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Competition Shooters

Competition Shooters: Champions of the Range

Competitive shooters push the limits of speed and accuracy, and the techniques they develop often find their way into everyday training, law enforcement instruction and self-defense classes. From Wild West exhibition shooters to Olympic medalists and practical shooting world champions, these athletes also show the public what disciplined, safe and skilled firearm handling looks like, and many have used their platform to speak up for the Second Amendment.

Minuteman University.com currently lists 38 competition shooters below, arranged roughly by birth year from the 1860s to the 1980s. The list covers exhibition and fast-draw shooters, Olympic and collegiate champions, practical shooting pioneers and today’s professional shooters and instructors. Each profile records the shooter’s titles, records and contributions.

Featured

  • Edward ‘Ed’ McGivern: Montana exhibition shooter who set double-action revolver speed records and wrote Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting (1938).
  • Margaret Thompson Murdock: Won silver at the 1976 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic shooting medal won by a woman.
  • Bob Munden: Exhibition shooter cited by Guinness World Records as the fastest man with a gun, with more than 3,500 fast draw trophies.
  • Rob Leatham: Multi-time IPSC world champion, Team Springfield captain since 1985 and holder of 24 USPSA National titles.
  • Julie Golob: Professional shooter with 13 USPSA Lady National Championships and a 1999 US Army Female Athlete of the Year award.
  • Chris Cheng: Top Shot Season 4 champion and author of Shoot to Win (2014), who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2021.

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