Kyle's Story #5 from 2011 - 80,000 NRA Instructors
I wanted to start this list out with a significant achievement by NRA's Education and Training Division.
This past fall NRA reached the milestone of having 80,000 NRA Instructors across the United States. This is not just the total number of certified instructors NRA has had in its history, it is the number of current instructors out there, this very moment, doing everything from helping veteran shooters get tighter groupings to prepareing first-timers on how to properly handle a firearm.
The National Rifle Association was founded on the idea of strong marksmanship and has been providing education and training in the safe and proper use of firearms since its inception in 1871. While knowing how to shoot is a basic requirement for NRA instructors, knowing how to teach others to shoot is even more important. NRA Instructor Training Courses will help a shooter develop the additional knowledge, skills and techniques needed to organize and teach courses in the NRA Basic Firearm Training Program.
Instructor training courses are conducted by NRA Training Counselors. Training Counselors are active and experienced instructors who have been appointed by NRA to train experienced shooters the methology of teaching others to shoot.
NRA Certified Instructors provide an invaluable service in their communities by training hundreds of thousands of individuals annually. As more Americans choose to exercise their right to own a firearm, so too grows the need for these courses and instructors.?
Kyle's Story #4 from 2011 - Wildcats win first NCAA Rifle Championship?
My next pick is a great accomplishment I witnessed last spring at the 2011 NCAA Rifle Championships in Columbus, Georgia.
In a close race with the 14-time champion Mountaineers of West Virginia University, the Kentucky Wildcats edged ahead of the winningest team in NCAA Rifle history to win their very first overall national title.
The winning aggregate of 4700 came after two intense days of the NCAA Rifle Championship's course of fire?? a smallbore and air rifle championship.
Kentucky, who took a seven point lead on the Mountaineers after the first day's smallbore championship, called on and received tremendous performances from its shooters. Henri Junghanel's team-high score of 594 was one of many great scores shot by a Kentucky team who was determined to have nothing less than a national title cap off their excellent season record.
It was no cakewalk into the winner's circle for Kentucky, however. West Virginia's Nicco Campriani shot a near-perfect 599 ? a feat he accomplished earlier in the year ? during the air rifle championship as the Mountaineers attempted to overtake the Wildcats. Despite all of the Mountaineers shooters putting up great scores and winning the air gun championship, their push on the final day came up three points shy of the Wildcats.
"It really was a team effort," said Kentucky's Ethan Settlemires. "We had a lot of hard practice coming into this - five, six days a week on the range."
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