The Virginia Shooting Sports Association (VSSA), your state shooting association, is sponsoring a series of clinics to help both new and inexperienced shooters improve their rifle marksmanship skills and to promote service rifle competitive target shooting in Virginia. The service rifle clinics will be held at the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club in Manassas VA.
   Clinics have been scheduled for May 7 and June 17. At the clinics, shooters will receive instruction in gun safety; in shooting in the standing, sitting and prone positions; in trigger control; in sight alignment; in breath control; and in judging the effect wind has on point of impact. The clinics will be conducted by experienced competitive shooters and military team coaches and will consist of both classroom instruction and target shooting at 200 yards.
   Rifles and ammunition are vailable to those who do not have their own M-1, M-14 or M-16/AR-15 to use. The cost to participate in a clinic is nominal: There is no charge for junior shooters (persons less than 18 years of age); $50.00 for adults using VSSA provided rifle and ammunition and $25.00 for adults using their own rifle and ammunition.
   Participants will be required to either be members of the Virginia State Shooting Association or to join. Membership forms will be available at the clinics. The cost of membership in VSSA is only $20.00.
   For further information or to register for one or more clinics, call 703.389.3821 or send an email to either VSSAClinics@cox.net or billyssahpc@aol.com. Registration is limited and priority will be given to junior shooters, so reserve your place now.
   Clinic participants will be given the opportunity to join the VSSA competitive shooting program which trains and fields teams for state and national level shooting competiton.
  Demonstrate the Skills that You Learn in the Clinics at a Garand Match to be held at the Fairfax Rod & Gun Club on July 22, 2006.

   IWLA Skeet and Trap is sponsoring a Registered Skeet shoot on May 27 and 28, 2006. Guns to be shot are 12-ga. , 20-ga., 28 ga. And 410 bore. For reservations, please call Doug Minnig at 703.371.1018 or 703.318.0214 or e-mail him at doug_minnig@sra.com or minnigd@cox.net

   Todd Bender and John Shima, of the Bender-Shima Shooting Clinics again taught skeet to IWLA members and guests in April at the Skeet and Trap Range. Thank you, Ikes for supporting this exceptional learning opportunity.
   The next Bender-Shima Shooting Clinic will be held in November 2006. The timing of the November clinic is great for Christmas presents, for wing shooters that want to be able to consistently hit that duck or goose, and for Winter League shotgunners who want to be able to eliminate those frustrating “why did I miss that” misses. The instructors focus on stance, hold points, look points, lead, and “hitting the target”. Their experience has given them a thousand tricks to help individual shooters with individual problems.
   John Shima and Todd Bender each have taught skeet for over 25 years. Together they have a combined 18 World Championship titles. Focusing on all aspects of the sport of skeet shooting, along with an extensive exposure to wing shooting and sporting clays, Todd and John were recognized as the first Master Instructors by the National Skeet Shooting Association. They are also trained by England’s Clay Pigeon Shooting Association. In addition, they are two of the few clay target coaches in the United States to receive an Honorary Fellowship in the Institute of Clay Target Coaches in England.
   For reservations for the November clinics, please call Doug Minnig at 703.371.1018 or 703.318.0214, or e-mail him at doug_minnig@sra.com or minnigd@cox.net.