See you at the Education Building on January 15 at 6:30pm for this interesting class on the fundamentals of rifle marksmanship. Below some of the topics we shall cover. To sign up, email education@austinrifleclub.org or use this link https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/intro-to-rifle-marksmanship-class The class is free, if you want to make a donation to the club do it at the class. The Ed building is heated, feel free to bring food.

 Objective: to learn basic skills for operating the rifle, as a point of beginning on the way to excellence in marksmanship.

Cooper’s definition of who is a good shot:  Those who can achieve first-round hits on appropriate targets, at unknown ranges, from improvised firing positions, against the clock.  

Moreover (paraphrasing Cooper), with a conditioned mindset to remain cool under pressure, so as not to spoil the shot.

1. Hand and Eye dominance

• Gun fit / length of pull
  • Conforming yourself to the rifle, or
  • Conforming the rifle to fit you

• Gun Handling
  • the four general rules of firearms safety
  • Firearms Maintenance
  • Live storage
  • Long-term storage
  • Transporting the rifle
  • Carrying systems

• Range etiquette
  • Cold range/hot range

• Shooting 
  • Positions
  • Stance
  • Grip
  • Sight Alignment
  • Trigger control
  • Breathing
  • Follow-through

• Bench-resting technique

• Sighting and Aiming
  • Bore sighting and zeroing the rifle
  • Targets
  • Sight Alignment, Point of Aim and Point of Impact
  • Parallax

Topics for a future class:

• Accessories
  • Sights (iron sights and/or optical sights)
  • The Sling
  • Rifle rests and sand bags
  • Spotting scopes
  • Ammunition
  • Gun Case
  • Cleaning
  • For the range
    • Eye & Ear protection
    • Appropriate Targets, Staple Gun
  • Dry-fire options

Some Next Steps

1. Skills building:  
   1. Dry fire practice
   1. Live fire practice
   1. Match Competition

• Knowledge Base:  
  • Ballistics
    • Internal (moment of ignition to moment of bullet exiting the barrel, and the pressure curve)
    • External  (effects of gravity and wind drag,and the effect of wind on bullet drift)
    • Terminal (bullet’s behavior upon impacting the target, penetration and solid vs. expanding bullets)

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Stop the Bleed classes are returning to ARC. In collaboration with the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services, we will host the first 2025 class on January 22nd at 6 pm to 8pm in the Education Building. The class is free and open to non-members, so bring friends and family. Instructors will be highly qualified members of the County Emergency Medical Services.

The class will last 2 hours approximately, so bring food if you want. The Ed building is heated and there is water available.

Register for the class here: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/stop-the-bleed-class-at-austin-rifle-club-january 

Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign that trains people to stop traumatic bleeding until professional medical help arrives.

Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of preventable death from trauma. The average time for someone to bleed out after a serious injury is only 3-5 minutes, while the average response time for first responders is 7-10 minutes.

Having taken this class, I cannot recommend it enough. It includes also practical demonstrations on how to properly apply tourniquets and other stop the bleeding techniques.

If you have questions, email education@austinrifleclub.org

Luca Barbera, Director of Education

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On December 14 at 2pm at the Education Building we will conduct a steel certification class, which is a mandatory requisite to shoot steel targets at the club.

Sign up on Practiscore. If you are not a member of Practiscore, consider creating an account it's free and we use it regularly for club events.

If you do not want to sign up for Practiscore, send an email to education@austinrifleclub.org indicating you want to participate in the class.

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On Saturday 7 we will host another hunter Education course. See you at the Education Building at 10 am! The course will involve class time and live shooting practice, leave your rifle unloaded in the car, you won't need it for the class section. Bring snacks and food for lunch, there is bottled water available at the Ed building. The course is open to family and friends, even if they are not members of the Club.

For questions, write to education@austinrifleclub.org

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We have to postpone the November class, we shall reschedule it for next year. As usual, contact Education for course requests.

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Austin Rifle Club is sponsoring a free Hunter Education / Safety Certification class.   on  October 5 th at the Education Building.   This is a two part course  with a 2 - 4 hour On-line internet portion   ( free at Texas Parks & Wildlife )  followed by the  free 4 - 5 hour Field Day class  on Oct 5 th.   This will earn each student their Hunter Education Certificate  required to hunt by the state of Texas.   Student  seeking certification  must register through the TP&W system.  For details click this link.

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Registration is open for a new event. We are offering to members and their families a course on the fundamentals of rifle marksmanship. This is a course that will be expanded in the future with new topics and new more advanced content. For details and registration information go the Education page.

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