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NEWINGTON, N.H. (July 1, 2014) \u2014 SIG SAUER\u00ae congratulates Max Michel, Jr., on capturing his record-setting fifth World Speed Shooting Championship. The legendary Steel Challenge drew the world\u2019s best speed shooters to St. George, Utah, June 25-28.<\/p>\n
With this title, Michel has won more men\u2019s World Speed Shooting Championships than any other competitor. Michel shot all eight stages in a combined time of 81.23 seconds, almost a half-second ahead of the runner-up in a match decided by fractions of a second. Michel began the match by winning the Rimfire Open division with a time of 63.77 seconds.<\/p>\n
“All of us here at SIG SAUER are extremely proud to work with Max. Five Steel Challenge titles is an amazing accomplishment, on par with winning five Super Bowl titles,\u201d said Bud FIni, SIG SAUER Vice President of Marketing. \u201cWe cannot think of anyone else who better represents our performance standards and commitment to quality than Max Michel, Jr.”<\/p>\n
SIG SAUER, a longtime sponsor of the Steel Challenge, is a proud supporter of the shooting sports. Real-world input from competitors help SIG SAUER engineers continue to innovate and improve products for military, law enforcement and responsible citizens.<\/p>\n
About SIG SAUER, Inc.<\/strong><\/em> The legendary Steel Challenge drew the world\u2019s best speed shooters to St. George, Utah, June 25-28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2597],"tags":[405,206],"class_list":["post-30231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shootingsports","tag-max-michel","tag-sig-sauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231","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=30231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\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 more than 900 employees.\u00a0 For more information on SIG SAUER, any of its products, or the SIG SAUER AcademySM, log on to www.sigsauer.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"