The French Shooting Federation (FFTir), ''

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'' 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

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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 ...

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, International Crossbow Shooting Union and the

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Shooting disciplines

* Pistol (''Pistolet'') * Rifle (''Carabine'') * Service firearms (''Tir aux Armes Règlementaires'') * Running target (''Cible Mobile'') *

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(''Plateau'') *

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(''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 or countertop, benchrather than being carried in the shooter's handswhile shooting at shooting target, paper or steel ...

(''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 rif ...

(''Silhouettes métalliques'') *

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(''Arbalète Match et Field'') *

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(''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 reload. This is typically achieved by having multiple cartridges stored in a magazine (within or attached to the rifle) and then fed individually ...

(''fusil à répetition''), unmodified manually operated rifles in calibers such as 7.5×54mm French, 7.5×55mm Swiss, etc. * Modified repeating rifle (''fusil modifie''). *

Self-loading rifle A self-loading rifle or auto-loading 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 rifl ...

, intermediate caliber (''fusil semi automatique petit calibre'') in calibres such as .223 Remington,

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, etc. *

, 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, straight walled, bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms among NATO countries. First developed in the 1950s, the cartridge had first be ...

, 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

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National members of the European Shooting Confederation {{France-sport-org-stub

Shooting disciplines

Service firearms

Championships

See also

Other umbrella organizations for shooting

References

External links