Wednesday’s 7:30 PM & 10:30 PM (EST)
Wednesday’s 7:30 PM & 10:30 PM (EST)
Welcome to the American Airgunner Challenge. We went out and brought together 6 of the top shooters from around the world, to compete in a series of 10 unique challenges, that will blow your mind. Every competition will test each shooters concentration, stress level, physical endurance and…. its all done with Airguns! All the way from .177 caliber to 50 cailber! Its going to be action packed where tempers will flare and disciplines will be tested. But….with every victory, take them one step closer to winning it all! The highly coveted Airgunner Challenge Chapmionship belt! So sit back relax and join me as I take you on a journey…its time for the Airgunner Challenge.
Welcome to the American Airgunner Challenge. We went out and brought together 6 of the top shooters from around the world, to compete in a series of 10 unique challenges, that will blow your mind. Every competition will test each shooters concentration, stress level, physical endurance and…. its all done with Airguns! All the way from .177 caliber to 50 cailber! Its going to be action packed where tempers will flare and disciplines will be tested. But….with every victory, take them one step closer to winning it all! The highly coveted Airgunner Challenge Chapmionship belt! So sit back relax and join me as I take you on a journey…its time for the Airgunner Challenge.
MEET THE CHALLENGERS
Tom Adams
Ted Bier
Joe Brancato
Eydin Hansen
Ian Harford
Brian Lanseigne
MEET THE CHALLENGERS
Tom Adams
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Tom shoots for Daystate Airguns and has been shooting airguns since childhood. He has competed in both the EBR and RMAC and has placed well in both! His greatest achievement in air gunning was “opening the eyes of everyone that said it “couldn’t be done” in 2015 when he set the new time records (in practice rounds) and took 2nd place in Sportsman’s class Speed Silo using a magazine fed air gun, the FX Wildcat.”
What sets Tom apart from other airgunners is his dedication to the Speed Silo competition. He has dissected that competition to the point of knowing exactly how to win it, how many tenths of a second each shot should take, which pellets to use and why, and how to set up for the shoot using both magazine and single shot loading techniques, etc.
Tom considers himself to be a “Top Shot” because of his experiences with the Speed Silo competition. Fast target acquisition has become his game. He’s been referred to as a “machine”! At speed competitions, he’s the guy that others are measuring themselves against. He’s the guy they are gunning for. He’s the guy they are trying to “keep up with!”
Joe Brancato
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Joe owns Top Gun Airguns and shoots for Zbroia. He has been shooting airguns for over 20 years. He has competed for several years in the EBR and RMAC. What sets him apart from other air gunners is that Joe is a natural. He doesn’t practice long hours of the day. In fact, he rarely does!
Ian Harford
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Ian shoots for Air Arms and has been shooting airguns since he was 11. Ian has competed in a variety of airgun competitions over the years, mainly in field target and hunter field target disciplines. He’s also won a significant number of soft toys and teddy bears at carnival shooting ranges in his youth. Some of these were very large and impressive.
Seriously though, in Hunter Field Target Ian competed in the 2010 UKAHFT National Series Championships, winning two rounds and then the prestigious UKAHFT Matchplay Championship. He also placed 2nd in the 2010 BFTA Anglo-American Championship. In Field Target, he won the BFTA Grand Prix Series C-Class in 2010 along with placing second in the 2010 AAFTA US National Field Target Championships in Maryland.
Ian has hunted with airguns all over the world, from big game in Africa, Europe and the USA through to small game adventures in the wilds of Alaska.
Ted Bier
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Ted shoots for FX Airguns and has been shooting airguns since he was 8. He has competed in several airgun competitions, including the EBR (1st, 2nd, & 3rd), PA Cup (1st gunslinger x2 yrs, RMAC (3rd), & the TO100 (1st x2). His greatest achievement as an airgunner is “convincing his wife that spending $2k is a reasonable investment in his happiness.” Ted loves to hunt the Wisconsin woodlands and farms for small game and shoots airguns because it brings him happiness.
Brian Lanseigne
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Brian shoots for Sig Sauer and has been shooting airguns since he was 7. The American Airgunner challenge was his first airgun competition! Brian loves to hunt the Wisconsin woodlands and farms for small game and shoots airguns because it brings him happiness. What sets Brian apart from other airgunners is that he is proficient with all shooting platforms from rifle, shotguns, airguns, archery, airsoft, paintball, etc. and the ability to understand how all the different platforms work and all their moving parts. This knowledge helps him as a shooter/operator to feel and connect with the platform.
Eydin Hansen
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Eydin shoots for Umarex USA and has been shooting airguns since he was 5. He competed in the Pyramyd Cup in 2019 and made the finals in the Benchrest competition. His greatest achievement as an airgunner is “Introducing people to air gunning and using them to hunt wild game ethically.” Eydin was awarded the military expert in small-arms marksmanship with the M-16 rifle and the Military Service Star denoting expert in small-arms marksmanship with Military issued handguns.
