Shooting

Who shot on organized shooting teams? From HS to current?
I shot .22 rifle.in BSA Explorer as 16 year old, 1956..
USA .22 rifle ROTC in College, North Central Champs 1959. USN pistol Bullseye 1966-1972.. USN International Trap , 2nd All Navy 1972. Olympic trials, Ft Benning 72.
I ask because I wonder who was able to buy and keep great guns at low price and still have them.
As I have two 1970 Colt Gold Cups, National Match, that I had to pay 99 dollars for. A Browning Broadway trap gun for $300. A Colt Python for $125.00. A S&W 41 for 85 dollars.
Anyone have NM Garand's or other stuff?

I'd love to reply buy with big brother already listening...

I shot .22 cal. 50' indoor in high school from 1961-1964. We competed in a league with a number of other high schools.

I was in the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home in Xenia, Ohio, and since we were a State run institution, it was mandatory that we had Jr. ROTC, and EVERYONE was required to have firearms training. After that, if you were good enough, you could join the Rifle Team.

The US Army furnished the ammo, and some of the rifles. When I first started, the Army supplied rifles were Springfield M2s that were virtually identical to the '03 Springfield but in .22 Cal. Those were eventually replaced with Remington 513Ts.

We also have some Winchester Model 52Bs which is what I used. We always used the same rifle as long as we were on the team, and still I remember it's serial number as I was/am an airplane nut as well: 70707B

Yeah--don't tell big brother how many 50year old 22 rifles you got, might start a war of old fa**s

I live just outside Xenia.. I never knew there was an orphans home there..

I never had such an opportunity, very small town and small school so all we had was readin, ritin, n rithmetic hardly any extra curricualr other then high school basketball, maybe some track and we all had after school or Saturday jobs. I sat in a truck n helped fold and deliver rural newspapers for a quarter per night.

HOWEVER in the early eighties the Principal at our kids grade school taught a gun safety course and brought guns to school and all the kids got to shoot (well supervised by him) after they completed the course. I WONDER IF THAT WOULD HAPPEN TODAY?????

Our familys gun safety and use came about by hunting and shooting sports still no competition, but what you did sure sounds like a fun sport. I may have played some small part in my Marine/Secret Service Agent/ICE Special Agent sons gun proficiency, he qualified as "Expert" in rifle and hand gun, maybe our hunting and those grade school safe gun use instructions paid off??

Enjoy your sport and congratulations

Ol John T and all

We had a rifle team, it was a JROTC school, and I do remember the .22 target rifles, photos are in the yearbook. Given I played football, and spring track, I had barely enough time to participate in an extra curricular military activity, which the active duty 38 year old army ranger, with a couple of hash marks on his sleeve, (2 tours in Vietnam) instructed. These guys would be assigned a few years each, then moved on, he started this program and I stayed in it all through high school. You had to march 10 miles in 3 hours to get in. It was a lot more intense than the rifle team, PT and all kinds of other military training, preparing those who will join the military. We did weapons training with the M16A1, with 203 grenade launcher, Colt 1911, and M60 machine gun, and did go to the local ARNG (link below) range nearby, as well as one of the ranges at West Point during summer training exercises. As a freshman we were allowed to qualify with the M16A1. I have old school newspapers in a box somewhere, that have a few interesting photos. The live fire at the ranges was good training and to be honest, fun, 'cept for one friend and I still razz him about it today, he had the selector on full auto, after being implicitly instructed that NO one use full auto, for obvious reasons, at the West Point range, whereas the instructor plucked him from this exercise for a more meaningful task of cleaning weapons, the entire day.

Now, the rifle team uses air guns, and the other drill team, does nothing like what were doing, which was better than any darned video games, we spent a lot of time at the ARNG armory, road marched to any training areas within 20 miles, often times drawing weapons from the armory for training maneuvers, company warfare with the ARNG, ROTC teams, reserve Marines, whatever the instructor could line up.

Back to the subject, this is where I gained my affinity for an M14 rifle, hence my M1A, and I do recall, the CMP in those days where you could get a garand very inexpensive and it was possible to get an M1D garand, not sure about the NM models though. I forget about the M1 carbine, can't believe what these cost today, but an NM M1A would be awesome, I did, years back, used to compete in the DCMP at the local range with both my M1A and the Garand, I enjoyed these activities quite a bit and always did very well, likely from those early years of training.

I may be a putz now with this 783 Marlin I've been fooling with and posted about, LOL and I did not like the school I attended and graduated from, I did like the rifle team, and the Ranger team which I belonged to, we sure did learn an awful lot from these Army veterans, its sad the way it is now though.
Glenmore Armory

Thats funny and these programs mentioned above were sponsored by big brother starting 100 years ago, both myself and my father participated, now its taboo ???? To heck with ......... intentionally left blank LOL !!!!

closest I ever had to organized shooting as a kid was during six grade here in Michigan we had shooting .22 LRs at school during a outdoor activities at the local state park. We also had hunters education in school when I was in sixth grade. Got into pistol shooting much later in life did PPC and IDPA at local clubs and now teach pistol safety and concealed carry classes as a NRA instructor at my farm.

In high school (Ann Arbor, MI Pioneer) we had a shooting range in the basement and although I always enjoyed shooting I never found out about how to get involved.

Going to help officiate at the Michigan state 4-H shoot Saturday.

Our local high school still has a range in the basement. Of course it's defunct due not just to the wussy-touchy-feely-girly-man syndrome, but also because of EPA air quality standards. Lead in the air they say. Horse puckey says I.

Do BSA of America still offer shooting sports?

Two sons in 4H shooting sports right now, both in rifle, one is also in pistol.

I have never shot on a team but I killed a pretty nice nine point buck last year with a 1871 50/70 Remington rolling block.

The only organized shooting teams I've ever been on were US Army Infantry, Artillery, and Armor.

Local school has joined the state high school trap shooting competition. Boys teams & girls teams. I looked at their scores and I don't think I will even challenge the girls. The girls shoot 76 targets and boys regular 100 at the state meet. They did really well, all of them.

I shot competitively in the NRA junior program during my jr hi and high school years 1958 to 1961. Attended several state level matches,always finishing in the top 10,shot a 52 Winchester heavy barrel those years. Currently have a 512 and a 521T Remington. have not shot either in a few years. 22 of choice is a custom built 1022 Ruger.

Three years on the high school rifle team. and that lead to something else later on shell we just say senior trip and some longer range shooting.

A national match Garrand is like saying you are going to trick out a Ferrari. If it doesn't shoot the way it is suppose to off the rack, there isn't much you can spend money on except a new barrel and stock gell. Most people just can't shoot full caliber fer shhhhh.... won't admit it, so they pump money into an already perfect machine.
Years ago I saw a sub cellar rifle range in a high school in Springfield, Mass. It was built in 1940, and since Europe was already at war, they wanted the boys to shoot for gym class. And girls to be 'familiar' with guns. Sort of a 1940's 'survival skills' class? The custodian, old timer from Vermont, turned on the lights, holy cow the place was bright! I said,'gosh too bad about politics, this place is still whitewashed, ready to use again once you get the stench out'. He said 'oh this place hasn't been touched since the mid 60's. Wasn't politics, ain't whitewash. It's lead from millions of 22's. I ain't cleaning it. you ain't cleaning it. So we'll just let it sit here...

As a student at the University of Missouri in the 70's, I took an archery class, and a rifle marksmanship class. Both University sponsored and taught classes.

Now, sadly, like most Politically correct schools, the University will not even allow a bow on campus, even one that is "taken down".

Idiots.

I dont have guns anymore, they were all stolen by a band of traveling gypsies.

Gene