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PRACTICAL ACTION SHOOTING
AS ITS POPULARITY CONTINUES TO GROW IN THE UK, CHAMPIONSHIP SHOOTER MALCOLM DOWDING
TELLS US MORE ABOUT THIS FAST-PACED, HIGHLY-COMPETITIVE SPORT

PRACTICAL SHOOTING IS A WORLDWIDE shooting sport involving real (where

So where did this all start?

legal) or airsoft/CO2 powered pistols, rifles and shotguns. “Stages” are designed

In 1976, in Missouri USA, a group of
international shooting enthusiasts who had been
undertaking “Practical”-style sport with pistols,
as an experiment from self-defence shooting
origin