Target Shotgun Festival
Target Shotgun Festival
Saturday 5th – Sunday 6th October 2019
**Entries open approximately 6 weeks prior to the start of the competition**
Programme
Saturday AM: Timed & Precision One and Multi-Target (all classes) and the NRA Embassy Cup (SGM and SGSA).
Sunday AM & PM: Practical Match – Part of the NRA Shotgun League.
Requirements
- All competitors will need to provide their own hearing and eye protection (unless otherwise stated in individual event conditions).
- Ammunition can be purchase from the NRA Range Office on the day or in advance. Only fibre wad ammunition is accepted for this competition.
- Those not in possession Shooter Certification Card (SCC) can be supervised by an NRA Certified RCO or other competent. Please inform Shooting Division if you require this in advance of the competition.
- FULL members of the NRA can be assessed for an NRA Shooter Certification Card (SCC) on the day of the event. This can be carried out subject to prior agreement with the discipline representative at the cost of £5 per applicant.
League Divisions
The two standard Divisions do not permit the use of the following:
- Detachable magazines of any type
- Speed loaders
- Re-dots, optical or electronic sighting/aiming systems of any type
- Load restriction at the start of the course of fire of 9 rounds
There are no magazine capacity restrictions in ANY of the divisions.
- Open – Any shotgun
- Standard Auto – Any semi automatic shotgun with a fixed magazine that does not have any of the prohibited items listed above
- Standard Manual – Any manually reloaded (pump action, lever action, bolt action etc) shotgun with a fixed magazine that does not have any of the prohibited items listed above
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Clayton Challenge
The Clayton Challenge is open to Cadet Team comprising of eight members. Held annually at Bisley the match is fired using the Cadet Target Rifle at ranges of 300 and 500 yards.
History
It first started in 1984 as a direct consequence of the Sussex Schools match being held during Charterhouse’s Half Term.
An invitation was sent out by the then Shooting Master of Charterhouse, Tony Clayton, to a number of schools. The match was designed for the next year’s teams, so members of the second-year Sixth Form were excluded.
As a consequence Michael Nash of Epsom College and Barry Williams of St.John’s, Leatherhead, called the match the ‘Clayton Challenge’.
In 1987 the entry fee was raised to purchase a trophy, and with a high number of entries an attractive Edwardian rose bowl was acquired. It has since become known as the Clayton Challenge Trophy.
In 1992, after the premature death from leukemia of Mick Nash, the Charterhouse SSI, a tankard was purchased and inscribed The Mick Nash Tankard. This is to be presented to the highest scoring individual during the competition.
As a consequence of changes in both the cadet shooting world and also the nature of public examinations, the restriction on second-year sixth-formers no longer applies. From 2010 the competition was thrown open to teams of eight from single-service cadet units.
How to Enter
Visit the Clayton Challenge Website for further details and to post your entry.
More Details
For more details about Cadet shooting, visit our Schools & Cadet Shooting page.
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Civilian Service Rifle Imperial Meeting
Civilian Service Rifle Imperial Meeting
Entry Deadline Thursday 28th June
Crowning the Champion shot of each CSR class, matches take place from 25 yards to 600 yards testing every aspect of a competitors’ skill.
Awards are given for each match, the Short Range and Long Range Aggregates and the overall Champions.
The majority of the competition takes place on Century Range although a couple of the matches take place on nearby MoD Ranges.
Individual Competitions:
| Match |
Date |
| The Imperial Match |
Wednesday 4 July |
| 100x Match |
Thursday 5 July |
| 200x Match |
Thursday 5 July |
| 300x Match |
Thursday 5 July |
| Urban Match |
Thursday 5 July |
| Long Range Rural Match |
Friday 6 July |
| Short Range Match |
Friday 6 July |
| Rural Match |
Saturday 7 July |
Individual Aggregate Competitions:
| Match |
Aggregate of |
| Civilian Service Rifle Championship |
100 Yards, 200 Yards, 300 Yards, Rural, Short Range, Long Range and Urban matches |
| Long Range Aggregate |
Long Range Match and Rural Match |
| Short Range Aggregate |
100 Yards, 200 Yards, 300 Yards, Short Range and Urban matches |
NRA CSR Falling Plates – Team Match
Teams of 4 firers shoot against each other in a ‘knockout even’t to see who can knock down 10 steel plates in the quickest time.
Teams start in the prone position at 300 yards firing point and on the ‘Go’ signal they must sprint to the 200 yards firing point adopt the prone position, make ready and open fire at their plates. The team knocking all of their plates down in the quickest time (typically 23-25 seconds) goes through to the next round.
Historic Rifles have their own class and whist the plates are the same the only have to run 25 yards before starting to knock them down. The Falling Plates event takes place on a Saturday evening before Methuen Match and has often attracted more than 40 separate teams.
| Match |
Date |
| Falling Plates Team Match |
Saturday 7 July |
CSR Methuen – Team Match
Following the individual Imperial CSR matches the Methuen is a Team match shot in two classes; Modern and Historic.
Teams of six firers and a non-shooting captain take part in the Short Range Match for the Mauser and Mons Trophies, additional individual awards, the Kukri and Bayonet Trophies, are also presented for the highest score in each class. Up to twenty teams can take part and clubs from all over the United Kingdom and from Europe enter this closely fought match and although team scores are monitored throughout the match the winners are not know until the last shot is fired
| Match |
Date |
| NRA Methuen Cup Match (Team) |
Sunday 8 July |
Entry Deadline Thursday 28th June
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Service Rifle Imperial Team Matches
Service Rifle Imperial Team Matches
Please return your entry form to NRA Shooting Division by Friday 15 June
Details regarding match conditions can be found in the NRA handbook
International & UK Inter-Service Team Competitions:
| Match |
Services Equivalent Match |
Date |
| Cheylesmore |
Falling Plates Match |
Friday 22 June |
| United Service Match |
Short Range Rural Contact Assessment |
Monday 25 June |
| International Service Rifle Team Match |
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Monday 25 June |
UK Inter-Service Team Competitions:
| Match |
Services Equivalent Match |
Date |
| Bargrave Deane |
Pistol Falling Tiles |
Tuesday 26 June |
| Inter-Service Urban Contact Match |
|
Tuesday 26 June |
| Whitehead (Inter-Service Pistol) |
|
Tuesday 26 June |
Please return your entry form to NRA Shooting Division by Friday 15 June
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The Inter-Counties
The 35th Inter-Counties Meeting
Counties are invited to nominate a squad of ten shooters from which eight were to be selected for the teams in each competition. The Meeting consists of three matches spread over two days:
Saturday 16th June
Match 1: The R Jarvis Trophy
Individual shoot at 300, 500 & 600 yards, 2 convertible sighting shots and 7 to count at each range.
Match 2: The Lt Col H Jones VC Memorial Trophy
Teams of 8 at 300, 500 & 600 yards, 1 convertible sighting shot and 10 to count at 3/5/600 yards. Coaching within the squad is permitted. Two targets per team, 1 hour at each distance.
The Colonel “H” Statuette was presented for the competition in 1983 by 2 Para in memory of their commanding officer Lt Col H Jones VC who had died leading his troops in the Falklands conflict.
Sunday 17th June
Match 3: The NRA Inter-Counties Long Range Team Match
Teams of 8 at 900 & 1000 yards, 2 convertible sighting shots and 15 to count at 900/1000 yards. Coaching within the squad is permitted. Two targets per team, 1 hour 30 mins at 900 yards, and 1 hour 45 mins at 1000 yards.
Match 4: The Counties Short Range Match
Teams of 8 at 500 & 600 yards, 2 convertible sighting shots and 15 to count at 5/600 yards. Coaching within the squad is permitted. Two targets per team, 1 hour 30 mins at 500 yards, and 1 hour 45 mins at 600 yards.
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Home Office Consultation
22nd June 2018
By email Dear [name]
“Offensive Weapons Bill” – Second Reading Wednesday 27th June 2018
The target shooting community are being unfairly treated by prohibitions proposed in the above Bill.
Shooting is a major sporting activity in the UK with some 2.25 million rifles and shotguns legally held on certificate. Certificate holders are rigorously assessed by the police and are subjected to medical assessments, references, background checks and ongoing continuous monitoring.
The Bill seeks to prohibit two specific groups (high muzzle energy and “rapid firing”) of rifles; this affects some 1,000 or so firearms out of the 2.25 million held on certificate.
The shooting community views these prohibitions as a gross breach of natural justice as the Home Office has failed to provide any evidence that these rifles pose any risk to public safety. They referred to vague concerns raised by the police and the National Crime Agency (NCA) but have never published details.
To link civilian target shooters to gun crime is grossly misleading; pistols, illegal in the UK since 1997, remain the weapons of choice for the criminal fraternity.
There are three key points to the shooting community’s objections:-
- No legally owned rifle of the types to be prohibited has ever been used in criminal activity despite being used by target shooters for many decades.
- The Home Office have providing misleading references by linking the rifles to be prohibited to shooting events in the USA; they quote the Las Vegas shooting despite the fact that the semi-automatic firearms used there were prohibited in the UK in 1988.
- Current legislation (Section 27 Firearms Act 1968 as amended) requires Chief Officers of police who grant firearms certificates to ensure “the applicant can be permitted to have the firearm or ammunition in his possession without danger to the public safety …”
We feel the prohibition is a token attempt to distract attention away from the serious matters of illegal firearms, acid and knife crime. To ban certain firearms on the basis of unsubstantiated claims of threats to public safety is unconstitutional and an abuse of process.
The capacity for firearms to cause harm is subjective; almost all modern cars have the capacity to substantially exceed the legal speed limit but the licensed driver is responsible for driving safely.
We urge careful scrutiny of the proposals to prohibit these firearms, interrogating the claimed enhancements to public safety and challenging the risk assessments produced but not published by the NCA.
Further details of our communications with the Home Office can be found [here]; please do not hesitate to contact me should you require further information.
Yours sincerely
Andrew Mercer
Group Chief Executive & Secretary General
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