{"id":76662,"date":"2016-05-27T07:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=76662"},"modified":"2016-05-27T07:21:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:21:48","slug":"outdoorsmen-to-have-d-day-rifle-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/05\/27\/outdoorsmen-to-have-d-day-rifle-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoorsmen to have D-Day rifle match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MIDDLE POINT &#8212; The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association is having a D-Day commemorative rifle match to remember America\u2019s heroes, both past and present, on June 4.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76663\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/M-1-Garand-rifle-5-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76663\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/M-1-Garand-rifle-5-2016.jpg\" alt=\"The M-1 Garand rifle was the U.S. Army infantryman's weapon. (photo submitted)\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The M-1 Garand rifle was the U.S. Army infantryman&#8217;s weapon during World War II.<\/strong><em> (photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Any military rifle, past or present, from any country, is allowed. The clinic begins at 9:30 a.m. and the match, which is open to members and non-members, begins at 10 that morning.<\/p>\n<p>Cost for the target is only $4 and participants will be shooting at 200 yards. Participants may also purchase 30.06 ammunition for the match if they did not bring their own: $23 for 40 rounds. The club has a few M-1 rifles to loan people if they do not have a rifle; however, those who use a club gun must purchase club ammo. The club also has a Match AR-15 if people would like try it, instead of an M-1.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have always wanted an M-1 Garand may qualify to purchase one through the Civilian Marksmanship Program by participating in the clinic and match.<\/p>\n<p>The club is located at 9063 Ringwald Road near Middle Point. For more information, call 419.203.8662.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information MIDDLE POINT &#8212; The Van Wert County Outdoorsmen Association is having a D-Day commemorative rifle match to remember America\u2019s heroes, both past and present, on June 4. Any military rifle, past or present, from any country, is allowed. The clinic begins at 9:30 a.m. and the match, which is open to members [&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-76662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 19:28:02","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\/76662","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=76662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}