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Paris 2024 Olympics: All About The Châteauroux Shooting Center

Paris 2024 Olympics: All About The Châteauroux Shooting Center

At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, all the shooting events will take place at the Châteauroux Shooting Center (Centre National de Tir Sportif) located in Déols, near Châteauroux, France. (Châteauroux is about a three-hour drive south of Paris.) Paris 2024 Olympic shooting events will be held at Châteauroux from July 27 to August 5. In addition, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will commence August 28, with shooting events starting at the same venue on August 30. Read More

IT'S COOLER AT NIGHT! Pulsar's Thermion 2 LRF XL50 Thermal Riflescope

IT'S COOLER AT NIGHT! Pulsar's Thermion 2 LRF XL50 Thermal Riflescope

Pulsar's Thermion 2 LRF XL50 1.75-14x Thermal Riflescope boasts 1024x768 sensor resolution, 12µm pixel pitch, <35 NETD, 2500-yard detection range, 8-color palette, 10 reticles in 9 colors, picture-in-picture, laser rangefinder, video, ballistic calculator, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 5-year warranty. Read More

Upgrade Your equipment and Your Skills

Upgrade Your Equipment And Your Skills

Even after you upgrade to a new HK VP9, with its best-in-class trigger pull and ergonomic, customizable grip, you're not quite done yet. Training and Practice – They are two different things and we all need more of both. Look into it...and go do the work! Hurry now before this promotion ends! Read More

Walk Softly Without The Big Stick: Introducing CCI Uppercut

Walk Softly Without The Big Stick: Introducing CCI Uppercut

Defense isn't defined by size. And whatever you carry should be up to the task. New CCI® Uppercut™ 22 LR finally puts effective rimfire defense in your reach. Full expansion and critical penetration through semi-automatic handguns with 2.5- to 4-inch barrels. Always ready when you need it. Read More

Doug Koenig Wins Production Title At 2024 Hornady Precision Rifle Challenge

Doug Koenig Wins Production Title At 2024 Hornady Precision Rifle Challenge

Doug Koenig walked away from the 2024 Hornady Precision Rifle Challenge with his latest Production division victory in Precision Rifle Series competition. The match was held on Hornady's sprawling 250,000 acre private ranch near Evanston, Wyoming, on June 28-29. A 19-stage, 200-round competition, there were 187 shooters in total at this year's Hornady Precision Rifle Challenge. Koenig took first place in the Production division with a final score of 154, which was also good for 11th place on the overall match leaderboard. His match time was 167.38 seconds. Read More

2024 World FITASC Championship: Karen Miles Wins Ladies Title

2024 World FITASC Championship: Karen Miles Wins Ladies Title

Team Krieghoffs's Karen Miles captured the Ladies' division title at the 2024 World FITASC Sporting Clays Championship, hosted by Games Unlimited in Hudson, Wisconsin, June 24-30. The top FITASC Shooters from around the word competed in one of the toughest contests of the year as both the men and women from Team Krieghoff earned top spots in this year's challenging event. Read More

2024 Daisy BB Gun Nationals: Promoting The Spirit Of Competition

2024 Daisy BB Gun Nationals: Promoting The Spirit Of Competition

The 2024 Daisy BB Gun National Championship was the biggest in its 57-year history, featuring a new contest, special appearances by NRA President Bob Barr, NRA Second Vice President Mark Vaughn and 4-H National Shooting Sports Program Coordinator Scott Stuhr, intense competition and plenty of fun. The match was held in Rogers, Arkansas, July 1-3. Read More

Yackley Family Shines At 2024 Vortex Cup Polish IPSC Rifle National Championship

Yackley Family Shines At 2024 Vortex Cup Polish IPSC Rifle National Championship

Becky, Sean and Andrew Yackley of Team Winchester competed at the International Practical Shooting Confederation Vortex Cup Rifle National Championship held at the Wiechlice Airbase Training Center in Wiechlice, Poland, on June 15-16. A 16-stage competition, the 2024 Vortex Cup Polish IPSC Rifle National Championship's main match featured a minimum of 280 shots. Read More

Nick Gadarzi: First PRS Competitor To Win Four Consecutive Matches

Nick Gadarzi: First PRS Competitor To Win Four Consecutive Matches

Nosler sponsored shooter Nick Gadarzi recently notched a significant accomplishment after becoming the first competitor in Precision Rifle Series history to win four consecutive two-day national matches. Gadarzi's impressive streak includes victories at the 2024 Snake River Standoff in Mountain Home, Idaho, in March, the 2024 Short Action Customs Steel Challenge in Benge, Washington, in April, the 2024 Parma Precision Rifle Rumble VI in Parma, Idaho, in May and the 2024 MDT Barrel Burner in Prosser, Washington, in June. Read More

Results: 2024 CMP Talladega High Power Warm-Up Matches

Results: 2024 CMP Talladega High Power Warm-Up Matches

CMP hosted the second round of this year's High Power Warm-Up events at the Talladega Marksmanship Park in Alabama over the weekend of June 27-30. This year's Talladega High Power Warm-Up matches included a two-person team match, 30-shot and 50-shot rifle competitions, plus a 1600 Rifle Aggregate and a Mid-Range 3x600 match. Read More

WATCH: Ruger Super Redhawk .22 Hornet

WATCH: Ruger Super Redhawk .22 Hornet

A big, beefy stainless steel revolver intended for powerful handgun cartridges, Ruger's Super Redhawk is an excellent choice for the .22 Hornet, which shooters generally consider to be a mild rifle cartridge. Ruger unveiled the new .22 Hornet chambering for its Super Redhawk at SHOT Show 2024 earlier this year. Watch the video above.

Results: 2024 USA Shooting Rifle And Pistol Nationals

Results: 2024 USA Shooting Rifle And Pistol Nationals

Sixteen national champions were named at the 2024 USA Shooting Rifle and Pistol National Championships held at Fort Moore, Georgia, June 24-30. Nearly three hundred athletes from across the nation traveled to Georgia to compete in rifle, pistol and paralympic events at the competition. Held at the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit's ranges, the match had Paris 2024 Olympic team members and seasoned competitors sharing the firing line with athletes who were making their USA Shooting National Championship debut. Read More

New: Smith & Wesson M&P9 Carry Comp Series

New: Smith & Wesson M&P9 Carry Comp Series

Smith & Wesson recently announced its new Performance Center M&P9 Carry Comp pistol lineup with Shield Plus, M&P 2.0 compact and M&P 2.0 full-size models available, all chambered in 9 mm Luger. The M&P9 Carry Comp series of handguns all sport Smith & Wesson's Power Port, which is located at the end of the barrel at the 12 o'clock position, diverting gas upwards and reducing felt recoil. Read More

Pistol And Smallbore Only: 1947 National Matches

Pistol And Smallbore Only: 1947 National Matches

At its April 1947 meeting, the NRA Executive Committee decided to conduct the national smallbore and pistol matches that year at Camp Perry in August, despite Undersecretary of War Kenneth Royall's statement during the NRA's Annual Meeting two months earlier that it was "unlikely that we can have the National Matches this year" due to budget and personnel restraints. Read More

New: Springfield Armory Limited-Edition M1A 50th Anniversary Rifle

New: Springfield Armory Limited-Edition M1A 50th Anniversary Rifle

Springfield Armory has announced the release of a special limited-edition rifle highlighting 50 years of the M1A, a faithful semi-automatic recreation of the iconic M14 rifle chambered in .308 Win. that the company has crafted since 1974. In recognition of its original 1974 launch, the M1A 50th Anniversary Rifle will be offered in a limited run of just 1,974 rifles. Read More

First Springfield Armory-Hillsdale College USPSA Collegiate Championship Coming In September

First Springfield Armory-Hillsdale College USPSA Collegiate Championship Coming In September

Hillsdale College's John Anthony Halter Shooting Sports Education Center is joining forces with Springfield Armory to host the inaugural USPSA Collegiate Championship at the center's Ailes Action Shooting Range in Hillsdale, Mich., September 28-29. The USPSA Collegiate Championship will serve as an introduction for collegiate shooters to USPSA-style competition. Read More

Third Annual Remington Shoot To Cure Fundraiser In Arkansas This September

Third Annual Remington Shoot To Cure Fundraiser In Arkansas This September

Remington Ammunition will host its third annual Shoot to Cure sporting clays fundraiser at the company's historic Gun Club in Lonoke, Arkansas, on Friday, September 20, 2024. This exciting event brings together the outdoor industry, local Arkansas businesses and professional shooters from Team Remington to support the Arkansas Children's Foundation, as well as children's hospitals and disease research nationwide. Read More

New: Watchtower Firearms Spec-Ops Type 15

New: Watchtower Firearms Spec-Ops Type 15

New from Watchtower Firearms is the Spec-Ops Type 15 rifle, which includes a receiver crafted from 7075-T6 billet aluminum, ambidextrous charging handle and safety selector, Hiperfire trigger and B5 Systems Type 23 P-grip and B5 Systems Bravo Stock. In addition, the Spec-Ops Type 15 is available chambered in either 5.56 mm NATO or .223 Wylde. Read More