{"id":23605,"date":"2013-06-18T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=23605"},"modified":"2013-06-17T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:21:04","slug":"blade-tech-sponsors-smith-wesson-new-england-regional-idpa-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/blade-tech-sponsors-smith-wesson-new-england-regional-idpa-championship\/23605\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade-Tech Sponsors Smith &#038; Wesson New England Regional IDPA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Blade-Tech-NER-Sponsor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23658\" alt=\"Blade-Tech-NER-Sponsor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Blade-Tech-NER-Sponsor-300x300.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Blade-Tech-NER-Sponsor-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Blade-Tech-NER-Sponsor-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Blade-Tech-NER-Sponsor-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Blade-Tech-NER-Sponsor.png 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.blade-tech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blade-Tech Industries<\/a>, the leading manufacturer of custom thermoplastic and injection molded tactical holsters and magazine pouches, has signed on as one of the primary sponsors of the 2013 Smith &amp; Wesson New England Regional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShootIDPA\" target=\"_blank\">IDPA<\/a> Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/compete\/competitiondetails\/9482\" target=\"_blank\">Smith &amp; Wesson New England Regional IDPA Championship<\/a> will take place August 16-18 at the Harvard Sportsmen&#8217;s Club in Harvard, Massachusetts and will again be hosted by the MetroWest Tactical IDPA club.<\/p>\n<p>Blade-Tech joins the National Shooting Sports Foundation and Smith &amp; Wesson, the title sponsor of the match, in supporting the New England Regional which is among the region\u2019s largest defensive pistol shooting competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to add Blade-Tech to our growing list of sponsors. Blade-Tech has been a longtime supporter of the shooting sports and we\u2019re grateful for their generous sponsorship of this year\u2019s championship,\u201d said Dori Smith of the MetroWest Tactical IDPA club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blade-Tech is honored to continue its support of the IDPA and to sponsor the New England Regional Championship. We are thankful for the opportunity to participate in such a quality event,&#8221; said Ryan Preece of Blade-Tech.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 Smith &amp; Wesson New England Regional IDPA Championship is expected to draw upwards of 200 of the region\u2019s top shooters. Registration for the event opened on May 1 and match officials report that slots are filled with additional shooters on a wait list hoping for a last minute slot opening.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on IDPA, or to join the more than 22,000 members competing each week all across America, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.IDPA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can further connect with the IDPA community through IDPA\u2019s social media, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/officialidpa\" target=\"_blank\">@OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and ShootIDPA on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShootIDPA\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/shootidpa#\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/shootidpa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shootidpa.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0or check for regular news and updates on the\u00a0organization\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blade-Tech Industries, the leading manufacturer of custom thermoplastic and injection molded tactical holsters and magazine pouches, has signed on as one of the primary sponsors of the 2013 Smith &#038; Wesson New England Regional IDPA Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,2597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23605","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=23605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}