{"id":1607,"date":"2010-02-08T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2010-02-10T12:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:56:24","slug":"glock-sponsors-uspsa-area-6-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/glock-sponsors-uspsa-area-6-championship\/1607\/","title":{"rendered":"Glock Sponsors USPSA Area 6 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPSA-Diamond-Logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPSA-Diamond-Logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPSA-Diamond-Logo1.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPSA-Diamond-Logo1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. \u2014 The 2010 pistol shooting championship season kicks off with the U.S. Practical Shooting Association\u2019s (<a title=\"USPSA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uspsa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">USPSA<\/a>) Area 6 Regional Championship and once again Georgia-based firearms maker <a title=\"Glock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glock<\/a> has been named the overall match sponsor. The Area 6 region includes the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the 3rd year that Glock, whose pistols are popular with many competing in the Production and Limited-10 divisions, will be the main sponsor of the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlock has had a tremendous impact on the shooting sports and not just through its generous support of matches like ours,\u201d said Charles Bond, USPSA Area 6 director. \u201cThrough the years GSSF, the <a title=\"GSSF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gssfonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glock Sport Shooting Foundation<\/a>, has served as the unofficial feeder program for Practical Shooting getting tens of thousands of shooters into the shooting sports and ultimately into competitions like the Area 6 Championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Area 6 Championship will take place April 16 through 18 at the <a title=\"South Rive Gun Club\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southrivergunclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">South River Gun Club<\/a> in Covington, Ga. Upwards of 325 shooters representing Area 6 and 20 other states are expected to attend including Team Glock members Dave Sevigny, Jessie Abbate and Randi Rogers. International shooters from Columbia and Jamaica are also expected to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Competitors will vie for top honors in six divisions: Production, Limited, Limited-10, Single Stack, Revolver and Open. More than 80,000 rounds are expected to be put down range as shooters negotiate their way through 12 challenging stages featuring a variety of target presentations and obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the USPSA Area 6 Championship sponsored by Glock, or to register to compete in the match, visit <a title=\"USPSA Area 6\" href=\"http:\/\/uspsa6.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.USPSA6.org<\/a>. For more information on the sport of Practical Shooting and the U.S. Practical Shooting Association visit <a title=\"USPSA.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uspsa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.USPSA.org<\/a> or call (360) 855-2245.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 pistol shooting championship season kicks off with the U.S. Practical Shooting Association\u2019s (USPSA) Area 6 Regional Championship and once again Georgia-based firearms maker Glock has been named the overall match sponsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[247,246,245,3597],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uspsa","tag-area-6","tag-glock","tag-practical-shooting","tag-uspsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}