{"id":31951,"date":"2014-10-24T09:11:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=31951"},"modified":"2014-10-19T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T22:20:36","slug":"kimber-sponsors-smith-wesson-idpa-back-up-gun-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/kimber-sponsors-smith-wesson-idpa-back-up-gun-nationals\/31951\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimber Sponsors Smith &#038; Wesson IDPA Back Up Gun Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kimber-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-31952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kimber-logo-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"Kimber logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kimber-logo-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kimber-logo-1024x488.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kimber-logo-600x285.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimberamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kimber<\/a>, an American company that designs and manufactures premium firearms for sporting, law enforcement and military markets, has joined the growing list of major sponsors supporting the 2014 Smith &amp; Wesson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDPA<\/a> Back Up Gun Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Kimber joins Apex Tactical Specialties, Colt, FMG Publications, GLOCK, the Sig Sauer Academy, XS Sight Systems and Smith &amp; Wesson, the title sponsor, in supporting this popular IDPA national championship event. As part of their support, Kimber will sponsor one of the 14 stages of the course of fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely pleased to welcome Kimber as one of the major sponsors of the Smith &amp; Wesson Back Up Gun Nationals. Kimber is a well known brand among IDPA members and 1911 fans alike, and we\u2019re grateful to have their support at this year\u2019s championship,\u201d said Robert Ray, membership and marketing director for IDPA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LOGO-2014-BUG-Nats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LOGO-2014-BUG-Nats-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Back Up Gun Nationals logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LOGO-2014-BUG-Nats-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LOGO-2014-BUG-Nats-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LOGO-2014-BUG-Nats-600x444.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LOGO-2014-BUG-Nats.jpg 1933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The 2014 Smith &amp; Wesson Back Up Gun Nationals will be held November 6-8 on the indoor ranges of the company\u2019s Shooting Sports Center.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on IDPA, the 2014 Smith &amp; Wesson IDPA Back Up Gun Nationals or to join the nearly 24,000 members competing each week, 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>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 Kimber, an American company that designs and manufactures premium firearms for sporting, law enforcement and military markets, has joined the growing list of major sponsors supporting the 2014 Smith &amp; Wesson IDPA Back Up Gun Nationals. Kimber joins Apex Tactical Specialties, Colt, FMG Publications, GLOCK, the Sig Sauer Academy, XS Sight Systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[3394,3607,621,59],"class_list":["post-31951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-2014-back-up-gun-nationals","tag-idpa","tag-kimber","tag-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951","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=31951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}