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Caleb Giddings

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Caleb Giddings
NationalityAmerican
Known forCompetitive shooter, blogger

Caleb Giddings is a competitive shooter and blogger. He is the founder of Gun Nuts Media, a website and blog among competitive shooters. He is also known for competing in the first season of History Channel's marksmen competition Top Shot.

Biography

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Giddings was born in California and lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He currently works in the firearms industry. He is also a former insurance agent.[citation needed] As a cadet, he served on the shooting team at the United States Coast Guard Academy. In 2014 he returned to the military, joining the United States Air Force.[citation needed]

Giddings started shooting competitively while in college in the NRA Collegiate Pistol program. In 2006, he founded Gun Nuts Media, a website and blog for competitive shooters.[1]

In 2010, Giddings appeared in the first season of History Channel's marksmen competition Top Shot. During the first half of the competition, Giddings competed as part of the Blue Team. His team ended up winning three challenges during his tenure, but Caleb was eliminated during the fifth week of the competition.

In 2011, GunUp hired Giddings as their Director of Community Relations.[2]

In 2020, Giddings made disparaging remarks on his YouTube channel Gun Nuts Media about another Creator named Paul Harrel. In his remarks made several claims which Paul Harrel later successfully refuted in his rebuttal video. Subsequently Giddings removed his initial video, renamed his channel to Mr. revolver, and never formally apologized for his personal attack against Harrel.,[3]

References

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  1. ^ Caleb Giddings Archived 2011-11-21 at the Wayback Machine on GunUp
  2. ^ GUNUP.com Names "Top Shot" Competitor & Gun Blogger as Director of Community Relations on Ammoland (January 5, 2011)
  3. ^ Paul Harrell (2020-03-26). Rebuttal. Retrieved 2024-09-24 – via YouTube.
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