{"id":695,"date":"2009-08-27T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2013-12-10T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:15:07","slug":"never-tried-shooting-give-it-a-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/never-tried-shooting-give-it-a-shot\/695\/","title":{"rendered":"Never tried shooting? Give it a shot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have seen it on Outdoor Channel. Forty million Americans enjoy the shooting sports annually. But for newcomers the biggest challenge is not knowing how to get started. In fact, NSSF&#8217;s research shows 48,000,000 men and women are interested in shooting and are simply waiting for an invitation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Getting the right introduction can ensure a quality experience and a lifetime of enjoyment. For many participants this introduction comes from friends, family members and acquaintances. For others the first step is to find a shooting range that offers introductory courses and quality instruction.<\/p>\n<p><center><code><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yg9zBU0gSSo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yg9zBU0gSSo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstshots.org\/\">www.firstshots.org<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have seen it on Outdoor Channel. Forty million Americans enjoy the shooting sports annually. But for newcomers the biggest challenge is not knowing how to get started. In fact, NSSF&#8217;s research shows 48,000,000 men and women are interested in shooting and are simply waiting for an invitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}