Modern Air Rifles for Three-Position Competition
Three-Position Air Rifle (3PAR) 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 primary Three-Position Air Rifle events. First, Precision Air Rifle is modeled after Olympic-style shooting and allows the use of specialized target rifles and equipment. Second, 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.
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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. CMP ranges are equipped with OpticScore Targets featuring technology by Kongsberg Target Systems.
The Challenger PCP (pre-charged pneumatic) Air Rifle is the preferred .177 sporter class air rifle for competitive marksmanship programs throughout the country, including the Marine Corps JROTC, Army JROTC, Air Force JROTC, Navy JROTC, American Legion, and 4-H. The Challenger is a three-position competition rifle that features a fully adjustable stock, a two-stage, adjustable match grade trigger, a hooded front aperture sight, a micro click, adjustable diopter rear sight, a patented ambidextrous pull bolt, and a floating Lothar Walther™ barrel.
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Tags: 3PAR, CMP Juniors, Feinwerkbau, JROTC, Olympic Air Rifle, Pardini, Three-Position Air Rifle, Walther
Why does the girl in the first photo have the blinder on the wrong side of the sight?
Editor: Look carefully. The rear sight is offset slightly to left and she is sighting with her left (dominant) eye. Not unusual.
Looks like she’s left-eye-dominant.
Pictures can easily be mirrored left to right. A lot of times it’s just because an editor liked how the mirrored picture looks on the page.
Editor: based on the location of the rear sight adjustment controls, this photo is NOT reversed. The shooter is left-eye dominant that explains the tab obscuring her right eye. See the other rifles with controls placed on right side of rifle, from shooter’s perspective.