The origin of silhouette shooting dates back to beginning of the 20th century in Mexico. Silhouette shooting started in Finland at 1983 and at 1986 silhouette shooters joined to the Finnish Shooting Sport Federation. Targets are steel targets that must fall over. Pistol shooting distances are 25-200 meters and rifle distances are 40-500 meters. Every shooter has classified in different skill classes so every shooter can compete of class victory against same skilled shooters.
Finland is one of the founder members of the "Association Européenne de Tir sur Silhouettes Métalliques" AETSM (formed in 1989) and the "International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union" IMSSU (formed in 1992). Finland is one of the top countries in the silhouette shooting.
There are approximately 1000 silhouette shooters in Finland, which about 200 are active competition shooters. Finland has won many World and European Championships medals (208 medals beginning of the 1993).
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2008-07-29 | Added AutoCad drawings of targets to downloads page. |
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2008-07-21 | Added World Championships 2008 Medals by country |
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2008-07-20 | Added World Championships 2008 Results |
| 2008-06-12 | Added World Championships 2008 shoot-off information and some maps to calendar page | |
| 2008-06-04 | Added World Championships 2008 starting-schedules to calendar page | |
| 2008-04-09 | Added World Championships 2008 invitation to calendar page | |
| 2007-09-13 | Added European Championships 2007match results | |
| 2007-0730 | Added Nordic Championships 2007 (Rifle) match results | |
| 2007-06-15 | Added Nordic Championships 2007 (BBP, SBP, FP) match results | |
| 2007-05-14 | Added European Championships 2007 invitation to calendar page | |
| 2007-05-08 | Added Nordic Championships 2007 (Rifle) invitation to calendar page | |
| 2007-01-13 | Added Nordic Championships 2007 and Swedish Championships 2007 matches to calendar page | |
| 2006-08-07 | Added Nordic Championships 2006 and Finnish Championships 2006 (BBP) match results |
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Last updated: 2008-06-23