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MEETINGS

Our next meeting is scheduled for February 21, 2012 at 6:30 PM at the Pizza Patio on First Street. We have our meeting room, a nice facility, from 6 onward to permit members to order early from a great menu. There should be enough space for a large group.

Our new and not-so-new club officers:

President: Stan Rzeszutek
Vice President: Marvin Jordon
Secretary: Margie Berggren
Treasurer: Jack Partridge
Cowboy Coord.: Butch Rials
High Power Coord.: Jim Silva
22 Coord.: Milt Berggren
Silhouette Coord.: Larry Daniels
IPSC Coord.: Don Bednorz

OPSA CLUB BY-LAWS - REVISED FEB 2010 --- BY-LAWS (PDF FILE)

 

OPSA STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES - REVISED NOV 2011 --- SOP (PDF FILE)

 

RANGE COMMITTEE

In the event you have not heard about it, the county has formed a committee to study how the range can better serve the community. Thanks to help from Richard Barbaras, I will represent OPSA on the committee and hope to make a positive contribution to their work.

Anyone who has a good idea or two for the club can reach me at 434-8735 (evenings usually good) or at my email address, usnabgo at yahoo dot com.

Straight shooting!

Dick Dommers, OPSA

I would like to thank all the OPSA members for their continued support of OPSA events throughout this year. In case anyone hasn't realized, OPSA is the only local club that hosts the majority of disciplines in New Mexico. OPSA has IPSC, Cowboy, Action, NRA High Power, and various fun matches every month. I don't know of a local club that hosts as many disciplines. OPSA has also conducted Friends of the NRA Women On Target events and was the focal point for southern New Mexico's NRA Eddie Eagle children's gun safety program. Members of OPSA also constituted the majority of and leadership of the annual Friends of the NRA Fund Raising Banquet supporting New Mexico firearms programs, training, and education. OPSA members have also conducted USA Boy Scout's Rifle Merit Badge classes and were instrumental, in the first ever in the United States, USA Girl Scout Camp involving shooting activities. OPSA members are instructors for the New Mexico CCW program, participated in the New Mexico Hunters Safety Education program, and provide instruction for basic shooting skills and instruction for individuals wanting to become NRA certified instructors. OPSA should certainly be proud of the club's and their individual member's accomplishments. I just want you to know what a great organization you belong to.

Butch

A special THANKS to all those, past and present, that donate their time to OPSA. Without their devotion we would not have one of the best and most active clubs in the state.

BUG Match

A BUG (back-up-gun) match is a match where you use a gun with a 3" or less barrel length. We usually try to make the stages "J" frame friendly (5 shot) before a reload (unless we let Butch design the stages). But.... any gun you might have can come out to play, it just puts you in a different classification. Come on out and try our BUG match on for size.

USPSA

Our Dec match will not be held this year since the 4th Sunday is Christmas Day. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Cowboy Action - SASS

The Nov match was cancelled due to the bad weather, so we rolled the matches to Dec. We will have 2 standard stages and a Mano y Mano stage.

This will be a double elimination stage where cowpersons will shoot out against each other. There will be six pistol shots, six rifle shots and 2 shotgun shots with the last rifle shot on the stop plate. Bring extra ammo because if you're doing well you will shoot off against a group of opponents. Fast Hammer, you'll need to put a little more powder in your pip-squeak 32's for the knock down steel.


If ya gotta miss, miss fast,

Saguaro Sam

 NRA High Power

The OPSA High Power matches will be a F-Class match for the remainder of year. F-Class is basically a bench rest prone shoot, so your hunting rifles as well as target rifles can compete. Shooting is done with either front and rear bag rests or bi pod and rear bag, depending which class you prefer to shoot. F/TR is limited to .308 and .223 with bi pod while F/Open can be any caliber. All shooting is slow fire, three 15 shot strings with a time limit of 15 minutes each at targets placed at the 300 yard line.

We are trying to gather more shooters for the long range high power shooting events so tell your shooter friends to come out and participate. As always we welcome all new shooters and desire input from the shooters.

If you have an interest in high power shooting in general, please feel free to attend one of our shoots on the third Saturday of each month. We always welcome new shooters and also invite back all past shooters. Also, if you have any questions pertaining to the high power league, feel free to email me at jesilva at beyondbb dot com.

Jim Silva


22 Action Match / 22 National Match

That wraps up another year, a lot of good memories of time spent burning powder with my fellow shooters. Looking forward to next year.

Aim small, miss small,

Until next month,

Milt

Remember: 4th Saturday 0830 hrs is Action Match
4th Sunday 1300 hrs is National Match

For .22 National Match:

We shoot the 80 round course of fire. 20rnds slow fire standing, 2 stages of rapid sitting, 2 stages rapid prone ending with 20rnds slow fire prone. 80 rounds/800 point possible. Be sure to bring 2 boxes of ammo.

For Action:

Factory class: We shoot 4 stages using 15 rounds per stage, five from your pistol, and ten from a rifle at whatever targets I can dream up. Everything is timed; more time is added for each miss, time is taken off for each bonus hit. The most fun you can have for $5 bucks.

Open class: Essentially open class allows you to shoot until you are satisfied with the results. Same targets as the Factory class but you can use high capacity mags, mag changes anything goes. Total time and anything left standing is counted against you for score.

We had 10 shooters for National Match. Plenty of room on the line for you. Come on out and try your hand.

22 SILHOUETTE

The Silhouette matches have been put on hold for awhile.

Larry and Stan


Silhouette Rules

AREA MATCHES

Cowboy Action

Ruidoso Gun Club has a cowboy action match, on the 2nd Sat of the month. 0830 sign up.

Ft Bliss Rod and Gun Club (El Paso) holds a cowboy action match on the first Sunday of the month.

Gila Rangers has a cowboy action shoot on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month.

Roswell has a cowboy action shoot the 2nd Sunday of the month.  www.roswellgunclub.com

Truth or Consequences has a cowboy shoot on the 3rd Sunday of the month.

Carlsbad has a cowboy shoot on the 3rd Saturday of the month.

Magdalena has a new club. They shoot on the third Saturday of each month. They shoot at 1 PM. For the location you will have to contact someone there.

IPSC Matches

El Paso - Fort Bliss Rod and Gun Club holds an IPSC match on the second Saturday of the month.  Fort Bliss IPSC

Albuquerque - Rio Grande Practical Shooting Club holds an IPSC match the first and third Saturday of each month. For more info:   Rio Grande Practical Shooters

The Zia Gun Club, in Albuquerque, shoots a variety of action type matches including 3 Gun, action handgun and revolver only during each month.  Visit their web site at:  Zia

Las Cruces is now shooting IPSC sanctioned matches on the first Saturday of the month at the Shooting Range just west of Las Cruces and shoots a Steel Challenge Match on the forth Saturday.  For more info: Las Cruces IPSC

Roswell Gun Club shoots an IPSC match on the third Sunday each month.  Roswell Gun Club

 

Safety on the Range: Who is responsible for safety? YOU ARE! If someone says anything to you about something unsafe-don't take offense, it is for your safety as well as that of everyone else. It is better to maybe hurt your feelings than have anyone get injured.

Thank you to all those who help to advertise OPSA matches.

• President: Stan Rzeszutek
  Vice President: Marvin Jordon
  Secretary: Margie Berggren
  Treasurer: Jack Partridge
  Cowboy Coord.: Butch Rials
  High Power Coord.: Jim Silva
  22 Coord.: Milt Berggren
  Silhouette Coord.: Larry Daniels
  IPSC Coord.: Don Bednorz

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