Shooting Teams:
Junior Rifle Team
YOUTH PROGRAM
The Ames Rifle & Pistol Club, Inc., has a long tradition of supporting the shooting sports in the community. In addition to our Juniors Program Ames has supported the Boy Scouts of America by providing training for the Rifle Shooting Merit Badge.
Bob Peoples, a Scout Master and member of Ames has made this program available to any Boy Scout Troop in our surrounding Councils and Districts. The program consists of a Safety Course of approximately one and one half hours. Bob does the safety course at your troop location. The second phase is rifle practice and scoring at the Ames Rifle & Pistol Club on Wednesday evenings 7:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. Bob limits the numbers to a maximum of 8 children per night for proper safety and coaching ratios. The children can come on Wednesday evenings as many times as they need to meet the scoring criteria for the Merit Badge.
After everyone has shot the required targets and obtained the necessary scores for the Merit Badge requirement they must then pass a written test. The written test is based upon the requirements in the Merit Badge book.
The cost to participants is the gas to get to Ames and the time necessary for your child to shoot the required targets. Ames Rifle & Pistol Club, Inc., provides match rifles and the ammo for the children to use.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SCHEDULING YOUR TROOP PLEASE CONTACT BOB PEOPLES AT (508)238-8563
Rifle Team
The Rifle Team meets on Tuesday Nights. Matches are home and away. Contact Gene Carter At (781)626-2726 for more information. The summer league will start the Tuesday after Memorial Day and runs through mid August. The summer league is held outside and is a 20 round offhand event at 200 yards. Any rifle, any sights, any action and any skill level is acceptable.
Pistol Team
The Ames Rifle and Pistol Club's pistol team has been competing for over thirty (30) years. Pistol shooters with years of experience and knowledge to share, together with new shooters eager to learn and compete meet Thursday nights for a pistol league matches both home at our indoor range and away at participating Clubs. See the web site calendar for dates and locations. All winter matches begin at 8:00 P.M.
Like other activity groups at the club, the pistol team members are very supportive of each other. In addition to perfecting basic firearm skills, such as sight picture, trigger squeeze/control, follow-through and breathing, members of the team also enjoy the camaraderie found in any team sport.
Experienced shooters on the team are always happy to share tips and techniques of sound marksmanship skills with new shooters. The team has several experienced shooters who are great shots and have a huge wealth of knowledge to share. While we do have this experience the majority of shooters on the team have just picked up the sport in the past few year. The “new” shooters have been improving steadily and our team has started moving up in the standings.
We encourage all team members to set their own marksmanship goals, whether it be casual sportsmanship or Olympic competition.
Joining the pistol team is simple. All you need to do is come out on a Thursday night when the team is shooting, bring eye and ear protection and observe a match. If you decide that you are interested in joining the team, contact Steve Driscoll (781)341-0160,TOPGUNSFG@aol.com or any another pistol team member familiar with the process.
The equipment you will need includes a .22 target pistol, two ammo magazines, a couple of boxes of target quality ammo, ear and eye protection. The course of fire is a Gallery Pistol Match, first round is slow fire with 10 rounds in 10 minutes, second round is timed fire with two strings of 5 rounds each in 20 seconds for each 5 rounds and a third round of rapid fire with two strings of 5 rounds each in 10 seconds for each 5 rounds. Total score for a perfect match is 300.
We invite you to come check us out. While the competitions are serious everyone on the team has a great time while developing their shooting skills and achieving personal bests. Only the top five (5) scores in each competition count toward the team score. This lets new shooters get comfortable and not have to stress about affecting the team score negatively.
Our commitment is to make every member comfortable regardless of experience or ability and to promote the shooting sports in a friendly, fun environment while making each individual a better shooter through regular participation as a pistol team member.
Egg Shoots
What the heck is an egg shoot??!!
An egg Shoot? Why eggs? At Ames we like to shoot highly accurate rifles and we were thinking about targets we could use at 100, 200 and 300 yards that would show impact and didn't have to be cleaned up after the shooting was done. As an added bonus eggs explode when hit, are non-flammable, are quiet, are just plain fun to shoot at and easy to score.
What the heck is an egg shoot??!!
An egg Shoot? Why eggs? At Ames we like to shoot highly accurate rifles and we were thinking about targets we could use at 100, 200 and 300 yards that would show impact and didn't have to be cleaned up after the shooting was done. As an added bonus eggs explode when hit, are non-flammable, are quiet, are just plain fun to shoot at and easy to score.
Action Practical Shooting Team
The Action Shooting team is multi-faceted and known for a more dynamic, extreme style of practical marksmanship. They dominate obstacle shooting courses, engage steel & paper IDPA/USPSA targets, and handle pistols & rimfire rifles with speed and precision.