusiasm, Jan
encourages others to donate their time and efforts to
RRRMC as well.
To volunteer, complete a volunteer card
at the front desk.
Volunteer Profile will be featured
regularly in future issues of the newsletter.
Story by Bonnie Kavanaugh
Volunteer
Appreciation Dinner
Center members and volunteers enjoyed an appreciation dinner
and drawing on November 16, 2011. Neil Dockter was the lucky
winner of the drawing for a Ruger SR9 pistol engraved with
“RRRMC-2011.”
Don
Hartwig, RRRMC vice president, and Neil Dockter, drawing winner.
Gun Shows
Sales were “brisk” at December’s annual
RRRMC gun show, according to
vendors. More than 70 vendors and organizations, such as the Sheyenne Valley Peacekeepers (top picture), participated. The show
was well attended and tables are already booked for next year’s
show.
Volunteers
manned the RRRMC booth at the 34th annual Dakota
Territory Gun Collectors Gun Show on January 7, 2012 at the
Fargo Civic. They were promoting the range and selling
memberships. Left to right: Miranda Wilcox, zombie target, Chuck
Hanson and Larry Cihacek. A Zombie Shoot is scheduled for
Friday, January 13, 2012.
Member's Services
Are you a RRRMC Member? Then sign up today to take advantage of
new member’s services!
New Member Sign-Up:
Log on to
www.rrrmc.com. At the
bottom of the home page under “Join In”, click on Sign Up.
This will
take you to the member registration page below. Enter the
information requested and click Register.
Allow 24-48
hours for your membership status to be validated and your access
to be granted.
You
will not receive additional notification. You can return to the
site and use the members’ log-in option to confirm your account
has been activated.
Concealed Carry
Permit Update
A letter I received dated December
27th, 2011, from the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal
Investigation concerning renewals of the North Dakota Concealed
Permit that states in part:
"The renewal time period begins 180 days prior to expiration and
continues to the date of expiration. An expired license cannot
be renewed.
NOTE: if you begin the
renewal process fewer than 90 days prior to the expiration
date, you can still renew BUT your license to carry concealed
will be invalid from the date of the expiration until the
renewed license is issued and you will not be able to carry
concealed during that time. To avoid a lapse in licensing, the
BCI recommends that you begin the process at the earliest
opportunity."
by Jere R. Hilland
The Six Fundamentals
of Pistol Shooting
In this edition, we will
cover the basics of the third fundamental of pistol shooting:
Sight Alignment.
Sight alignment is the most
important contribution to firing an accurate shot.
In order for the bullet to hit the center of the target, the
shooter must aim the pistol and give the barrel a definite
direction relative to the target.
A requisite for correct aiming is the ability to maintain the
relationship between the front and rear sights. When aiming the
front sight is positioned in the middle of the rear sight notch
with an equal light space on each side. The horizontal top
surface of the front sight is on the same level as the top
horizontal surface of the rear sight notch.
Correct sight alignment must be thoroughly understood and
practiced. It appears on the surface as a simple thing - this
lining up of two objects, front and rear sights. The problem
lies in the difficulty in maintaining these two sights in
precise alignment while the shooter is maintaining a minimum arc
of movement and pressing the trigger to cause the hammer to fall
without disturbing sight alignment.
The solution is in focusing the eye on the front sight during
the delivery of the shot.
The sight picture is the
relationship between the sights and target.
Defensive Shooting Practice
Our goal in Defensive Shooting Practice is to
provide members of Red River Regional Marksmanship Center the
ability to practice defensive and personal protection shooting
outside of normal shooting and competitive shooting parameters
in a safe, controlled yet fun recreational atmosphere.
Providing the opportunity
to improve basic marksmanship skills in a safe, controlled,
yet fun and recreational atmosphere including an introduction to
NRA conventional pistol competition and assisting novice
marksmen and women learn the fun of regular marksmanship
practice.
Teaching basic marksmanship skills
in a safe controlled environment and introducing marksmen and
women to the world of competitive Air pistol shooting.
