Team Remington achieved strong results at Jack Link's Cup in Okeechobee, Florida, with Todd Hitch finishing second in the Main Event Over All. Michael Luongo won the High Over All in the 12 Gauge event, while Brandon Powell claimed multiple podium finishes including a win in the Make-A-Break event sponsored by Remington Ammunition.
Team Remington shooters Brandon Powell and Todd Hitch earned top honors at the 2026 Caribbean Classic in Vero Beach, Florida, with Powell taking High Overall at the Lois Neely Memorial event and Hitch winning Prelim 1 and placing runner-up in multiple competitions using Remington Premier shotshells.
The NRA Competitive Shooting Division announces the 2026 NRA America's Rifle Challenge Match Director Summit, a three-day training program held May 6-10, 2026, at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. The summit provides comprehensive instruction for current and aspiring Match Directors and Range Officers, with lodging and meals provided for 36 selected participants at a $50 registration fee.
Registration is now open for the third annual Winchester Top Shot Youth Championship, powered by White Flyer, scheduled for April 18, 2026, at NILO in Brighton, IL. The event welcomes sport shooters aged 12 to 21, with over $15,000 in prizes and includes 100 sporting clays targets and Winchester Super-Target shotgun shells.
Scopos' 2026 National Air Rifle New Shooter League and National Air Pistol League completed Week 2 with Daniel Boone MCJROTC and Saint Thomas Academy leading the rifle rankings at 2-0, while NoVA Sharpshooters topped the pistol standings. Lafayette Gun Club and Palmyra Sportsmen's Assoc remain unbeaten in air pistol competition.
Hornady will host the Zombies in the Heartland 3-Gun Match May 29-31, 2026, at Heartland Public Shooting Park in Grand Island, Nebraska. The match features reactive targets and requires competitors to use pistol, rifle, and shotgun, or pistol-caliber carbine and shotgun in the PCC Division. Registration is open via Practiscore.
Winchester Ammunition and White Flyer sport shooters will compete at the 2026 Jack Link's Cup February 10-15 at Quail Creek Sporting Ranch in Florida. Team member Mike Wilgus won the 2025 NSCA National Sporting Clays Championship. Winchester introduces the new AA Super Spreader 12-gauge load with expanded pattern capabilities.
Federal Ammunition sponsored shooter Kayle Browning won gold in Women's Trap at the Abu Dhabi Shotgun Grand Prix, defeating Italy's Jessica Rossi and Poland's Sandra Bernal with a perfect 30/30 final score. The 2020 Olympic silver medalist competed among 165 of the world's best trap and skeet shooters from 26 countries.
Team Remington dominated the RC Cup Main Event, with Brandon Powell, Turner Parcell, and Michael Luongo finishing first, second, and third respectively among nearly 350 entrants. The 950-target event at South Florida Shooting Club in Palm City, Florida attracted over 500 total shooters and concluded February 1, 2026.
MacKenzie Sookhoo led Game 6 of the 2025-2026 National Intercollegiate Rifle League with a 614.5 score, as the University of Rhode Island posted 2,328.8 to lead standings at 2,313.5 average. Georgia Military College finished second at 1,219.4 in the match.
Scopos launched its 2026 National Air Rifle New Shooter League and National Air Pistol League with Week 1 competition. Ooltewah AJROTC edged Stony Point NJROTC by 3.3 points in air rifle, while Lafayette Gun Club posted a league-best 2,118 in air pistol. Daniel Boone MCJROTC and VMI Pistol Club also opened with dominant victories.
Rob Nabower, Ballistics Manager for Berger Bullets & Ammunition, won the Arizona State Smallbore Prone Championship at Ben Avery Shooting Complex.
Burris Optics Shooting Team Member Camdyn Powers achieved a dominant 2025 season with seven first-place finishes and won the IPRF PR22 Rimfire World Championship Ladies Division title, competing for Team USA against 256 elite shooters from 21 countries. Powers credits her success to discipline, faith, and her preferred Burris XTR Pro optic.
Federal Ammunition congratulates Vincent Hancock on his excellent performance in Men’s Skeet at the ISSF World Cup Final in Doha, Qatar, held December 4-9. Hancock finished 2nd in the tournament, earning a World Cup Final silver medal.
Krieghoff International celebrates the impressive results of Christian Elliott and Will Hinton at the 2025 ISSF World Cup Final in Doha, Qatar, where both Team Krieghoff athletes closed the season with gold medal wins for Team USA in their respective events.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) acknowledges Team Ruger's outstanding year of competition, highlighted by their precision, consistency and award-winning accomplishments. Leading the way, Team Ruger’s Captain Doug Koenig capped off an exceptional year with five first-place finishes, two second-place finishes and one third-place finish.
Krieghoff International congratulates the Team Krieghoff sponsored shooters who claimed podium finishes at the USA Shooting 2025 Shotgun Fall Selection Match in Tucson, Arizona this November, qualifying each of them for future U.S. National Shotgun Team rosters.
Hillsdale College shotgun athlete Ava Downs ’27 helped the U.S. take home a bronze medal at the 2025 ISSF Shotgun World Championship near Athens, Greece, on Oct. 18. Downs and Walton Eller represented the U.S. in trap mixed team, in which rank is determined by the combined scores of one male and one female athlete from each country.
Four-time Olympic Gold Medalist Vincent Hancock leads the list of Federal Ammunition-sponsored shooters who recently earned their way onto U.S. National Shotgun Teams for future events.
Each month Scopos organizes an ongoing series of free Monthly Virtual Matches for both rifle and pistol disciplines. The intent is to give shooters a fun new way to participate, allowing them to compare their results with other shooters and teams from within their town, state, country or even across the planet.