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Ammo and Ballistics

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January 10, 2000
by Bob Forker

  • 300 pages
  • Paperback
  • ISBN-10 : 1571571612
  • Publisher : Safari Press
  • includes
    – cartridge history
    – obsolete cartridges
  • current and popular calibers not included

SSSF

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Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation

founded in 2000

a team-based youth development program that uses the shotgun sports of trap, skeet, and sporting clays to instill life skills such as discipline, safety, teamwork, ethics, self-confidence and other life values

  • 2000 founded and funded by the partnership of the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Amateur Trapshooting Association
    (American Trap was the only program)
  • 2002 the National Skeet Shooting Association and the National Sporting Clay Association joined the partnership
    (American Skeet and Sporting Clays added)
  • 2007 the SSSF (Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation) was created as a public charity

    Scholastic Clay Target Program

  • 2012 the Scholastic Action Shooting Program was added
  • USA Shooting became involved
    (Olympic Games, Bunker Trap and International Skeet were added)

SSSF FOUNDATION OFFICE
5931 Roft Road
San Antonio, TX 78253

210-448-8946

https://sssfonline.org/

Gunbroker

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Feb 19, 1999
Atlanta, Georgia

  • Firearm Auctions
  • in the top 400 of all websites as rated by Quantcast
  • the Web’s largest hunting and sport shooting auction site
  •  averages more than 500,000 auction listings for firearms, parts and accessories at any given time
  •  four million unique monthly visitors
  • 2.5 million registered users
  • 2005 sponsor for various NASCAR teams
  • 2008 – 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck
  • 2014 iOS app
  • 2018 Gunbroker App removed from Apple Store

Robinson Armament

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Started in 1999
North Salt Lake, Utah

 

  • 1999 founded by Alex Robinson
  • 1999 – 2005 manufactured the M-96
    – high quality copy of the original Stoner 63
    – produced in limited quantities
  • 2004 XCR is a multi-caliber, gas piston rifle system
  • 2009 15 employees
  • 2020 limited number of M96s from their remaining M96 parts inventory

(801) 355-0402

Montana Rifle Company

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created in 1999

  • created by gunsmith Keith Sipe
    – Kimber employee
  • 2019 acquired by private investor group Montana Outdoor Group
  • 2020 the Montana Rifle Company ceased operations

Montana Rifle Company
3178 Mt Highway 35
Kalispell, MT 59901

406 756 4867

USA Veterans Rifle Team

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1999

 

  • brainchild of Scotty Nicholas of New Zealand (NZ)
  • an individual at least 60 years of age the year of the competition
  • 1995 first Veterans Rifle team match was held
  • 1999 third match
  • 1999 USA Veterans Team was the first official USA Veterans Rifle Team ever to represent the United States.
  • The trophy is made from a very unique piece of tree trunk that is indigenous to New Zealand

 

U.S. Veterans Rifle Team 2019
39559 Windsome Drive
Northville, Michigan 48167

(248) 318-5116

https://usveteran39srifleteam.wildapricot.org/