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Tasha and Mark Hanish’s medical<br />
training came in handy during the 3-<br />
Gun Nation finale when well-known<br />
USPSA CRO Larry D’Agostino suffered<br />
a serious laceration to his left<br />
leg, above.<br />
3Gun Nation<br />
When 3Gun Nation<br />
wrote a check for<br />
$25,000 to Daniel<br />
Horner after the USPSA<br />
Multigun Nationals in<br />
Las Vegas in September,<br />
they transformed 3-Gun<br />
from a little-known<br />
USPSA specialty to the<br />
most lucrative of all the<br />
practical shooting sports<br />
- and Tasha Hanish was<br />
right in the middle of it.<br />
With the increased TV visibility,<br />
sponsorship of Team FNH USA has<br />
taken off. In rapid succession, the<br />
team's sponsors put together a custompainted<br />
truck, trailer, and a Polaris offroad<br />
vehicle. If you're familiar with the<br />
shooting industry's sponsorship profile,<br />
take special note of sponsors Polaris<br />
and Mac Tools. Their product<br />
lines aren't "firearm related," but<br />
Bruce Piatt, Daniel Horner, and David Neth pose<br />
with their checks at the 3-Gun Nation season finale.<br />
Together, they took $40,000 to the bank.<br />
"3Gun Nation" is a reality TV Show about 3-Gun Competition, currently airing<br />
on the Versus Network. That $25,000 check climaxed a series of five competitions<br />
held at the major 3-Gun shoots nationwide.<br />
More importantly, 3Gun Nation brought each event the promise of TV coverage<br />
on a major network. That's advertising that money couldn't hope to buy.<br />
It's part of the rise in "shooting TV" that is transforming people like Tasha from<br />
home-town heroes into national celebrities.<br />
they're putting down serious sponsorship<br />
dollars to get access.<br />
Hanish started rattling off additional<br />
sponsors "…Leupold, Safariland,<br />
Surefire. MGM stepped up and<br />
gave us practice targets. Oakley, Otis,<br />
they brought us stuff we needed to<br />
look more uniform as a team. We're<br />
not a hodge-podge of individuals anymore.<br />
We're very much a managed<br />
team…"<br />
"It's been an amazing experience<br />
having so much support on and off the<br />
range, it's been incredible," says Hanish.<br />
"The FNH USA guys really wanted<br />
to make sure that when they did it, they<br />
did it right."<br />
Back In The Fray<br />
In professional sports, it doesn't<br />
take long to go from being a household<br />
word to a memory. When Tasha Hanish<br />
showed up at last year's handgun<br />
nationals, ready to fight it out for the<br />
title, a few people asked "Tasha who?"<br />
That teenage hoser that showed up<br />
at the Pig Roast in the candy-stripe STI<br />
uniform has matured into a more-controlled<br />
version of her former self,<br />
dressed in FNH USA's blue-and-white.<br />
She's still hosing when it's called for,<br />
but she's better able to back it off and<br />
26<br />
FRONT SIGHT • Annual For 2011
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