{"id":9182,"date":"2011-04-11T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2011-04-10T18:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T23:32:40","slug":"surefire-hk-usa-rudy-project-millennium-custom-to-sponsor-uspsa-area-6-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/surefire-hk-usa-rudy-project-millennium-custom-to-sponsor-uspsa-area-6-shoot\/9182\/","title":{"rendered":"Surefire, HK USA, Rudy Project &#038; Millennium Custom to Sponsor USPSA Area 6 Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/area6_logo1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9187\" title=\"area6_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/area6_logo1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/area6_logo1.gif 125w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/area6_logo1-50x50.gif 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a>SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. &#8211; Some of the biggest and best known names in the shooting sports have joined the growing list of sponsors for the U.S. Practical Shooting Association&#8217;s (USPSA) Area 6 Regional Handgun Championship. Heckler &amp; Koch USA, Millennium Custom Guns, Rudy Project and Surefire have each signed on to sponsor stages at the run-and-gun championship which will be held April 15-17 at the Universal Shooting Academy in Frostproof, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the first regional championship of the USPSA season just days away, support from the shooting industry continues to grow. Thanks to Heckler &amp; Koch USA, Millennium Custom Guns, Rudy Project, Surefire and the rest of our sponsors, the 2011 Area 6 Regional Handgun Championship is shaping up to be another great match on a par with our national championships,\u201d said Linda Chico, the USPSA Area 6 director.<\/p>\n<p>The USPSA Area 6 Regional Handgun Championship is one of the most popular matches on the competitive shooting circuit and has already drawn over 350 shooters representing 26 states \u2013 including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, the states that make up the Area 6 region \u2013 Puerto Rico, Canada, Jamaica, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. Match officials expect upwards of 380 competitors when the shooting starts this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Heckler &amp; Koch USA, Millennium Custom Guns, Rudy Project and Surefire, Nevco Targets and Spot on Supply are also supporting the match. Previously announced sponsors include Competitive Edge Dynamics, EarScopes, Glock, GPI Custom Gunworks, Otis Technology, Rescomp\/CR Speed, Springfield Armory, TechWear USA and Velocity Shooter. Match officials expect to announce additional sponsors later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Slots are still available to shoot the match on Friday and those interested in entering can visit www.USPSA6.org to find  <a href=\"http:\/\/uspsa6.org\/2011a6info.pdf\">match information<\/a> or download the <a href=\"http:\/\/uspsa6.org\/2011a6form.pdf\">match registration form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about practical shooting, or join the nearly 20,000 members of USPSA in the most dynamic and fast-paced shooting sport around? Then visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspsa.org\">USPSA.org<\/a>, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/uspsa_shooting\">@USPSA_Shooting<\/a> on Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USPracticalShootingAssn\">like USPSA on Facebook<\/a> or read the <a href=\"http:\/\/practicalshooting.posterous.com\">Practical Shooting blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heckler &#038; Koch USA, Millennium Custom Guns, Rudy Project and Surefire have each signed on to sponsor the USPSA Area 6 Championship which will be held April 15-17 at the Universal Shooting Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,9,6],"tags":[247,1619,1618,396],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","category-paul-erhardt","category-uspsa","tag-area-6","tag-hk","tag-rudy-project","tag-surefire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","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=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}