New Shooters
Introduction
Traditional shooting practice limits you to slow, deliberate, and intermittent shooting at bland, non-reactive targets. Practical Shooting frees you from those limitations, emphasizing both movement and as much speed as you desire. The Steel Challenge, well, challenges your swiftness and accuracy with arrays of reactive steel targets that clang loudly with every hit. For even more movement and speed, USPSA mixes static, reactive, paper, and steel targets to test your vision and reflexes. SWPL’s outdoor ranges are designed for Practical Shooting, allowing you to move and shoot safely. And though SWPL is a private club, club membership isn’t required to shoot The Steel Challenge and USPSA matches.
If you’re new to shooting, we recommend either the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) First Shots Program or the National Rifle Association (NRA) First Steps Basic Pistol Orientation to get you started. Once you’ve mastered gun safety and handling, you’re ready for the Steel Challenge, or USPSA, or both!
The Steel Challenge matches consist of 150 rounds fired in Six Stages. Each stage is its own bay, with five Steel Targets of varying sizes. You have a choice of shooting either a centerfire handgun or pistol-caliber carbine, a .22 rim-fire handgun, or a .22 rim-fire rifle. Each stage starts with the firearm held at a low-ready position, or by drawing a handgun from a holster. You’ll engage the targets from a designated spot, but move your firearm to engage all the targets. You’ll shoot each stage five times, reloading off the clock between each string.