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UPCOMING EVENTS FOR 2026: \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The 2026 <\/span>New York U.S. Service Rifle Small Arms Firing School (SAFS)<\/strong><\/em> will be a little later this year, scheduled for May 30-31, 2026 at the Peconic River Sportsman’s Club.\u00a0 For complete SAFS details and the application form please <\/span>click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The 2026 New York High Power schedules will be posted soon.<\/p>\n

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THE SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THE GEN. WINGATE \u201cSOLDIER OF MARATHON\u201d TROPHY<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"\" This trophy was presented to the NYSRPA<\/a><\/span><\/strong> at the turn of the 20th Century. The links below contain a piece originally written by the late Colonel William Economos in the NYSRPA’s Bullet<\/i> in November 1997. The current whereabouts of this trophy are unknown and no words speak better than those of the late Colonel, a man greatly responsible for the New York State High Power Program that we all enjoy today.<\/p>\n

Col. Economos’ article is provided in two formats:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wingate Trophy<\/a>,<\/em><\/span> Microsoft Word format.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wingate Trophy<\/a>,<\/span><\/em> Acrobat PDF format.<\/p>\n

If you know the location of this Trophy or might know someone who does,
\nplease contact Ira Ruderman<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPCOMING EVENTS FOR 2026: \u00a0 The 2026 New York U.S. Service Rifle Small Arms Firing School (SAFS) will be a little later this year, scheduled for May 30-31, 2026 at the Peconic River Sportsman’s Club.\u00a0 For complete SAFS details and the application form please click here. The 2026 New York High Power schedules will be … Continue reading About US<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nyhighpower.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nyhighpower.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nyhighpower.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nyhighpower.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nyhighpower.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/nyhighpower.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"http:\/\/nyhighpower.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nyhighpower.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}