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.

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.

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 […]

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.

  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 […]

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, […]

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.

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 […]