Sport shooting in the DMV?

[Anonymous]

Are there any places to learn this/train for young people in the DMV? Please, no gun comments. I'm talking about the kind of shooting in the Olympics. When I search the archive all I get are basketball references.

[Anonymous]

Prince George's Parks Dept. has a skeet & trap center

[Anonymous]

For students high school age, the Arlington County public high schools, and some but not all Fairfax County high schools, have rifle teams. Students can join without any experience, and once they improve they can compete at the varsity level and get a letter. That’s the case in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

like skeet/trap or pistol?

[Anonymous]

They’re probably thinking of the NCAA and Olympic sport, air and small bore rifle. Local public schools have teams.

[Anonymous]

Bull Run shooting center

https://www.novaparks.com/parks/bull-run-public-shooting-center

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For students high school age, the Arlington County public high schools, and some but not all Fairfax County high schools, have rifle teams. Students can join without any experience, and once they improve they can compete at the varsity level and get a letter. That’s the case in Arlington.

FFX school board voted to eliminate the last public HS athletic rifle team years ago. It was one SB member back then who lead the effort, merely because she harbored extreme anti-gun views, and somehow stretched that to HS competition target sports.

[Anonymous]

Hi OP!

Check out The Isaac Walton league web pages.

Other local alternatives include:

- 4H
- the NRA Range

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For students high school age, the Arlington County public high schools, and some but not all Fairfax County high schools, have rifle teams. Students can join without any experience, and once they improve they can compete at the varsity level and get a letter. That’s the case in Arlington.

FCPS hates the idea and eliminated the sport over a decade ago.

Their only focus now is on gun-prevention programs:

https://www.fcps.edu/gun-violence-prevention-resources

[Anonymous]

Looks like a few rifle shooting programs for kids are still hanging on within area public high schools:


https://www.robinsonrifle.org/wp/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For students high school age, the Arlington County public high schools, and some but not all Fairfax County high schools, have rifle teams. Students can join without any experience, and once they improve they can compete at the varsity level and get a letter. That’s the case in Arlington.

FFX school board voted to eliminate the last public HS athletic rifle team years ago. It was one SB member back then who lead the effort, merely because she harbored extreme anti-gun views, and somehow stretched that to HS competition target sports.

You might be confused with the closure of rifle ranges inside school buildings. All
of Arlington’s high schools had rifle ranges in the buildings. FCPS probably just closed the high school rifle ranges. FCPS and APS have always had rifle teams since as far back as the 1920s.

The ranges on the Arlington campuses were closed a while ago (before the high schools were all rebuilt), but the high school rifle teams have always competed as APS varsity sports. They are popular sports to this day. With the Olympics around the corner I wouldn’t be surprised to see participation numbers increase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For students high school age, the Arlington County public high schools, and some but not all Fairfax County high schools, have rifle teams. Students can join without any experience, and once they improve they can compete at the varsity level and get a letter. That’s the case in Arlington.

FFX school board voted to eliminate the last public HS athletic rifle team years ago. It was one SB member back then who lead the effort, merely because she harbored extreme anti-gun views, and somehow stretched that to HS competition target sports.

You might be confused with the closure of rifle ranges inside school buildings. All
of Arlington’s high schools had rifle ranges in the buildings. FCPS probably just closed the high school rifle ranges. FCPS and APS have always had rifle teams since as far back as the 1920s.

The ranges on the Arlington campuses were closed a while ago (before the high schools were all rebuilt), but the high school rifle teams have always competed as APS varsity sports. They are popular sports to this day. With the Olympics around the corner I wouldn’t be surprised to see participation numbers increase.

Sure enough:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/06/18/arlington-delays-closure-of-school-shooting-range/e9c28503-4032-4167-940b-2f5a0576bb87/

[Anonymous]

Tuscarora club is excellent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi OP!

Check out The Isaac Walton league web pages.

Other local alternatives include:

- 4H
- the NRA Range

Another vote for the Izaak Walton league, which has a number of locations in the area.
https://iwla.org/find-a-chapter/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For students high school age, the Arlington County public high schools, and some but not all Fairfax County high schools, have rifle teams. Students can join without any experience, and once they improve they can compete at the varsity level and get a letter. That’s the case in Arlington.

FFX school board voted to eliminate the last public HS athletic rifle team years ago. It was one SB member back then who lead the effort, merely because she harbored extreme anti-gun views, and somehow stretched that to HS competition target sports.

You might be confused with the closure of rifle ranges inside school buildings. All
of Arlington’s high schools had rifle ranges in the buildings. FCPS probably just closed the high school rifle ranges. FCPS and APS have always had rifle teams since as far back as the 1920s.

The ranges on the Arlington campuses were closed a while ago (before the high schools were all rebuilt), but the high school rifle teams have always competed as APS varsity sports. They are popular sports to this day. With the Olympics around the corner I wouldn’t be surprised to see participation numbers increase.

Sure enough:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/06/18/arlington-delays-closure-of-school-shooting-range/e9c28503-4032-4167-940b-2f5a0576bb87/

The W-L HS rifle range was demolished in 1975. But the team carries on. Rifle has always been popular in the DC region. Probably due to the military presence.

Sadly the Montgomery County schools dropped riflery. Montgomery Blair HS had a really good team.