14+ hour, 3+ min ago   (454+ words) Griffin Lake walked into the Men’s 10m Air Rifle final 2.7 points behind Gavin Barnick, then shot a 248.7—the highest final score fired by any man in Colorado Springs—to close out the 2026 USA Shooting Rifle Fall Selection Match with a selection…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (326+ words) Ten banks of traps start throwing targets at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 7 on the Kansas prairie north of Wichita. Seven days and 18 events later, the 48th Annual ATA Southwestern Grand will be in the books. One of the Amateur Trapshooting Association’s satellite…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (369+ words) LISBON, Portugal — The best sporting clays shooters on the planet showed up at Vale das Pedras. Four Americans went through all of them. Mein anchored it. The two-time Olympian and 2016 FITASC world champion posted a 186 that stood as the highest…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (739+ words) There’s a particular kind of athlete who turns a national championship into a formality. Not because the field is soft, but because the work was finished long before anyone called the line hot. YanXiao Gong is that athlete and, over…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (375+ words) The numbers tell the first part of the story. This spring, 626 student-athletes took part, drawn from 66 colleges and universities across the country and supported by dozens of coaches, team staff and volunteers. The nonprofit league offers trap, skeet, sporting clays…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (313+ words) “But in this match, I truly got a taste of having to make rule decisions on the fly …” I always felt I had the safety component and the “treat other shooters as you would want to be treated” aspect of…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (202+ words) The National Rifle Association of America is an ATA Grand American World Trapshooting Championship sponsor and vendor. Closing ceremonies are Friday, August 7, along with the ATA Hall of Fame scholarship announcement and raffle drawing. The Farewell Party follows Saturday after…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (371+ words) SAN ANTONIO — The 2026 World English Sporting Clays Championship drew 1,268 shooters to the National Shooting Complex from April 21-26, and when the smoke cleared over Texas, Team Winchester and Team White Flyer had quietly stacked the leaderboard from the Main Event down…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (344+ words) SAN ANTONIO — Derrick Mein has been to two Olympic Games. The Super Final at the World English Sporting Clays Championship is a different kind of pressure, but it produced a familiar result. The Main Event HOA podium was not Mein’s…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (484+ words) Vincent Hancock has spent decades redefining excellence in international skeet, and in 2026, the NRA made it official. Hancock’s résumé is already generational, but the award reflects more than medals. It acknowledges his ongoing commitment to coaching and growing the next…...