Quoted: I was thinking the other night about all various shooting sports/disciplines/pursuits for rilfe, pistol and shotgun and what the completely stocked gun safe would have for the ultimate shooter (not collector). Most of my experience is hunting and plinking. Benchrest rifle? All the ISPCTAblah blah pistol stuff? Cowboy action shooting? Metallic silhouette? All those run together for me!
Help me build a good refrence list and a couple of suggestions for a good firearm for each discipline. +1 for hotlinks, too.
For example, at a minimum.
Sporting clays: Beretta Teknys Gold Sporting 12g shotgun
Dangerous Game (Africa): Winchester Model 70 CRF in 375 H&H or Ruger Safari Magnum rifle in .375 H&H or 416 Rigby
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Largely break down to: NON-NRA and NRA.
AR-15 rifles and other battle rifles are used in 3gun (www.uspsa.com) and Multi-gun (non USPSA - search on MGM Ironman for instance).
SASS matches use rifles too - though they are antiques or replicas fired at steel targets with lead-only bullets.
Pistol includes USPSA ("IPSC" in US) IDPA (concealed carry sport) GSSF (glock only) and a few smaller sports like steel challende, American Handgunner, etc.
None are run by the NRA at all.
The NRA sports are sort of dying off. Bianchi Cup pistol championship gets smaller every year. PPC bans ALL civilians and is shot one-handed. Same with NRA bullseye - its one hand only with 1911 red-dot sight specials (not practical at all).
There is NRA Service Rifle. However, the rifles in actual service are banned from competition: No M-4s, no dot sights, etc (seen the pictures from Iraq lately? Notice the sights they are using? - all banned by NRA).
Anyway, I am sure others will chime in & post links. I'm glad that the NRA is in our corner on gun control. I don't think much of their "competition department."