Durham pistol and rifle club

Tar Heel State Rimfire Challenge Shooting Association Championship

Tar Heel State Rimfire Challenge Shooting Association Championship

The Durham Pistol and Rifle Club (DPRC) was organized in 1946 as a

private, member-only club to promote sportsmanship, competition, and

training in pistol and rifle marksmanship. The first range (located off

of Pickett Road, Durham, North Carolina) was the home of a small, but

enthusiastic group of rifle and pistol shooters. In the first twenty-two

years of the DPRC's existence, some ten annual North Carolina State

Championship pistol and rifle tournaments were held at the club's range.

In 1987 the club membership decided to move the facilities to a less

populated area and relocated the club to its current home in Alamance

For more than fifty years the club has sponsored sanctioned

competitions. DPRC sponsors matches include: NRA sanctioned Bullseye

Pistol and High Power Rifle matches, CMP sanctioned Vintage Rifle

matches, 2 Gun Rimfire matches, Precision Rimfire Matches, various Black

Powder matches and will be sending teams to the National Championships

in Camp Perry, Ohio. The DPRC also features “Women Of Steel” a

reoccurring women-only shooting event designed to promote the

With a modern forty-point pistol range, a 300 yard rifle range, a