{"id":2665,"date":"2024-10-14T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:32:06","slug":"fwrr-junior-high-power-shooters-present-high-power-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/fwrr-junior-high-power-shooters-present-high-power-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"FWRR Junior High Power Shooters Present High Power Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What do college basketball coaches and Junior High Power\ncoaches have in common?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of them have to recruit to keep top performers in their\nprogram, and FWRR is no exception.  Our\nbest source of new Junior shooters is the DeKalb County 4-H shooting sports\nprogram.  4-H shooters go through BB gun,\nair rifle, air pistol, archery and .22 rimfire shooting classes and after they\ncomplete these classes, many of them want to continue shooting in a more\nadvanced formal program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FWRR member Patrick Jessup heads up the DeKalb 4-H .22\nrimfire program and last summer he invited FWRR representatives to come out to\na 4-H shooting session and make a presentation about the FWRR Junior program.  Larry Beardsley and Mia King made a pitch to\nthe group and Mr. Jessup gave us a list of prospective shooters.  We followed up with the prospects and decided\nthat we had enough interest to hold a class for prospective 4-H shooting sports\ngraduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We set October 12 as a date that worked for everyone and we\nworked on a class curriculum.  We decided\nthat the CMP GSM class met our needs and we did some modifications to focus on\nthe AR rifles we shoot in our Junior program. \nWe have a diverse and capable set of Juniors and we decided that the\nJuniors would have a major role in presenting this class to give back to the Junior\nprogram.  Mia King is a 4-H Instructor and\na Certified NRA Pistol Instructor and Tayt Shaffer, our youngest Junior, is\nwilling to try anything (well, at least once) and they agreed to help with the\nclass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We divided up the CMP curriculum and Mia took the parts dealing with Preparing the shot, Breathing, Trigger Control and getting into the actual positions.\u00a0 Since I am way too stiff to bend into the positions, Tayt was our model \u2013 demonstrating different aspects of the Offhand, Sitting and Prone positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mia King and Tayt Shaffer demonstrate the prone shooting position during the October 12 High Power Class<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We had a very good turnout for the class; six students and three parents were present.\u00a0 We welcomed parents because we want them to know just what we are doing with our program.\u00a0 The classroom session went very well and after lunch, we had a shooting session.\u00a0 While the students ate lunch, we zeroed three rifles at 100-yards and we had the students shoot from sandbags to work on operation of the AR rifles, practice trigger control and get used to using a scoped rifle instead of open sights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had a very good turnout with six students and three parent observers<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Each student shot 20-rounds in their practice session and\nthe emphasis was in shooting a good group \u2013 not necessarily putting everything\nin the X-ring. In summary \u2013 every student shot good groups and several beat up\nthe black on the target pretty badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the shooting session we did a class survey and we good\nhigh marks for how the class went.  Every\nstudent said that they would like to continue shooting over the winter, so we\nhave a plan to go forward with this new group of shooters.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We start Winter Offhand on November 9th.  After the \u201cold guys\u201d finish Winter Offhand, about\n10 o\u2019clock, we will meet with the prospective shooters (we\u2019ll call them The Class\nof \u201925).  We will have a class session\nand then a shooting session to follow up with the start we have made with this\ngroup of new shooters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, as college basketball coaches often do \u2013 we\u2019ll declare\nthat we had a great recruiting season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do college basketball coaches and Junior High Power coaches have in common?  Both of them have to recruit to keep top performers in their program, and FWRR is no exception.  Our best source of new Junior shooters is the DeKalb County 4-H shooting sports program.  4-H shooters go through BB gun, air rifle, air…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}