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The Merit Academy Shooting Sports Club is the first ever shooting sports program in a public school in Woodland Park CO which started up in September this year. We had ordered the Hammerli AP20s air pistols back in April, but they didn't arrive until October. To start up the program with air rifles ...

This is my 1976 Olympic Walther (classic) RT Rifle back when it was 50 meter and a wild boar target with 10 rings. I had a 3x9 variable Redfield scope with two dots on the horizontal crosshairs for lead. Use low mounts and no barrel weight. Bottom of the butt plate fit in a 'pocket' on my collar bon...

USAS Coach Academy has scheduled an Advanced Rifle Coach ground course at the Ole Mill Range Complex in Griffin GA on 27-30 October . Griffin GA is 31.5 miles South of the Atlanta airport. To be eligible to attend the Advanced Rifle Coach ground course, a coach must complete all the prerequisite onl...

The USAS Coach Academy is specialized in Olympic Shooting sports.

The NRA has its own coach education program that encompasses more than just Olympic shooting sports.

Regards,
Mike Theimer

Yes, the ecommerce website is making adjustments to accommodate International addresses.

You can put your address in now and just select a US state and zipcode and it will work. It has been done by someone in Guatemala.

Mike Theimer
USAS Shooting
Coach Academy Director

To all Coaches interested in International/Olympic shooting sports; Welcome to the USA Shooting Coach Academy "Coaches take athletes where they cannot go by themselves" Click this link to the Coach Academy intro presentation. https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=d9ee0010f0c70536&pa...

I did not realize that RT was still alive and well... Don't have my 10 meter RT rifle anymore, but I kept my 50 meter RT rifle that I used at the 76 Olympics... I really miss 50 meter RT. I have the Mike Tipa 50 meter RT trophy displayed in my office. Drop by the USA Shooting Center at the Olympic T...

I greatly appreciate what you both are doing for our shooting sport, the young athletes that you work with, and hope that you don't get burned out doing what you do. We need you to be around awhile and mentor others to follow in your footsteps. I'm always open to ways to better communicate the Olymp...

I have been struggling to communicate and encourage collegiate coaches to attend coach clinics, conferences and coach courses. I have sent out surveys to 3PAR coaches, club coaches, etc. I get very little response except from the most dedicated coaches which are few and far between unfortunately. Wh...

To set the record straight, I have made every effort to work with 4H National, but there is no 4H National Shooting Program coordinator that I have been able to find. I do know about the 'instructor training committee' and I have a very good friend who is on that committee, the Arkansas 4H shooting ...

I am sad to report that the National 4H Supply no longer sells the Passport achievement award pins due to the lack of sales and interest. The remaining inventory was disposed of without consulting USA Shooting due to the fact that the National 4H Merchandise Manager left the organization and the new...

If you are or know a collegiate coach (rifle, pistol or shotgun), please forward the following registration link to a special collegiate coach clinic. You must be a college rifle, pistol or shotgun coach to attend this collegiate coach clinic. http://www.usashooting.org/membership/coaches/collegiate...

The Collegiate Coach Forum was created on request from several collegiate coaches who attended the first collegiate coach conference at the Olympic Training Center on August 3, 2012. Requests to join this forum will be restricted to collegiate coaches and those organizations with programs that suppo...

I bought my Hammerli Trailslide several years ago and the slide has never stayed back after the last shot. I have not sent it back to Sig Arms to be fixed and its probably too late now after so many years. Any idea why the slide will not stay back after the last shot. Has anyone had the same problem...

I've also heard of PayPal account holders having their PayPal accounts closed when PayPal discovered that they were simply gun related customers, not necessarily selling guns, but just gun related businesses.

You start with whatever you can afford to get. USA Shooting use to sell the Air Arms Alfa Proj as a 'starter' compress air pistol. We are sold out of those and now Pyramyd Air sells them to our members and affiliated clubs at a discount. I do not know the current price, but it was somewhere around $...

USAS has started the first PPP National Postal matches. There are three per year (Fall, Winter and Spring postals). The summer is for the PPP Nationals which will be 6-8 July in Anniston this year.

I have attached the PPP National Postal program to this posting.

I just walked over and measured the 50 meter firing point lanes and they are exactly 48 inches wide which exceed ISSF requirements.

Mike Theimer

USAS had a national jury of appeal and in over 10 years such an appeal was never lodged. Therefore it was deleted from USAS Rules.

Bob Mitchell, Exec Director of USA Shooting has had numerous conversations with numerous US federal agencies to include TSA, Homeland Security, DOT, etc. He even met face to face with key stakeholders in Washington DC last year and NO progress has been made due to the inability of the above named ag...