FIREARMS MANUFACTURERS: Lots of good infomation about manufacturer's products and accessories. Many offer online downloads of firearms owner's manuals. Adobe Acrobat is usually required for downloading the owner's manuals. A free Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Browning Firearms: http://www.browning.com/
Colt: http://www.colt.com/index_2.htm
CZ-USA: http://www.cz-usa.com/
European American Arms (EAA): http://www.eaacorp.com/
Marlin Firearms: http://www.marlinfirearms.com/
Remington: http://www.remington.com/default
Savage: http://www.savagearms.com/
Smith & Wesson: http://www.smith-wesson.com/contentbuilder/layout.php3?contentPath=content/00/01/32/01/03/userdirectory33.content&
Springfield Armory: http://www.springfield-armory.com/index.shtml
Sturm-Ruger & Company: http://www.ruger-firearms.com/
Walther: http://www.waltheramerica.com/
Weatherby: http://www.weatherby.com/
Winchester (US Repeating Arms): http://www.winchesterguns.com/homepage/index.asp
For other firearm and accessory manufacturers not listed above: http://www.shootguns.info/maker.htm
SILHOUETTE TARGET MANUFACTURER: Cast rifle silhouette (1/5 scale) targets.
Ray Shafer: http://www.raystargets.netfirms.com/
FIREARMS FORUM WEB SITES: Forum type websites where you can get technical information, read and post questions and comments on a variery of firearms. No cost registration is required to post questions and replies but not to read the posts.
AR-15: http://www.ar15.com/
CSP Gun Talk: http://www.jouster.com/
Graybeard Outdoors: http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/phpbb2/index.php?sid=4c018338e760f9ae74ef6db3289557ce
Gun Talk Online: www.guntalk-online.com
Gunboards: http://gunboards.com
Marlin Owners: http://www.marlinowners.com
(Ruger) Mark II Organization: http://www.markii.org/ (NOTE: This site has been down for ahwile. If it doesn't work go to www.guntalk-online.com for questions or information about the Ruger Mark II/ Mark III and 22/45)
Rimfire Central: http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/
Firearms Manuals: http://www.stevespages.com/page7b.htm (Not a forum but you can download a lot of Owner's Manuals from this site.)
The Firing Line: http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/index.php?
The Model 1911 Pistol Organization: http://www.m1911.org/
SHOOTING ASSOCIATIONS:
Civilian Marksmanship Program: http://www.odcmp.com/
National Rifle Association: http://www.mynra.org/
National Shooting Sports Foundation: http://www.nssf.org/
International Handgun Metallic Shooting Association: http://ihmsa.org/
International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union: http://surf.to/imssu
National Skeet Shooting Association: http://www.mynssa.com/
National Sporting Clays Association: http://www.nssa-nsca.com/
USA Shooting: http://www.usashooting.com/usashooting.cfm
For information on Silhouette Shooting and Other Match Locations: http://www.steelchickens.com/where/where.php
Target Download Sites: List courtesy of Rimfire Central (see link above).
Many sites require Adobe Acrobat to download the targets. If you don't have Adobe, it can be downloaded from link at the top, or, most sites have a download link.
A 2-page compendium of standard type targets, game-play targets and critters in HTML, GIF or PDF formats.
http://www.airhog.com/targets_1.htm
From the Beartooth Bullets site, standard type targets and a couple of critters.
http://www.beartoothbullets.com/misc/targets.htm
Benchrest and airgun pistol targets.
http://benchrest.com/latino/html/targets.html
Targets in Microsoft Word format.
http://www.cjrpc.com/Targets.htm
4 targets, including a squirrel and a deer, plus links.
http://www.doubleought.com/printable_targets.html
A variety of targets including sight in, benchrest and critters.
http://www.varminthunters.com/targets/
6 targets, including one of Osama.
http://www.dt-sports.com/bin.html
A couple of standard targets and a couple of varmint targets.
http://www.egpworld.com/varmints/targets.htm
A really large selection of targets of all types in PDF format. This is a must see.
http://www.targetz.com/
A very extensive, and colorful, target library, all of which are available together as one self-extracting archive.
http://www.targets.d2g.com/
A good number of colorful PDF targets and some silhouette targets and “Real Picture” targets.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com....html
Some bold GIF targets, also available together in one zip file.
http://www.tnoutdoorsmen.com/targets.htm
Another extensive target collection in GIF format.
http://www.protargets.com/targets/index2.htm
A variety of targets in different formats.
http://world.guns.ru/downloads/do05-e.htm
Some nice JPEG targets.
http://www.angelfire.com/space/kaboom/targets.html
Several zip files containing a variety of targets.
http://murraysguns.com/download/index.htm
A bullseye target in PDF.
http://www.muleyenterprises.co...gets/
Quite a few rimfire targets in PDF format.
http://proveit.www8.50megs.com....html
PDF target collection.
http://is-lan.com/challenge/targets.htm
A variety of targets in several formats.
http://www.tackdriver.com/targets.htm
Targets from US Palma in PDF.
http://www.uspalma.com/Targets/targets.htm
Target site from Germany.
http://www.schiessen-erzgebirg...n.htm
Good selection of targets in PDF.
http://www.mytargets.com/index.html
Targets from Glock. If you're on dial-up, this takes quite a while to come in, but it's worth it when you get there and check out the variety.
http://glockfaq.com/targets.htm
Decent selection of mostly sight-in targets with a couple of Osamas.
http://warhammer.mcc.virginia.edu/ty/targets.html
A target site from Russia.
http://www.ada.ru/Guns/targets/
Nosler Varmint target.
http://www.nosler.com/target.html
From Tom G in Big Bore Rifles section
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