ARC Club News 2008

NOTICE
Message from the ARC President

The City of Alliance has asked that the Airport Indoor Range be closed to use during regular business hours of 7am through 6pm on weekdays for the safety of construction crews working on the Military Cemetery. No further use of the Outdoor Airport Range will be allowed. We will most likely have to close the Indoor Range permanently this spring.

Guy Hielscher
NRA Range Grant
$2500 Grant was received by the Alliance Rifle Club Oct. 6, 2008
This will be used to construct a 25 yd. Pistol Range at Glen Fiebig Range.

Read about Building the Glen Fiebig Range.
(Opens a PDF File)
The 5th Annual BPCR Sagebrush Match sponsored by Harlan and Wendy Sage was held Aug. 23 - 24, 2008 at Hoffland Range. There were more competitors at this match than any match held before at Hoffland. Sat. at the Long Range Match there were 100 shooters. Jim Dibble and Jim Bourn each shot a 31 for top score. Steve Lickliter (scope class) shot a 29. Buffalo Match on Sun. had 104 shooters. Top score of 39 was shot by Mike Alexander, followed by Jim Bourn with a 38 and Steve Lickliter (scope class) with. 38.

For Complete Results visit Sage Outfitters
The Alliance Rifle Club Receives Grants from Nebraska Game and Parks, Friends of the NRA and Box Butte County Tourism.


In March the Club received a grant from the Box Butte County Tourism of $1500 to spend on advertising for the Gun Show.

Because of the Friends of the NRA Banquet the ARC held Nov. 2, 2007, Alliance Rifle Club was approved for the biggest grant given in the Midwest this year. A grant of about $10,000 was given to put in a well and generator at the Fiebig Range.

The Nebraska Game and Parks presented a grant of about $23,000 to ARC for dirt work to assist with the construction of Fiebig Range.

ARC Members compete in the
Matthew Quigley Buffalo Rifle Match
June 14 and 15, 2008 -- Forsyth, Montana

The Quigley Match is the largest shooting match of its type in the nation. It is a long range rifle match using original or replica period firearms from the days of buffalo hunting. The longest target is a steel Buffalo at 800 yds. The firing line is over 500 yds. wide. It is held each year on Father's Day weekend at the AG Lee Ranch, Forsyth, Montana.

This year there were 601 shooters posting scores for the final results. Alliance Rifle Club members attending the match were Jim Bourn, Steve Lickliter, Joe Lickliter, Dean and Jean Scoggin and Harlan and Wendy Sage.

For the Saturday Results the top score was a 31. Dean Scoggin was in 6th place with 28. The Final Results had a top score of 45 with Harlan Sage in 13th place with a score of 37 and Dean Scoggin was 14th with a 37.

To see all the results of the 2008 Quigley Match visit:

http://www.bpcr.net
"May 08 Blizzard" Hits the Mid-West BPCR Championships
The pictures above show the Hoffland Range during the May 3 and 4, 2008 Mid-West BPCR Championship. The blizzard started Thursday night and was bad all day Friday with winds up to 60 miles an hour and snow most of the day. Schools in Alliance and most of the Panhandle and into South Dakota were closed. Many of the area highways were closed on Friday. So the shooters had quite an adventure getting to this match. The road into the Hoffland gate was snowed in and a detour had to be made through a fence.

But what a difference a day can make! Check out the two pictures below and see the conditions on Saturday and Sunday. The temperature was almost 70 by Sunday. The first day there were 46 shooters and on Sunday 52 shooters went through the match. There were shooters from nine states--Louisiana, South Dakota, Wyoming, North Dakota, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana and Nebraska.

Photos of the snow and match courtesy of
Pauline Brown, Publicity Director for the Alliance Rifle Club.
Alliance Winter League Team Wins Honors

Recently, the Alliance Rifle Club's Panhandle Rifle League Team completed the 2007-2008 smallbore rifle indoor season.

Alliance had the high win/loss with 16-2 and the high season average of 1905.70. At the Shoot-Off Match held at the Alliance Indoor Range on March 15, the Alliance Team won the Shoot-Off and Royce Brown shot the highest score of 392 out of a possible 400 to be Match Winner.

Shoot-Off Winners:
Class A -- James Patrick, Alliance
Class B -- Gil Davis, Alliance
Class C -- Doug Wollensen, Scottsbluff
Class D -- Wayne Davis, Alliance
First Tyro -- (1st year Shooter) Pete Neal, Scottsbluff

Other Panhandle Rifle League awards for the 2007-2008 Season:
High Season Average: 390.33 - Royce Brown, Alliance
High Season Prone Average: 100.00 - Doug Wollensen, Scottsbluff
High Season Sitting Average: 100.00 - Chuck Carruthers, Ft. Laramie
High Season Kneeling Average: 99.14 - Mike Chrisman, Scottsbluff
High Season Standing Average: 94.33 - James Patrick, Alliance

Pictured for the Alliance Team (left to right):
Royce Brown, James Patrick, Gil Davis, Wayne Davis and "Tanner." Not pictured is Caleb Miller.

Report and photo
courtesy of
Pauline Brown.

Results of Election
March 3, 2008 at the Special Meeting

President: Guy Hielscher

Vice President: Steve Miles

Treasurer: Bob Engelhaupt

Executive Officer: Royce Brown
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