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Maggie Kelch

Civilian Marksmanship Program offers public shooting, learning programs

Port Clinton, Ohio — For more than 100 years, the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has offered shooting and training opportunities to the public at their facilities located at Camp Perry in Ohio.
The CMP was established in 1903 when Congress and the President established the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and National Matches. The impetus for its establishment was an idea promoted by President Teddy Roosevelt. He believed that marksmanship skills developed through regular practice and competition contributed to the nation’s defense.

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Tournament anglers who cheated in Lake Erie walleye championship sentenced to jail time

Two tournament fishermen who pleaded guilty to felony cheating charges after they were disqualified from the Lake Erie Walleye Trail (LEWT) Championship in September of 2022 are headed to jail.  
Cuyahoga County Community Pleas Judge Steven Gall sentenced Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky to 10 days in the Cuyahoga County Jail and one and a half years’ probation, and the maximum fishing license suspension of three years.

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Ohio’s Wengerd, 33, going into trapshooting Hall of Fame

J. Michael Wengerd, of Dundee, may be only 33 years old, but he has been breaking clay targets and earning top shooting honors for more than 20 years. Wengerd was a hunter when he was young, and started shooting trap in the fall of 2002 when a family friend, Aden Kaufman, first took him to a shoot in Coshocton. Kaufman was the owner and operator of Great Eastern Gun Club in Walnut Creek.

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Two tournament anglers plead guilty in Lake Erie walleye scandal

Two tournament fishermen who were facing felony cheating charges after they were disqualified from the Lake Erie Walleye Trail (LEWT) Championship in September of 2022 pleaded guilty in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Monday, March 27.
Jacob Runyan, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, of Hermitage, Pa., pleaded guilty to two charges: cheating, a fifth-degree felony, and unlawful ownership of wild animals, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.

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Court date in case stemming from walleye scandal on Lake Erie set for March

A court date has been set in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for two tournament fishermen who are facing felony cheating charges after they were disqualified from the Lake Erie Walleye (LEWT) Trail Championship held here on Sept. 30, 2022, for allegedly cheating in the event.

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Michigan angler wins two biggest fall walleye tourneys on Lake Erie

Sheffield Lake, Ohio — The two largest walleye fishing tournaments on Lake Erie, the Walleye Fall Brawl and the Walleye Slam, concluded on Sunday, Nov. 27, and results were officially announced following the completion of polygraph tests.

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