Rifle Club season starting

Press release

The VFW Bear Paw Junior Rifle Club will be starting its 2017-18 season with signup Monday, Sept. 25, and Tuesday, Sept. 26, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the range, downstairs from the Havre Fire Department office through the Fifth Avenue entrance.

Children and young adults ages 10 to 21 can join, for $30 per season, at any time during the season, which runs to April.

Targets, rifles and shooting jackets are provided. Members must bring safety glasses, if they don’t wear prescription glasses, and bring or — buy at the range for $4 per box — standard velocity .22 rounds, not high velocity. Shooters go through about one box per night.

Shooting is one hour weekly starting at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. on either Mondays or Tuesdays. Members learn rifle marksmanship at prone, sitting, kneeling and standing positions, earn certificates of achievement, medals and National Rifle Association ratings. And they can qualify for three-position and four-position state and national matches held each year in Missoula.

For more information, call Randy or Laura Martin at 265-1655.