{"id":12471,"date":"2011-12-12T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=12471"},"modified":"2011-12-11T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T01:52:53","slug":"icore-announces-first-winner-of-smith-wesson-regional-series-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/icore-announces-first-winner-of-smith-wesson-regional-series-promotion\/12471\/","title":{"rendered":"ICORE Announces First Winner of Smith &#038; Wesson Regional Series Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ICORElogo2001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12472\" title=\"ICORElogo200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ICORElogo2001.jpg\" alt=\"ICORE logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ICORElogo2001.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ICORElogo2001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ICORElogo2001-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>LOS OSOS, Calif. \u2013 The International Confederation of Revolver Enthusiasts (<a title=\"ICORE.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icore.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICORE<\/a>) today announced the first of five winners of a special promotion sponsored by renowned firearms maker Smith &amp; Wesson. David Kim of Newtown, Pa., a new shooter within ICORE, won a Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P 15-22 rifle.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the 2011 ICORE Regional Series presented by Smith &amp; Wesson, the company donated five firearms to be given away through a random drawing to those that participated in the series. Kim, who recently joined ICORE as a life member, competed in his first major ICORE event, the East Coast Regional, finishing 11th in the Limited division and 29th overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just started shooting a revolver competitively and prior to this was just a casual shooter. I was really excited to learn I had won because I never win anything,\u201d joked Kim.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, whose home range is the Langhorne Rod &amp; Gun Club, sees ICORE becoming a bigger part of his shooting future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShooting in ICORE is a lot of fun and they are a great group of people to be around. I definitely plan to shoot more ICORE matches in 2012 and hope to bring some of the Langhorne members with me. They see how much fun I&#8217;m having and want to get in on the action,\u201d noted Kim.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 ICORE Regional Series presented by Smith &amp; Wesson consisted of seven events, including the East Coast Regional Revolver Championship held in September at the Ontelaunee Rod &amp; Gun Club in New Tripoli, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the continued support of Smith &amp; Wesson, ICORE has expanded the ranks of competitive revolver shooters and, with the help of their regional series promotion, attracted new shooters like David,\u201d said Art Leach of ICORE.<\/p>\n<p>ICORE will announce the remaining four winners of the special Smith &amp; Wesson regional promotion each day this week and the winners&#8217; names will be posted on ICORE&#8217;s <a title=\"ICORE on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ICOREshooting\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on ICORE and how to get started in competitive revolver shooting, visit <a title=\"ICORE.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ICORE.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.ICORE.org<\/a>, follow <a title=\"@ICORE_Shooting\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/icore_shooting\" target=\"_blank\">@ICORE_Shooting on Twitter<\/a> or find ICORE on Facebook at <a title=\"ICORE on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ICOREshooting\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/ICOREshooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Confederation of Revolver Enthusiasts ICORE today announced the first of five winners of a special promotion sponsored by renowned firearms maker Smith &#038; Wesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,559,9],"tags":[407,59],"class_list":["post-12471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","category-icore-news","category-paul-erhardt","tag-icore","tag-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471","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=12471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}