Category Archives: Competition Shooter

Dianna Muller

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  • 22-year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department
  • two-time national 3-gun champion
  • CLEET law enforcement firearms instructor
  • member of the NRA Law Enforcement committee
  • subcommittee member of
    Department of Interior, Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council
  • 2015 – Founder of The DC Project
  • host of the Shooting Gallery on the Outdoor Channel
  • 2019 “we will not comply”

From the 2019 Gun Rights policy Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE0NeyTXfYI

https://gunstreamer.com/watch/awb-counter-dianna-muller-dc-project-grpc-2019_xnKxi9oSXhQXrVp.html

Pat Spurgin

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first markswoman in history to win Olympic Gold medal

  • Born in Billings, Montana
  • now living in Fairbanks, Alaska
  • competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
  • the first Olympic Champion in Air Rifle for Women
    while a student at Murray State University, Kentucky
  • Pat Spurgin Rifle Range in Murray, Kentucky is named after her
  • 2014  torchbearer for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay
  • 2014 appointed as director of the Alaskan Office of Management and Budget

Judy Woolly

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  • 1980s Moved from Massachusetts to Montana
  • 1986 – 1990 shot professionally at events & competitions around the country
  • 1990 professional shooter and instructor for Smith & Wesson
  • 1990 & 1991 world female speed shooting champion
  •  first professional woman shooter since the great Annie Oakley
  • Two World Speed Shooting Championships
  • Chevy Truck Shooter of the Year Award, inaugural year
  • first woman ever allowed to compete at the Buckmasters Invitational in Alabama
    – took second overall
  • 1996 – 1999 Smith and Wesson Academy shooting instructor
  • travels to Arizona for Babes with Bullets, shooting camps for women
  • use their Montana land as a tree farm

Ron Avery

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Sept 22, 1956 – Feb 23, 2019

Taught his doctrine of Reactive Shooting

  • 1980s Moffat County Sheriff’s Dept
  • Researcher
  • martial artist
  • firearms instructor 
  • co-founder of the Tactical Performance Center in St. George, UT
  • wrote a column in PoliceOne.com
  • 2002 bronze at IPSC Handgun World Shoot 
  • 2013 Standard division title IPSC US Handgun Championship
  • 2014 bronze Senior category at IPSC Handgun World Shoot

Brian Anse Patrick

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1954 – Dec 27, 2016

  • championship target shooter
  • CCW permit instructor
  • 2000 Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Toledo
  • AmmoLand Contributor
  • Speaker – Gun Rights Policy Conference
  • Speaker – National Firearms Law Seminar
  • 2002 Author – The National Rifle Association and the Media: The Motivating Force of Negative Coverage
    a landmark study of how negative bias in media coverage has actually benefited the NRA as a social movement.
  • Author – The Rise of the Anti-Media
    a study of how advocates for the concealed carry movement in the US have successfully used alternative forms of media to successfully combat the opposition of informational elites,

 



Bill Wilson

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Nov. 4, 1953

  • 1976 started shooting IPSC
    USPSA membership number is “CL-15”
  • 1977 started Wilson’s Gun Shop building 1911s in Berryville, Arkansas
    optimized pistols with aftermarket parts from noted gunsmiths
  • 1983 he was making his own parts
  • 1996 began building complete handguns
  • 1996 co-founder of the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA)
    IDPA number is “CL-01.”
  • 2000 the company bought “Scattergun Technologies”
  • 2005 gave up formal competition
  • on Instagram (@wilsoncombat)

Wilson Combat

https://www.wilsoncombat.com/

Bill Rodgers

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  • FBI agent 
  • 1972 devised the first Kydex holster
  • patented the process to laminate leather to the inside of a sheet material
  • 1973 Rogers Holster Company
  • devised the first paddle holster
  • devised the first “ retention ” holsters
  • 1982 devised the electronic shot timer
    https://www.competitionelectronics.com/
  • 1985 Rodgers holster company purchased by Safariland
  • 1985 member of Team Safariland
  • 1975 Rogers Shooting School
  • 2010 Author of “Be Fast, Be Accurate, Be the Best”

RogersShootingSchool.com

Massad Ayoob

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July 20, 1948 

  • 3rd Generation Armed Citizen
  • 1971 – Began Police Work
  • 1972 – Began Instruction
  • 1980 – In the Gravest Extreme published
  • 1981 – Founded Lethal Force Institute 
  • 1982 – 2009 – Lethal Force Institute
  • 1982 – Hit the white part published
  • 1983 – The Truth About Self Protection published
  • 1984 – Stressfire published
  • 1986 – Gun-Proof Your Children / Massad Ayoob’s Handgun Primer published
  • 1986 – Fundamentals of Modern Police Impact Weapons published
  • 1987 – The semiautomatic pistol in police service and self-defense published
  • 1992 – Stressfire II published
  • 1998 Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award
  • 2004 – Ayoob Files published
  • 2004 – The gun digest book of Sig-Sauer published
  • 2007 – The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery published
  • 2008 – The gun digest book of concealed carry published
  • 2008 The Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network
  • 2009 – Massad Ayoob Group
  • 2010 – Greatest handguns of the world published
  • 2011 – COMBAT SHOOTING with Massad Ayoob published
  • 2014 – Deadly Force – Understanding Your Right to Self Defense published

Massad Ayoob‘s school
https://MassadAyoobGroup.com

Massad Ayoob on Guns – Backwoods Home Magazine


https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/

Massad Ayoob, Author at Gun Digest

https://gundigest.com/author/massad-ayoob