Austin Rifle Club Mission Statement
Austin Rifle Club, Inc. Range - Manor TX
Our mission is to educate the youth of this nation in the shooting sports and to promote the safe and lawful use of firearms by these youth, our members and the general public through education, training, competitions and camaraderie.
ARC members
Chet Safe and Phil Evans are managing an estate sale of Charlie Pardonner's firearm-related materials at the range on swap-meet day. The sale is from Noon to 6:00 PM on Saturday, February 13. There will be no firearms sold, but a large variety of firearms related gear and reloading equipment. The estate sale is open to ARC members only. You must have your badge to enter the education building for the sale.
Seeking Candidates for
Director of Site Property
Vacant Board of Directors Position
One of our newly elected board members vacated an existing position to begin his tenure in the new one. The vacated position leaves us with a board position with one year remaining before it normally comes up for re-election. We are seeking candidates to volunteer to fill the one year remaining in this term. All interested parties should contact the Club Secretary before February 11, 2010.
If you have been considering volunteering time to help the club please consider this position.
The Director of Site Property duties include:
Has ultimate custody of all capital property, including its equipment, firearms, structures and fixtures.
Maintains a current inventory of all ARC’s capital assets as identified by the CFO.
Maintains a current detailed list of all firearms including descriptions of items in the off site Safe and any distributed with names and signatures of recipients.
Issues and receives firearms to and from club members as outlined in the rules or as desired by the board.
Performs an annual physical inventory of ARC’s capital assets.
The Site Property Director is charged with the ultimate custody and accountability of all Corporation property and shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed by the CEO or the Board of Directors.
New Shooting Bays Available
for ARC General Membership
The rains have temporarily subsided, the heavy equipment is gone, and the new ranges are open for general use.
Ranges "H" and "I" are now open to the ARC General Membership (hangun only)
Range "L" is now open to the ARC General Membership (Rifles and shotguns only).
Ranges "J" & "K" are reserved for scheduled and supervised IPSC, Steel, and IDPA practice sessions ONLY.
Range "G" is reserved for CHL and Education use ONLY.
The reserved ranges are designated by yellow plastic chain and signs.
The Director of Range Safety and Board of Directors has been working for some time to revise our range rules in order to achieve two specific goals. The first is to provide for rule changes necessary for the safe use of the new shooting bays both for action shooting matches as well as for the general use by our club members. The second issue we have been struggling to deal with is the damage to our target frames on Range "B" and elsewhere on the range. The following rules are the result of many deliberations and discussion.
The following rules have been passed by the Board of Directors and are now in effect. They apply to the use of ranges "H", "I", "J", and "K" which are four of the new shooting bays. The new rules define the use of these ranges which are now available to the general club membership for shooting from the static firing line. Click HERE to read the revised rules for these ranges which are now in effect.
The following rules have been passed by the Board of Directors and are now in effect. They apply to the use of Range "L", which is also one of the new shooting bays. The new rules define the use of Range "L" which is now available to the general club membership for shooting from the static firing line. Click HERE to read the revised rules for Range "L" which are now in effect.
The following rules have been passed by the Board of Directors and take affect on January 1, 2010. These changes affect Range "B" only, and address several changes including minimum target distance, materials which may be used as targets, and the provision of the target frames themselves. Click HERE to read the revised rules for Range "B" which take affect on January 1, 2010.
Please take the time to read these revisions. They are important to the safety of the range, and also are important so that you will be sure to have the proper equipment with you when you come to the range to shoot.
ARC Raises the Flag on Our New Flag Pole
With the enthusiastic assistance of Round Rock Boy Scout Troop 145, the Austin Rifle Club raised the United States flag and the State of Texas flag on our new 35 foot flag pole for the first time on Saturday, May 23, 2009.
We are fortunate and proud to be able to display the flag on our new flag pole on the weekend of Memorial Day 2009. This is also the weekend of the TSRA State Smallbore Rifle Silhouette Championship!
Coming soon on the ARC web site: photos of the construction of our new shooting bays.
The Election is Over and The Results Are In
The Austin Rifle Club annual meeting was held on Saturday, January 16. Unfortunately turnout was modest and we did not have enough people in attendance to meet the 10%-of-the-membership requirement for changing the ARC bylaws; even when the tallies from online voting were added into the total. Thus, the election of officers went forward, but the bylaws changes will wait for another day.
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) position was the only contested position in the election (i.e. had more than one candidate for the position). Eligible voters in attendance at the annual meeting voted for their chosen candidates and then the online tallies were added in. When the smoke cleared Justin Eagle was declared the winner and is our new CFO.
The remaining five board positions were accepted by acclamation.
Gone now from the Board of Directors are: Herman Waters (former Director of Business Operations); and Christine Matyear (former CFO). The club thanks them for their volunteer service to which they both invested countless hours.
Thus the six board members who have been voted in for a new two year term are:
Greg Troxell - President and CEO
Justin Eagle - Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Ken Kornblum - Director of Memberships
Mark Northrup - Director of Business Operations
Bob Landry - Director of Range Safety (Chief RSO)
Dave Phillips - Director of Site Maintenance
USPSA Comes to ARC - First Match August 9, 2009
After two years of planning and implementation our new shooting bays have been christened with an inaugural USPSA match. The Austin Lone Star Practical Pistol Club organized and had the privilege of being the first group to use our shooting bays. Here are some photos of this event!
Here we see a shooter with two RSOs watching as she competes (left).
Here (right) we see a shooter reloading in the middle of this stage. Note again, the RSO standing right behind him while he shoots, keeping a close eye on evey move.
74 registered shooters competed in this match. A smooth and well organized event. We received many complements on the quality of the range, including "The finest action ranges in Texas!"
Our thanks to Sheldon Carruth, President of The Austin Lone Star Practical Pistol Club.
Are you interested in becoming more active as a club member, but perhaps do not know how to go about doing that? There are many ways to get involved at the Austin Rifle Club!
The easiest way is to just show up for the monthly Work Day. Work Day is the 1st Saturday of every month. It starts at 8:00 AM. Just show up, and our Director of Site Maintenance will put you to work!
To get involved in one of the many projects we have going on just send your name to our Chairman of the Volunteer Committee, David K. Phillips (aka "the Other David Phillips"). Click Here to Send a Message to David.
Come to the General Membership meetings! We have a General Membership meeting on the 3rd Thursday of every month in the education building at the range starting at 7:00 PM. The whole purpose of these meetings is to discuss what is going on at the Austin Rifle Club. There are always opportunitites to volunteer time and skills if you wish.
There is always a way to get involved if you have the desire. You can make a difference, and play a part in making the Austin Rifle Club a better place for future generations. There is more to ARC than just putting holes in paper!
