Shooting Illustrated Announces 2010 Golden Bullseye Award and Golden Bullseye Pioneer Award Winners
Each year, Shooting Illustrated’s editorial staff selects the finest products in six categories that best define the modern shooter. The winners of the Golden Bullseye Award are selected based on innovation, performance and overall quality.
“The Golden Bullseye Award honors our winners for bringing to market products remarkable in their utility to shooters and hunters,” said Joe H. Graham, executive director of NRA Publications. “The award is a symbol of excellence and innovation in firearms, accessories and related equipment. We congratulate the winners, and we are confident shooters and hunters will receive this year’s winning products with enthusiasm.”
Shooting Illustrated’s 2010 Golden Bullseye Award winners are:
Rifle of the Year: Para USA TTR
Shotgun of the Year: Stoeger Double Defense
Handgun of the Year: Ruger LCR
Ammunition Product of the Year: Winchester Bonded PDX1
Optic of the Year: Trijicon ACOG TA44S-10
Accessory of the Year: Crimson Trace MVF-515
“These products represent the best, most innovative tools for the modern shooter,” said Shooting Illustrated Editor-in-Chief Guy J. Sagi. “Each plays a role in personal defense, be it as a bedside shotgun based on an ancient design, a modern polymer revolver for concealed carry or a bullet designed to meet the most stringent law enforcement standards.”
Whereas the Golden Bullseye Award acknowledges the finest products available in the shooting sports, the Golden Bullseye Pioneer Award specifically honors outstanding personal achievement. “The award spotlights the exemplary achievement and cumulative body of work of an individual, members of a team or partnership, or family who were responsible for the development and introduction of shooting equipment that has made a profound, positive and enduring impact on the way Americans shoot and hunt,” Graham said.
The winner of the 2010 Golden Bullseye Pioneer Award is Ronnie Barrett, founder and president of Barrett Firearms Manufacturing., Inc. Since developing his original Model 82 semi-automatic .50 BMG rifle in a one-car garage nearly 30 years ago, Barrett’s name and big-bore, long-range rifles have become well-regarded by military, recreational and competitive shooters alike. Adoption of his original design by the U.S. Army also gave Barrett the distinction of being one of only a handful of Americans whose small-arms designs have gone on to serve in an official capacity on battlefields around the world. Barrett is not only a tireless supporter of the Second Amendment, he has not wavered from the mission of making uniquely American products that serve shooters with the distinction worthy of the Barrett name.