{"id":168443,"date":"2023-07-31T03:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T08:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=168443"},"modified":"2023-07-31T03:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T08:44:39","slug":"outdoorsmen-to-host-a-pair-of-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/07\/31\/outdoorsmen-to-host-a-pair-of-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoorsmen to host a pair of matches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association will offer a new match, a Rifle Steel Target Match at the club at 9093 Ringwald Road on Saturday, August 5. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the match will begin at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match will be comprised of targets set at distances between 100-200 yards and the targets will be a variety of different sizes to challenge each participant. The minimum caliber rifle is .223 and the maximum is 30.06\/.308. Participants may choose either prone or sitting position. It is open to members and non-members alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fee is $5, and you may run the course as many times as you like with no additional fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may contact the match director at 419.203.8662.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association will also host a CMP sanctioned M-1 Garand match for members and non-members Saturday, August 19, at the club. The safety briefing will be held at 9:15 a.m. and the match will start at 9:45 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any military rifle may be used such as an M-1 Garand, AR 15, and other such rifles. You may use iron sights or scoped rifles. Once you shoot in the match, you will be eligible to purchase an M-1 Garand from the CMP. If you do not have a rifle, the club has M-1 rifles to loan out to the public to use in this match. The club also has a National Match<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The also has an AR-15 for participants that might wish to try it out. The cost to participate is $5, which is a target fee. If you need to purchase ammo to shoot in this match, the club has 30.06 ammo at $23 for 35 rounds, and AR-15 ammo is $18.00 for 35 rounds which includes the target fee. This needs to be used to shoot in the match, no extraneous purchases are allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwoutdoorsmen.com\">www.vwoutdoorsmen.com<\/a> or call 419.203.8662.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association will offer a new match, a Rifle Steel Target Match at the club at 9093 Ringwald Road on Saturday, August 5. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the match will begin at 9:30 a.m. The match will be comprised of targets set at distances between 100-200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 02:41:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168444,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168443\/revisions\/168444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}