The Piedmont Council, BSA Shooting Sports Committee meeting covered identifying instructors and volunteers, improving communication through establishing a calendar of dates, a Facebook page, and Google Drive, taking inventory, and setting an itinerary for upcoming NRA courses and events like archery and rifle merit badge days through 2022 to work towards goals of increasing instructors, unit campouts, shooting opportunities, and competition.

1. Piedmont Council, BSA
Shooting Sports Committee
October 20, 2021
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2. Identify
Identify instructors, range masters,
and interested volunteers
• Blast email to registered
adult volunteers
• Form:
tinyurl.com/shootingsportsform
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3. Improve Shooting Sports
Communication
Council Calendar
• 9 years – 10 dates
• Dates allow units to
include us in their plans
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4. Improve Shooting Sports
Communication
Meet the audience
where they are –
Facebook
facebook.com/
PCBSAshootin
gsports
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5. Improve Shooting Sports
Communication
Google Drive
tinyurl.com/shootingsports-gdrive
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6. Inventory
• What we have
• What we need
• Resources
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7. Itinerary – Shooting Sports
Calendar
tinyurl.com/shootingsportscal
November 2021
13 -14 NRA Rifle and Shotgun Instructor Courses
January 2022
8 - 9 NRA Basics of Rifle and Shotgun Courses
22 Rifle Merit Badge Day
February 2022
8 - 9 NRA Basics of Rifle and Shotgun Courses
19 - 20 NRA Rifle and Shotgun Instructor Course
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8. Itinerary – Shooting Sports
Calendar
November 20, 2021 – Level 1 Archery at Camp Cherokee
scoutingevent.com/070-usarchery
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9. Future Goals and Business
• continue to increase
trained instructors
• unit shooting
campouts
• more opportunities to
shoot
• competition
• New National
Shooting Sports
Manual
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