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Taking the jitters out of your hunting dog might be easier said than done. If you think you’ve exhausted all your options, why not try the “medicinal” solution.

The Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program, NRA's groundbreaking gun accident prevention course for children, has achieved another milestone by reaching its 30 millionth child.

Aimpoint’s Sportsman Shooting Center (SSC)—the United States’ first indoor hunting shooting center—opened Sept. 21, 2013 at Grapevine, Texas. SSC provides the opportunity for shooters to practice on dynamic hunting scenarios inside an air-conditioned, live-fire cinema range using their own rifles and ammunition.

We’ve all been there. Opening day. The sun is shining, birds are calling and our over-eager dogs are racing through the cover, thicket to thicket, horizon to horizon, sucking air, searching for scent. They point. They flush. They fetch. They collapse. It’s not even noon and they act as if they’re on their last legs because—they are.

At the risk of being called a New Age charlatan, Ron Spomer recommends you give your hunting dog massage therapy.

Renowned training facility Gunsite Academy—one of the country's oldest and largest firearms training organizations—will soon be making its typically Arizona-based courses available on the Eastern seaboard, thanks to a partnership with Richmond, Virginia's Colonial Shooting Academy.

Nobody likes being hit hard in the shoulder every time they squeeze the trigger on his or her favorite shotgun or rifle. But recoil is a reality of the nature of firearms: The more power, the greater the bite.

From rallying people together to support our cause, selling game tickets, and event set up and tear down, more than 8,000 dedicated volunteers across the country unite with us to tackle over 600 events a year. Thanks to their phenomenal help, Friends of NRA has raised over $1.1 billion for The NRA Foundation, which supports firearms education and training at the local, state, and national levels.

The updated course is comprised of 12 lessons, including a new module with an overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as it pertains to shooting ranges.