UMass Lowell Firearms Club Shooting Team Startup

[gkelley97]

Hey guys,

I'm the current president of UMass Lowell Firearms Club and we are currently looking to start up a shooting team. The club currently sits at about 130 members but only 25% of them are truly active members. Now neither I nor the rest of the senior members have any experience with competition shooting. So I'm coming here for some help. I personally would like to get into Precision Rifle Shooting with a .223 or .308 but I feel that a .22 is more common for shooting at a collegiate level. Secondly do you guys know of any such competitions where a team could compete in the northeast Ma area? Any help is really appreciated because this is an area of shooting I'm just not familiar with.

 

[bill o]

You might want to look into steel challenge at Harvard Sportsmans Club.

 

[DarthRevan]

I should probably change my signature line now...

 

[DarthRevan]

http://www.nssf.org/shooting/youth/

 

[mike1960]

My son is a freshman there, he shot for the Mass Rifle Rebels in air rifle and .22. I will reach out for him and see if he is interested in participating, he really wanted to concentrate on school but I will ask.
For fun competition near Lowell there is Reading Rifle, Tewksburry Rod and Gun, and Woburn Sportsman Association often offer weekend rifle events. For more organized events look at USA Shooting.
I will PM you with some more info.

Hey guys,

I'm the current president of UMass Lowell Firearms Club and we are currently looking to start up a shooting team. The club currently sits at about 130 members but only 25% of them are truly active members. Now neither I nor the rest of the senior members have any experience with competition shooting. So I'm coming here for some help. I personally would like to get into Precision Rifle Shooting with a .223 or .308 but I feel that a .22 is more common for shooting at a collegiate level. Secondly do you guys know of any such competitions where a team could compete in the northeast Ma area? Any help is really appreciated because this is an area of shooting I'm just not familiar with.

 

[Happy feet]

I know MIT has a team of students and professors that shoot bullseye in the Greater Boston pistol leage. Maybe look into fielding a team that competes in a leage in the Lowell area.

 

[gkelley97]

sorry for the late response. Class has been hectic. But that would be absolutely awesome thank you!

 

[PatMcD]

Smallbore 3 or 4 position is the standard college team sport.