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	Next Meeting: Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009, 7 PM, Club Building. Help shape the course of your club!
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	You are welcome at the next meeting! Medford Rifle and Pistol Club Meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7:00pm. You are welcome to visit! The club phone number (541)-774-1872 reaches an answering machine where you can receive information. You can pick up a membership application at the door of the club, and mail it to the address given on the form, or download a form from this website. If you would like to reach someone right away about membership, please look at the contacts page and call one of the officers or directors listed. Open House 1st Sunday of each month, at the indoor range, 3 PM to 3:30 PM (or as long as you want to stay). Meet some of the officers, learn about the club and its programs. Especially for new members, but if you are just curious about the club, come on down! The indoor range hosts Bullseye Pistol, Junior Small Bore Rifle, and Practical Pistol shooting. The outdoor range is used for archery. High Power Rifle events are held at the Jackson County Sports Park, as are summer Practical Pistol events. There are about 400 members of the club at this time: every responsible shooter is encouraged to join!
MEMBERSHIP INFO Your membership includes all members of the immediate family living at the same address. Membership cards will be provided for each family member on request at no additional cost. For children under 18, a junior membership card is provided (must be accompanied by an adult member when using the facilities). One electronic key (Fob) is provided with the membership. If additional keys are desired, they may be purchased for $8 each. The membership is registered under one primary name only, and only this person at the address registered will receive correspondence. Relatives living elsewhere are not considered part of the immediate family but may visit or shoot with members as guests if accompanied by the member. All family members are welcome to attend meetings. Only adult members (18 and over) may vote. Range fees are $1 for each shooter per visit, for members, and $2 for guests. Please turn off lights and heat when you leave, and shoot nothing but paper targets (no metal, glass, plastic, etc.) The portable backstops are for archery only, not handguns! The stacks of pressed wood are table legs for the gunshow, not target holders! Target holders are ONLY cardboard rectangles, nothing else. Metal frames hold them at the backstop. Shoot in no other direction or at anything else in the building, please! It should go without saying that no full automatic weapons are permitted, no centerfire rifles, no shotguns. Only rimfire rifles, rimfire handguns, and standard "non-magnum" handgun centerfire calibers are permitted. It's just common sense: whatever might penetrate, bend, break, or otherwise damage the backstops or welds thereon is not permitted. Examples of acceptable calibers are the .38 Special, .45 Auto, .40 S&W, 9mm, and other calibers of similar power level fired from a handgun. Why not a rifle firing the same calibers? Because the guy who walks in and sees you shooting a centerfire rifle is likely to think it is just fine for him to do the same with his .30-06 or .300 Winchester. Not everyone is as technically astute as you about the power of various centerfire rifles. It isn't worth having a bullet go through the backstop and risk hitting someone on Highway 62. One mistake and the club could be shut down forever. Just isn't worth the risk.
Club officers are volunteers who are elected by the membership each year and serve on a board of four officers. The executive committee meets to discuss major issues as outlined in the bylaws and to bring them to the membership for a vote when required. The executive committee consists of the officers and the directors of each shooting discipline, the number of which varies with the number of disciplines active at any given time. If you have a particular interest in a shooting sport that isn't currently being enjoyed at the club, bring it up at a meeting and see if there are enough others interested to help organize it. If so, and you're otherwise qualified, perhaps you'd be willing to become the director for that activity. There is a club phone but the building is locked unless being used by members. Members are issued electronic keys to the digital lock, which records the date, time, and ID of the access. 24-hour video security. To contact someone about joining or visiting, see the Contact Page.
Each interest group has its own director, and sets its own practice times and match events in coordination with the other groups. Once you are a member of the club, you can shoot with one or more groups, which have regularly scheduled practice and/or informal matches. You can come as a guest of any member for two scheduled practices before joining the club. Please check the scheduled events page for practice and match time/dates, and feel welcome to visit any of them. Just ask anyone at the event who the director is, and any other questions you may have about shooting with the group. Non-member indoor range fees are $2, member fee is $1 (for each day's event in which you shoot). See membership and range fees for more info. Members can bring a non-member twice, and then the guest needs to join the club to use the facilities. If you are interested in starting a particular shooting sport, such as airgun or metallic silhouette, or if you have an interest in helping with the gun shows, membership drives, youth shooting programs, or even becoming a club officer or activity director, just come to the Wednesday meeting at 7pm (3rd Wed. of each month) and present your ideas, offer your services, or put your name in the hat for annual election of officers.
The MRPC building has a meeting room, restrooms, an event kitchen, and indoor target range used for 22 rimfire rifle and pistol, and non-magnum loads for centerfire pistol calibers. Two specially reinforced positions at the end of the row are used for higher velocity pistol loads, but for safety and to avoid damage to the range backstop, normal target loadings are encouraged. See club rules for details of range usage. IMPORTANT NOTE! Do not fire centerfire rifles at the indoor range! NO CENTERFIRE RIFLES are permitted! One shot penetrating the backstop is all it would take to shut down the club forever! ANYONE IDENTIFIED ON THE 24-HOUR VIDEO firing centerfire rifles will be charged with reckless behavior and proceedings started to revoke their membership. This is unsafe behavior, and threatens the very existence of the club. Don't do it! If you see anyone else doing it, tell them to quit, get their name or at least vehicle license number, and let a club officer know about it! Shotguns are also prohibited as they take out lights and can send pellets bouncing toward the shooter from the target frames. It's a 22 rimfire and pistol range, not a shotgun or high power rifle range! Monday nights at 7pm to 7:30pm, just before the Bullseye Pistol group practices, you are welcome to visit and get a brief orientation, or sign up for membership. Bring along a 22, 38, 9mm, 40 or 45 caliber handgun and shoot some Bullseye pistol at 50 feet, while you are here.
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