Attention all Match Directors and Stat. Officers

[JOHN708]

Subject: National Records

Yesterday I spoke to Dennis Willing, NRA HP rifle competitions director, regarding several applied for national records that weren't approved. He told me all national records are currently up to date.

Apparently the problem was the result of how the match was written up in the match program. Dennis said you cannot set a national record in an individual match unless an award is given for that match. The award doesn't have to be monitory. If no award is given, then that individual match is considered one stage of the daily agg.

Last year two outstanding potential 600 yd records were set at Malabar that haven't been posted: sling any/any 200-26x and sling any/iron 200-22x. Now I'm wondering if this is why we're not seeing them in the record book.

It seems to me like an unfair rule but that's the way it's written.

John Skowron
President, North State Shooting Club

 

[smoking-brass]

. First if you are going to run registered matches
Know the rules and your shooters will get credit for their outstanding shooting!
The rules are fair....and simple to follow.

 

[JOHN708]

The national record situation isn't as clear as you may think. For instance, the NRA national records website lists and issues mid-range sling records for 20 shots at 3-5 and 600 yds. The only problem with that is the NRA rule book states that approved records are for 15 shots only at those distances.

I was recently issued a national record shot during the mid- range portion of a fullbore match shooting sling any/any. Within weeks of issuing the record NRA HQ decided only fullbore classified rifles could set records in fullbore matches, which should have disavowed the record.

Dennis told me the NRA intends to look at all the national records in an effort to reduce the number and clarify the process as they currently maintain 7000 national records covering all shooting disciplines!

John

 

[FroggyOne2]

If there are 20 shot string National Records. Then it seems to me there may be a miss print in the rule book.