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Author: Irwin Greenstein

2024 SSSF National Championship Continues to Break New Records

Sunday, August 11, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: News

The 2023-2024 season for the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation’s (SSSF) youth development programs has concluded with another record-breaking National Championship. Hosted at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, the annual youth shooting sports competition once again set the mark for the largest shoot in Cardinal Center history. Between the SSSF’s clay target and action shooting youth programs, 40 states were represented at the National Championships, which saw over 3 million rounds safely fired without incident.

Action shooting sports participation continues to grow throughout the nation for young athletes and had a strong showing at the SSSF’s Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) National Championship. Once again in 2024, the SASP broke the world record for the largest action shooting event in the world, all by youth athletes. With over 2,600 entries, athletes safely fired over 565,000 rounds of ammunition in competition without incident, along with side matches, sponsor demos, and practices tallying in additional hundreds of thousands of rounds. SCTP participation surged as well with over 3,100 athletes and over 9,000 event entries during the twelve-day event schedule. This marks the largest national championship the SCTP has ever conducted, with over 2 million White Flyer targets being thrown in competition, side matches, and practice.

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17-Year-Old Air-Rifle Phenom Kenzie Kring Has Her Eyes on the 2028 Summer Olympics

Tuesday, August 06, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Rifles

You might call Kenzie Kring an accidental air-rifle star. It wasn’t as though she’s been wanting to compete in air-rifle tournaments all her life. In a way, you can say that air rifles actually found her.

Kenzie’s air-rifle journey started with a pragmatic introduction into the sport. Nearly four years ago, when she was researching college applications, she felt that a scholarship was somehow achievable, but wasn’t quite sure how until she noticed something particular on the applications. 

“At the bottom of every page of the applications was someone shooting an air rifle,” she recalled. “So I went to the local shooting club and picked up an air rifle. It felt like a natural for me.”

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18-Year-Old Lilli Holt Will Be Happy to Teach You Fly Fishing

Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Angling

At age 18, having just graduated high school and with an eye on medical school, Lilli Holt finds that fly fishing is an important component in achieving her life goals.

“Fly fishing has changed my life in helping me know how to overcome problems,” said the Wyoming native. “It’s improved my mental focus. It’s a relaxing thing that helps me focus, learn new skills. Learning fly fishing was difficult and challenging, and sometimes it would get frustrating, but it taught me help over coming challenges in life, to relax and when overcoming the big things.”

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Trulock Makes Affordable Bespoke Chokes for Collegiate Competitors

Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns

The four lanes of U.S. Route 84 cut through rural South Georgia. You’ll pass churches, body shops, gas stations, convenience stores, tired farm houses, old double-wides, acres of agriculture, Dollar General, skirt the downtown Cairo (home of the Syrupmakers high-school football team), before reaching Broad Avenue and the town limits of Whigham – population 428 as of the 2020 census. Having driven through the town several times over the years on my way to someplace else, and with Whigham’s total area of 1.2 miles overshadowed by a few blocks of derelict storefronts, you’d think it would be pretty easy to find a business that is still in operation.

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Archery Becomes a Lifelong Winning Passion for 16-Year-Old Grady Kane

Monday, July 08, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Bows

Sometimes, we never know what’s going to grab us for the rest of our lives until we get a little nudge in the right direction.

For Grady Kane, that nudge from being an archery spectator to a committed, trophy-winning athlete came from his grandfather.

“I was wanted to shoot a bow from watching bow hunting on TV,” Grady recalled. “Then my grandfather showed me videos on USA Archery of a pro shooting, and it looked like it was fun and cool. That got me involved in target archery.” 

As is often the case of youth participation in the hunting and shooting sports, an organization helps participants find their own path to success. With Grady, Explore Archery, which is operated by USA Archery, supplied the necessary resources.

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Any Day of the Week, 11-Year-Old Colt Duffie Would Rather be Out Fishing Than Playing on His iPad

Sunday, June 30, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Angling
Tags: youthmarlinfishing

Let this sink in for a moment: Colt Duffie caught his first white marlin at five years old.

Now the sixth grader says “I’ve been fishing my whole life. I feel that fishing is my thing. A lot of people my age like other sports like soccer and football, but I’m happy when I’m fishing.”

If anyone on the planet is born to be a fisherman, it’s Colt. Born and raised in Ocean City, Maryland, Colt’s father Jon owns Duffie Boat Works, which builds sport-fishing boats ranging in length from 50 to 80 feet. And before becoming a boat builder, Jon worked as a charter fishing captain. Jon, like his son, has been involved in fishing all his life.

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Six Semi-Automatic Sporters for $600 or Less

Monday, January 29, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns

Turkish-made semi-automatic shotguns have gained in popularity through their rock-bottom prices and wide-spread availability. Just about any gun store in America will have a model or two (or more) that appeals to budget-minded wing and clays enthusiasts, while the online selection seems almost boundless. In addition to routinely getting the job done for diehard shooters, these semi-automatics are often a cost-effective go-to choice for first-time shooters dipping their toe in the water, or as a knock-about when the weather turns foul in the field.

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DU’s Campus Waterfowl spotlights collegiate conservationists 

Friday, January 06, 2023
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: News
[caption id="attachment_4802" align="alignnone" width=""]Campus Waterfowl spent a morning of duck season with members of DU’s Michigan State University Chapter.[/caption]

Popular online waterfowl hunting content creator keeps growing

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Jan. 4, 2023 – With a presence on all major social media platforms, Campus Waterfowl showcases the lifestyle of collegiate waterfowlers and shows the outdoor industry that these students should not be overlooked.

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Why a Young Shooter’s Coach and Her Family Rallied Around Perazzi

Tuesday, September 07, 2021
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns
Tags: ava cauley, bridge creek clays south georgia youth shooting club, brookwood school, bunker trap, chris batha, cole gunsmithing, junior olympic trap shooting championship, mike simpson, national scholastic shooting sports foundation all scholastic team, pacific sporting arms, perazzi, perazzi high tech, perazzi mx8, perazzi shotguns, scholastic clay target program, the ranges at oakfield, thomasville georgia

Ava Cauley and her father Kevin often razz each other about which of their Perazzis is better. But all kidding aside, coached by legendary shooting instructor and Perazzi advocate Mike Simpson, the three of them have centered on Perazzi to shape the 16-year-old into a world-class, bunker-trap competitor.

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