Van Wert County Outdoorsmen practice shooting. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe safety briefing will be held at 9:30 a.m. and the match will start at 10 that morning. For those who have ever wanted to shoot an M-1 Garand carbine, this is the match to attend. Once people shoot in the match, they will be eligible to purchase an M-1 Garand from the CMP.<\/p>\n
For those who do not have a rifle, the club has M-1 rifles to loan out to the public to use in this match.\u00a0 However, any military rifle may be used. The cost to participate is $2, which is a target fee. For those who need to purchase ammo, the club has 30.06 ammo at $20 for 40 rounds.<\/p>\n
For more information on this event, call 419.203.5419.<\/b><\/p>\n
On Sunday, December 8, the club will hold a Turkey Shoot starting at 1 p.m.\u00a0 The event is for 12-gauge shotguns; however, the club also has several 20-gauge shotguns for use by women and youths.\u00a0 Shells will be provided at a cost of just $2 per shell.<\/p>\n
Shooters compete for various prizes, such as frozen turkeys and hams, by attempting to place a single shot closest to the center of a target.<\/p>\n
Due to these events and the upcoming holidays, there will be no scheduled trap shoots in December.<\/p>\n
The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association is a non-profit organization and is an NRA affiliate club.\u00a0 Its mission is to increase the knowledge and safe practice of hunting skills, marksmanship and other outdoor recreation skills.<\/p>\n
The club is located at 9065 Ringwald Road, just south of Huggy Bear Campground.\u00a0 More information on the club and its activities can be found by visiting www.VWOutdoorsmen.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VW Outdoorsmen Association information The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association has several public events scheduled for December. On Saturday, December 7, starting at 9:30 a.m., the club will be hosting its annual Pearl Harbor Commemorative Military Rifle Match, which is a Civilian Marksmanship Program-sanctioned match to remember American heroes both past and present. The safety […]<\/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-45801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 18:31:27","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\/45801","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=45801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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