2014 PA Junior Olympic Rifle Championships

Frazier Simplex Rifle Club
USA Shooting JORC
2013

Additional matches for Small-bore will be fired at Oil City Izaak Walton's on the weekends of 1/4 & 1/11/2014 and for Air Rifle at Seitzland Jr. Rifle Club on the weekend of 12/14/2014.

Tournament Name:	Frazier Simplex JORC Match
Dates of the Competitions:	December 28-29, 2013
Sponsored By:	Frazier Simplex Rifle Club Jefferson Ave. (Rt 844) Washington, PA 15317
Competition Open To:	Any JUNIOR member of USA Shooting. Go to www.usashooting.org/ membership
Entry Fee:	$ 18.00 1 Gun, 2 Guns $36.00
Entry Limit:	Limited to 40 Shooters for Small Bore and 40 Shooters for Air rifle.
Firing Starts:	Relay Small-bore Air Rifle Saturday 8:00 AM 10:30 AM 3:30 PM 1:00 PM Sunday 8:00 AM 10:30 AM 3:30 PM 1:00 PM
Entry Reservations:	Contact Tom Benedict to schedule relay times. Relay slots will be filled on first come first serve basis. thomasbenedict@comcast.net

Rules:
USA Shooting Rule will apply. We will follow the new 2013 rules.
Match Course:
Small-bore
50 Feet Rifle 3 Positions:
20 shots in the standing position with a 45 minute time limit.
20 shots in the prone position with a 25 minute time limit.
20 shots in the kneeling position with a 37 minute time limit.
Air Rifle
10 Meter Air Rifle
60 shot standing position-Men with a 25 minute / 20 record shots time limit.
40 shot standing position-Women with a 25 minute / 20 record shots time limit.
Targets:
Small-bore: NRA/USAS-50
Air Rifle: NRA AR-5/10
Classification:
Sub-Junior – (J3) to age 14 born in 2000 or later
Intermediate Junior – (J2) age 15-17 born 1997, 1998, 1999
Junior – (J1) age 18-20 born 1994, 1995, 1996
Other:
Targets will be scored by representatives of the Frazier Simplex Rifle Club.

All challenges and protests will be decided by a jury selected by the match director.

There will be a $2.00 challenge fee imposed for each target card challenged. No fee will be charged if the challenge is to verify addition of the score.

The Chief Statistical Officer will review the challenge for score. Challenged shot holes will go directly to the jury to settle the challenge, with no appeal. Shots not plugged can be plugged. Previously plugged shots will not be re-plugged. The score could go up or down on a challenge.

Coaching is prohibited.

Only competitors and Range Officer will be permitted in range during event due to limited space on range. Everyone else must remain in ready room.

NRA Open Indoor Metric Position Smallbore Rifle Sectional Announced

Saturday, January 11 and Sunday, January 12, 2014
Frazier-Simplex Rifle Range
3049 Jefferson Ave.
Washington, PA

This is a 120 shot NRA registered national match. Junior and senior competitors are welcome. The match will consist of 40 shots in each of the prone, kneeling and standing positions. The match will be approximately 3 hours in length. PLEASE! make every effort to attend if you sign up for the match. There will be teams selected for the match. The individual score will be used for the team score. Bring your NRA Classification Card. If you do not have one make a list of your 3-P scores and bring the list with you. The NRA/USA 50 target will be used.

FEES

Individual Matches: $2.50 per competitor/ per match
Total Individual Fees including NRA Fee: $25.00*
Team Match: $14.00 per Team: $3.50 per team member*

AWARDS

In addition to the awards provided by the NRA, which are noted in the program, Frazier-Simplex will pay back 60% of the registration fees ( minus the NRA Fees) to the competitors distributed over Matches 1-4.

Call James Husk: 724-222-3369 for additional information and for match registration.

Or email Jim at: jwhusk15301@hotmail.com

*Subject to change. These fees are based on the 2013 NRA fees.

Brent Morgan now shooting for the University of Akron Zips

Congratulations to Brent Morgan who is now shooting for the Akron Zips.

Brent joined Frazier Simplex Rifle Team in 2009 and is taking along a great track record as he enters his freshman year at Akron. He was the captain of the Avella High School Rifle Team for three years, placed fourth overall individually in the Pennsylvania in the PIAA for 2013, shot with Frazier Simplex in the Pittsburgh and Suburban League Rifle Team for three years, member of the Pennsylvania 4-H National Rifle Team for smallbore (2010) and air rifle (2011), placing 8th individually nationally in smallbore with 4-H National Rifle Team.

More recently, Brent was part of the first-place Frazier Simplex Junior Rifle team at the 2013 Palmyra Invitational, shot a personal best of 384 in the 2012 NRA National Junior International Air Sectionals, first place at the CMP 3P air rifle match in June 2012 with a score of 285, and placed third at the 2012 Mountaineer Open with a smallbore score of 561.

Visit the Akron Zips website at: http://www.gozips.com/sports/rifle/index

Junior Members attend Camp Perry this Summer and Win Big!

This past summer, six juniors marksmen, participated in the 2013 NRA National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. Three of them just came back from a National Air Rifle match in Alabama on Monday to start this competition on Wednesday.

In the 3-Position Metallic Sight Team Match, Nicolle Thiry and Nicholle Benedict (both of Frazier-Simplex) with Jack Anderson (Oil City) and Emilee Miller placed 3rd in the overall match with a combined score of 2332 and 104x's. In this same competition, Christopher Thomas and Kiboh Uchida (both of Frazier-Simplex) took a 1st place in the Intermediate Junior category with a 2296 and 89x's.

In the 3-Position Any Sight Team Match, Nicolle Thiry, Nicholle Benedict, Jack Anderson and Emilee Miller took 1st place in the Junior Team division with a combined score of 2318 and 82x's. In this same competition, Christopher Thomas and Kiboh Uchida took a 1st place in the Intermediate Junior category with a 2275 and 64x's.

During the National Matches, competitors also had the opportunity to shoot in some air pistol and rifle competitions. Thomas Welch (Frazier-Simplex) won $30.80 in the 30 Shot Air Rifle Center Shot Match (he was off the big money of $38 by the thickness of a hair). Ariana Grabowski (Frazier-Simplex) took 1st place overall women's division in the Air Rifle 60 Shot International Match (all standing) with a score of 584 and 36x's.

Congratulations to all the competitors on an outstanding summer of shooting. Next year, the small-bore competitions are scheduled to be in Indiana instead of Camp Perry.

Nicholle Thiry now shooting for Ole Miss

With sad yet joyful hearts, we are thankful and proud of Nicolle Thiry who is now off to Ole Miss to shoot this fall. We are very thankful for Nicolle's vital role in helping the Frazier Simplex Precision Jr. Rifle Team in winning the Civilian Marksmanship Program's Regional and National 3P Air Rifle Championships this year.

For the past two and half years, Nicolle has been shooting at the Frazier Simplex Rifle Club where she has won the high junior for the past two years in a row as well as the R.K. Moore (100 shot standing) award for the past two years. She is very thankful to everyone at Frazier for the many opportunities to be involved with such a high caliber group of athletes and will be keeping a close watch on all of her ole teammates from last year.

Nicolle is now studying business at Ole Miss and shooting for their NCAA Shooting Team. Keep up the great shooting and we are looking forward to seeing you at future competitions. You can find out more about the Ole Miss rifle team at this link www.olemisssports.com/sports/w-rifle/ole-w-rifle-body.html

PA Shooters pull in 2nd, 4th & 8th place at the American Legion National Air Rifle Match

Three of Pennsylvania's best junior precision air rifle shooters competed in the 2013 American Legion National finals at the Olympic Training Center on August 8, 9 & 10, 2013. The competition pulled the best air rifle shooters from all 50 states. In fact, they are in the 1 percent of the top junior precision air rifle shooters to qualify this year through the American Legion postal matches.

Pictured below from left to right are:
Ariana Grabowski - Frazier Simplex Rifle Club (4th overall)
Zack Strohl - Ontelaunee Rod & Gun (8th overall)
Jack Anderson - Oil City Issac Walton Rifle Club (2nd overall)
Chris Huntzinger - National Commander - from Harrisburg, PA

Congratulations to all competitors.
Full match results can be found here.

The Frazier-Simplex 4-H Rifle Team won first place on August 7, 2013 at the Penn State Achievement Days

Mackenzie Robinson, Chris Thomas, Tom Welch, and Morgan Duerr, won individual senior division honors with a 294, qualified for the Pennsylvania State Team and will participate in the Nebraska 4-H Nationals in 2014.

Taylor Tennant qualified for the PA State Air Rifle Team. The air rifle team placed second in the senior division.

Pictured above - L to R: Tommy Welch, Mckenzie Wagner, Hunter Moore, Zach Nichollela, Mckenzie Robinson, Morgan Duerr, Chris Thomas & Sylvia Dreistadt.

Pictured below, Sylvia Dreistadt qualified for the third time in as many years for membership on a State National Team. In 2014 she will be on the Air Pistol Team. This is her third State Championship, rifle and air rifle being her two other gold medals.