22 May, 2004 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – European American Armory and USA Shooting have joined forces to create a USA Shooting IZHMASH 22LR CM2 Youth Model from which America's Olympic hopefuls will receive a portion of profits. In addition to desperately needed funding from the sales of this rifle, USA Shooting will also receive several of this youth model target grade gun for its youth development programs. Leaha Wirth, Director of Marketing for USA Shooting comments, "Youth development is critical to USA Shooting and to the industry as a whole. Not only does USA Shooting harvest future Olympic medallists from its youth development programs, but these programs are critical to the perpetuation of and the introduction to the shooting sports for the youth of America." EAA is stopping production of its standard CM2 Youth model and will only be offering the USA Shooting CM2 . "With our initial run of 2500 youth rifles planned, we are bringing a much-needed product to the youth shooting market that will not only serve as an accurate and effective starter rifle, but will also provide encouragement and inspiration to young shooters through its affiliation with America's international shooting role models," remarks Keith Bernkrant of EAA. The USA Shooting IZHMASH CM2 Youth target gun features a hammer forged, coated barrel with target quality rifling and chamber, a fully adjustable click rear sight...full story at http://www.usashooting.com/news/NewsView.cfm?id=195
