ORPA General Announcement

Voting in the November 2016 General Election

To All ORPA Member Clubs:

This General Election may be the most critical of our lifetimes.

As a Not-for-Profit organizations we may not give our membership specific directions on how to cast their vote or who to vote for, but we may give you guidelines to help you decide on your own.

The Trustees, Officers and Directors would like to remind everyone that we need to vote our sport this time around. We thought things were bad for us during the 1993 to 2001 years when we had the anti's passing the worst of several poor laws, but this election can be far worse for us. Never before have we had so many issues at such different levels confronting us at once. Between rising crime, government giveaways, illegal immigration, assaults and other violent personal attacks on our citizens, we need the lawful ability to protect ourselves and our loved ones. If we lose that, our shooting sports will be falling quickly after. Personally, if a politician doesn't trust us with our guns, we have no reason to trust them with our government.

After the death of acclaimed science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in 1988 the tributes began pouring in. The best one I read was one that stayed with me (although I can't recall who to attribute it to). Heinlein tried to teach his readers three things:

Make up your own mind, always.

Think it through before you make up your mind, always.

Get the facts before you think it through, always.

Those words are the best advice I can give before you vote this year. Please choose carefully.

The candidates may be polished or rough but the best indication of how they will treat your Second Amendment rights is by looking at their records and who endorses them.

Be sure to vote this year. If you are registered and don't vote, it's a free ride for those who oppose us.

Sincerely,

G. Martin Capito Sr.

President

Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association

BULLSEYE PISTOL SCHEDULE

STATE INDOOR PISTOL CHAMPIONSHIP
Oak Harbor Conservation Club; Oak harbor, Ohio
Click HERE for Match Program

April 9^th & 10^th, 2016

OHIO GOVERNOR'S TROPHY PISTOL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Canton-McKinley Rifle & Pistol Club
Click HERE for Match Program

June 5, 2016

OHIO STATE OUTDOOR PISTOL CHAMPIONSHIP
Canton McKinley Rifle & Pistol Club
Click HERE for Match Program

August 21, 2016

OHIO SERVICE PISTOL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Canton McKinley Rifle & Pistol Club
Click HERE for Match Program

September 25, 2016

Reservations can be made or further information can be obtained by contacting the above mentioned people. ORPA membership is required to participate in any of these matches. Exceptions will be made for out of state competitors that can present a current membership card from their home state association. ORPA membership applications will be available at the stat offices for both new and renewal memberships.

ATTENTION Shooters:

We have confirmed our REVISED dates at Camp Perry for 2016.

May 7 & 8   ORPA  Regional Championship;  CMP 'LEG' match
June 18 & 19  Bob Wright Memorial Long Range ( We reserved Alliance Range at Malvern-- This will be a TWO DAY MATCH)
June 25 & 26   ORPA State Service Rifle & Highpower Championship; CMP “LEG” Match (Service Rifle and Highpower Championship fired concurrently)

We are continuing to pray for better weather than last year. No one can remember a year when ORPA did not complete a single match in prior years.
Please note the change in the NRA Rule 3 in your rule books. The service rifle definitions have changed.  Click LINK for more information about this change.

 Keith & Gwen Bailey
Highpower Directors.

Click link for 2016 Highpower Program 

NRA is announcing a recruitment effort for clubs to put on a Youth Hunter Education Clinic (YHEC).​ See the following for information on the YHEC program and how to get your club involved.
Thanks,
Marty
Prez.

My name is Eddie and I am the Program Coordinator for NRA's Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC). YHEC is a nationwide hunter education program that was created in 1985 to get more kids interested in hunting and to provide them with a safe environment to develop and improve upon marksmanship, hunting, outdoor and safety skills. YHEC events are held all over the country for one or two days as kids 18 and under compete in up to eight shooting and responsibility events under simulated hunting situations. There is ZERO cost to the NRA to host a YHEC and we provide you with marketing and logistic support as well as event materials such as animal paper targets, t-shirts, Hunter's Guides, bags, scorebooks and more for free. Grants are available through the NRA to help with funding and if you qualify as the official state YHEC event, the NRA will give you $10 for every participant.

Read more: Youth Hunter Education Clinic (YHEC)

Check out the latest Match and Clinic Results on the Highpower Page.

THE JUNE 20, 2015 BOB WRIGHT MEMORIAL HIGH POWER LONG RANGE MATCH SCORES ARE NOW POSTED AT THE LINK BELOW.
THE MAY 30, 2015 ORPA HIGHPOWER REGIONAL MATCH SCORES ARE NOW POSTED AT THE LINK BELOW.

Beginning in November 2013, electronic Gunsmoke subscribers will receive monthly newsletters. The electronic newsletters will include everything that the bimonthly printed versions include plus event notices that missed the printed deadline.  To announce an event in the printed Gunsmoke, the information often needs to be submitted more than two months in advance. For example, for a November event to be published in the December/January printed Gunsmoke, the information must have been submitted by Sept. 10.  This is due to the time it takes to print and mail the paper editions.The electronic newsletters do not need the extra printing time, so the deadlines for the electronic versions will be ten days before the edition is available.  For example, for a November event to be published in the November electronic Gunsmoke, the information must be submitted by Oct. 21. If you have not already done so, Please email Editor Rachel Scofield at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to have your printed subscription switched to electronic. The electronic version saves ORPA thousands of dollars which can then fund core projects such as clinics, teams and junior programs. 

If you are not already an ORPA member, go to our membership page, click here, to Join Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association and start your montly subscription to our electronic newsletter, "GunSmoke".  

Ohio muzzleloader hunters enjoyed warm weather as they harvested 5,608 antlerless white-tailed deer during the new antlerless-only muzzleloader hunting weekend Oct. 12-13, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). "Ohio's first antlerless-only muzzleloader deer season was a success, and we are pleased so many hunters participated," said ODNR Director James Zehringer. "We remain committed to providing Ohio's sportsmen and women with some of the best hunting opportunities in the nation." The new antlerless muzzleloader weekend was the first opportunity to take advantage of Ohio's new extended hunting hours. A half hour of golden opportunity hunting time after sunset was added to all of this year's upcoming deer-gun hunting seasons. The Ohio counties that reported the most checked deer during the 2013 antlerless-only muzzleloader season: Ashtabula (200), Licking (164), Guernsey (144), Muskingum (143), Knox (141), Coshocton (138), Adams (135), Columbiana (128), Carroll (120), Athens (117) and Trumbull (117).

Read more: New Antlerless Deer Muzzleloader Season ODNR considers a Success

ORPA  Members – Request to receive your Gunsmoke newsletter electronically.  If you haven't already done so, please request to receive the email version of ORPA's newsletter, Gunsmoke. By opting to receive the electronic version, you will join a group of members who have already saved ORPA hundreds of dollars on printing and shipping charges. ORPA can now use the funds to strengthen and expand its core programs including state competitions, teams and clinics.  Many members believe that the Electronic Gunsmoke is a superior to its paper counterpart. It appears in full color and arrives several weeks before the printed version. The electronic version also includes links to websites including ORPA's online calendar, and Facebook page.  The tickets for ORPA's annual sweepstakes will be mailed to electronic subscribers.

To request an Electronic Gunsmoke, please email Editor Rachel Scofield at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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