The Finnish Shooting Sport Federation, ''Finnish'' Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto (SAL), was founded in 1919 and is an umbrella organization for

sport shooting Sport pertains to any form of Competition, competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and Skill, skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to specta ...

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, representing many international shooting sport organizations in Finland.Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto - Shooting Sport in Finland
/ref> SAL is Finlands's representative for the international shooting organizations

International Shooting Sport Federation The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) is the governing body of the Olympic shooting events in rifle, pistol and shotgun (clay target) disciplines, and of several non-Olympic shooting sport events. ISSF's activities include regula ...

International Practical Shooting Confederation The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) is the world's largest shooting sport association, and the largest and oldest within practical shooting. Founded in 1976, the IPSC nowadays affiliates over 100 regions from Africa, America ...

World Benchrest Shooting Federation The World Benchrest Shooting Federation (WBSF) is the international governing body for benchrest shooting, with disciplines for both centerfire and rimfire ammunition. WBSF was formed in 2001. Disciplines Rimfire * 50 m or * Teams (3 sho ...

International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union The International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union (IMSSU) is the international organization for metallic silhouette shooting, which was founded in 1992 in response to the fact that rules for metallic silhouette shooting started to diverge arou ...

Muzzle Loaders Associations International Committee The Muzzle Loaders Associations International Committee (MLAIC) is the world governing body for competition with muzzle-loading firearms. Both originals (made prior to 1900) and replica's thereof. MLAIC organises World Championships on even-numb ...

and the

European Shooting Confederation The European Shooting Confederation (ESC) is an association of the International Shooting Sport Federation's member federations from Europe, the Caucasus, Cyprus, Israel, and Turkey. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ISSF banned ...

Shooting disciplines

* Pistol (''pistooli'') * Rifle (''kivääri'') *

Shotgun A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long gun, long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge (firearms), cartridge known as a shotshell, which usually discharges numerous small p ...

(''haulikko'') *

Running target Running target shooting refers to a number of target shooting sports and events involving a shooting target—sometimes called a boar, moose, or deer—that is made to move as if it is a running animal. Competitions are shot at known target dis ...

(''liikkuva maali'') *

Practical Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving, and action, and rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. ...

(''practical'') *

Metallic silhouette Metallic silhouette shooting is a group of target shooting disciplines that involves shooting at steel targets representing game animals at varying distances, seeking to knock the metal target over. Metallic silhouette is shot with large bore ri ...

(''siluetti'') *

Benchrest Benchrest shooting is a shooting sport discipline in which accuracy and precision, high-precision rifles are rested on a table (furniture), table or countertop, bench — rather than being carried in the shooter's hands — while shooting at sho ...

(''kasa-ammunta'') *

Black powder Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of a mixture of sulfur, carbon (in the form of charcoal) and potassium nitrate (saltpeter). Th ...

(''mustaruuti'')

National championships

* The

IPSC Finnish Handgun Championship The IPSC Finnish Handgun Championship is an IPSC level 3 championship held once a year by the Finnish Shooting Sport Federation The Finnish Shooting Sport Federation, ''Finnish'' Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto (SAL), was founded in 1919 and is an umb ...

, Rifle Championship, Shotgun Championship, Tournament Championship and Action Air Championship

References

External links

Official homepage of the Finnish Shooting Sport Federation
Regions of the International Practical Shooting Confederation

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National members of the European Shooting Confederation {{shooting-sport-stub

Shooting disciplines

National championships

See also

Other umbrella organizations for shooting

References

External links