Three-Position 10m Air Rifle — Popular Sport for Young Shooters
Three-Position (3P) Air Rifle Shooting is the most popular and fastest-growing form of shooting sports competition for junior shooters (High School age and younger). The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) conducts two different 3P Air Rifle events. Precision Air Rifle is modeled after Olympic-style shooting and allows the use of specialized target rifles and equipment. Sporter Air Rifle is designed for new competitors or those who desire to compete with a minimum of equipment and expense.
In both types of shooting, competitors fire at targets at a distance of 10 meters in three different positions, prone, standing and kneeling. Three-Position Air Rifle provides young competitors with competitive shooting sports opportunities that can be offered on a wide variety of easily accessible or easily constructed ranges, with equipment that is commonly available at affordable costs.
The CMP actively promotes Three-Position Air Rifle shooting as a premier youth marksmanship competition by providing low-cost equipment and pellets as well as training materials and competition activities. In addition, other air gun events for juniors and adults are hosted by CMP throughout the year. CMP facilities have Open Public Shooting evenings, and matches for air rifle and air pistol take place at the CMP Marksmanship Centers.
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A lot of skill involved in this sport, both physical and mental. Plus, the girls look awesome even in those goofy starched suits.
After years of sitting next to an guy with an FFL in my office and watching the antics of some customers that would drop by at lunch hour, I came to the conclusion that a surprising number of shooters are just plain cheap. No one that has priced the rifles and other equipment used in 10m precision air rifle will accuse competitive air rifle shooters of being cheap….