{"id":207610,"date":"2026-07-05T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207610"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:42:23","slug":"outdoorsman-hosting-military-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/05\/outdoorsman-hosting-military-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoorsman hosting military match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLE POINT &#8212; The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association will host a CMP sanctioned modern military match this Saturday, July 11, at the Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Club, 9093 Ringwald Rd., Middle Point. It is the annual D-Day match, honoring veterans both past and present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The safety briefing will be held at 9:15 a.m. and the match will start at 9:45 a.m. Any modern 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 AR 15 for participants that might wish to try it out. However, any military rifle may be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cost to participate is $5, which is a target fee. If you need to purchase ammo, the club has 30.06 ammo at $30 for 35 rounds. The AR-15 ammo is $18 for 40 rounds which includes the target fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information MIDDLE POINT &#8212; The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association will host a CMP sanctioned modern military match this Saturday, July 11, at the Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Club, 9093 Ringwald Rd., Middle Point. It is the annual D-Day match, honoring veterans both past and present. The safety briefing will be held at 9:15 [&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-207610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 13:24:14","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\/207610","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=207610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207611,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207610\/revisions\/207611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}