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The History Channel is seeking SKILLED MARKSMEN for Season Two of its Hit Competition Show

You Could Win $100,000 in PRIZES !!!

If you are skilled with a pistol, rifle or any other firearm, you could be on TVʼs hit marksmanship competition show, TOP SHOT. Producers are looking for anyone with mind-blowing shooting skills and a big personality to take on exciting physical challenges with multiple guns and mystery projectile weapons.

It doesnʼt matter if youʼre a professionally trained shooter or a… Continue reading

Win Big with TOP SHOT on HISTORY!

Series Premiere Sunday June 6th at 10/9c on HISTORY!

Sixteen of the nation’s most skilled marksmen have been carefully selected to compete in the new 10-episode series. Some have professional shooting experience, some are amateurs –all will showcase breathtaking timing, speed and accuracy in their quest to win the $100,000 prize package and title of “Top Shot.” The winner will ultimately have to be skilled in everything from muzzle-loading muskets and modern pistols to slingshots and throwing knives.  The series is hosted by actor, adventurer and athlete Colby Donaldson, a born competitor whose experience as a contestant on Survivor brings a unique perspective to HISTORY’s first elimination series.

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Rooted in history, skilled marksmen compete for $100,000 prize package and bragging rights as HISTORY’s…

First competition series from HISTORY™, premiering Sunday, June 6 at 10pm ET

Hosted by Survivor Contestant Colby Donaldson

New York, May 24, 2010 – Whether it’s William Tell using a crossbow to shoot an apple off his son’s head, or Annie Oakley using a hand mirror to make a shot with a rifle slung over her shoulder, history is filled with legendary tales of amazing marksmanship. Now, HISTORY is tapping into these inspiring feats of sharp-shooting for its first-ever competition series, TOP SHOT, premiering Sunday, June 6 at 10pm ET.

Sixteen of the nation’s most skilled marksmen have been carefully selected to compete in the new 10-episode series. Some have professional shooting experience, some are amateurs –all will showcase breathtaking timing, speed and accuracy in their quest to win the $100,000 prize package and title of “Top Shot.” The winner will ultimately have to be skilled in everything from muzzle-loading muskets and modern pistols to slingshots and throwing knives.

The series is hosted by actor, adventurer and athlete Colby Donaldson, a born competitor whose experience as a contestant on Survivor brings a unique perspective to HISTORY’s first elimination series.

Each week, contenders will face both team and individual elimination challenges until one winner remains. In the series opener (Sunday, June 6), contestants are immediately divided into two teams and then compete in a “Rifle Relay,” an obstacle course using standard-issue rifles from four different wars. In the elimination round, two contestants go head-to-head in “The Long Shot,” a long-distance sniper challenge which will send the first person home.… Continue reading

Light Geese, Snows, Blues and Ross geese are some of the toughest geese in the world to decoy.

They are migratory waterfowl that flies south each year from their home on the Canadian Tundra down to Texas and Louisiana for the winter, then making the long migration back north through the Midwestern states of Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakotas.

Unlike other species of waterfowl such as the Canada goose, snow geese lack any natural camouflage, are fairly small, averaging 5 or so pounds.

They’re very alert, weary and always alert, they can grow to a ripe old age with many 10-year-old birds in each flock with banded birds as old as 20 years being taken.

Flying in huge flocks, there are thousands of eyes watching the ground for anything that seems out of place.

Generally the early flights north are the mature birds, trying to get north to claim the best nesting areas.

These mature birds can be tough to call, but will be tired after their long flight and looking for a place to rest.

It all boils down to location, location, location!… Continue reading

Last week, I attended the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Technology or  (SHOT) Show as it’s called which was held in Las Vegas.

This is on huge show where every manufacturer of anything and everything that has to do with shooting and hunting introduces their new products to dealers and the media.

Over the last several years, because of what’s happening in the world, there have been a lot of paramilitary dealers he show with all types of body armor, weapons, special ammunition, scopes and equipment made especially for Special Forces and SWAT units.

Prior to the opening of the show, we were given the opportunity to test fire many of the newest pistols, shotguns and rifles using the latest and greatest types of ammunition.

There were several things that caught my eye at the show including several new guns. Listed below are some of those that really caught my attention.… Continue reading

New York, December 8, 2009 – In Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Annie Oakley used a mirror to shoot a rifle over her shoulder. William Tell shot an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow. Whether it’s the Romans shooting flaming arrows or Barbarians slinging stones, history is filled with legendary tales of amazing marksmanship. Now, HISTORY is tapping into these inspiring feats of sharp-shooting for it’s first-ever competition series – and one contestant will emerge with a $100,000 prize package and the title of “Top Shot.”

The new 10 episode series, TOP SHOT, is slated to premiere in 2010. The announcement was made today by Nancy Dubuc, President and General Manager, HISTORY.

In each episode, contenders will face team and elimination challenges inspired by real events in history, from Wild West shootouts to modern-day sniper missions. Every challenge will reveal the weapons, technologies and tactics of a different era, while hi-speed HD cameras capture the skillful execution of each test with breathtaking precision in extreme slow-motion.… Continue reading

Are fishing, hunting, and shooting destined to gradually die away, victims of modern society and an altered landscape? These activities are seriously threatened, and no good answers have surfaced in the search to reverse declining participation.

Are these the sunset years for the traditional outdoor sports?

A new book by a lifelong outdoorsman tackles that question, and lays out an innovative vision for solving this defining challenge.

“Paint the Next Sunrise: A Future for Hunting and Fishing” opens by describing the current situation–declining participation, increasing human population, increasing urbanization, single-parent households, fewer people drawn to outdoor activities. Then, author Mark Strand points out that we have two choices: preside over the sunset of these great sports, or paint the next sunrise for them.

Additional chapters explore how these sports fit into our modern world, and the benefits they offer to people’s lives. The book ends with the vision for a new nonprofit organization dedicated to reversing the trend of declining participation.

Purposely written to be a quick read, Strand hopes it will become “a book that lots of people have actually read, so we can get to work right away on the solution.”

“What’s missing,” says Strand, “is the elementary school for these sports–one place to go, where beginners can sample any activity that sounds fun, where they are quickly taught how to find success. Helping beginners succeed, encouraging them to explore, and letting them freely choose their favorites is the formula that will produce a steady stream of new participants.”

This book is destined to shape the national debate over the future of hunting and fishing in America. If you care about these traditional outdoor sports, it’s a must read.… Continue reading

Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal

Clay target shooting is a whole lot of fun a group of Ida County youths have found out. And it’s also challenging and rewarding.

Thanks to the Ida County Pheasants Forever chapter more than 50 youths have enthusiastically taken part in the Scholastic Clay Target Program, an Iowa DNR-supported program with national affiliation through the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation.

It began with a challenge put out by Pheasants Forever entitled “No Child Left Indoors.”

That got Rusty Sadler, Ida Grove, thinking. He had heard about the shooting sports program and did some research.

Soon, he and Jerry Jensen, Ida Grove, signed on to be certified as shooting instructors.

Then the chapter, headed by Rich Smith, president, Ida Grove, put the word out.

“I thought if we got five or 10 kids it would be good,” Sadler said. “Fifty one showed up and enrolled.… Continue reading