{"id":10405,"date":"2011-06-30T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2011-06-29T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:12:10","slug":"smith-wesson-expands-steel-challenge-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/smith-wesson-expands-steel-challenge-partnership\/10405\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith &#038; Wesson Expands Steel Challenge Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SW-meatball-logo1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10410\" title=\"S&amp;W meatball logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SW-meatball-logo1.gif\" alt=\"Smith &amp; Wesson logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. \u2013 The Steel Challenge Shooting Association (SCSA),  the national governing body for the sport of speed shooting, announced  that Smith &amp; Wesson, the 159-year-old iconic firearms maker, is  expanding its support for the organization with its platinum level  sponsorship of the Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Smith &amp; Wesson is joining the National Shooting Sports Foundation  and Safariland as a platinum sponsor of the Steel Challenge which marks  its 30th anniversary this year when the match gets underway in Piru,  Calif. August 18-21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor well over a century Smith &amp; Wesson has played an active roll in  promoting the shooting sports in America and around the world. Not only  are they a platinum sponsor for this year&#8217;s Steel Challenge World Speed  Shooting Championships, but they continue to work closely with SCSA to  grow speed shooting through the Scholastic Steel Challenge program for  youth and collegiate shooters,\u201d said Scott Moore, Steel Challenge  sponsor relations.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first Steel Challenge in 1981 Smith &amp; Wesson has been a  proud sponsor, helping the World Speed Shooting Championships grow into  what is today the world&#8217;s premier exhibition of speed shooting. Year  after year the match routinely draws the fastest shooters from around  the globe, including several from Team Smith &amp; Wesson.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 members of the Smith &amp; Wesson factory team collected nine  titles at the Steel Challenge \u2013 more than any other industry team \u2013 and  many of those shooters are expected to return this year to defend their  titles.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships  is now open. Those interested in entering the match can find the  competition <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/steelchallenge.com\/sc-world-match\/\" target=\"_blank\">schedule and match hotel<\/a> info, as well as the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/steelchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011-Competitor-Application-3-8-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">match application<\/a>, at www.SteelChallenge.com. The deadline for the early registration discount is July 15.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting  Championships and the Steel Challenge Shooting Association, visit <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/steelchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteelChallenge.com<\/a>, follow <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/steelchallenge\" target=\"_blank\">@SteelChallenge<\/a> on Twitter,  find the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SteelChallenge\" target=\"_blank\">Steel Challenge on Facebook<\/a> or visit the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/steelchallenge.posterous.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steel Challenge blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steel Challenge Shooting Association, the national governing body for the sport of speed shooting, announced that Smith &#038; Wesson, the 159-year-old iconic firearms maker, is expanding its support for the organization with its platinum level sponsorship of the Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,9,193],"tags":[1543,463,97,871,3610,59,54],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","category-paul-erhardt","category-scsa","tag-2011-steel-challenge","tag-national-shooting-sports-foundation","tag-nssf","tag-safariland","tag-scsa","tag-smith-wesson","tag-team-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}