Caribou club members participate in many different types of shooting activities.  Firearm shooting disciplines are organized competitive activities categorized by firearm type (rifle, pistol, shotgun, air gun) and style, ranging from precision, stationary, and bullseye shooting to dynamic, action-based, and practical shooting. Major formats include shotgun disciplines, long-range precision, metallic silhouette, and, increasingly, rapid-fire tactical sports like USPSA /  IPSC, SCSA and IDPA as well as Olympic events. 

Shotgun Disciplines (click on item for more detail)

• Trap (targets move away)
• Skeet (targets cross)
• Sporting Clays: Known as “golf with a shotgun,” featuring varied, unexpected targets mimicking birds & game. 
• Five Stand: Modified Sporting Clays

Precision and Target Shooting 

•  Benchrest: Extremely high-precision rifle shooting where the rifle is supported on a bench, aiming for tiny groups. 
•  Bullseye (NRA): Traditional, timed precision shooting with pistols or rifles, requiring one-handed (pistol), unsupported shooting. 
•  Knock down Steel / Metallic Silhouette: Shoot to knock down metal targets at varying distances. 
•  Long Range/PRS: Precision Rifle Series (PRS) and National Rimfire League (NRL22) focus on shooting at long distances as well as from unconventional positions. 

Action and Practical Shooting  (click on item for more detail)

• USPSA / U.S. Practical Shooters Assoc & IPSC/ Int’l Practical Shooting Confederation focuses on practical shooting, and emphasizes speed, power, and accuracy, often involving movement and barricades. 
•  IDPA: International Defensive Pistol Association, focusing on concealed carry-style defensive scenarios.
•  3-Gun (USPSA): Involves using a rifle, pistol, and shotgun in a single course of fire. 
• SCSA: Steel Challenge Shooting Assoc matches are 8 standard stages with 5 steel targets in 3 sizes; small & large circular and rectangular targets.

Other Disciplines 

•  Western/Cowboy Action: Uses firearms typical of the American Old West. 
•  Black Powder/Muzzleloading: Competitive shooting using traditional muzzle-loading firearms. 
•  Service Rifle/Production: Competitions limited to stock or factory-standard firearms. 

Olympic Shooting Disciplines (ISSF) 

•  Rifle: 10m Air Rifle, 50m Rifle 3-Positions (kneeling, prone, standing). 
•  Pistol: 10m Air Pistol, 25m Rapid Fire Pistol. 
•  Shotgun: Trap (targets move away) and Skeet (targets cross).