Vincent Hancock Profile The Scholastic Clay Target Program is the most successful youth shooting program ever created. This year more than 10,000 youngsters will be shooting trap and skeet on SCTP teams across the nation. And those teams are now producing world class athletes as the farm clubs for our Olympic Shooting Team.     It was the SCTP program that started Vincent Hancock in the sport and on the road to becoming a world record holder in Skeet. And he’s quite likely to be a gold medalist in the next Olympics. It’s time you knew more about the high school senior from Eatonton, Georgia.     Stoeger Shotguns – Made in Istanbul, Turkey Turkey Westernized in the 1920’s, founding a democracy, and even creating a European form of writing for the Turkish language, that had used the incomprehensible squiggles of Arabic writing before the change to become more European in life and commerce. The modernization has made Turkey an industrial power house, with an educated workforce capable of precision work to equal the best products from the European nations, but without the cost of labor caused by European unions. Since the 1980’s Turkey has been the source of affordable shotgun manufacturing, with Stoeger a part of the Beretta Group of companies. We’re taking you inside Stoeger to see the process of making barrels. It’s another in our series we call, “How do they do that?” Stoeger USA Website Stoeger Website in Turkey   Smith & Wesson Sigma Series The cheap guns you can rely on. They’re the inexpensive Sigma Series from Smith and Wesson.  The sigma line has never been very popular in this country, primarily because of the trigger design. People who are used to shooting a single action 1911 don’t like the long pull of the Sigma trigger. It’s a double-action-only. Every shot requires a long pull just like a revolver.    In fact, the sigma was designed as a transition gun for law enforcement personnel moving from revolvers to a high capacity autoloader. So the sigma shoots just like a revolver, with a long trigger pull for each shot. Plenty of time to consider whether you want to release the bullet in an emergency. The sigma has a 14-plus-one capacity in .40 caliber and 16-plus-one in 9 millimeter. Suggested Retail is just over $400, but they regularly sell for $350, about half the price of anything else you might be considering for personal defense.  More Information on S&W Sigma Series The US Optics SN-4 Slim-Line Rifle Scope This is the optic used by Jerry Miculek in three-gun competition. It’s a one-to-four power variable zoom, so it serves a dual purpose in three-gun competition, or in tactical applications. On one power the field of view is 116 feet at 100 yards. At four power the field of view is 31 feet. The cross hair reticule is illuminated to eleven intensity settings. Add long eye relief, and you’ll be finding your targets quicker as you run through a stage. Suggested retail is $1,065. Lighted Reticle is optional at $185. Information on the SN-4 Slim Line Pro Tips:  Daniel Horner and Robbie Johnson of the Army Marksmanship Unit show you the two techniques that will speed your reloads for three gun competition. Lesson 3 - Shotgun Reloading     This Week’s Impossible Shot:   We should probably call this “Impossible Shots” when Jerry Miculek shows us what he can do with two revolvers.