Match Programs

Started in the mid 1990’s, this group of mostly retired shooters meet every Wednesday morning to shoot metallic silhouette targets.

Archery is an up and coming discipline at the ARPC. Our archery range is a great place to have a fun filled day of target shooting or to get ready for hunting season. We have six “known distance” targets ranging from 20 to 70 yards.

Have you ever dreamed of returning to the thrilling days of the mountain men, or of sharing in the adventures of wilderness heroes? Many people are attempting to experience a part of those days through black powder or muzzleloader shooting.

Bullseye Pistol is a challenging but enjoyable sport. As the name implies, the object is to place your shot in the center “ten ring” of a bullseye target.

The purpose of the Civilian Marksmanship Program at our club is to give all Arnold Rifle and Pistol Club members an opportunity to learn the NRA rules for high power rifle matches, using military type rifles primarily with iron sights.

Cowboy Action Shooting attempts to give the shooter a taste of the Old West, wearing period clothing and shooting period firearms or replicas.

F-Class matches involves extreme precision rifle shooting with shooters divided into classes based on the rifle being used and using either front rests or bipods. The matches at ARPC are modified somewhat from true NRA F-Class matches to make it fun and attractive for a wider variety of shooters.

The Gateway Women Shooters is a program exclusively for women shooters, led by women with certification to conduct training in various aspects of the use of firearms and related aspects of self-defense. This program welcomes women of all levels of skills and experience and includes both classroom instruction and range time.

Hunter Rifle is all about competing with the rifles you use for hunting, whether it is big game, varmints, or squirrels.

IDPA as a sport is quite simply the use of practical equipment including full-charge service ammunition to solve simulated “real world” self-defense scenarios. Shooters competing in IDPA events use practical handguns and holsters that are truly suitable for self-defense use.

Indoor pistol is an introduction to the discipline of Bullseye Pistol shooting.  ARPC does not have an indoor range, so matches are shot at the Bullseye Range.

NRL22 (National Rifle League 22) is a popular precision rimfire competition that is one of the fastest growing disciplines in competitive shooting. Patterned after the Precision Rifle Series but shot with .22 rimfire rifles, attempting to hit small steel targets at distances of 100 yards (sometimes further!).

Steel Plate pistol matches combine speed and accuracy, involving rapidly shooting at steel plate targets of various sizes, arranged in different configurations, in a timed event.

USPSA shooters need to blend accuracy, power, and speed into a winning combination.

Five-Stand is a compact version of Sporting Clays. Instead of stations spread across several acres, five stations or “stands” are lined up next to each other in a covered pavilion.

Skeet targets are thrown from a high house and a low house while participants shoot from eight different positions laid out in a semicircle.

Trap is a shotgun sport in which the shooter fires at clay “birds”, or targets, thrown from an oscillating machine on the shooter’s call.