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Welcome to the Austin Rifle Club
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Austin Rifle Club Mission Statement
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.
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Notice: Entry Road Construction - Revision
Availability of materials is forcing us to reschedule our bridge construction until next week. We're sorry about the confusion. So, it's business as usuall at the range for the 4th of July weekend, and construction begins next week instead.
Revision: beginning Monday, July 6 and continuing through Saturday, July 11, the entry road bridge which crosses the creek just after you enter the main gate will be closed for reconstruction. Anyone who has driven across that bridge knows how badly this is needed.
The range is NOT closed, but access is a bit more difficult.
While the bridge is out of commision access to the range will be through the main gate (as always) and then:
- Turn left to drive across our new parking lot in front of the new shooting bays.
- If your vehicle has enough clearance you are invited to drive across the dry low water crossing near the end of the parking lot.
- If not, please park your car and walk across to access the range.
Watch this space for updates, but we expect the road to be back in service Sunday morning, July 12.
Austin Rifle Club Board of Directors
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Shooting Bays Construction Update
Here are some pictures of the ongoing construction project to build the new shooting bays.
The first picture is taken from the entry road area. You can see the parking lot and the side wall of the Education and CHL Training range.
The second picture looks directly into one of the five new shooting bays (plus the Education \ CHL Training bay makes six).
And the third picture looks back toward the entry road from the far end of the new shooting bays.
We'll try to keep you posted as things progress!
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New Shooting Bays
Approved by Membership Vote!
In a special meeting of the general membership on Saturday, May 2, 2009, the membership overwhelmingly approved a project to build 6 new shooting bays at the Austin Rifle Club, Inc. range. There were 140 voting members in attendence, with a final vote tally of:
PRO: 116, CON 23; ABSTAIN: 1
The project to build these new shooting bays has been in progress for nearly two years. Today, all that work was recognized and approved by ARC membership. The actual construction phase is ready to begin shortly, and the entire project is scheduled to be completed within 2 months after construction commences.
These new venues will give ARC a decicated education and CHL shooting facility, plus 5 multi-purpose bays to be used for USPSA, IDPA, Steel Challenge, and other types of matches which we have never been able to offer before. They also offer a greatly expanded venue for handgun shooting at the Austin Rifle Club for our general membership, hugely supplementing our Range "B" when these ranges are not in use by scheduled matches.
Congratulations and thank you to the many people who have worked so hard to bring this project to fruition. We look forward to safely enjoying the greatly expanded variety of matches these new shooting bays will bring to the club.
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Volunteering at the ARC
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.
- To assist or to teach one of our ARC classes get in touch with our Director of Education, Hugh Morrison. Click Here to send a message to the Director of Education.
- 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!
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Date: Fri Jul 03 2009
Sunset Time: 08:33 PM
Range is closed to shooting 30 minutes after sunset.
Austin Rifle Club Events Calendar
Current Events!
Education Highlight
- Introduction to IDPA, Sunday August 23
- Introduction to Reloading Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun (Date not yet set)
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Recent Important Events and Changes
There is a lot going on at ARC!
- New Flag Pole installed May 23
- New Shooting Bays Approved by the Membership!
- See Updated NRA-ILA News Links in our Second Amendment section!
- ARC Swap Meet scheduled for 2nd Saturday of the month. See calendar.
- See the 2009 Annual Meeting photos recently added to the ARC Photo Gallery
- See the 2009 Annual Banquet photos recently added to the ARC Photo Gallery
- ARC now has online discussion forums
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