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I'm more of a gun collector than shooter. Just got "into" guns a couple years ago. 53 year old high school teacher. I just got assigned as the Shooting Team Instructor at school. Other teacher doing it transferred out of our school.
I need a good book or DVD on shooting .22 with open sights and shooting skeet. They also will be shooting compound bow but I have a friend of mine helping them with that.
Any ideas will be GREATLY appreciated.
I shoot handguns and deer hunt. I also just bought a Remington R5 mil spec and a Nightforce to top it off. Just getting into long range shooting.
Thanks for any help!
 
If you can find some Marine Corps basic rifle marksmanship manuals, you'll have a good start for shooting iron sites, and principles of good position and such...
 
Check your local area for an appleseed shoot.
They can be of tremedous help.
A book on service rifle match shooting could help.

Find Sterling Shooter here on the hide, he is a sling and open sights guy, very accomplished shooter.
I'm sure he can point you in the right direction.
Your profile doesn't say what part of North Cakalaki you inhabit.
If you are near one of military bases, you might be able to get some help from their shooting teams (they might even be able to help with skeet/trap).

I do say, it is awesome and refreshing to hear about a high school with a shooting program.
Congrats on a new and exciting challenge.
 
As you can see, you found a great Forum with helpful references and suggestions. Good luck and be safe. Don't forget the NRA may have good material on the topics you're interested in and might even offer some financial help! Merry Christmas
 
The NRA has 'turnkey' programs already set up to give your efforts form and function, complete with achievement awards and scholarships, as well as financial support and design assistance for range construction/improvements.

They also have programs to give you the skills needed for instruction, and training aids for your students..

Play your cards right, and the fees and such involved could become reimbursable course expenses.

Every school sport and extracurricular program should have a Booster Association to aid in promotion and help defray costs to the program and the school (but not to have say in what the program is or how it does its things). It helps keep your program from getting buried under the others, like football, basketball, baseball, etc.

Make certain your boosters do not get buried among competing programs in a blanket sports association; keep yours separate, and do not allow boosters to push their own/individual agendas. All booster activities should be kept aligned with the whole program. Boosters can be delegated to serve as reps to outside organizations like those below. You do not need to run the boosters; and do not allow anyone to make your position reportable to the booster association, you have to work at the pleasure of the educational institution.

Back in the 1960's, when I was in High School, Marksmanship was a School Team Sport, the Team was a CMP/DCM as well as state rifle/Pistol association affiliated club, and I earned my Letter in it for two years running.

The CMP runs competition programs for youth, as well as some support for firearms, ammunition, and other necessities.

You already have a lot of the hard part behind you, with a willing school leadership, and some supporting facilities. Be certain to establish/maintain a good rapport with the School Board (i.e., reports at meetings, etc., including reciprocal promotional support for school board candidates who favor marksmanship education.), and provide demos for involved parents and school leadership (NOT open to the public). If not already a fact, establish a relationship with local range Clubs. This is all a necessary self-support issue, and a key to preventing sudden hostile turns of opinion among those you depend upon for your program's existence.

Greg
 
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As [MENTION=39164]MarinePMI[/MENTION] said, the USMC Marksmanship training program is a great place to start. I was also a PMI (Primary Marksmanship Instructor) and this video is supposed to be a pretty well put-together presentation of how we taught Marines to shoot, it's currently in my "cart" as I was looking for something to refresh some old skills:

Amazon.com: Marine Corps Marksmanship: Sean Casey: Movies & TV
[MENTION=73225]sib1948[/MENTION] also nailed it with seeking help from the NRA.
 
Good job on stepping up and taking on the role of shooting team Instructor.

The best resource for information that I have found is this site and the people on it, a big plus one for Sterling Shooter amongst others.
He is definitely one who I pay attention to.

The online training is pretty good, I'm not sure if thats what you're looking for but for me it was worth the cost.
 
If you type in Steves pages you will find just about every Manual a person could need, you can down load them from there, But you cant beat a bit of personal Training either as it will give you things manuals cant,

John
 
Thanks a bunch for all the info. The NRA is involved and supplied all the ammo and clay pigeons for this coming season. the previous instructor wrote a grant for it and will help me with it in the future. I have an appt with the NC Wildlife officer 2nd week of January to be trained and certified as the new instructor. I'll take ALL the advice above and assuredly get a lot more from him. Some of my shooters have been hunting since they were 8 years old. There are about 18 kids and amazingly 6 are girls. 3 of them got 8 point bucks this season!!! One girl said she likes cleaning them better than shooting them. Amazing kid, straight A's in her classes.
Thanks again. I'll be back for more help and updates.
 
shoot an appleseed

Project Appleseed Home

MJ

Edit: your even in the state where home base is.
Appleseed Schedule Carolina

This. They are good folks. At the end of the shoot volunteer to become an instructor in training (orange hat). They will teach you the fundamentals, then get your NRA rifle instructor and NRA RSO certs. Some ranges require you to have both to work with students.

BTW, become a safety Nazi real quick. Kids tend to forget the rules.

Also, the AMU also holds a clinic that is worth attending.
 
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