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Camp Perry: a duffer's perspective of the nationals.
You don't have to be a pistol master to enjoy the national championships of bullseye pistol shooting. "Ready on the right, ready on the left, ready on the firing line." Three seconds after the last command, there is a pneumatic hiss and four hundred targets turn to face the first relay of pistol shooters at the 2004 National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The black center circles sit inside broad off-white squares. They look like gravestones, and particularly with a war on, they put you in mind of a military cemetery. "In Flanders Field the poppies grow, beneath the crosses row on row..." We remember the centuries of American patriots who died to preserve the freedom that ...
- Camp Perry & the National Matches. (shooting competition) (column)
- Magazine article from: Shooting Industry Brant, Howard August 1, 1990 700+ words
...of the month-long National Matches at Camp Perry and this shootfest...officially opened the 1907 National Matches at Camp Perry when he fired the first...in the making. The national matches at Camp Perry continued through 1917...
- 3,500 shooters expected to compete in annual National Matches at Camp Perry.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 7, 1988 700+ words
3,500 SHOOTERS EXPECTED TO COMPETE IN ANNUAL NATIONAL MATCHES AT CAMP PERRY WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7 /PRNewswire...at Camp Perry, Ohio, to compete in the annual National Matches, July 15 - August 14, 1988. The National Matches...
- Weaver captures NRA Prone Championship Title for fourth time at national...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 1, 1988 700+ words
...TITLE FOR FOURTH TIME AT NATIONAL MATCHES CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Aug. 1/ PRNewswire...Fredericksburg, VA The National Matches are co-sponsored annually...through August 14. -0- NATIONAL MATCHES -- CAMP PERRY, OHIO OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS...
- The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, Steve Pollick column: Camp Perry beckons...
- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) July 15, 2007 700+ words
...events are called the National Matches. "Since 1907 some...have competed [at Camp Perry] alongside club shooters who consider the NRA National Matches a vital part of their...sheer enjoyment make Camp Perry a special place indeed...
- What I learned at Camp Perry.(Handguns)
- Magazine article from: Guns Magazine Ayoob, Massad December 1, 2004 700+ words
...realized that I didn't want to get run over by a truck before I had been to Camp Perry, Ohio, that touchstone of American handgunning, so I went for the 2004 National Matches. NRA runs it, and the Association's Joe Roberts told me attendance...
- Lenardson captures National Pistol Championship title; record number of...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 20, 1988 700+ words
...COMPETE IN NRA CHAMPIONSHIPS CAMP PERRY, Ohio, July 19 /PRNewswire...Pistol Champion in the National Matches at Camp Perry. The National Pistol Championship...continue through Aug. 14. NATIONAL MATCHES -- CAMP PERRY, OHIO Official Final Results...
- G. David Tubb captures national high-power title; record number in NRA...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 12, 1988 700+ words
...NRA CHAMPIONSHIPS CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Aug. 12...Champion in the National Matches at Camp Perry. The National Highpower...brought David to Camp Perry in 1969. David...impression of the National Matches, stating, "It...
- The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, Steve Pollick column: Walleyes in short supply, but...
- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) August 14, 2007 700+ words
...northwest corner of the Camp Perry Firing Zone and found some...it out this year at the National Matches at Camp Perry, and this time around...100th anniversary of the National Matches at Camp Perry concludes today with the...