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State-certified 4-H Shooting Sports instructor Raymond Radcliff, of near Charleston, looks on as a 4-H'er ejects a shell while firing at a sporting clay target at the shotgun range during the May 2 district Shooting Sports competition near Charleston.
The 2026 Northwest District 4-H Safe Archery and Firearms Education and Training for Youth (S.A.F.E.T.Y.) competition, aka 4-H Shooting Sports, was held at the Tallahatchie County Fairgrounds and adjacent former youth league athletic fields east of Charleston on Saturday, May 2.