The French Shooting Federation (FFTir), ''

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'' Fédération Française de Tir, is the umbrella organization for sport shooting in France. 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, International Practical Shooting Confederation, World Benchrest Shooting Federation, International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union, Muzzle Loaders Associations International Committee, International Crossbow Shooting Union and the European Shooting Confederation.

Shooting disciplines

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

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(''Cible Mobile'') *

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(''Plateau'') * Practical (''Tir Sportif de Vitesse'') * Benchrest (''Bench-Rest'') * Metallic silhouette (''Silhouettes métalliques'') * Crossbow (''Arbalète Match et Field'') * Muzzleloading (''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: *

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(''fusil à répetition''), unmodified manually operated rifles in calibers such as

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, 7.5×55mm Swiss, etc. * Modified repeating rifle (''fusil modifie''). * Self-loading 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 ...

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, etc. * Self-loading rifle, battle rifle caliber (''fusil semi automatique gros calibre'') in calibres such as 7.62×39mm,

7.62×51mm NATO The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms among NATO countries. First developed in the 1950s, the cartridge had first been introduced in U.S. service fo ...

, etc.

Championships

* The IPSC French Handgun,

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and Shotgun Championships.

References

External links

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