SHOOTING SPORTS
The safety of all competitors, officials, and spectators is always of the highest importance in competitions.
USPSA – Practical Shooting Sport
USPSA – United States Practical Shooting Association was incorporated in 1984 as the US region of IPSC. Practical Shooting challenged the accepted standards of technique, training practices, and equipment. Its early pioneers developed scenario-based competitions to accurately measure the effectiveness of their own shooting techniques, skills, and equipment. The fast-paced shooting on-the-move style of Practical Shooting gave birth to the term “Run and Gun” so commonly used today to describe the sport.
Regardless of your skill level and or classification, Gun Training Group has custom designed courses for specific levels and classification to better help you reach your goal.
As a beginner in this sport, every student will enjoy a complimentary one-year basic membership included in our introductory course. As a first step, Gun Training Group will help you every step of the way, starting with an introductory course to USPSA. Our courses are designed to help beginners retain the skills and knowledge learned, giving them the advantage to advance their shooting abilities and gain the necessary skillset to become a better competitor. USPSA has different levels of competitions, they run from small local club competitions, state sectionals, area competitions, and all the way up to large annual national competitions.
Multigun Shooting Sport
3-Gun competitions with handguns, rifles, and shotguns have been organized in the U.S. since the early 1970’s. Multigun competitions today take place from the small local club competitions up to large annual national competitions.
Gun Training Group’s Introductory 3-Gun course is the perfect start to get you on your way to participating in this sport. As mentioned before, all our introductory courses are designed to help you retain the knowledge and skills learned during the course. Gun Training Group instructors will guide you every step of the way, and help you plan for your first 3-gun competition.
Multigun competitions can also be held as a 2-gun competition, pistol/rifle, pistol/shotgun, or rifle/shotgun.
IDPA – Defensive Shooting Sport
IDPA - International Defensive Pistol Association, founded in 1996, IDPA was created a shooting sport based on defensive pistol techniques, using equipment including full-charge service ammunition to solve simulated "real world" self-defense scenarios. Shooters competing in defensive pistol events are required to use practical handguns and holsters that are deemed suitable for self-defense use and concealment garment that can conceal the handgun from view of bystanders.
If this is the sport you’re interested in, you need not worry, Gun Training Group has a well-designed introductory course to help put your mind at ease when attending your first IDPA competition. Gun Training Group will equip you with needed knowledge, skills, and information to make your first experience a memorable one.
Steel Challenge – Shooting Sport
Steel Challenge was founded in 1981. The Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships have grown to one of the largest professional pistol competitions in America. In 2007, more than 220 competitors from the United States and around the world competed for a portion of the $390,000 in cash and prizes - the largest purse in competitive pistol shooting.
Another great shooting sport to get involved in, steel challenge competitions are super fun; you do not need to participate in any of any major events if you choose not to. Most local gun clubs host small club competitions on a local level. Lucky for you, Gun Training Group will make sure you attend your first Steel Challenge with confidence and knowledge to help you grow in this sport. Gun Training Group’s introductory course will clear the way for you to have all the fun you can have shooting steel plates/targets at various distances. This course will set you up to further your skills and knowledge to advance your training and prepare you for bigger, major competitions.
Shotgun – Trap/Skeet/Sporting Clays
Trap
Trap is the oldest shotgun shooting sport in America. Trapshooting derives its name from the device, called a trap, which throws clay targets into the air. Participants shoot at the clay targets thrown from a trap house located in front of the shooter. The trap rotates in a random sequence, presenting the shooter with a variety of going away shots, angling to the right, left, and flying straightaway. Trap shooting has been a sport since the late 18th century when real birds were used; usually the passenger pigeon, which was extremely abundant at the time. Birds were placed under hats or in traps which were then released.
Skeet
This sport was founded in 1920; this was developed as a game which was informally called "Shooting around the clock". The original course took the form of a circle with a radius of 25 yards with its circumference marked off like the face of a clock and a trap set at the 12-o'clock position. The practice of shooting from all directions had to cease, however, when a chicken farm started next door. The game evolved to its current setup by 1923 when one of the shooters solved the problem by placing a second trap at the 6-o'clock position and cutting the course in half. The shooter quickly noticed the appeal of this kind of competition shooting and set out to make it a national sport. The game was introduced in the February 1926 issues of major magazines, and a prize of 100 dollars was offered to anyone who could come up with a name for the new sport. The winning entry was "skeet".
Sporting Clays
This sport was founded in the 1900s. Clay target shooting quickly attracted a large following. The first British Open, England's premier sporting clays competition, was held in 1925. Sporting Clays was introduced to American shooters in 1980; the first Sporting Clays shoot was held at Remington's Lordship Gun Club in Connecticut. Sporting clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting, often described as "golf with a shotgun" because a typical course includes from 10 to 15 different shooting stations laid out over natural terrain. Unlike trap and skeet, which are games of repeatable target presentations, sporting clays simulates the unpredictability of live-quarry shooting, offering a great variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations, distances, and target sizes.
Gun Training Group will assist you in understanding the basic knowledge to get you started in your desired sport. We take pride in our introductory courses and the way we designed them. Our focus is for you to show up to your first shooting event equipped with the knowledge you need to make it as enjoyable as it can be.
Cowboy Action Shooting
Cowboy Action Shooting is a competitive shooting sport that was founded in the early 1980s and is now practiced widely in the US. Participants must dress in appropriate theme or era "costume" as well as use gear and accessories as mandated by the respective sanctioning group rules. In addition to requiring shooters to wear Old West attire, the western theme of the matches is enhanced by having suitable targets and props for the stages. Props may include buckboards, chuck wagons, stagecoaches, and "horses" as well as jail cells, oak barrels, hitching posts, swinging saloon doors, etc.
Gun Training Group’s Cowboy Action Shooting introductory course will clear the way for you to have all the fun you can have in old western themed stages. This course will help guide you in familiarizing yourself with the necessary skills and knowledge leading up to your first Cowboy Action Shooting event.
USPSA
MULTI GUN
IDPA
STEEL CHALLENGE
SHOTGUN SPORTS
COWBOY ACTION
