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Cowboy mounted shooting (also called western mounted shooting and mounted shooting) is a competitive equestrian sport involving the riding of a horse to negotiate a shooting pattern. Depending on sponsoring organizations, it can be based on the historical reenactment of historic shooting events held at Wild West shows in the late 19th century.
The ISSF World Shooting Championships are governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation.World Shooting Championships began in 1897, after the successful 1896 Summer Olympics, and although the ISSF was not founded until 1907, these early competitions are still seen by the organization as the beginning of a continuous row of championships.
The International Shooting Sport Federation, aka ISSF, is the governing body of Olympic shooting events.It also regulates several non-Olympic shooting sport events.The Federation's activities include regulation of the sport, managing Olympic qualification events and quota places, and organisation of tournaments like the World Cup and World Championships.
Cowboy action shooting (CAS, also known as Western action shooting, single action shooting, cowboy 3-gun, and Western 3-gun) is a competitive shooting sport that originated in 1981 [1] at the Coto de Caza Shooting Range in Orange County, California. Cowboy action shooting is now practiced in many places with several sanctioning organizations ...
The 53rd ISSF World Shooting Championships were held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 14 August to 1 September 2023. They also served as a qualification event for the 2024 Summer Olympics . [ 2 ]
Swiss Metallic Silhouette Shooting Association (Verein Schweizerischer Metallsilhouetten-Schützen) Swiss Shooting Sport Federation (Schweizer Schiesssportverband, SSV), international member of ISSF. Swiss Fifty Calibre Shooters Association (FCSA) Ukraine. Ukrainian Practical Shooting Association, international member of IPSC.
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, [1] rifles [2] and shotguns [3]) and bows/crossbows.
Level 4: Continental championships, i.e. the European or Pan-American Championship; Level 5: The World Shoots; The World Shoots are the highest level shooting matches within IPSC. Held since 1975, [32] it is a multi-day match where the best IPSC shooters from around the world compete for the World Champion title.