Tri-Cities Metallic Silhouette Association

There is a special edition of the newsletter that has a lot of important business issues addressed. You can find it here: Newsletter

Main and Sporter Ranges will be closed.

The 100-yard and 200-yard wooden supports for the competitive target frames will be one focus. Peter Clark will be supervising.

I had thought all the old tubular target frame supports for the main range had been changed but there are at least two sets remaining. If we have the materials by that time those will be replaced. In any case we need to move the 50-yard set on the sporter range closer to the wall. There are red flags indicating approx. location.

There is a substantial uptick in brass left unpoliced at the range. Steel cases do not seem to be picking themselves up either. A group will focus on firing line clean up during the work party.

I will bring a small tractor and work to make the new gravel at the sporter range parking area lay a bit closer to flat. There is road work that could be done as well, should additional machinery show up.

There is a possibility warranty work will be done on the new picnic tables, if that turns out to be the case portable drills will be needed for disassembly.

There are always weeds that need to be whacked so we are not going to run out of things to do.

We need someone with a pickup to haul away the rubble from the old picnic tables and used target frames.

Attendees will receive a $40 work party credit towards the 2027 dues.

President John Drewrey

Since this year is the 250^th Anniversary of our nation and the upcoming monthly CMP Highpower match falls on Saturday June 6^th the anniversary of D-Day the match director and shooters would like to invite everyone that has some type of service rifle from any nation to come join us. Normally most people shoot an AR or M1A1 but the match is also open to rifles such as the M1Garand, M1 Carbine, Springfield 1903, Mauser 98, Mosin-Nagant, Ariska or any civilian version of modern service rifles from other nations.

Match Description:

Civilian Marksmanship Program Highpower matches are fired from 3 positions: standing, sitting, and prone, and are open to any military rifle, or their civilian equivalent, equipped with iron sights. That includes any rifle issued to any military in the world. Current rules allow scopes of no more than 4.5 magnification. The NRA Any Rifle / Any Sight match is the exact same course of fire, with the same targets, so we shoot these matches at the same time as two separate classes.

The course of fire is 50 rounds for the score, plus sighter shots fired only before the match begins (generally limited to 5 rounds, but we will allow more if you need them). The stages are 10 rounds in 10 minutes standing, 10 rounds rapid fire sitting, (fired in 60 seconds with a mandatory reload), 10 rounds rapid fire-prone, (fired in 70 seconds with a mandatory reload), and 20 rounds in 20 minutes slow prone. We shoot the matches at 100yds with reduced targets simulating 200, 300 and 600 targets. A shooting sling is recommended but not necessary. As is a spotting scope to check your sighters.

Setup is 7:30 and the start time is 8 on Saturday June 6^th.

Wipe the dust off those rifles and come join the fun!!!

Gaylord Baker 509-308-4551 & Mark Johnson 509-308-5335

The clubs Vice Pres , Vince Salvadalena and the Sec ,  Madeline Fenrich have received an employment offer too good to refuse and have relocated to the west side of the State.  As a result, they have reluctantly decided to resign their positions at TCMSA.   We wish them the best and hope that should they find themselves back in the area,  they will actively reconnect with the club.

Though the resignations are not yet formal, there is a very high probability they soon will be, and that nominations will be open for both Vice Pres and Sec at the May 7^th general meeting, if so, a vote will be conducted during the June regular meeting.

President John Drewrey

The range will be closed for weed control spraying from 8am to 2pm on April 23. The 22 was cancelled due to rain forecast.

Treasurer James Simpson