April 2012
IPPSC is up and running,
with one match completed and five more scheduled for the 2012 summer season. The next match is May 19, 2012. Don't
miss it!
March, 2012
Sharp Practical Shooters has completed its first winter season of six matches. All were fun and provided
opportunuties for shooters to maintain or strengthen their skills during the time access to outdoor shooting was very limited.
We appreciate all the support shown and look forward to our next match, tentatively scheduled for October.
Now it's time to turn our attention to the IPPSC matches, the first of which is scheduled
for Saturday, April 21. The range at Smelterville is in development and will eventually be a strong venue for many types
of action shooting, including multi-gun. The club enjoys enthusiastic support from the governing board and progress
toward broader range services is being made. As soon as we're sure what will be offered for the match, we'll get a notice
out and post it on this site.
We look forward to seeing you at the match!
IPPSC:
This is the official announcement for the creation of the new shooting club, based in Smelterville, Idaho. The
club name is the Idaho Panhandle Practical Shooting Club, Inc. (IPPSC).
Our first annual meeting will be
on January 21, 2012 in the Pinehurst Elementary School at 6:00pm. Directions to the school is: Take I90 to Pinehurst
(Exit 45). Travel south until the 4 way stop and turn right(west). Drive a couple hundred yards and you are there.
Please, there are to be no firearms at the meeting as it is a public school.
Club membership is $25.00.
This entitles you to a voice in the club as well as $5.00 off at every match. After 5 matches you have paid for your
membership. Please support us and the shooting community. You will also receive a copy of the by-laws at your request.
The membership applications will be available at: WWW.SPPL.US as well as matches. If you let me know I will also snail mail or email one to you.
We will be holding matches at the “Shoshone County Public Shooting Range” in Smelterville Idaho.
The range is about 40 minutes east of Coeur d’Alene on Interstate 90. Directions will be included in
each match reminder.
We will be conducting USPSA and Steel Challenge matches. The
steel match will be the Eddy Brown Memorial Metal Match in July. The USPSA matches will comprise the other
months from April to October. The USPSA matches will be 4-5 stage matches with a classifier. I am hopeful
we will complete our USPSA affiliation requirements before the first match. We need at least 10 USPSA members willing
to put their name on the club list.
Sharp Practical Shooters will operate out of the Sharp Shooting Range in Spokane,
Washington. We will offer 6-7 indoor matches between late October and perhaps as late as mid-April. Summer shooting
opportunities for practical shooters will be available at the Mica range, in Spokane Valley, under sponsorship by the Inland
Northwest Action Shooters (INAS), and at the new Shoshone Country Shooting Range, in Kellogg, Idaho, under sponsorship by
the Idaho Panhandle Practical Shooters Club (IPPSC). IPPSC will share this WEBsite with us, in order to address
what we hope will be a common audience of interested shooters. New material for the Smelterville club should be on the
site by the start of 2012, with their first outdoor match likely to occur in mid-April and each month thereafter, so long
as weather permits.
