MidwayUSA Foundation Presents the Hometown Challenge Sweepstakes

MidwayUSA Foundation presents Hometown Challenge (HTC)! This fundraiser that allows you to support your local youth shooting team and win prizes! Every $20 donation is an entry in our multi- prize sweepstakes.

Sweepstakes: Donate as much as you like to increase your chances of winning! For example, a $100 donation to your favorite team gives you 5 sweepstakes entries….simply support a local shooting team in September, and you’ll be entered! Prizes include coolers, gift cards,
ammo, firearms, glasses, and more!

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MidwayUSA Foundation is the Leading Advocate for Youth Shooting Sports

August is National Shooting Sports Month and MidwayUSA Foundation is proud to celebrate the month with continued opportunities to support youth shooting programs. As the leading advocate for youth shooting sports, MidwayUSA Foundation has over $400 million endowed to ensure generation after generation has the funding to participate. The endowment model guarantees the money is available in perpetuity.

Nearly 2,800 youth shooting teams rely on MidwayUSA Foundation funding to conduct practices, travel to competitions, pay for ammo, and cover other critical expenses that youth shooting teams incur. In addition to youth shooting teams, the Foundation assists over 80 organizations at the state, regional, and national levels. Organizations including the Scholastic Clay Target Program, Scholastic Action Shooting Program, USA Shooting, ACUI Clay Targets, and more rely on annual funding from MidwayUSA Foundation. The non-profit public charity has provided $725 million in grants to support youth shooting sports. In 2024, alone, the Foundation has paid just under $8 million in cash grants and is set to provide another $3.3 million in the coming weeks.

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2024 SSSF National Championship Continues to Break New Records

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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DU’s Campus Waterfowl spotlights collegiate conservationists 

[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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