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

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    Supported by organizations like the Civilian Marksmanship Program, school-based gun education was routine for much of the 20th century. It was common for high school teams to compete with .22 caliber rifles. In recent years, air rifles have gained in popularity as a more affordable and safer alternative to .22 rifles. [1] According to John Lott ...

  3. List of NCAA rifle programs - Wikipedia

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    Since there are only 22 Division I schools, 2 Division II schools, and 5 Division III schools that sponsor rifle, the NCAA holds only a single National Collegiate championship. There are 2 men's teams, 9 women's teams, and 23 mixed/ co-ed teams (the number of teams exceeds the number of schools because four schools field two teams).

  4. Civilian Marksmanship Program - Wikipedia

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    The federal law creating the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety, Inc. (CPRPFS, the formal legal name of the CMP) specifically states: In carrying out the Civilian Marksmanship Program, the corporation shall give priority to activities that benefit firearms safety, training, and competition for youth and that ...

  5. NCAA Rifle Championship - Wikipedia

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    The NCAA Rifle Championship is an annual co-educational rifle national collegiate championship sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The tournament includes an individual and team championships consisting of the two-day aggregate scoring of the smallbore competition and air rifle competition.

  6. Lena Miculek - Wikipedia

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    We shot a Ruger 10/22 rifle and a Smith & Wesson Model 41 .22 pistol as a team. I earned a medal the size of my head for being their youngest competitor ever. The following year, they created a sub-junior category." [3] From 8 years old, Miculek continued to compete in various shooting disciplines and began to make a name for herself.

  7. Smallbore rifle shooting - Wikipedia

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    Smallbore rifle shooting, sometimes known (particularly in the United Kingdom) as miniature rifle shooting, is a set of disciplines of shooting sports. Smallbore shooting uses smaller-calibre rifles, typically chambered in .22 Long Rifle, at ranges generally of 100 yards (91 m) or shorter. Depending on the range, it can either be conducted ...

  8. Project Appleseed - Wikipedia

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    Project Appleseed started from a series of ads appearing in Shotgun News, a monthly gun trade newspaper publication.These ads were written under a pseudonym "Fred." "Fred," the founder of Project Appleseed, whose real name is Jack Dailey, wrote a long running column—actually a portion of ad space for Fred's M14 Stocks—starting in 1999. [6]

  9. Precision Rifle Series - Wikipedia

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    Precision Rifle Series (PRS) is an American long-range and precision rifle-based shooting sport derived from practical shooting. The series have a championship style where competitors collect points from 45 matches spread across nearly twenty U.S. states , and thereby are ranked across the nation. [ 1 ]