National Shooting Sports Foundation Donates “Cricket Rifles” for Youth Program

Keystone Arms Cricket Rifle

Keystone Arms Cricket Rifle

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has donated five Keystone Arms “Cricket Rifles” for use in the youth portion of our “First Steps Outdoors” program. Cricket Rifles are small 22 caliber target rifles perfectly sized for kids.

The Sporting Camp “First Steps Outdoors” program provides an opportunity for families and their children, as well as couples and single adults, to experience their first steps into Maine’s sporting traditions during a two night stay at a traditional Maine Sporting Camp.

The goal is simple – to encourage sportsmen and women to ask family members, friends and neighbors to take their “First Steps Outdoors” and experience all the joys that Maine’s sporting traditions offer – Joys that have formed our “Sporting Heritage.”

The National Shooting Sports Foundation supports our mission to help bring more youths into traditional outdoor sports like shooting and hunting, and to preserve places where sportsmen can enjoy participating in these activities — like at Maine’s sporting camps. Programs like “First Steps Outdoors” introduce youths to these traditional sports, and to the conservation movement that sportsmen have led and paid for for one hundred years.

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