JP Shooting Team

Vegard Fredriksen

Vegard Fredriksen is a Norwegian shooter who has been competing in IPSC since 2009 with both rifle and pistol. He joined the National Rifle Team in 2012 and started to focus on rifle shooting and was elected captain of the National Open Team in 2016. Vegard also competes in Norwegian reservist (NROF) competitions, a military-style practical shooting discipline.

He joined the Army in 1995 at the age of 18 and became an armorer. He worked for KONGSBERG Protech Systems for 10 years, testing and shooting Remote Weapon Stations before returning to the Army in 2017.

Vegard is married and the father of two boys and a girl.

He competes with his JP CTR-02™, Vortex Razor HD Gen II-E in a Spuhr mount and a Vortex Razor red dot, and reloads using Vihtavuori powder and Lapua 69gr ScenarL bullets for the long range shooting, and of course, FrogLube is his weapon care system of choice.

Career Highlights

Rifle:

2013 Silver Mountain Rifle, National Championship (Norway) - 4th Open/3rd Team
2014 The River Meeting, National Championship (Norway) - 3rd Open/1st Team
2014 Nordic Rifle Match (Finland) - 11th Open/2nd Team
2015 Cold Fox, National Championship (Norway) - 9th Open/1st Team
2015 Danish Open Rifle, Nordic Championship (Denmark) - 5th Open/2nd Team
2015 European Rifle Championship (Hungary) - 28th Open/2nd Team
2016 West Coast Rifle Open, JP Challenge (Sweden) - 5th Open
2016 The River Meeting, Nordic Championship (Norway) - 4th Open
2016 Polish IPSC Rifle, National Championship (Poland) - 4th Open
2016 MSS Norwegian Rifle Championship (Norway) - 5th Open/1st Team
2017 May Day Rifle (Estonia) - 4th Open/1st Team
2017 Rifle World Shoot (Russia) - 18th Open/3rd Team
2017 Swedish National Championship (Sweden) - 4th Open
2017 Nordic IPSC Rifle Championship (Sweden) - 2nd Open/1st Team
2017 Cold Fox, National Championship (Norway) - 1st Open/1st Team
2018 Nordic IPSC Rifle Championship (Finland) - 4th Open/1st Team
2019 National Mini-Rifle Championship (Norway) - 1st Open/1st Team
2019 Slovakian Rifle Championship (Slovakia) - 13th Open
2019 German Rifle & PCC Championship (Germany) - 3rd Rifle/2nd PCC
2019 Swedish Rifle Championship (Sweden) - 3rd Open
2019 Polish Rifle Championship (Poland) - 1st Open
2019 World IPSC Rifle Championship (Sweden) - 15th Open/5th Team

Mini Rifle:

2015 Steel Challenge, National Championship (Norway) - 3rd Open
2016 Skepplanda Octoberfest, Nordic Championship (Sweden) - 1st Open/2nd Team
2017 Skepplanda Octoberfest, National Championship (Sweden) - 4th Open

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