Rifle

A girl shooting a rifle at a target during a Shooting Sports event.

Keep your eye on the target, control your breathing, and squeeze the trigger. In the rifle discipline, you’ll learn to use your body to steady your shooting form and improve marksmanship.

Air rifle

The air rifle discipline consists of those rifles that are charged by pneumatic means, where the projectile’s propellant consists solely from air.  This discipline is divided into several other sub categories that are dependent on equipment being used.  The discipline is further broken down by age, with those youth having a 4-H age from 8-13 being allowed to compete in 5 and/or 10 meter events.  Those 4-Her’s of in the senior age level (14-18) are only allowed to participate in the 10 meter events.

.22 rifle

The .22 rifle discipline is for small bore .22 caliber rifles only.  The discipline is broken into several sub categories dependent on the type of equipment used.  Youth that are of the 4-H age of 10-18 are allowed to participate in this discipline.

 

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A 4-H’er wearing sunglasses tallies arrows in a colorful paper archery target.
Filed Under: 4-H, 4-H Shooting Sports, STEM – Science Technology Engineering and Math June 13, 2019

LOUISVILLE, Miss. -- The Mississippi State University Extension Service will hold the North Mississippi 4-H Summer Camp Explore July 23-26 in Winston County.

Brandy Barnes, a member of the Mississippi State University Extension Service Hinds County 4-H, prepares for shooting sports practice in Byram on Feb. 29, 2016. She earned one of four spots on the National 4-H Shooting Sports Championship team and will compete in the .22-caliber rifle division in Grand Island, Nebraska, June 26-July 1, 2016. (Photo by MSU Extension Service/Susan Collins-Smith)
Filed Under: 4-H, 4-H Shooting Sports April 5, 2016

RAYMOND, Miss. -- Brandy Barnes’ excitement is building, but she keeps a cool head at the firing range.

Filed Under: 4-H Shooting Sports, Environment, Wildlife September 16, 2013

By Mary Grace Eppes
MSU Ag Communications

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