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A "short course" shoots only at 25 yards and uses a reduced-size target for the Slow Fire segment. All courses of fire at an indoor competition are typically fired at 50 feet (15 m) with appropriately scaled targets. An example outdoor 900 match would include: 2 strings of slow fire. Each string consists of 10 shots at 50 yards at a NRA B6 target.
The courses of fire are conducted from either a benchrest or standing position, from ranges of 5 to 25 yards, with 20 to 30 shots, and has 2 or 3 phases of fire (slow fire, timed fire, and rapid fire). A course of fire must be completed in the same session and must be witnessed by the range supervisor or the officer-in-charge of the law ...
The CISM Rapid Fire match is similar to the ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol event. NRA Precision Pistol is a bullseye shooting event where up to 3 handguns of differing calibers are used. Its history is almost as old as ISSF events. Shooters must fire the pistol one-handed at 6- and 8-inch bullseye targets placed 25 and 50 yards downrange ...
An IDPA match consists of one or more stages. A stage presents a course of fire for the shooter to complete. A course of fire consists of one or more strings of fire. A string of fire is a timed segment in a course of fire. The time to complete a string of fire begins with a start signal (typically audible) and ends with the last shot fired.
In the NRA Conventional and IHMSA Production classes, the handgun must be a stock, unmodified and readily available factory gun with a maximum barrel length of 273 mm (10 + 3 ⁄ 4 in). As a rule of thumb, bolt action pistols are not permitted in NRA Conventional, which excludes bolt action pistols and therefore makes revolver and break action ...
By RYAN GORMAN The National Rifle Association remarkably promoted a blog post about how children can have fun at the gun range only two days after a nine-year-old girl shot her shooting instructor ...
The address to thousands of NRA members at the group's annual Leadership Forum in Dallas was light on new policy, but he used the platform to urge gun supporters to go to the polls in the November ...
Indoor Bullseye shooting with an air pistol. Bullseye shooting with handguns can refer to several disciplines: Airgun: ISSF 10 meter air pistol is an air pistol discipline shot with 4.5 mm (0.177 in) caliber air pistols. Small-caliber (.22 LR): ISSF 25 meter pistol; ISSF 25 meter standard pistol; ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol; ISSF 50 meter ...