Practical Shooting is a way to sharpen your skills with a firearm in a safe manner through friendly competition. Everyone is welcome to participate in matches. What you will need by way of equipment beside your firearm(s) is:

The ranges that we utilize for matches are "Cold Ranges". I.E., no loaded firearms are allowed on the ranges. Pistols may be carried in their holsters, unloaded. Firearms are loaded under the instructions of a Range Officer when a competitor is at the firing line for his/her course run.

Rifles and shotguns, likewise, are not to be handled in the range area except under specfic instructions from a Range Officer. Competitors will be directed before a match starts where to place their firearms prior to competition and also what areas are "safe areas" for handling one's firearm to adjust its sights, etc. No ammunition is allowed in a "safe area".

 Prior to a match the Chief Range Officer will outline the course of fire, conduct a "walk through" of each course of fire, and also provide a safety briefing.

Matches are scored under International Practical Shooting Confederation / United States Practical Shooting Association (IPSC/USPSA) rules.

There are six types of matches held at various times:

Apparently this website has gained some national attention and some folks from other parts of the country want to know where matches are held.

Venues

Wyoming Antelope Club

There is a match held every Tuesday night (starting about 6:30PM) and any month there is a fifth Saturday (starting about 10:00AM) by WAC Practical Shooters. The first Tuesday match is a sanctioned match and any held of a fifth Saturday is a classifier match.

Every Friday night (starting about 6:30PM) and every fourth Sunday there is a match held by Gulf Coast Lead Slingers (starting about 10:00AM).

There is a Steel Match at Wyoming Antelope Club on the 3rd Saturday of every month starting about 9:00AM.

A 2-Gun Match is held every 3rd Sunday.


Hernando Sportsman's Club

There is either an Action Rifle match or a 3-Gun match starting about 9:00AM on the 2nd Saturday of each month.  Check the Action Rifle link to see what is scheduled.

He-Man 3-Gun Matches are held when there is a fifth Sunday in a given month starting at 9:00AM.

On the fourth Saturday of every month there is a 2-Gun match starting about 9:00AM.


Universal Shooting Academy

There is a pistol classifier match on the 2nd Sunday of each month held by Polk Cournty Practical Shooters starting at about 9:00AM.


Gun Craft Pistol and Rifle Club

The Tampa Bay Suncoast Pistol Club holds matches on the 1st and third 3rd Sundays of the month. Matches on the first Sunday are classifier matches and  the third Sunday ones are fun matches and start about 10:00AM.


Phoenix Practical Shooters Club

Classifier matches are held on the 3rd Saturday of the month around 9:30AM.


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