Top guns from the Atlanta area will go head-to-head against the best "run and gun" shooters in the South this April 16-18 when they compete for regional titles in the 2010 U.S. Practical Shooting Association’s Area 6 Handgun Championship sponsored by Glock.

The South River Gun Club in Covington will play host to the regional championship and as many as 350 are expected to compete, including Craig Carder, Brian and Melita Ellington and Allen Payne of Conyers,  

Also among the local shooters are three members of the factory shooting team sponsored by Smyrna-based firearms maker Glock, and each will be defending their 2009 titles. Team captain David Sevigny of Smyrna won the Production division title in 2009 and has won titles in 2008, 2005 and 2003. Jessie Abbate of McDonough took the Women’s Limited division crown in 2009 while Randi Rogers of Marietta captured the Limited-10 title in 2009.

The USPSA Area 6 Championship is one of the largest regional competitions in the country and the first of the shooting season. The Area 6 region consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, but shooters from 21 other states as well as Austria and Canada will compete.

The sport of Practical Shooting is a dynamic, action-oriented competitive shooting discipline incorporating skill, precision and speed shooting, all while on the move. During the match, competitors will navigate a series of obstacles laid out over 12 stages, or courses of fire, designed to simulate potential real-world scenarios. Shooters are scored on both speed and accuracy. Over 95,000 rounds will be fired downrange in the quest for the Open, Limited, Limited-10, Production, Revolver and Single Stack division titles.

For more information on the USPSA Area 6 Championship sponsored by Glock visit www.uspsa6.org. For more information on the sport of Practical Shooting visit www.uspsa.org.