Action Target

Action Target

Type	Private
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	Provo, Utah, United States (1986 (1986))
Founder	Kyle Bateman, Addison Sovine
Headquarters	Provo, Utah, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Kyle Bateman, John Curtis, Addison Sovine, Tom Wright
Products	Shooting ranges
Services	Shooting range training
Number of employees	180–220
Divisions	Academy International Law Enforcement Military Customer Service Research and Development Sales
Website	http://www.actiontarget.com/

Action Target is a manufacturer of custom shooting ranges and portable steel targets for military, law enforcement, Special Forces groups, tactical training schools, and commercial applications based in Provo, Utah. Since its founding in 1985, Action Target has increased its inventory to include over 4,000 products. As the world's largest shooting range equipment manager, Action Target designs, delivers, and installs indoor and outdoor range equipment throughout the world.

Prior to serving as mayor of Provo City, John Curtis was a partner and the Chief Operating Officer of the company.

Action Target was founded in 1986 by Kyle Bateman and Addison Sovine to address a need they saw with law enforcement training, and operated out of Bateman's bedroom at first. They soon moved to a larger facility near the Interstate 15 freeway in Provo before moving to a manufacturing facility nearby next to a residential neighborhood.

In 1989, the company moved to manufacturing facilities on the west side of Provo on property which used to house a wrecking yard. Throughout the next fifteen years, Action Target expanded and built several large buildings to house its manufacturing. In late 2003 or early 2004, the company donated land to Provo City in order to extend the street and provide an alternate route for delivery trucks, as well as offering to purchase properties to create a buffer zone between its facilities and those of residential neighbors.

The company produced two bullet-proof training villages for use by the U.S. Army in 2005, a contract worth $3 million USD. U.S Congressman, Chris Cannon, participated in a demonstration of a similar facility created for use by Utah County police departments, including those from Provo, Brigham Young University, and Orem.

In 2007, the city of Provo began consideration of purchasing the property where Action Target was located in west Provo. The property owned by the company in west Provo was approved for purchase by the end of that same year. The city of Provo then approved several bonds in November as incentives for Action Target to move to a new industrial park in the southeast corner of the city.