It's Time for MidwayUSA Foundation's Annual Hometown Challenge Sweepstakes

Supporting your favorite competitive shooting team makes you eligible for some amazing prizes this September!

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posted on September 11, 2025
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Hometown Challenge Lede

There aren't many sports that teach mindfulness, teamwork, dedication, and patience the way that the shooting sports do. That's why the decision to support youth shooting sports is so easy for us. Today, the MidwayUSA Foundation is making it even easier as it once again hosts its Hometown Challenge Sweepstakes!

Held each year, the Sweepstakes is an annual donation drive that offers over 100 sponsor-donated prizes to supporters of youth shooting sports. If you make a donation of $20 or more between September 1-30 to a MidwayUSA Foundation youth shooting team endowment, your contribution will qualify you for an entry into the sweepstakes prize drawing. As always, your contribution will be matched by MidwayUSA Foundation, too!

MidwayUSA Foundation's generous sponsors have donated some amazing prizes. Said MidwayUSA Foundation Executive Director Pete Eisentrager, “We’re proud to offer our donors the chance at winning a Big Frig Badlands cooler or a Vortex Optics Sparc Red Dot just by supporting their favorite youth shooting team.”

MidwayUSA Foundation's industry partners also donated as prizes a SoLo .22LR Certificate from Silencer Central, the new Take Aim Shot Tracker, a Volquartsen Black Mamba Pistol, a Ruger 10/22 Carbine, and several products from Mantis. The value of prizes offered through the Hometown Challenge Sweepstakes is over $30,000. Every $20 contribution increment qualifies as an entry; multiple entries are encouraged.

In addition to donors winning sweepstakes prizes, youth shooting teams that receive the most donation dollars during MidwayUSA Foundation’s Hometown Challenge can win additional funds to benefit their team endowment. Like all donations to MidwayUSA Foundation, the donor can choose the youth shooting team that benefits from their gift.

The top five fundraising teams will be awarded the following endowment dollars:

  • 1st: $15,000
  • 2nd: $12,500
  • 3rd: $10,000
  • 4th: $ 7,500
  • 5th: $ 5,000

An additional 30 participating teams will be drawn at random to receive $1,000 each in endowment dollars.

Every endowment donation grows a team’s annual cash grant, which is crucial in covering shooting team expenses. Hometown Challenge runs through September, and donations can be made right through the team’s page on the MidwayUSA Foundation website. Learn more about this great fundraiser at https://www.midwayusafoundation.org/htc/.

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