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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...
- Illinois Shooters Take Honors at National Matches.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire August 17, 2005 700+ words
...Illinois have enjoyed outstanding success at the National Matches, held recently in Camp Perry, Ohio. Among the standouts from Illinois...Position Small Bore Match. This year's National Matches marked the team's first outing. The team...
- 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...
- SERVICE RIFLE TEAM DOMINATES NATIONAL MATCHES.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire August 25, 2005 700+ words
(From Regulatory Intelligence Data) CAMP PERRY, Ohio (Army News Service, Aug. 25, 2005) -- Service...but they dominated the National Highpower Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, Aug. 2 to 15. After conducting the Rifle Small...
- 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...
- THE MODEL 1911.
- Magazine article from: Handguns TAYLOR, CHUCK February 1, 2000 700+ words
...dominates nearly every facet of handgunning, from the National Matches at Camp Perry, to IPSC competition, to the hunting and "boondocking...configuration, it holds most of the records at Camp Perry, the premier accuracy contest of all. And...
- Camp Perry celebrates 80th anniversary.
- Newspaper article from: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX) June 27, 2007 700+ words
...of Matamoros, Mexico, first visited Camp Perry as a 10-year-old. This week, he...community and country." Since 1927, Camp Perry has served almost a quarter of a million...different troops will visit the camp. Camp Perry usually has that many scouts each summer...
- $1 million to NRA.(VIEWS, NEWS AND REVIEW)
- Magazine article from: Guns Magazine January 1, 2008 700+ words
...Shooting & National Championships Endowment. The announcement came on the 100th anniversary of the National Matches at Camp Perry in Port Clinton, Ohio, where word of the financial commitment was issued. "We hope that others in the...
- The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, Steve Pollick column: 9 charged in Maumee River...
- News wire article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) July 17, 2007 700+ words
...Quantico, Va., has fired his way to a record eighth national pistol champion title at the 100th annual National Matches at Camp Perry. Zins fired an aggregate score of 2640-115X out of a possible 2700 to win the honor over the weekend...
Source: HighBeam Research, Camp Perry: a duffer's perspective of the nationals.