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Action Pistol NRA Action Pistol is one of the most demanding handgun competitions available to the pistol shooting world. Developed in 1979 by former LAPD police officer John Bianchi, the NRA Act...

What is Cowboy Action Shooting? Cowboy Action Shooting, a sport created in California in 1982, is run under international rules set be 'The Single Action Shooting Society' of the USA. Cowboy Act...

Practical Shooting (IPSC) IPSC, The International Practical Shooting Confederation, was formed in 1976, and now embraces 90 Regions. Competition includes National and Continental Championships wi...

IPSC 3 Gun 3 Gun shooting has its roots in New Zealand from the early 80's. Two servicemen, who came back from Singapore in 1983, introduced the idea, after seeing something of a similar format ...

ISSF Pistol Welcome to the ISSF Pistol section of the website. For readers new to ISSF, allow me to make an introduction. The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) based in Munich contro...

Metallic Silhouette HMS shootingis a group of target shooting disciplines that involves shooting at metal cutouts representing game animals at varying distances. Metallic silhouette shoot...

Muzzle Loading Black Powder pistol shooting in New Zealand is controlled by the Muzzle Loading Section of Pistol New Zealand.  This part of Pistol New Zealand uses historic styled firearms f...

Service Pistol Way back in probably the 1960's the FBI developed a training pistol match which was soon used by civilian shooters and called the Combat Match. We shot a variant on this in the UK ...

Speed Shooting A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE "STEEL CHALLENGE" AND "SPEED" SHOOTING IN NEW ZEALAND The Steel Challenge started in the US in 1981 and over the next few years migrated to NZ the first NZ ...