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The Finnish Shooting Sport Federation, ''Finnish'' Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto (SAL), was founded in 1919 and is an umbrella organization for
sport shooting Shooting sports is a group of competitive sport, competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airg ...
in
Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
, representing many international shooting sport organizations in Finland. 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 Shooting at the Summer Olympics, Olympic shooting events. It also regulates several ISSF shooting events, non-Olympic shooting sport events. The Federation's activities ...
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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 ...
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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 sh ...
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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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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 replicas thereof. MLAIC organises World Championships on even-numbe ...
and the European Shooting Confederation.


Shooting disciplines

* Pistol (''pistooli'') * Rifle (''kivääri'') *
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(''haulikko'') * Running target (''liikkuva maali'') *
Practical Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics†...
(''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 rif ...
(''siluetti'') *
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 ...
(''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, charcoal (which is mostly carbon), and potassium nitrate, potassium ni ...
(''mustaruuti'')


National championships

* The IPSC Finnish Handgun Championship, Rifle Championship, Shotgun Championship, Tournament Championship and Action Air Championship


See also

*
List of shooting sports organizations A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
* Nordic Shooting Region * SRA-shooting, a shooting discipline organized by the Finnish Reservist Sports Federation.


Other umbrella organizations for shooting

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Association of Maltese Arms Collectors and Shooters The Association of Maltese Arms Collectors and Shooters (AMACS) is a Maltese umbrella association for sport shooting and arms collectors. AMACS is Malta's representative for the international shooting organizations Federation of European Societi ...
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French Shooting Federation The French Shooting Federation (FFTir), '' French'' 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 represe ...
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Hellenic Shooting Federation The Hellenic Shooting Federation (HSF; ) is an umbrella organization for sport shooting in Greece. HSF is Greece's representative for the international shooting organizations International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), International Practical ...
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Monaco Shooting Federation The Monaco Shooting Federation, ''Monégasque'' Fédération Monégasque de Tir is the Monacan association for shooting sport under the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC), the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) and ...
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Norwegian Shooting Association Norges Skytterforbund (NSF), literally Norway’s Shooter Association, is a Norwegian umbrella organization for shooting sports, and is internationally affiliated with the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), Fédération International ...
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Royal Spanish Olympic Shooting Federation The Royal Spanish Olympic Shooting Federation, ''Spanish'' Real Federación Española de Tiro Olímpico (RFETO), organizes all shooting sports in Spain and is amongst other a member of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC), the ...
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Swiss Shooting Sport Federation The Swiss Shooting Sport Federation, ''German'': Schweizer Schiesssportverband (SSSV), is an association for sport shooting in Switzerland. It was founded in its current form in 2001, but has roots as far back as in 1824. It is associated with the I ...


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