UCSD Marksmanship Club

[wksun88]

Hey, I was wondering if there are any UCSD students here on calguns that are part of the marksmanship club. I want to join but it seems totally dead.
Here is their website http://www.marksmanshipclub.org
If any of you here have any information about this beyond the sparse info on that website, please chime in.

[robitrocks]

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[Fobjoe]

yea, i tried adding my email to the listserv months ago, but I think they're dead.

[pullnshoot25]

Why would you travel to O'side to shoot? There are 1-2 indoor ranges in SD, right?

[Astig Boy]

Why would you travel to O'side to shoot? There are 1-2 indoor ranges in SD, right?

Cause the other 1-2 ranges down in SD(DGM and American Shooting) are *****ty. Notice they have a pic of American shooting, but they dont put their website up and they have the website and directions to ironsights...that should tell you something.

[Fobjoe]

i just thought it would be nice to find UCSD gun enthusiasts. As far as ranges go, I prefer the long drive to SBRGC in Dulzura. I'll be heading out there in about 12 hours.

[DedEye]

Cool. I wanted to start a marksmanship club here at SB, but couldn't find a faculty member to sponsor it. If the SD club is dead, restart it!

[ocabj]

I think you would get more faculty or staff support for a marksmanship team, as opposed to a club. If you focus on competitive shooting like air rifle, smallbore, High Power (Across the Course, Mid-Range, and/or Long Range), bullseye, or even IDPA/IPSC/USPSA you would be able to get some support.

As far as a club is concerned, you don't *need* staff/faculty support. Just get approval from the Student Life dept to get approval to put up flyers or other advertisements around campus so you can get the word out that there is a recreation/sport shooting club comprised of students. But if you're talking about trying to get financial support from campus, don't count on much if any support at all.

I half thought about the notion of having a shooting team going on campus at UCR, but the time and money is just too much of an issue. I barely have enough time and money to train and compete in High Power alone. I can only begin to imagine the amount of work, effort, time, and money that would be involved in getting some sort of student rifle team off the ground.

Good luck with getting a club going though. I think it's doable.

[pullnshoot25]

I think you would get more faculty or staff support for a marksmanship team, as opposed to a club. If you focus on competitive shooting like air rifle, smallbore, High Power (Across the Course, Mid-Range, and/or Long Range), bullseye, or even IDPA/IPSC/USPSA you would be able to get some support.

As far as a club is concerned, you don't *need* staff/faculty support. Just get approval from the Student Life dept to get approval to put up flyers or other advertisements around campus so you can get the word out that there is a recreation/sport shooting club comprised of students. But if you're talking about trying to get financial support from campus, don't count on much if any support at all.

I half thought about the notion of having a shooting team going on campus at UCR, but the time and money is just too much of an issue. I barely have enough time and money to train and compete in High Power alone. I can only begin to imagine the amount of work, effort, time, and money that would be involved in getting some sort of student rifle team off the ground.

Good luck with getting a club going though. I think it's doable.

I think small-bore is the best option.

[buff_01]

UCSD alumni here... I never even knew this club existed. If you guys get it running again, do some advertisement on campus, you'll probably get a lot of people.

[DedEye]

I think you would get more faculty or staff support for a marksmanship team, as opposed to a club. If you focus on competitive shooting like air rifle, smallbore, High Power (Across the Course, Mid-Range, and/or Long Range), bullseye, or even IDPA/IPSC/USPSA you would be able to get some support.

As far as a club is concerned, you don't *need* staff/faculty support. Just get approval from the Student Life dept to get approval to put up flyers or other advertisements around campus so you can get the word out that there is a recreation/sport shooting club comprised of students. But if you're talking about trying to get financial support from campus, don't count on much if any support at all.

I half thought about the notion of having a shooting team going on campus at UCR, but the time and money is just too much of an issue. I barely have enough time and money to train and compete in High Power alone. I can only begin to imagine the amount of work, effort, time, and money that would be involved in getting some sort of student rifle team off the ground.

Good luck with getting a club going though. I think it's doable.

I meant to say I was trying to start a team, not a club, so that we could get funding from the school. A club already exists and gets support from the NRA.

[ocabj]

I was talking to a California Grizzly member (CA Junior HP team) during the NRA Regional last Saturday since we were on the same firing point and he mentioned to me that Purdue has a pretty robust shooting program and even allows storage of firearms on campus via an 'armory'.

I don't know of any UC that has anything close to a shooting program that is actually a part of the school's athletics programs (NCAA or internal intramural). If one does exist, I'd be interested to know about it.

Over here at UCR, there are lots of shooters in the staff. I've met a few guys in the campus maintenance crew who know I shoot because they've been to my office on work orders and saw all my shooting related posters and learned about a trap shooting contingency among them. I've met quite a few students that shoot. So I know there is an awareness on campus as far as sport shooting is concerned. But I have no clue how much participation a formal shooting team (rifle for instance) would garner. Unfortunately, UCR doesn't have an ROTC program actually based on campus. If we did, that would probably the best place to start some sort of rifle team.

[slick_711]

Cause the other 1-2 ranges down in SD(DGM and American Shooting) are *****ty. Notice they have a pic of American shooting, but they dont put their website up and they have the website and directions to ironsights...that should tell you something.

ASC has gone out of its way above & beyond on two occasions for the UCSD Marksmanship club, anyone who says different is ignorant.

The first time they visited ASC they had a handful of shooters with ZERO practical experience, many of whom were under 21. ASC staff provided them with 30 minutes of classroom instruction at no charge, gave them 2 lanes on the range on the busiest day of the week, and multiple rental guns and ammunition all at a discount.

The second visit, the only "experienced" shooter was one who had been @ the first visit, and despite ASC having set aside two lanes for the club, only 3 people showed up (the rest were all "hung over or tired").

If they do their shooting now @ Iron Sights I would suggest the reason they do so is likely because Iron Sights takes their word for it that they know what they are doing when I could tell you from 2 minutes with them that their "experience" was from books/games.

If the San Diego ranges are so "*****ty" (what word is that supposed to be anyway?) why don't you give them some constructive criticism so they can improve?

[ohsmily]

I started the Marksmanship Club at UCSD with a buddy (Shaun and Ryan) in 1999/2000. My buddy and I provided ALL the guns for each event, and we got funding for the school for the ammunition. We shot mostly .22 but had enough to buy larger caliber stuff for everyone as well. It was a HUGELY popular club at one point. Due to advertising, 'tabling,' and other recruiting, I had over 600 people on our listserv at one point.

We used to do FREE (for students) quarterly shooting range events at ASC and I put on safety lectures for students and the community a couple times a quarter. I don't know who is running it now.

ASC used to be good to us, then they tried to triple the prices they used to ask and they wouldn't compromise despite us being a school club. We used to shoot there from 8AM-11AM on Sundays before they opened. When we used ASC, it was always a full house and we had between 30-50 shooters. (50 was crowded, but we ran things well and everyone had to have attended one of our 1 hour safety and range protocol lectures prior to attending).
Since they were being jerks, toward the end of my tenure as chairman, we did events at South Bay Rod and Gun on the 100m range (we reserved the whole thing).

There is a regular meeting now at Iron Sight, but it isn't "official" marksmanship club stuff, just a gathering of College Repubs.

(P.S. that picture on the "about" link on the marksmanship club page is of my now wife with a real M4 at the NavSpecWar BUD/S base in Coronado. I arranged for a VIP tour of the base, including the armory and obstacle course. It was SWEET!).

[ohsmily]

ASC has gone out of its way above & beyond on two occasions for the UCSD Marksmanship club, anyone who says different is ignorant.

The first time they visited ASC they had a handful of shooters with ZERO practical experience, many of whom were under 21. ASC staff provided them with 30 minutes of classroom instruction at no charge, gave them 2 lanes on the range on the busiest day of the week, and multiple rental guns and ammunition all at a discount.

The second visit, the only "experienced" shooter was one who had been @ the first visit, and despite ASC having set aside two lanes for the club, only 3 people showed up (the rest were all "hung over or tired").

If they do their shooting now @ Iron Sights I would suggest the reason they do so is likely because Iron Sights takes their word for it that they know what they are doing when I could tell you from 2 minutes with them that their "experience" was from books/games.

If the San Diego ranges are so "*****ty" (what word is that supposed to be anyway?) why don't you give them some constructive criticism so they can improve?

When were the events that you speak of?