French Shooting Federation
The French Shooting Federation, 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 representative for the international shooting organizations International [Shooting Sport Federation], International [Practical Shooting Confederation], World [Benchrest Shooting Federation], International [Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union], Muzzle Loaders Associations International Committee, Crossbow Shooting Union">Match crossbow">Crossbow Shooting Union and the European Shooting Confederation.
Shooting disciplines
- Pistol
- Rifle
- Service firearms
- Running target
- Shotgun
- Practical
- Benchrest
- Metallic silhouette
- Crossbow
- Muzzleloading
Service firearms
Tir aux Armes Règlementaires are national French factory firearm shooting disciplines where one can participate with handguns and rifles used by the different country's military forces and civilian versions of these. All the shooting programs consists of both one part precision and one part rapid fire, and are made to have low complexity for beginners. Competitions are arranged in collaboration between the French Shooting Federation and the two reserve officers associations Union Nationale des Officiers de Réserve and Fédération Nationale des Associations de Sous-Officiers de Réserve.- Pistol and revolver, fired one-handed at the C-50 target at 25 meters.
- Rapid military pistol, fired two-handed at the Rapid Fire target at 25 meters.
- .22 caliber rifle, fired prone and standing at the C50-target at 50 meters.
- Repeating rifle, unmodified manually operated rifles in calibers such as 7.5×54mm French, 7.5×55mm Swiss, etc.
- Modified repeating rifle.
- Self-loading rifle, intermediate caliber in calibres such as .223 Remington, 5.45×39mm, etc.
- Self-loading rifle, battle rifle caliber in calibres such as 7.62×39mm, 7.62×51mm NATO, etc.
Championships
- The IPSC French Handgun, Rifle and Shotgun Championship|Shotgun Championships].