Sept 2, 2021
I have submitted my resignation to the 4-H office. The Corvallis Sharpshooters is now defunct and gone. The OSU Target Range has been repurposed by OSU and is no longer functioning as a target range; 100 years of OSU tradition is over.
It was a good run while it lasted. I was with the club for about 40 years, ever since I was a parent of a high-school freshman who joined and I stuck around to help. Hundreds of youth participated, had fun, enjoyed the 4-H spirit, learned comradeship and leadership, learned safe gun handling and expert marksmanship. It will be missed.
Thanks to all the club members and parents, volunteers, Extension staff and friends who made the Sharpshooters a success.
Carry on and best wishes to all.
Jim Birken
Advisor, Corvallis Sharpshooters 4-H Club
jim@jimbirken.net
I have submitted my resignation to the 4-H office. The Corvallis Sharpshooters is now defunct and gone. The OSU Target Range has been repurposed by OSU and is no longer functioning as a target range; 100 years of OSU tradition is over.
It was a good run while it lasted. I was with the club for about 40 years, ever since I was a parent of a high-school freshman who joined and I stuck around to help. Hundreds of youth participated, had fun, enjoyed the 4-H spirit, learned comradeship and leadership, learned safe gun handling and expert marksmanship. It will be missed.
Thanks to all the club members and parents, volunteers, Extension staff and friends who made the Sharpshooters a success.
Carry on and best wishes to all.
Jim Birken
Advisor, Corvallis Sharpshooters 4-H Club
jim@jimbirken.net
June 28, 2021 Still closed down.
March 12, 2021
Despite Benton County moving from Extreme Risk to High, the County 4-H office is still prohibiting any face to face in person 4-H activities.
We are not yet approved for in-person activities due to COVID-19 safety concerns. And it looks like we have lost our target range as well. We need a place to shoot if we are to continue. Suggestions? Someone got big bucks to build us a modern range? 02/02/2021
September 12, 2020. Still closed to all in-person activities.
August 17, 2020 The 4-H office says all in-person 4-H activities are cancelled until further notice.
No news from the Extension Office, we know we are cancelled until September. We don't know know when we will reopen, if ever. If they close the OSU Target Range as they seem to want to do. Another location would have to be found.
The Corvallis Sharpshooters is a Benton County, Oregon, 4-H Club. We teach safe marksmanship skills, rifle safety, leadership, and sportsmanship. Our members train and practice weekly for competition in the style of national shooting sports and the international Olympics. That is to say, our activities revolve around disciplined shooting sports.
Contact us: Jim Birken, Advisor phone--541-760-0295 email--jim@jimbirken.net
We want to thank our annual sponsors--The Friends of the NRA and Federal Premium Ammunition Company--for their generous contributions to our program. We also thank our generous donors of new equipment-Savage Arms, Sportsman's Warehouse, Benton County 4-H Leaders, and Corvallis Guns.
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All advisors are certified rifle instructors.
Jim Birken
Bruce DeSautelle
Nick Young
Jim Birken
Bruce DeSautelle
Nick Young
