To promote Olympic-style shooting sports and gun safety by participating in intercollegiate pistol competitions, holding instructive shoots open to those with university affiliation, and supporting pre-college shooting. The Texas A&M Pistol Team selects its members yearly through open tryouts each fall. Members of the team train at least twice weekly and compete on a national level. We shoot Olympic-style 0.22 LR caliber target pistols and 0.177 caliber compressed air pistols. Matches are hosted by Texas A&M at least once per year and are attended by various other universities. The Team also travels each year to various matches hosted by competing universities, and each year the team competes in the Intercollegiate National Championships and State Junior Olympics.