4 February 2010

USA Shooting has approved the Orion Scoring System for use in its sanctioned matches.  The USA Shooting rulebook has been updated accordingly:  USAS General Technical Rules, 6.3.1B permits the use of Orion Scoring System in USAS sanctioned competitions. The USAS rulebooks may be downloaded from http://www.usashooting.org/rulebook.php.

12 January 2010

Orion - Beta Version 1.0.13 is now available for download. In this release, Orion offers two exciting new features, relays and age category results.

In large matches, targets from one relay come off of the firing line together, and the statistical officer works on those sets of targets before the next set of targets come off of the firing line. With Orion's new relay feature, the statistical officer groups shooters according to when they fired their targets. Then, when scoring, the statistical officer needs only to see targets and shooters from the current relay; targets and shooters from other relays are hidden from view.   In addition, the statistical officer may now print all shooter's individual score sheets from a relay at once, instead of having to select each shooter individually.

The National Three Position Air Rifle Council provides three age categories for awards -- shooters who turn 17 or 18 in the current year, shooters who turn 15 or 16 in the current year, and shooters who are 14 or younger in the current year.  Orion now produces result lists grouping shooters within an age category according to these rules.

This new release of Orion is available at http://downloads.orionscoringsystem.com.  Existing Orion users will need the ID and password they were given when they purchased Orion.

5 January 2010

The First Shot, online magazine for the Civilian Marksmanship Program, has published an in-depth article about the Orion Scoring System.  Check it out here:

ORION ARTICLE

22 December 2009

The Orion Scoring System has teamed up with the Civilian Marksmanship Program to allow match directors to electronically report scores from their CMP sanctioned three-position air rifle competitions. With the latest release of Orion, just as soon as the Orion Scoring System has scored all targets, results can be uploaded to the CMP's Competition Tracker webserver.

To use this new feature, match directors will receive a CMP match ID and authentication code. These two pieces of information are entered into Orion. Also within Orion, all participants must use their pre-existing CMP competition number. This insures the right score will be assigned to the right shooter. After the match is complete, the match director simply uploades the scores, verifies the scores are correct, and notifies the CMP that scores were reported electronically.

Orion Used to Score Capital City Classic Air Rifle Meet

7 November 2009

Congratulations to the winners of the Capital City Classic Air Rifle Meet:

Team Winner:  King George High School, with a score of 2061-42.  Firing members included:  Elizabeth Hampton, Kimberly Heitmeyer, Chris Braccini, and Matthew Ritenour.

Novice Team Winner:  Calvert High School, with a score of 1744-16.  Firing members included:  Jennifer Mister, Kendall Roy, Kimberly Thompson, and Benjamin Squires.

Vautrin Sets New National Army JROTC Record

30 October 2009

Congratulations to Andrea Vautrin, a senior at Chattahoochee County High School in Georgia, for setting a new National Army JROTC record during the Montgomery Bell Classic rifle match, held in Nashville, October 16-18, 2009.  Vautrin shot a score of 594 with 46 inner tens.  This is the first national record set when targets were scored with the Orion Scoring System.  Way to go, Andrea!

Orion Used at Patuxent Shoulder-to-Shoulder Air Rifle & Pistol Matches

23-24 October 2009

The Orion Scoring System was used at the Patuxent Shoulder-to-Shoulder Air Rifle and Air Pistol matches last weekend.  92 air rifle and 13 air pistol shooters competed in the match from 10 NJROTC units and one youth club.  Take a minute and check out the results:

Air Rifle Results

 Air Pistol Results

Orion to be Used at Ole Mill Range Complex

23 October 2009

The Orion Scoring System will now be used at the Ole Mill Range Complex in Griffin, Georgia.  Their first match using Orion will be the Ole Mill Invitational in November.  You can check it out here:  www.olemillrange.com.

Orion Will Score the Montgomery Bell Classic

4 October 2009

The Orion Scoring System will be used at the 15th Annual Montgomery Bell Classic (the largest sponsored high school shooting event in the U.S.) in Nashville, Tennessee, October 15-18, 2009. If you're close to the Nashville area, come and see Orion in action!!

JROTC Postal Programs are Announced

2 October 2009
The Civilian Marksmanship Program has released the programs for the 2009-2010 JROTC postal competitions. This will be the fourth year that the CMP is using the Orion Scoring System to score the nearly 30,000 postal targets from 10,000 cadets across the country. Each cadet will shoot a 3 by 10 in the postal stage of the competition.  The top JROTC programs and cadets will earn an opportunity to compete at the JROTC Service Air Rifle Championship in Camp Perry, OH in February 2010. The top teams and cadets from each service then move on to the JROTC National Championship in March 2010.