Shooters;
If anybody is interested in taking the NRA Range Safety Officer class
this Sunday, please contact Meg Clarke <marston.clarke@...>. We
need two more people to make the class. This is a prerequisite for AAFG
club members to become club safety officers and get those ultra cool RSO
cards.
- Jack
Hey guys,
The number dropped to 4 today...currently have Tod Sisk, Jack Blundell, Michael Rash and Don Welch as confirmed for Sunday's RSO class. We need to get the number back up to at least 6 to make this work right and I have enough materials to do up to 10 this time. Can you recruit a shooting buddy that you think might be good for this? I've pasted in the NRA class description below to help with the effort.
TheNRA Range Safety Officer Course develops NRA Certified Range Safety Officers with the knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to organizing, conducting, and supervising safe shooting activities and range operations. This course is nine hours long and is conducted in a classroom and at a shooting facility. Range Safety Officer candidates will learn roles and responsibilities of an RSO; Range Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); range inspection; range rules; range briefings; emergency procedures; and firearm stoppages and malfunctions. Each Range Safety Officer Candidate will receive an RSO Student Study Guide, a Basic Firearm Training Program brochure, an NRA Gun Safety Rules
brochure, an Instructor Application/Course Evaluation form. (Lesson Plan 10-05, reprint 10-08).
We'll start on Sunday at 8 for coffee and donuts with the real work beginning at 8:30. We'll take an hour break for lunch (fast food, Red,Hot & Blue etc) and go until finished...usually 6:30 or so.
All you need to bring is your favorite writing implement (and your $ - $75 for club or MSRPA members, $90 for all else).
I'll hold off on the final go/no go until Friday pm so you have a brief opportunity to boost the number(s).
The squad roster for our Friday Dec 4th match is below. If you are on it and find you cannot attend, please advise. There are still several slots available for this match, so there will be no update email thursday evening. 9 stages are planned with a minimum round count of 108 (you will want extra). There may be time and interest to shoot all or part of this match a second time, so bring enough ammo for it if that may be an option. Show-Up time is 09:00 AM. Thanks,
The way sign-up has been handled for the past couple of years is anyone who requested a slot but did not get one was transferred to the wait list in the order their initial request was received. If a slot became available, an email was sent out to those on the wait list offering the slot if they were still interested and requesting a response back either way. As some 9 shooter's over the past three matches did not return those emails (for whatever reasons), the result has been that we have had 3 matches in a row with at least one open slot.
So we're going to try something different. There will still be a match wait list and those who requested a slot but were not initially able to get into the match will be tracked (so that'll stay the same). The first change is that the wait list will stay open until the night before the match, meaning anyone wanting to shoot it should submit a request even if the match update went out saying the match was full. The second change is that an email will go out the night before the match to everyone who submitted a request to shoot (and are on the wait list). It will either advise that the match is full or that there are "x" number of slots available. I will do my best to send it around 7 PM. Slots will be assigned in the order THAT email is responded to. I will send a follow-up email advising when they have been filled.
Let me know if you have any questions and enjoy the rest of the weekend. Thanks,
For those of you who believe that one outdoor IDPA sanctioned match in January (the Arctic Blast - Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1/9/10 - information sent previously) is inadequate, I have learned that there will be an another outdoor sanctioned match on Saturday 1/30/10 in the vicinity of Hartford, CT. The announcement says 12 stages, minimum 120 rounds, cheesy trophies (per IDPA rules), and no prize table or giveaways. Information is at www.matchreg.com . Match fee is $65.
If you are interested in going and looking for like - minded fools, you can e-mail me and I will put you in touch with each other. I have not yet decided whether I am fool enough to go.
Our Friday December 4th match will be 9 stages with a minimum round count of 108 (you will want extra). There may be time and interest to shoot all or part of this match a second time, so bring enough ammo for it if that may be an option. Show-Up time is 09:00 AM.
The Match is tentatively titled "Third Times The Charm" and our master CoF designer Pete has come up with a completely different format and approach on this one. The only thing I can share at this point, if I remember correctly, was something about including all the movers, mechanicals, and poppers. Have a Good Thanksgiving and SIGN-UP BEGINS NOW!