British Shooting

British Shooting replaced the GB Target Shooting Federation in 2007 as the single point of contact for organisations including the British Olympic Association, British Paralympic Association and ISSF. Unlike governing bodies for many other sports, BS is not a membership organisation and acts as an umbrella. This is necessary due to the fragmented governance of target shooting sports in the UK, with different disciplines managed by the CPSA, NRA and NSRA amongst others.

The organisation got off to a rocky start, underperforming at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and seeing their funding for the next four year cycle cut by 78%, reducing the number of supported athletes from forty-six to just five.{{cite web |title=British Shooting axes performance director after budget cut |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/672/british-shooting-axes-performance-director-after-budget-cut |website=insidethegames |access-date=8 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308112945/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/672/british-shooting-axes-performance-director-after-budget-cut |archive-date=8 March 2022 |date=19 August 2009}}

Since its inception, British Shooting has also absorbed responsibility from the English Target Shooting Federation for administering grass-roots funding from Sport England. It has launched a national Target Sprint series,{{cite web |title=Target Sprint |url=https://targetsprint.com/ |website=Target Sprint |access-date=8 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308112608/https://targetsprint.com/ |archive-date=8 March 2022}} Schools Championship{{cite web |title=Young guns targeting titles in shooting championship at Cannock |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/2022/02/11/young-guns-targeting-titles-in-shooting-championship-at-cannock/ |website=Express & Star |access-date=30 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321151623/https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/2022/02/11/young-guns-targeting-titles-in-shooting-championship-at-cannock/ |archive-date=21 March 2023 |language=en-GB |date=11 February 2022 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=British Shooting Championship finals heading for Cannock |url=https://www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/resource/british-shooting-championship-finals-heading-for-cannock.html |website=Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce |access-date=23 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223130350/https://www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/resource/british-shooting-championship-finals-heading-for-cannock.html |archive-date=23 February 2024 |language=en-GB |date=14 September 2021 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=British Shooting - Schools Championship |url=https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/1761 |website=British Shooting |access-date=8 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308113541/https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/1761 |archive-date=8 March 2022 |date=16 February 2021}} as well as a national airgun series.{{cite web |title=The Air Rifle Series Has Arrived |url=https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/2715 |website=British Shooting |access-date=8 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308113746/https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/2715 |archive-date=8 March 2022 |date=20 September 2021}} In 2023 the organisation launched a 50M Rifle Series, held at the NSRA's Aldersley centre in the West Midlands.{{cite web |title=The 50m Rifle Series Is Here! |url=https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/2845 |website=British Shooting |access-date=5 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505085317/https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/2845 |archive-date=5 May 2023 |language=English |date=26 April 2023 |url-status=live}}

Since 2007, British Shooting's performance programmes have produced a number of World and European Champions in Rifle and Shotgun.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Peter Wilson won a Gold medal in the Men's Double Trap.{{cite web |title=Wilson shoots for gold and scores at London 2012 |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/18029/wilson-shoots-for-gold-and-scores-at-london-2012 |website=insidethegames |access-date=8 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308123957/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/18029/wilson-shoots-for-gold-and-scores-at-london-2012 |archive-date=8 March 2022 |date=2 August 2012}}

At the 2016 Olympic Games, British Shooting delivered two Bronze medals for Team GB - Edward Ling in the Men's Trap and Steven Scott in the Men's Double Trap.

In 2018 Seonaid McIntosh became Britain's first female World Champion in a rifle event when she won the Women's 50metre Prone Rifle at the ISSF World Championship in Changwon. In 2019 Seonaid went on to be the first female rifle shooter from Britain to win a Gold Medal at an ISSF World Cup event. She won three World Cup medals in 2019 as well as winning the World Cup Final event in 50m Three Position Rifle, making her the most successful GB female rifle shooter of all time.

At the 2020 Olympics, Matthew Coward-Holley won Team GB's only shooting medal in the Men's Trap.

At the 2022 European Shotgun Championships, Lucy Hall won Silver in the Women's Trap, which earned a quota place to the 2026 Olympic Games.{{cite web |title=European Shooting Championships: Lucy Hall secures silver and GB Olympic quota place |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/shooting/62705129 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828082419/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/shooting/62705129 |archive-date=28 August 2022 |language=English |date=28 August 2022 |url-status=live}}

At the 2022 World Shotgun Championships, Sophie Herrmann became the first GB Junior Woman to become world champion, with Mitchell Brooker-Smith winning silver in the Junior Men's Skeet.{{cite web |title=History Made At World Championships |url=https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/2799 |website=British Shooting |access-date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221006080014/https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/2799 |archive-date=6 October 2022 |language=English |date=4 October 2022 |url-status=live}} The pair won the Junior Mixed Skeet Pairs event. The Senior Men's team of Nathan Hales, Matthew Coward-Holley and Aaron Heading won Team Trap Gold. Hales won Silver in the Individual Men's Trap (earning an Olympic quota place) and Silver in the Mixed Pairs Trap with Lucy Charlotte Hall.{{cite web |title=Nathan Hales: GB shooter secures Paris Olympics place |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/shooting/63068497 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928192621/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/shooting/63068497 |archive-date=28 September 2022 |language=English |date=28 September 2022 |url-status=live}}

• Clay Pigeon Shooting Association
• National Rifle Association
• National Smallbore Rifle Association

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• [https://www.bictsf.com British International Clay Target Shooting Federation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519094848/https://www.bictsf.com/ |date=2022-05-19 }}
• [http://www.bssc.org.uk British Shooting Sports Council]

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