Year: 2011
Action Target Completes New Shooting Range and Retail Store in Piney Flats, TN
Action Target is excited to announce the completion of the Shooters Edge Commercial Shooting Range and Retail Store located in Piney Flats, TN. This facility offers 5 Star accommodations and a clean and well designed atmosphere with extraordinary customer service.
Having the help and dedication of Joseph Bush, Don Reimer, Action Target Great Lakes Territory Manager Jason Snell, Project Manager Bryan Dahlberg, Bill Provencher from Carey’s Heating and Air Conditioning and many others, allowed us to create a range that is innovative, effective and accommodating to all types of shooters.
Equipment provided and installed by Action Target in this Action Target shooting range includes the following:
- Tactical Baffle Layout: Provides for realistic training, including movement and shooting from any given point on the range with full errant round containment.
- 360 Degree Turning Target Retrievers: These retrievers for shooting range targets are perfect for decision making drills, qualifications, and tactical training. Also, includes Master Control for RSO.
- Track Runner: A running target that moves back and forth the width of the range.
- Shooting Stalls: Installed stalls came with lighting, keypads, barricades, and signal lights.
- Photo Eye Beam Security: Ensures all civilian shooters remain behind the firing line.
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Congratulations Shooters Edge for a beautiful facility and phenomenal shooting range!
Other Recently Completed Projects
- Martin CSO – Robb Anderson
- PA State Police Academy – Matt Brinkerhoff
- Shelby County Sheriff’s Department – Jason Snell
- Fairfax County Law Enforcement Academy, VA – Mike Stillwell
- Odessa Police Department, TX – Aaron Ludwig
- Appleton Police Department, WI – Chris Hart
If you are interested in our products and are in the Great Lakes area, contact your Regional Representative Jason Snell. For all other areas, please visit our Contacts Page to find the territory manager for your area.
JASON SNELL
801-377-8033 ext. 158
801-809-6966 cell
[email protected]
Range & Retail Store – Piney Flats, TN
Action Target Introduces New Sport Rack
The Sport Rack is a new training option that provides a ‘shooting gallery’ type of design and application. The Sport Rack is another bolt-on head option to the AT Static and PT Practice Stand
and can be applied to various organizations and levels of training. Similar in design to the Plate Rack
, these plates do not need to be reset once struck.
Here are some things you need to know about the Sport Rack:
Target design:
- Bolt-on option
- Mounts onto Static
and PT Practice Stand
- No welds on moving plates – welds on front protective plate
- Auto-reset & reactive
- Does not affect the safety of the shooter at appropriate distances
Specifications:
- Four (4) 4” round plates in 3/8” AR550
- Total weight of option is 20 lbs. (4 plates, mounting bracket, bolt kit)
How do I order?
Since the Sport Rack is currently a prototype, they are not for sale yet; however, we are putting names on our wait list for when they become available:
We are always creating new innovative products and we want your feedback and ideas. If you have a design or concept that would assist your training needs that is not available on the market, let us know. Email Chad Burdette at [email protected] with your product ideas.
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Introducing the Pelvic Torso
As a leader of innovative solutions for firearms training, we recently announced the addition of two new items to our product line, the Pelvic Torso and Sport Rack, at the 2011 Shot Show in Las Vegas, NV. In this week’s newsletter, we will highlight the Pelvic Torso and how to utilize it to enhance your training.
Until recently, there were only paper targets replicating the pelvic area of the body, but with the Pelvic Torso, you now have the first and only steel target option in the world that simulates this area. The steel provides instant feedback to multiple senses as you hear the bullet strike and see the steal plate swing upon impact.
The idea to design the Pelvic Torso came from inquiries from law enforcement and the military for a training element that gave them a tactical solution when engaging with a specific type of threat. As they engaged with threats wearing body armor and no clear head shot, the pelvic girdle became the optimal target area. When an individual is struck in the pelvic girdle, the bullet strikes the ball-and-socket area, which not only causes immense pain but immobilizes the threat completely. If you are participating in disabling drills, the Pelvic Torso is the best training option in the market.
The Pelvic Torso is designed to have two 4” round reactive and auto-resetting head plates added to a non-reduced torso-type head plate. These “bolt-on” options are able to attach to your existing Static Target Stand or PT Practice Stand
. We recommend using the torso head plates to protect the reactive components and keep all bolts/brackets out of the shooting zone, although it can be used with the Hostage
and Full Size IPSC Torso Head Plates
. This allows the splatter to continue to be directed down from the head plate and will not be redirected toward the shooter.
Since the Pelvic Torso is still in prototype mode, it is not yet available for sale. However, if you are interested in purchasing one of these in the future, please let us know:
For more information, download the Pelvic Torso Cut Sheet here (PDF). Stay tuned to for next week’s newsletter focusing on our new Sport Rack.
New Products
Action Target Reveals Five New Products at Shot Show 2011 in Las Vegas, NV more
AT Rimfire Sport Dueling Tree for $99
Buy the AT Rimfire Sport Dueling Tree for only $99!
Enter the code SPORTER99 when placing your order in the online store for the discount. Only one code per order. Offer cannot be combined with other discounts or specials. Offer expires March 31, 2011.
Offer available at the Action Target Store or by contacting the Territory Manager for your region.
Five New Action Target Products Revealed at Shot Show 2011
Action Target was recently represented at Shot Show 2011 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV from Jan 18-21. The overall scope and size of our booth represented the overall growth success of our company for the last 25 years. The amount of traffic generated this year was astounding. We hardly had a minute to catch our breath and we are grateful for it.
Many of the attendees were drawn in by the impressive design of our booth. It stood 20 feet tall and 60 feet wide, contained two meeting rooms, impressive graphics with accurate reductions of a Modular Armored Tactical Combat House (MATCH) and Total Containment Trap (TCT).
Here is a photo shot of our both taken about an hour before the show opened on the last day:
We rolled out many new targets, systems and concepts during Shot Show 2011. Some included:
- Reactive Target System (RTS) – These self-healing targets are best fit for close quarter live fire engagements. We wanted to create a viable solution to meet the significant demand we have received from organizations and agencies all around the world. Some of the benefits of the RTS are the ability for the target to fall when struck, count the hits a target takes in a cost effective manner and you will not need to manually count the holes anymore during qualifications. Major benefits of the RTS include the ability of the target to fall when struck and the ability to count the number of hits to a target in a cost effective manner rather than manually counting the holes after qualification rounds. We devoted an entire article to this innovative product line last week.
- Real Terrain Range (RTR) – Chuck Habermehl helped to develop the concept of the Real Terrain Range to bring a complete realism to training scenarios. At Action Target, we scoured the globe looking any current option narrowing our focus to a company that has been designing Hollywood movie sets for years. Their unique approach and materials allow pullets to pass through a simulate such as a rock, tree or wall causing no ricochet, splatter, inhalation or visibility hazard if any negligent discharge occurs. The RTR design allows Action Target to recreate any training environment you need.
- FlexTact by Hufcor – FlexTact is the quickest and easiest reconfigurable shoothouse on the market today. As the exclusive worldwide distributor of FlexTact, Action Target was fortunate to have this small example of the system in the booth along with Hufcor’s training staff. The FlexTact increases the quality of your training and throughput and can benefit law enforcement, military and fire departments. The panels are suspended by an overhead railing system which allows you to recreate any building layout in minutes. There are panels are designed with doors, windows and graphics to truly enhance the realism. This is a great compliment to Action Target’s MATCH.
- Pelvic Torso – The Pelvic Girdle was one of two new steel target prototypes brought to the show. It received a great response, and gave us the opportunity gather feedback that we will put to good use as we continue working on this target as a training solution. This prototype can be added onto an existing Action Target Hostage
, IPSC Torso
or Full-Size IPSC Torso
target. It easily bolts onto the stand, has no welds and replicates the pelvic girdle. There are two swinging plates that will react when hit. With many agencies training on disabling drills, the Pelvic Torso is the only steel target on the market that addresses this training need. Look out for an article on this product next week.
- Sport Rack – As a world leader, Action Target has been asked time and again for a portable plate rack. Our existing Plate Rack
has the highest quality and design that organizations all around the world over have used with much success. It is however, difficult to carry for long distance shooting which is why we were excited to announce our new Sport Rack. It looks just like a miniature version of our larger model, but it does not have true plate rack properties. The Sport Rack has four inverted round target heads, with no welds, so that when struck they swing upward, similar to the target movement on our horizontal dueling trees
. Once again, there was a great deal of interest in this prototype, and look out for a full article about it in two weeks.
If you are interested in the Sport Rack or Pelvic Girdle and would like to add your name on our waiting list to be notified when they are for sale, email [email protected]. If you have questions or are interested in speaking to one of our Range Consultants, please Contact Us.
AT Hold Plus for $99
Buy the AT Hold Plus for only $99!
Enter the code HOLDUP99 when placing your order in the online store for the discount. Only one code per order. Offer cannot be combined with other discounts or specials. Offer expires March 31, 2011.
Offer available at the Action Target Store or by contacting the Territory Manager for your region.