ARIZONA  RIFLESHOOTING 

Specializing in the delivery of goods and services from 10 meters to 1000 yards


Steel tuesday night at Rio,
former AZ high power rifle shooter, now VA resident, Justin Z
back in AZ on a visit had to get out and burn some powder.


Left handed Service Rifle Shooter at Rio Salado


A REAL rifle
at Rio Salado's dual distance High Power match. look at the '06 brass in the air!


Rio Salado C&R Match - Garand offhand


Not a bad finish for a 115 year old rifle.




its a zoo out there!
Hunting Rifle Shoot at PRGC
This will be the 1st Saturday of almost every month Jan thru Oct
31 july is the next one!
(we'll take nov & dec off to hunt)

Hunting Rifle shoot at PRGC

Welcome to Arizona.RifleShooting.com. This web-site will provide match descriptions, tutorials, and other information including match schedules and announcements on competitive rifle shooting in and near Arizona. The primary emphasis of this site is Conventional NRA Service Rifle & Highpower Rifle often called: " National Match Course", CMP matches, "Palma Match" and NRA & ISSF/Olympic Smallbore rifle & NRA & ISSF/Olympic Pistol Shooting. But I will add information of other shooting disciplines as it becomes available.

Mail: arizona@rifleshooting.org

if you email me, use a real relative subject line, if it says "question" or "info please" I think it might be a spam email

ARIZONA SHOOTING EVENTS
These coming Months' Schedules: July 2010 31-Jul, Sat - Hunting Rifle Shoot at PRGC Aug 2010 7-Aug, Sat, 500 yr prone only match at PRGC 8-Aug, Sun - 50-shot NMC & C&R/M1 match at Rio Salado * 8-Aug, Sun, 500 yr prone only match at PRGC 14-Aug, Sat, 300m prone only match at PRGC 21-Aug, Sat - 50-shot NMC & C&R/M1 match at Rio Salado * 21-Aug, Sat - practical precision rifle at PRGC 22-Aug, sun - 500 yr prone only match at PRGC 28-Aug, Sat - 500 yd prone-only match at Rio Salado ** Sept 2010 .. Oct 2010 2-Oct, Sat - Hunting Rifle Shoot at PRGC 3-Oct - CMP shoot at Joe Foss, Buckeye 16-25-Oct - CMP Western Games & Creedmoor Cup, Ben Avery * as an experiment this summer, Rio will likely run the M1/C&R concurrent with a full distance XTC shoot, since we have dual pits we can have shooters at 200 and shooters at 500 simultaneously. ** this suggests that we could run a 200 yd prone for C&R simultaneously with a 500 yd prone. for info see: PRGC or south mountain: http://www.phoenixrodandgun.org/ Rio or RSSC: http://riosaladosportsmans.com/ BASF or Avery: http://www.desertsharpshooters.com/ BASF full schedule: http://www.azgfd.gov/pdfs/outdoor_recreation/ben_avery/2010/2010Firearmevents.pdf Tucson or TRC: http://www.tucsonrifleclub.org/ Buckeye or Joe Foss : http://www.joefossshootingcomplex.com      Big Bore Rifle shoot coming to PRGC 31-Oct-2010 Flyer Check Arizona Traffic before you drive to the match: http://www.az511.com/ Rifle Shooting Matches in Arizona: Goto http://www.desertsharpshooters.com/ for the calender for AZ state championships & Avery matches! Ben Avery schedule for 2010 available at Ben Avery website. http://www.azgfd.gov/pdfs/outdoor_recreation/ben_avery/2010/2010Firearmevents.pdf   If you want to be part of the organization that does the most to protect Ben Avery and civil rights of arizona's gun owner, join and stay in touch with ASRPA AZCDL is another statewide organization, it is primarily civil rights oriented. Recurring events (subject to change or cancellation): Tuesday evenings, bullseye/international PISTOL league at  PRGC  - 6:30. summer break, back around 22-Sep. Hunting Rifle Shoot PRGC  6-Mar sat, 3-Apr sat, 1-May sat, 6-jun SUN, 3-Jul sat, 31-Jul sat or 1-Aug sun (tentative, prefer saturday), 28-Aug sat (tentative, may change to 4-sep sat), 2-Oct sat Saturday Mornings, Junior Smallbore at  PRGC Wednesday mornings, (excluding summer) 200/300 yd practice at Ben Avery Wednesday mornings, (excluding summer) smallbore practice at Ben Avery Thursday mornings, (excluding summer) 600-1000yd practice at Ben Avery some Thursday evenings, Junior program at Ben Avery Tuesday evenings, 3p smallbore at Rio Salado Thursday evenings, junior league at Rio Salado link to http://www.riojuniors.com/ at Rio Salado 1st weekend, usually 80-shot & Palma at Ben Avery - not every month Tonto Rim Sportsman Highpower Rifle match at Tonto Rim Sportsman's Club in Payson, 1st Sunday of every month 1st sunday, 600yd at Tucson 2nd Sunday -- Curio and Relic Match, Rio Salado link to http://www.members.cox.net/riohighpower/m1&c&r.htm, Rio Salado 2nd sunday of every month, smallbore prone in Tucson. 2nd weekend, High Power  80-shot & 500yd prone  at PRGC 2nd weekend, (excluding summer), smallbore 3200 at Ben Avery 3rd weekend, international pistol PTO & 2700 at PRGC 3rd Saturday, 80-shot at Rio Salado link to http://www.members.cox.net/riohighpower/80shot.htm at Rio Salado 4th Saturday -- 500-yard prone match, Rio Salado link to http://www.members.cox.net/riohighpower/prone.htm, Rio Salado 4th Saturday, 80-shot at Tucson 4th sunday, 1000yd at Tucson 3-position smallbore rifle at Phoenix Rod & Gun   first sunday.
2010 summer Camp Perry Prep Matches at Avery: May 22, 29 June 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 July 10, 11, 17, 18, 24
BEN AVERY JUNIOR SMALLBORE PROGRAM Has a NEW volunteer director! Richard Bassett  Thursday evenings 6:30 till 9:30 at Ben Avery: Apparently this thing has grown HUGE and is going to 2 evenings!

I will add links to related pages. I typically do not accept paid commercial advertisements. I maintain this web-site as a public-service of my own devising. It might complicate things if I were obligated to others. My out of pocket expenses for this site are less than I spend on tumbling media and resizing lube per year, and no-one could afford to pay me my hourly rate for the amount of effort I put into this. Contact me.

Oh, by the way, some people have written to arizona@rifleshooting.org as tho they were writing to a huge corporation, "Dear Sirs, ..." and all that..... Arizona Rifle shooting is ME, one guy, no business, no profit, no Java programmers, no office, no professional webmasters, no expenses other than the $100 or so a year hosting fee.... That's all. 

Hey! if you find this website useful, email me and let me know! I've had several people come up to me and say "oh, you're the guy with the web page"! I add new photos from time to time too!

"No te mostrare mi espalda sin razon.
No la guardare sin honor."
               -  engraved on a Spanish Sword in a museum.

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
         - attributed to George Washington

Molon Labe - come and get em!

In Calgary, near the Bow River, is a small plaza that must have been built as part of the '88 Winter Olympics. Set in metal letters right into the stone surface of the plaza is this sentence:
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle."
(attributed to Baron de Coubertain, founder of the modern olympics)

"A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man."

Theodore Roosevelt

"No wonder no one shoots Rapid Fire, it's too damn hard!"
        - -  Jerry Miculek (speaking of Olympic rapid fire)

Three old rifle shooters are out walking.
First one says, "Windy, isn't it?"
Second one says, "No, its Thursday!"
Third one says, "So am I. Let's go get a beer."
- from fullbore list

"If a man stands just an hour with a weapon in his hands to fight Jihad, its better than being a preacher in Mecca for 100 years."
    -  -  unidentified Lebanese man who had gone to Iraq to join the insurgency and later returned, quoted in LA Times, 29-Dec-04

"Suppose the Second Amendment said, 'A well-educated electorate being
necessary for self-governance in a free state, the right of the people
to keep and read books shall not be infringed.' Is there anyone who
would suggest that means only registered voters have a right to read?"
-- Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Never Again means Never Again
 - slogan under a picture of a girl shooting an Uzi

Shooting is a lifetime sport
Le tir est un sport pour tout àge

"I am learning lots of Hindustani here, none of my people speak a word
of English, so I have to talk to them in their own poisonous language."
- -  Frederick Dixon    in  http://www.piersallison.co.uk/biogs/f_a_dixon/diary.htm

6,5x55 - Nordens mest undervurderte langholdspatron. Knallgo' til 1000, rettelse 1200 meter.

"It is Sunna that every Muslim has the right to bear arms."
  - quote online.
(praise the lord and pass the ammunition)

No se caza para matar
Sino, al reves
Se mata para haber cazado
     - Jose Ortega y Gasset

"...it's not uncommon for households in the Middle East to have at least an AK-47 around the house..."

"A man who opens a case in a hunting camp and lifts out a single-shot rifle makes a statement about himself. It may be quite unconscious, or it may be pure egotistical one-upmanship, but it does project the image of a superior marksman and a hunter of above-average skills."
   -   unknown, seen on a website

... It symbolizes the Social Contract between myself and society and declares that I am no mere subject but a free and independent citizen of the Republic who holds inalienable rights while honoring the responsibilities that accompany those rights. My pistol states that I will defend the common weal, that I will uphold what is right and decent and that I am willing and able to protect myself and mine. (The police cannot and are not required to protect the individual person or family. They are spread too thin for that. When called they will do their best, but all too often they can get there only in time to clean up the aftermath. You are responsible for your own safety.)

My pistol is my family’s shield, my guarantee that upon my life I will let no evil touch them. When a malefactor demands, Your dignity and your money, or your life!” my pistol introduces a very sobering third alternative: No - if you persist in this criminal endeavor, it is your life that will be at hazard.”

   - - Finn Aagaard

An' when there wasn't aught to do
But camp and cattle-guards,
I've fought with 'im the 'ole day through,
At fifteen 'undred yards;
Long afternoons o' lyin' still,
An' 'earin' as you lay,
The bullets swish from 'ill to 'ill
Like scythes among the 'ay.
   -    Kipling on Boer marksmanship

Nah, you ain’t gotta be born out in the sticks
With an F-150 and a 30-06
 - country song by Blake Shelton

• 同一个世界，同一个 梦想
• One World, One Dream
  

“只有不悲不喜的人，才能经得起大喜大 悲；也只有无所谓得失不等待回音的人，才能攀上人生的巅峰。”

 陶璐娜 – Gold Medalist, AP40, Silver Medalist WSP,  2000 Olympics, Sydney

Ando gav bi juklesko, jal o pavori bi destesko
 - Romani saying

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
  --  Theodore Roosevelt

"هذه قبلة الوداع من الشعب العراقي ايها الكلب"

"وهذه من الارامل والايتام والاشخاص الذين قتلتهم في العراق".

                                      منتظر الزيدي   -

"If tomarrow, Germany beats us at our national passtime, at least we can
 have the satisfaction of beating them at theirs twice this century."
   -   Spoken by some British person on the eve of a soccer game a few years back - on a wall in a museum

"We probably wouldn't be speaking the Navajo language - or even the English language - if it wasn't for the code-talkers."
       - some old Navajo code talker on a TV interview
 
If you can read this, thank a teacher...
If you are reading this in English, thank a soldier
    - bumper sticker