Even the most experienced marksmen or hunters will tell you they were intimidated the first time they went to target practice. Below are 8 tips shared by bloggers at Gunnoob.com and Gunpath.com to make sure you don’t look like a rookie at the firing range.
Women become increasingly involved in gun groups
This project was produced by News21, a national investigative reporting project involving top college journalism students across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University More women than ever before own guns.
Exclusive to women, are you in a club?
By ED GODFREY – Associated Press – Monday, August 25, 2014 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – The gun totin’ gals of the Oklahoma City chapter of the A Girl & A Gun shooting club feel right at home on the gun range. Every other Tuesday night at the H&H; Shooting Sports Complex in Oklahoma City, the ladies […]
New shooting range increases competition in Charlotte
Shooting Range Charlotte Driven by recreational shooters and concealed-carry permit-holders, four new public shooting ranges in the Charlotte area have appeared in the past year, including one that is set to open in October just outside uptown. The new range, Blackstone Shooting Sports, will be the second to open inside Charlotte’s city limits since zoning […]
Readers reveal the inner workings of Steyning’s Mouse Lane Rifle Range
Three readers wrote in after seeing Gay Cossins’ photos of Mouse Lane Rifle Range, in Steyning, in last week’s Looking Back. Peter Knight, of Langdale Close, Sompting, said: “In the late 1940s and 50s, I was a Cadet Corporal in the Shoreham Grammar School Cadet Force.
Army Reserve soldiers engage their marksmanship skills at Fort McCoy
FORT MCCOY, Wis.- Army Reserve soldiers assigned to the 85th Support Command, headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois – 25 miles northwest of Chicago- conducted individual weapons qualification on the M-9 pistol and M-16 rifle ranges during a four-day field training exercise at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Aug. 14-17.“This will be our new commander’s first time […]
Army sets its sights on €1m digital firing range at Kilworth camp
By Sean O’Riordan The army has unveiled its first €1m computerised firing range which will make a camp in Co Cork one of its finest and busiest training centres. Lynch Camp in Kilworth has been targeted for significant projects and funding in recent years and the latest development, which becomes fully operational in the autumn, […]
Guns and sun blazing in Pitt Meadows for handgun shooting championships
They are a throwback to the Wild West, when cowboys let their six-shooters do the talking. Starting Thursday, 287 competitors at the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) Canada National Championshipswill pull out their guns to show off their shooting skills at the The Thompson Mountain Shooting Association’s 60-acre shooting range in Pitt Meadows.
Colorado Springs-area shooting centers gaining popularity
Ryan, who asked that the couple’s last name not be used, remembers a news story a few years ago about home invasion robbers breaking through front doors. Ryan, who grew up around guns, wanted his wife to learn to use firearms for self-defense. They frequent Whistling Pines Gun Club, on the east edge of Colorado […]
Students get first-hand knowledge thanks to CCSO law enforcement camp
By Vincent Vala vvala@starexponent.com (540) 825-0771 ext. 132 In an effort to teach local youth about potential careers in law enforcement, the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office this week hosted its second annual Youth Academy for local high school students. The 11 students registered for the summer program started off the week Monday in the forum at […]
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