Contact: Paul Erhardt (603) 944-1707

Over 200 of the world's best competition pistol shooters from 20 states and 4 foreign countries will compete for the World Speed Shooting Championships in the shooting sports' ultimate display of speed and accuracy at the 2004 STEEL CHALLENGE.

The 2004 STEEL CHALLENGE is the premier shooting competition with professional shooters competing for over $300,000 in cash and prizes.  The event is a four-day pistol shooting competition pitting the best shooters against seven courses of fire and the clock. Admission is free.

Courses of fire, or stages, are made up of five steel targets which are electronically timed to one one-hundredth of a second. Competitors shoot each stage five times with their slowest run eliminated. The combined time of the four best runs is their score for that stage and their combined score of all seven stages is their match score.

Championships will be determined in the Women's, Pre-Teen, Junior, Senior, Super Senior and Law Enforcement divisions and in several categories including Rimfire, Shotgun, Single Action Revolver, Revolver, Stock Pistol and Open Pistol - the Formula 1 category of the shooting sports.

The best shooters from around the world compete in the 2004 STEEL CHALLENGE at ranges in Piru, California, just north of Los Angeles, to determine the best of the best and the find out who is indeed the fastest gun in not just the west but the world.

The STEEL CHALLENGE was developed in 1981 by Mike Dalton and Mike Fichman to determine the world's fastest shooter. Since its inception, the STEEL CHALLENGE has seen competitors set new world records only to see them fall - sometimes in the same match.

Steel Challenge Ranges
6700 Holser Canyon Road 
(15 minutes from Magic Mountain near Lake Piru - MAP)

Piru, CA 

(805) 521-1411 during the match only

Thursday - Sunday, August 19 - 22, 2004
STEEL CHALLENGE Events
Competition begins daily at 8:30am

Paul Erhardt Public Relations (603) 944-1707

Michael Bane Shooting Sports Expert (303) 258-9695