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Rifle team aiming at championship
By TERRY DURAN
Campus Reporter
1 Once more gunning for the confer-
Jnce title, the champion Texas A&M
University Rifle Team is “one of the
Snsung success stories here,” said
Maj. Douglas Veitch, the team’s
ponsor.
Veitch said that the 16-member
earn hopes to be invited to the na
tional championships this year.
Jexas A&M has consistently been
nked in the top 20 colleges nation-
lide for the past 30 or 40 years, he
id.
The team has won all five meets it
jas attended this year.
“They’re doing exceedingly well,”
eitch said. “They beat t.u. on the
ifle range the same day we beat
iem on the football field."
The meet that determines national
inking, the sectionals, is coming up
llarch 1. If Texas A&M fires in the
ip 10 there, the team will be invited
the National Invitational meet at
ennessee Tech in April.
Captain Mike Winzeler said the
iam has improved greatly the last
iur years.
“Were really pleased. We defi-
„ —itely have the capability to get to
on ' ^ ie nationals; we can do it if we go up
acre with the right frame of mind,”
a y t - he said.
ponso* The senior industrial engineering
I'rist iajor said he practices six to nine
ours a week.
The team is split into four four-
lan teams. Three of the 16 members
t re women; seven are the Corps of
) adets, including Winzeler.
The rifle team is a member of the
■outhwest Rifle Association
an ,, ti (bWRA), which includes the Univer-
? hjne! py Texas, the University ofTexas
rouiK iat Arlington, Rice, Trinity, St.
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Enp, F Austin, Sam Houston State,
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Nichols State University in Thi
bodeaux, La.
Texas Christian University and
the University of Houston were
members of the SWRA until the
mid-70s, Veitch said, but Houston’s
team “went downhill” and TCU
stepped out of the group to go inde
pendent.
“It was a shame,” Veitch said. “Up
until that time the SWRA was very
competitive; no team was clearly
dominant.
“Since then, A&M has dominated
the conference,” he said.
A new requirement for the nation
als this year is the use of pellet or air
rifles, in addition to the usual com
petition with the .22-caliber rifles.
The air rifles weigh about seven
pounds, Winzeler said.
The .22-caliber rifles cost any
where from $800 to $1,000, Winzel
er said, depending on the accessories
used. The Texas A&M team uses the
German-made Anschutz 1413 Su
permatch, which weighs about 15
lbs.
A meet involves firing from three
positions: prone, kneeling and stand
ing. The shooters fire at four sheets
of 10 targets apiece from each posi
tion.
Winzeler said he averages about
1,080 per match. He said his high
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average about 1,140 per shooter, he
said.
The rifle team’s next competition
is the Mardi Gras meet Feb. 15-17 at
Nichols State, about 30 miles south
of New Orleans.
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I WASHINGTON — Tax disadvan
tages for American businessmen
working abroad should be elimin-
ited and the Foreign Corrput Prac-
ices Act revised to stop hindering
sports, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen said
Wednesday.
“The United States is the only ma-
or trading nation to tax the income of
Is businessmen abroad,” Bentsen,
D-Texas, said, in a senate floor
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