Criteria for winning a spot on the United States Palma Team in 2019.

[Mr. Ten-X]

1875 the event was held in Ireland...you lose. Education is a wonderful thing.

https://www.ssusa.org/articles/2016/11/7/origin-of-the-palma-trophy-and-matches

 

[memilanuk]

Try again

The first match was held in 1874, on Creedmoor Farm (hence the name), in the US of A. The second match was the following year at Dollymount. As I said, later as other nations entered the competition it became the Palma match. The USA had a long history of dominating the event for a number of years (pre WWI). Sadly I don't think we've ever been able to recover that impetus.

http://www.nrai.ie/creedmoor-history.html


FWIW, I attended the 2011 Creedmoor Match in Ireland, so I did have some occasion to research the matter. At one point I had a lovely book 'The history of the American NRA' or something similar that had an entire chapter on the Creedmoor Match, the evolution into Palma, the dry spell surrounding WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII, and the subsequent revival of Palma. We studied it in some depth prior to the trip in 2011.

 

[sdean]

As an outsider I don't see why the NRA should pay for any of this. The benchrest team that travels is self funded. Who pays for Olympic teams?

 

[Mr. Ten-X]

Man, you just don't get it...and no worries, you can believe whatever you like. Only, they have a wonderful feature here so that I finally do not have to see your beliefs anymore. Neat, huh?

You have every right to be wrong ever since the days when you showed up at long-range.com when you "thought" you actually knew something about Palma and you are welcome to continue now. You may stand with the Irish and their version of when the Palma Match was named. History and i shall prefer to stand behind the American version of events.

 

[Mr. Ten-X]

As an outsider I don't see why the NRA should pay for any of this. The benchrest team that travels is self funded. Who pays for Olympic teams?

Warren, you have every right as an NRA member to petition to them to demand that they no longer support, sanction or sponsor a US Palma team or any team if that is how you really feel. I would never expect anyone that didn't put in the time, effort or sacrifice to make that specific team to hold any strong feelings towards retaining it.

My preference is to have the NRA support the one team that they have supported since shortly after the organization was formed. The US Palma Team pre-dates the modern Olympics BTW and it is quite historic.

One of these days I am going to have to frame my Harper's Weekly copies of the early events from Creedmoor and leading up the the Centennial Match in 1876. This was a time when Custer met his Waterloo and when Will Bill was assassinated in Saloon #10 as points of reference. Both of those events and the Palma Match happened in 1876.

 

[jkl]

After the SWN the Creedmoor Match is being shot at Ben Avery.

John

 

[memilanuk]

Man, you just don't get it...and no worries, you can believe whatever you like. Only, they have a wonderful feature here so that I finally do not have to see your beliefs anymore. Neat, huh?

You have every right to be wrong ever since the days when you showed up at long-range.com when you "thought" you actually knew something about Palma and you are welcome to continue now. You may stand with the Irish and their version of when the Palma Match was named. History and i shall prefer to stand behind the American version of events.

Sure thing, man. Have a good one

 

[JeffT]

Sure thing, man. Have a good one

I think you touched a nerve
Lol