Air Gun Field Trial

young girl taking aim with an air rifle

Discipline Director: Lee Sancoy

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At Air Rifle meets, we shoot mostly tip-over resettable, rocking, or swinging steel targets, and paper targets. Some targets may be as small as one inch for a real challenge, or much larger depending on the station .

A typical match involves 4 to 6 stations, with about 10 shots per station at random distances of 10 to 50 yards. Stages are designed for you to choose the shooting position: sitting, prone, standing, or with a rest.

Air Rifle is an excellent sport for youth and new shooters to build safety and marksmanship skills.

All air guns from old multi-pumps and spring pistons, to the latest pre-charged pneumatics (PCPs) in .177, .20 or .22 caliber are welcome.

Curious and just want to watch a match? Come on out and bring your family!

Set up is at 9am; match starts at 10am. 

 

Air Rifle Match Results

July 2025

We set up one long trail walk this month.  We shot it five targets at a time, with 2 shots per target and took our time.  The only rules were to shoot standing and to stay in the shade – no shooting standing in the sun.  It worked out pretty well and we got done shooting before it got terribly hot.  Everyone was shooting spring piston break barrels this month and there were 40 shots total. Cherie encouraged Lee to finish shooting (he was tired and ready to quit) because she was going to beat him.  You can see how well that worked out. 

Daryl C.        32
Gary L.         21
Lee S.           16
Cherie A.      13

Next match is Saturday August 9th.

June 2025

We had three regular shooters turn out and shoot this month.  As we were getting ready to tear down three new folks stopped by and we encouraged them to try the course.  They seemed to have a pretty good time and said we’d see them in July.  Hope they come back!  Here’s how the shooting wound up.

1) Darrel C.      13
2) Sunshine     10
3) Windy Lee    9
4) Harlan           4
5) Marsha          3
6) Marty             1

The new folks all agreed they would probably do better with their own air rifles.  The next match is Saturday July 12th.  Hope to see you then!

May 2025

We had a small turn out in May, but the competition was pretty fierce. Darrel Croucher beat us all with the other Darrel (Plank) coming in second, not exactly a surprise there.  And I beat my better half by a tiny bit, but he was fighting with his cane and couldn’t get comfortable so it wasn’t really a fair contest.

The June match date is this Saturday the 7th, due to the archery folks rendezvous on our usual week.  If you have ANY kind of air gun rifle or pistol and want to come try some our nifty reactive targets please come out and join us.  If the weather is good we set up out in the sun (and shoot from the shade) and if its wet we shoot from under cover so don’t let the weather put you off.  Hope to see some new faces, both Darrels could use some better competition.

Hope to see you there,

Windy Lee

September 2024

Four shooters showed up in September and shot 5 stages.  Since we missed
most of the summer everyone agreed that they would meet up again in
October and have one more match.  Since the weather is still warm I am
hoping that we get at least our regular shooters.  That would be the
20th which is this Sunday.  Now that Cherie has weaned all the baby
kittens and they have moved on to the next stage prior to getting new
homes maybe she will be able to shoot as well.

The September match wound up like this:

1)  D. Croucher       40
2)  D. Plank             37
3)  Gary L.               27
4)  L. Sancoy          26

Hope to see you on October 20th!!!!

June 2024

First, let me say everyone shot better last month.  Most of the bad
shots were pretty much the fault of the shooters not the air guns. I’d
be happy to document the match scores but our fearless leader couldn’t
find them. Since I’m pretty sure I was last I wasn’t too upset by that.

The July match will be held up in the pistol bays on
the upper range.  There is an event on the 100 yd. range that weekend,
plus, it’s a lot shadier up there and should be a bit cooler.  We will
meet at the storage shed at 9:00 to load up targets at the 100 yard
range and transport them to the upper range from there.  We WILL be
shooting in the shade if that helps anyone decide whether or not to come
out.  I am sure everyone is hoping its cooler by then.

Hope to see folks on the 3rd Sunday, the 21st.

Schedule & Location

Third Sunday, May – September

100-yard Range

Check-in & Set-up: 9am

Match time: 10am – 12pm

Fees & Participation

Match fees: $5; youth under 16 shoot free 

Any type of air gun up to and including .22 caliber

Break barrel, CO2, or PCP (800fps range)

Spectators are welcome

Required/Recommended Gear

Eye protection required

Ear protection encouraged