Canadian precision shooting

A fictional shooter prepares loose cartridges beside an open-action chassis rifle at a covered range bench.

Gear

Same weight, different hole

Hornady's American Whitetail Tipped reached Outdoor Canada's 2026 gear list in twelve cartridges. Hornady's own tables put the tipped .308 load and the old one within four tenths of an inch at 300 yards. The difference that will cost you a deer is not in either table.

A fictional range volunteer folds a wet canvas shelter beside a puddled service path after rain.

Precision

Canada takes second in the America Match

Canada trailed the United States by one point after 900 yards at Borden, then took second in the America Match with a nine-point final-range swing.

A fictional range coach watches two wind flags at an unnamed Canadian long-range firing point.

Precision

Canada finished third in the Canada Match

Great Britain's current result table puts Canada third in the 2026 Canada Match at Mons. The score shows how quickly a long-range team day can move.

A clay-sport competitor carries an open over-under shotgun away from an empty firing point after a relay.

Precision

Cookstown's ten medal rows close the scorecard

SFC's final Cookstown shotgun result records ten medal categories, from trap and skeet to junior, master, and para competition.

A fictional summer biathlon athlete kneels beside a safely supported rifle at an unnamed Canadian training range.

Precision

Fifty metres at race pace

Whistler's summer biathlon weekend puts five targets 50 metres away after the course has already made a calm trigger press expensive.

Gear

Rangefinders Have a Marketing Number and a Useful Number

The biggest rangefinder number is often the least useful. Here’s what Canadian shooters should look for instead - and why the deer number tells you far more than the box.

A fictional range volunteer repaints one of five steel plates between strings at an unnamed outdoor range.

Precision

At Canada's Steel Challenge Nationals, the fifth plate stops the clock

Canada's Steel Challenge Nationals put eight stages and a 195-round minimum into half a day. Five plates make each string, and a miss adds three seconds.

A target pistol rests safely on a worn firing bench while a range official looks toward five downrange targets.

Precision

Fourteen hits, then the shoot-off

Anshul Malik and Seth Norman both reached 14 hits in Saskatoon's rapid-fire final. The series differed, the total tied, and SO decided the order.

A shooter measures the vertical distance between two groups on a tall target at an outdoor range.

Precision

Your turret, measured across thirty MOA

A closed box confirms return-to-zero. The tall-target test measures the turret scale and gives the owner a correction factor for every ballistic solution.

A shooter checks a handheld weather meter at an outdoor range before a session.

Precision

An August zero carries two temperatures

A cold-season zero changes through the powder and the atmosphere. Write both conditions down before November asks the rifle to prove them.

A sport-pistol competitor holds an unbranded target pistol in a lowered start position on a quiet range.

Precision

Saskatoon put six seconds on the scorecard

Saskatoon's first pistol results show how a two-point lead moved across 150-, 20-, and 10-second stages before Military Rapid reached six seconds.

A range volunteer records a round on a clipboard beside a stack of orange clay targets.

Precision

Cookstown's first 75 leave two at 72

The official live skeet sheet lists 44 competitors after three rounds. Two are at 72, with 175 qualification targets still open.