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EXETER, N.H. (August 6, 2012) \u2014 Max Michel, Jr., successfully defended his title at the United States Practical Shooting Association Area 3 Championship this weekend in Grand Island, Neb.<\/p>\nEXETER, N.H. (August 6, 2012) \u2014 Max Michel, Jr., successfully defended his title at the United States Practical Shooting Association Area 3 Championship this weekend in Grand Island, Neb.<\/p>\n
In his return to the USPSA Open Division, Michel battled the blistering heat and the blazing competition to retain his title. Michel won the 2012 Area 6 and Area 1 Single-Stack Division titles with his signature SIG SAUER\u00ae 1911 Max pistol.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at the field at Area 3, it looked like a solid group of Open competitors,\u201d Michel said. \u201cI was hoping it would turn out to be a good race and I wasn\u2019t disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michel finished with a final score of 1837.9943 match points, some 57.3658 points ahead of the runner-up.<\/p>\n
Next up for Michel is the USPSA Area 7 Championship in Harvard, Mass., in early September.<\/p>\n
Become a fan of SIG SAUER on Facebook at http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SigSauerInc<\/a>. About Max Michel, Jr.<\/strong><\/em> About SIG SAUER\u00ae, Inc.<\/strong><\/em> EXETER, N.H. (August 6, 2012) \u2014 Max Michel, Jr., successfully defended his title at the United States Practical Shooting Association Area 3 Championship this weekend in Grand Island, Neb. In his return to the USPSA Open Division, Michel battled the blistering heat and the blazing competition to retain his title. Michel won the 2012 Area […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2597,6],"tags":[405,206],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shootingsports","category-uspsa","tag-max-michel","tag-sig-sauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo follow Max Michel, Jr., visit http:\/\/www.sigsauer.com\/TeamSig\/MaxMichel.aspx<\/a>.
\nFollow Max Michel, Jr., on Facebook at http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maxmichel.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nBy anyone\u2019s account, Max Michel, Jr., is one of the best shooters in the world. With three World Speed Shooting Championships (2009, 2007 and 2005), six USPSA National Championships (2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004), three U.S. Steel National Championships (2011, 2009 and 2008), 39 USPSA Area Championships, and nearly 100 Major Championship wins, Michel has become a dominant force in the pistol shooting sports. Michel also owns multiple World Speed Shooting records as well as the only Action Shooter to win all USPSA Area Championships in the same season (2010). As an international \u2028competitor, Michel has represented the United States in the last five International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) World Shoots and returned home each time with team gold medals.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSIG SAUER, Inc. is the largest member of a worldwide business group of firearms manufacturers that includes SIG SAUER GmbH & Co. KG in Germany and Swiss Arms AG in Switzerland.\u00a0 This global network of companies gives SIG SAUER a world-class firearms knowledge base, unparalleled design expertise, and extensive manufacturing capacity, enabling the company to respond quickly and effectively to changing market conditions and the needs of its military, law enforcement, and commercial markets worldwide. SIG SAUER is an ISO 9001: 2008 certified company with over 600 employees.\u00a0 For more information on SIG SAUER, any of its products, or the SIG SAUER Academy\u2120, log on to www.sigsauer.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"