Team SIG Captain Max Michel Has a Banner Year

Team SIG Captain Max Michel Has a Banner Year
Team SIG Captain Max Michel Has a Banner Year

Newington, NH-(Ammoland.com)- SIG SAUER, Inc., congratulates Max Michel, captain of Team SIG, on an exceptional year of achievement and performance across 2017. Michel led Team USA to a Gold Medal at the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) Handgun World Shoot held at the National Shooting Center in Chateauroux, France on August 28 – September 2.

In addition to his outstanding performance on the world stage, Michel scored superb wins on the national level as well, earning 3 national champion titles. Michel earned the Carry Optics National Champion title at 2017 USPSA SIG SAUER Optics National Championship held at the Universal Shooting Academy in Frostproof, Florida from March 23 – 26. Michel went on to earn the Overall Champion title at the US Steel Shooting Nationals held at the South River Gun Club in Covington, Georgia from March 30 – April 1. At the Pro-Am Shooting National Championship held at the Volusia County Gun and Hunt Club in New Smyrna Beach, Florida he finished first overall in the Optics Division.

On top of his national championship titles, Michel earned numerous titles at state and sectional championships across the country.

  • World Speed Shooting Championship – 2nd Place Open Division
  • USPSA Area 3 – Overall Champion
  • USPSA Area 6 – Carry Optics Champio
  • USPSA Double Tap Championship – Overall Champion
  • USPSA LA Gator Classic – Overall Champion
  • USPSA AL Sectional Championship – Overall Champion
  • USPSA OK Sectional Championship – Overall Champion
  • USPSA MS State Championship – Overall Champion
  • USPSA NM Sectional Championship – Overall Champio
  • Aiming For Zero Charity Match – Overall Champion

Not content to rest on his laurels, Max Michel wrote his name into the Guinness Book of World Records for his action-pistol shooting. He knocked down 6 steel plates in 2.05 seconds from the draw with his 9mm SIG SAUER P320 Pistol. He then unofficially broke his own world record on October 21 posting an amazing 1.91 second time on his first run. This was documented while doing a demonstration, with TV camera’s rolling and in front of over 400 spectators at an Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) disabled veteran range event at the San Antonio Police Training Academy.

“While Max’s skill and proficiency with a pistol is well known in the shooting sports world, his latest performance transcends the competitive arena and places it squarely in the public domain.” Said Tom Taylor, Chief Marketing Officer & Executive Vice President, Commercial Sales. There are many great shooters out there, but a Guinness World Record title adds documented validity and notoriety, elevating Max’s credentials to an even higher level of distinction. And he topped off his year by unofficially setting the bar even higher, shattering his own world record at a disabled veterans event. The fact that Max gives his time to attend events such as this just solidifies that he is not only a world class shooter, but a world class good guy.”

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Richard Seay

Have 2 320 SIG’s I really appreciate the quality of Sig products.

Walter

Great pistols could you please make something like to 2:39 but only in a double stack with that same metal frame and length in 9mm 40 or 357 Sig or all of the above