The Royal Spanish Olympic Shooting Federation, ''Spanish'' Real Federación Española de Tiro OlÃmpico (RFETO), organizes all
shooting sports
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in
Spain
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and is amongst other a member of the
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 ...
(IPSC), the
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 ...
(ISSF) and the
European Shooting Confederation (ESC).
Shooting disciplines
* Pistol
* Rifle
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Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, 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 discharges numerous small ...
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Practical
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Muzzleloading
Muzzleloading is the shooting sport of firing muzzleloader, 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 ...
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Benchrest shooting
Benchrest shooting is a shooting sport discipline in which high-precision rifles are rested on a table or benchrather than being carried in the shooter's handswhile shooting at paper or steel targets, hence the name "benchrest". Both the fo ...
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Fullbore target rifle
Fullbore target rifle (TR) is a precision rifle shooting-sport discipline governed by the International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations (ICFRA). TR uses single-shot rifles, usually chambered in .308 Winchester, .308 calibre, with cir ...
National championships
* The
IPSC Spanish Handgun Championships
See also
*
List of shooting sports organizations
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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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Finnish Shooting Sport Federation
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Hellenic Shooting Federation
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Monaco Shooting Federation
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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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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 website
Regions of the International Practical Shooting Confederation
Shooting
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National members of the European Shooting Confederation
Regions of the International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations
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