{"id":26974,"date":"2014-03-10T21:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T02:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=26974"},"modified":"2014-03-10T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T03:00:17","slug":"on-american-rifleman-tv-nra-national-defense-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/on-american-rifleman-tv-nra-national-defense-match\/26974\/","title":{"rendered":"On American Rifleman TV: NRA National Defense Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA National Defense Match, held at Peacemaker National Training Center in West Virginia, is a new concept match that gets semi-automatic rifle owners off the couch and out to the range, where they shooting from different positions, including prone kneeling, standing and around barricades. There are three levels, Basic, Advanced and National Championship, depending on skill level. Mark Keefe and the Rifleman crew where there for this challenging and fun new shooting sport. Also this week, Associate Editor Joe Kurtenbach tests the Walther PPQ pistol, and we look at the history of the selective-fire Ruger AC556, which was based on Bill Ruger\u2019s Mini-14.<\/p>\n<p>Episode #178<\/p>\n<p>First aired 1-1-14.<\/p>\n<p>Air times on Outdoor Channel: 3-12-14 at 11:30AM | 3-12-14 at 6:30PM | 3-12-14 at 10:00PM, all times Eastern.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/6eFMJC\/RqqFgTxaLX4a\/embed\/select\/oLi8m8ZoobsM&amp;autoPlay=false\" height=\"269\" width=\"478\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><em>Outdoor Channel is available to cable and satellite customers across the United States. Additionally, some cable providers offer Outdoor Channel HD. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/on-gun-stories-the-uzi\/23841\/outdoorchannel.com\/channelfinder.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to look up where to watch the channel in your area.<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>American Rifleman Television<\/strong> is the on-screen version of the National Rifle Association&#8217;s American Rifleman magazine, &#8220;the world&#8217;s oldest and largest firearm authority.&#8221; American Rifleman Television is the pre-eminent source for accurate, compelling, authoritative information on all aspects of firearms, the shooting sports and all Americans&#8217; exercise of the Second Amendment. For more information, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.americanrifleman.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTV is back with 10 new episodes with a January 1 premiere featuring the NRA National Defense Match, the Walther PPQ pistol and the selective-fire Ruger AC556.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":26975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2952,1],"tags":[3150,3256,1899],"class_list":["post-26974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-rifleman","category-featured","tag-nra-national-defense-match","tag-ruger-ac556","tag-walther-ppq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26974","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}