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  2. High school gun clubs and teams in the United States

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    Navy Junior ROTC cadets from Zion-Benton Township High School in Illinois practice shooting at the school's air rifle range. As of 2018, there are reportedly more than 2,000 high-school rifle programs across the United States. [1] In 2015, 9,245 students in 317 schools across three states participated in the USA High School Clay Target League ...

  3. Hunter Field Target - Wikipedia

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    The rifles have a maximum energy of 16.3 J (12.0 ft⋅lbf). Although HFT has the word "hunter" in its title, it has very little in common with air rifle hunting. A typical competition consists of 30 targets placed at unknown distances to the shooter between 8 and 42 m (8.7 and 45.9 yd).

  4. Shooting range - Wikipedia

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    Air rifle Outdoor air rifle ranges can have a fixed distance such as 10 metres (11 yd) or 25 metres (27 yd) or be an area for the practice of the sport of field target shooting, where reset metal targets are placed in natural surroundings at various distances and elevations, with a pellet trap behind the target. Small-bore rifle

  5. Field target - Wikipedia

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    Field target is an outdoor airgun field shooting sport.Competitions are usually fired at self indicating steel targets placed between 9 and 50 m (9.8 and 54.7 yd). There are two classes; Piston for spring-piston air guns, and PCP for pre-charged pneumatic air guns.

  6. National Firearms Museum - Wikipedia

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    The NRA National Firearms Museum is operated by the Museums Division of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), with partial funding provided by the NRA Foundation, a 501(c)3 corporation. It was established in 1935 at the old NRA Headquarters in Washington DC, and moved to its current location in 1998.

  7. ISSF 10 meter air rifle - Wikipedia

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    A typical 4.5 mm (.177 in) 10 m air rifle match pellet. For the 10-meter air rifle and air pistol disciplines, match-grade diabolo pellets are used. These pellets are wadcutter, meaning the pellet head is nearly completely flat. This leaves smooth-edged round holes in paper targets and allows easy gauging for scoring. Match pellets are offered ...

  8. Open carry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    KCC10.12.080 Amendment: It is unlawful to shoot, fire or explode any firearm, firecracker, fireworks, torpedo or explosive of any kind or to carry any firearm or to shoot or fire any air gun, BB gun, bow and arrow or use any slingshot in any park, except the park director may authorize archery, slinging, fireworks and firing of small bore arms ...

  9. Hunting weapon - Wikipedia

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    Large game air rifles have experienced a resurgence in the last several decades, and are now capable of taking all game in North America, unlike the earlier Quackenbush rifle. Power levels of modern large game air rifles have greatly exceeded the hunting capabilities of the earlier Girandoni Air Rifle. Large bore air rifles made by Dennis ...