Tamaqua Rimfire Sporter matches

Starting March 5th, the Tamaqua Rifle and Pistol Club will begin holding rimfire sporter matches. Currently scheduled for the first Saturday of most months from March through November. They are a good introduction to formal rifle competition without the equipment investment, and are a good practice for your squirrel rifle before you put it away till fall. Shot at 50 and 25 yards from three different field positions (standing, kneeling or sitting, and laying prone) it includes both slow fire and rapid fire stages. They are currently unsanctioned, future matches will be sanctioned with the CMP if there is sufficient attendance. In addition to the three classes covered by the CMP, we are also running an 'unlimited' class for any rifles that don't quite make the specs such as 22 uppers and conversions or fun guns like the gsg stg44.

The morning of the March 5th match there will be a free 'half-course' practice match starting at 10:30am.


Tamaqua Rifle and Pistol Club
110 Municipal Rd, New Ringgold, PA 17960
GPS: 40.751806, -75.893063

Schedule: March 5th 2016, April 2nd, May 7th, June 4th, July 2nd, August 6th, September 10th, October 1st, November 5th. In the event of inclement weather, the rain date for the match will be the 2nd Saturday of the month. Registration begins at noon on the day of the match and closes at 12:45 for a safety briefing. Match begins at 1pm.

Entry Fees: $10 for adults, $5 for juniors (Age 12 to 17, parent or guardian must be present. If the parent or guardian is also competing they will be scheduled on different relays). Open to the public, membership in club is not required.

Weather channel, accuweather, and wnep are all over the place with their forecasts for tommorow afternoon. Just cloudy, isolated showers, or showers. In the event of rain in the afternoon at the range, the match will be postponed until next Saturday, April 9th. In any case should at least be in the 50s by afternoon so about 10 degrees warmer than last month that chased alot of people away.

The last match of the season will be held on Saturday August 5th at 9am instead of 1pm. There will be no match in September or October this year due to scheduling conflicts.

Is this still active for 2022?

It folded up a year or two before the pandemic. At Tulpehocken Rifle & Pistol, in Pine Grove about 45 minutes west of there, we've been talking about running a sanctioned rimfire sporter match the morning of the club's sanctioned GSM match the last Sunday in April. Normally we ran an intro clinic with a cmp instructor the morning of that GSM match, but turn out for the clinic declined during the craziness of the past two years. I don't know if a final decision has been made, it'll be on their website (https://tulprpc.org/) and the competition tracker (https://ct.thecmp.org/) when they do.