More than 130 Rifle and Pistol athletes are heading to Fort Benning, Georgia to compete in the USA Shooting Rifle/Pistol Spring Selection Match beginning Monday and running through March 30 at the home of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit. This match will select the competitors eligible to compete at the upcoming International Shooting Sport Federation […]
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Regional Air Rifle Championship Set For Camp Perry In March
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer/Editor CAMP PERRY, Ohio – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) invites bystanders and curious guests to explore the expanding world of air rifle competition, March 28-30, 2019, as hundreds of coaches, competitors and spectators arrive in the Port Clinton area for the 2019 CMP Three-Position Regional Air Rifle Championships, held at […]
Why Being a Young Competitive Shooter Rocks
With technology literally hovering over our shoulders, it’s no surprise that the shooting sports might not interest Millennials as much as that cool drone or video game that just came out. We’re young adults trying to find our place in this world, and we’re all about instant gratification. We want things fast, and we want […]
ISSF President Opens European Championship in Osijek, Croatia
582 athletes from 47 countries gathered to distribute medals in 27 events. The Organizing Committee in cooperation with the State and local authorities made great efforts to arrange all necessary conditions for the participants and for the promotion of the shooting sport. The Final Hall looks like “a Shooting Theatre” with a nice color decoration, […]
Fink Readies for Junior Olympic National Championship
Amber Fink of Traer, a member of the Traer Air Gun (TAG) team, will competing at the Junior Olympic National Championship held in Colorado Springs, CO from April 20-27 in the air gun division after winning the State Championship earlier this season. “It still hasn’t really processed that this is actually, that I’m actually heading […]
JROTC National Air Rifle Athletes To Compete In Alabama In March
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer ANNISTON, Ala. – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is set to host the 2019 JROTC Three-Position Air Rifle National Championships, March 21-23 at the South CMP Competition Center in Anniston, Ala. Athletes from Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force JROTC units will compete shoulder-to-shoulder at this 3×20 scholastic match. […]
NCAA Rifle Preview: Eight Teams Look to Scale Championship Mountain in Mountaineer Country
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 6, 2019) – The top skeet athletes in the world will be on display starting Wednesday at the Tucson Trap and Skeet Club in Arizona for the second half of USA Shooting’s Shotgun Spring Selection. It’s only a bold claim if it’s not true and since six of last year’s World Championship […]
Team China Pockets 10M Air Rifle Mixed Team Gold In New Delhi
The 2019 ISSF World Cup in New Delhi comes to an end, today, 27 February 2019. On the last competition day, the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event took place at the Dr. Karni Shooting Range, with a great lineup of top-ranked athletes. Team China 2 (Zhao Ruozhu and Liu Yukun) secured the brightest medal […]
Veronika Major: Changing Style, To Fulfill An Olympic Dream
After leading the 25m Pistol Women event on the 24th of February – when she won gold and an Olympic quota for Tokyo 2020 – she pocketed today’s 10m Air Pistol Women gold medal. The 21-year old athlete scored 245.1 points, with an average higher of 10.2 points per shot throughout the 24 final shots, […]
Kamenskiy Clinches Air Rifle Gold In New Delhi
Sergey Kamenskiy of the Russian Federation won the men’s 10m Air Rifle final at the 2019 ISSF Wolrd Cup in New Delhi, today. The reigning ISSF World Champion scored 249.4 points to finish atop of the podium, beating China’s Liu Yiukun and Hui Zicheng, who finished in second and third place, respectively. The two Tokyo […]