Junior Shooters Summer Training Continues: .22 Precision through 3-Gun and Long-Range

| July 22, 2020

Andy Fink (publisher “Junior Shooters” magazine) We are continuing to practice during this season (started again in July) with masks being mandatory for all, including parents and spectators. The Junior Shooters local team members (8-20) practice using .22s for precision and such sports as Steel Challenge and Rimfire Challenge, all the way up in calibers […]

2018 Seekins High Desert 3-Gun Match

| July 18, 2020

By Caleb Hamilton (15) From Fall 2018 issue of Junior Shooters The Seekins High Desert 3-Gun match is at the top of my list for fun and complicated 3-Gun matches that I’ve been to. They made it difficult for right-handed shooters as there was a ton of turns and a lot of places you had […]

SASP High School and College

| July 14, 2020

From Junior Shooters Volume 31 Summer 2018 By Samantha Engle (20) As a young child, I had grown up around firearms. Before I was introduced to the Scholastic Pistol Program, as it was called at the time, the most experience I’d had with any kind of firearm was a BB gun that my dad gave […]

Rock Island Armory’s .22 TCM Rifle

| June 24, 2020

By: Andy Fink and Kaden Barney (15) The M22 TCM BA rifle from Rock Island Armory, RIA/Armscor is just plain awesome. We got one to augment the variety of .22 TCM pistols we got from RIA. This is a light rifle and is well balanced. We put on a Burris .22LR 2-7X rifle scope and […]

Mossberg Blaze Bantam .22 LR

| June 17, 2020

The Best Off-Hand Semi-Auto For Small Youth By: Kaitlin Hunt (10) I am so glad that my family and I have gotten into shooting. Shooting is so much fun! I never thought in a million years that I would have a gun that was built just right for me. The rifle I shoot is a […]

CMP-Affiliated Clubs May Continue Sanctioned Matches with Restrictions

| May 16, 2020

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is encouraged to announce that affiliated clubs which would like to conduct sanctioned rifle and pistol matches may resume those events, provided state and local guidelines and safe range practices are being followed.

Corona Virus and Youth Shooting Sports Part 1

| May 2, 2020

By Andy Fink This subject is very high on my priority window. What many of you might not know, is that Junior Shooters magazine has its own shooting team, the Junior Shooters Shooting Club. This team tests firearms, writes articles, learns how to shoot all types of firearms, and participates in a wide variety of […]

SSSF Renews 2020 Scholarship Program

| March 23, 2020

The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF), is once again offering our scholarship program to reward deserving, graduating seniors in the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) with needed college assistance. The main objective is to award as many scholarships as possible to qualifying SCTP / SASP graduating seniors. Since 2013, the SSSF has awarded over $450,000 in scholarship funds […]

Building a 10-22 Rifle at 11 Years Old

| February 13, 2020

By Brody Loftin (11) I have wanted to build my own 10-22 semiautomatic rifle for the past couple of years.  With participation in the Rimfire Challenge Western Championship in Parma, Idaho, I was able to complete this task with the help of my dad, Billy Loftin.   The first year, 2016, was the first year […]

Sign Up for the 2020 CMP Summer Junior Air Rifle Camps

| January 20, 2020

 By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer Registration for the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) 2020 Air Rifle Summer Camp lineup officially opens on January 21st. Running from June to August, the vigorous 10-week schedule includes a mix of camps and clinics formatted to train high-school age (9-12 grade) junior athletes on intermediate and advanced marksmanship skills through […]

2020 CMP Competition Rulebooks Are Now Official

| January 11, 2020

By Gary Anderson, DCM Emeritus The CMP Competition Rulebooks that will govern CMP sponsored and sanctioned Highpower Rifle, Pistol, CMP Games and Smallbore Rifle competitions in 2020 have been approved by the CMP Board’s Rules Committee and are now posted on the CMP website.  The 2020 rulebooks went into effect on the 1st of January.  All […]

Gun Skins

| January 6, 2020

By: Brody Loftin(13) “Nothing like going a little crazy with a changeable design on your gun.” GunSkins have great benefits for the consumer, environmental blending without reflection, protecting your gun, makes your gun more personalized and is easy to install or remove product. I would like to show you how easy this product is to […]