Jr. Air Rifle

Three-Position Air Rifle Shooting is the most popular and fastest growing form of shooting sports competition for youth of high school age or younger. Two different Three-Position Air Rifle events are available. Precision Air Rifle is modeled after Olympic-style shooting and allows the use of specialized target rifles and equipment. Sporter Air Rifle is designed for new competitors or those who desire to compete with a minimum of equipment and expense.

In both types of shooting, competitors fire at targets at a distance of 10 meters in three different positions, prone, standing and kneeling. Sporter and precision air rifle classes may also be combined into one “open” class. Three-Position Air Rifle provides young competitors with competitive shooting sports opportunities that can be offered on a wide variety of easily accessible or easily constructed ranges, with equipment that is commonly available at affordable costs.

Skill awards are an essential part of any developmental sports program. Motivating campers to work to achieve established skill levels and recognizing their achievements are important. Skill awards show parents and friends how they did in camp and remind campers of the fun they had long after camp is over. The awards focus attention on the results of their own personal efforts - not on how they do in competition with other campers.

Camp Rifle Skill Awards are earned in Air Rifle. The face of the medal is the same for all disciplines; it shows an Olympic style rifle and a target. The reverse side of the medal can be personalized to show the discipline and performance levels achieved by the camper. One medallion can be used to recognize any of the three shooting disciplines and all levels of accomplishment.

A four-page progress record details the criteria for each award level and provides instructors area for comments. There are 12 skill award levels which gradually increase in difficulty. The highest skill level requires the camper to demonstrate mastery of all the fundamentals of position shooting.

At the end of each training session, campers place their fired targets in the progress record which the instructor can grade after campers depart the range. After the first day, the progress records with the graded targets are passed out to the campers at the start of each range period. Campers know where they stand on the skill awards ladder and what they need to work on next. The skill awards program is coordinated with the instructional package for each rifle discipline.

Group size rather than score is the best indicator of entry-level skill development in rifle target sports. All but four skill levels are determined by group size. Targets can be quickly and accurately graded using an acetate template to determine if a target qualifies for posting in the progress record. Grading templates are part of the program package.

The highest award level for each shooting position (prone, standing, kneeling) is based on score and requires the shooter to demonstrate both skill and the ability to adjust sights to center a shot group in the bull's-eye. The final awards level requires that the camper achieve an established minimum score in a 30-shot three-position course of fire where the maximum score is 300 points.

Shoot Right offers Jr. Shooting gun safety & air rifle shooting 6 hour clinics or 4 Day 3 position summer air rifle camps for kids aged 7-18 contact Coach Potter with Shoot Right info@shootrightaz.org

This shooting program is based from the CMP JROTC & CMP Camp Riflery program.