The French Shooting Federation (FFTir), '' French'' Fédération Française de Tir, is the umbrella organization for

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. It was founded in its current form in 1967, but has roots as far back as 1866. FFTir is France'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 ...

International Crossbow Shooting Union Match crossbow is a target shooting sport using crossbows. Unlike field crossbow, match crossbow is quite similar to the Olympic rifle. The International Crossbow Shooting Union (Internationale Armbrustschutzen Union-IAU) is the world gove ...

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 (''Pistolet'') * Rifle (''Carabine'') * Service firearms (''Tir aux Armes Règlementaires'') *

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 ...

(''Cible Mobile'') *

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 ...

(''Plateau'') *

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. ...

(''Tir Sportif de Vitesse'') *

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 ...

(''Bench-Rest'') *

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 ...

(''Silhouettes métalliques'') *

Crossbow A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a ''prod'', mounted horizontally on a main frame called a ''tiller'', which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock of a long fi ...

(''Arbalète Match et Field'') *

Muzzleloading Muzzleloading is the shooting sport of firing muzzleloading guns. Muzzleloading guns, both antique and reproduction, are used for target shooting, hunting, historical re-enactment and historical research. The sport originated in the United States ...

(''Armes anciennes))

Service firearms

Tir aux Armes Règlementaires (French for ''Service firearm competitions'') are national French factory firearm shooting disciplines where one can participate with handguns and rifles used by the different country's military forces and civilian versions of these. All the shooting programs consists of both one part precision and one part rapid fire, and are made to have low complexity for beginners. Competitions are arranged in collaboration between the French Shooting Federation and the two reserve officers associations ''Union Nationale des Officiers de Réserve'' and ''Fédération Nationale des Associations de Sous-Officiers de Réserve''. * Pistol and revolver (''pistolet et revolver''), fired one-handed at the C-50 target at 25 meters. * Rapid military pistol (''vitesse militaire''), fired two-handed at the Rapid Fire target at 25 meters. * .22 caliber rifle (''carabine 22LR''), fired prone and standing at the C50-target at 50 meters. All the programs for large caliber rifles are shot prone at the C200-target at 200 meters: *

Repeating rifle A repeating rifle is a single- barreled rifle capable of repeated discharges between each ammunition reloads. This is typically achieved by having multiple cartridges stored in a magazine (within or attached to the gun) and then fed individually i ...

(''fusil à répetition''), unmodified manually operated rifles in calibers such as 7.5×54mm French,

7.5×55mm Swiss The 7.5×55mm Swiss or 7,5mm GP 11 (or unofficially 7.5×55mm Schmidt–Rubin) is a cartridge developed for the Swiss Army. It originated from the ''Gewehrpatrone 1890'' (7.5×53.5mm) developed in 1898 by mechanical engineer Lt. Col. Eduard Rubin ...

, etc. * Modified repeating rifle (''fusil modifie''). *

Self-loading rifle A self-loading rifle or autoloading rifle is a rifle with an action using a portion of the energy of each cartridge fired to load another cartridge. Self-loading pistols are similar, but intended to be held and fired by a single hand, while rifle ...

, intermediate caliber (''fusil semi automatique petit calibre'') in calibres such as

.223 Remington The .223 Remington (designated as the 223 Remington by the SAAMI and 223 Rem by the CIP) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It was developed in 1957 by Remington Arms and Fairchild Industries for the U.S. Continental Army Command ...

, 5.45×39mm, etc. *

, battle rifle caliber (''fusil semi automatique gros calibre'') in calibres such as

7.62×39mm The 7.62×39mm (aka 7.62 Soviet, formerly .30 Russian Short) round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin. The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as ...

, 7.62×51mm NATO, etc.

Championships

* The IPSC French Handgun,

Rifle A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ( rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus on accuracy, rifles are typically designed to be held with ...

and Shotgun Championships.

References

External links

Official homepage of the French Shooting Federation
Regions of the International Practical Shooting Confederation

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

Shooting disciplines

Service firearms

Championships

See also

Other umbrella organizations for shooting

References

External links