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The shooting sports include those competitive sports involving tests of proficiency (accuracy and speed) using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns (see archery for more information on shooting sports that make use of bows and arrows). Competitive shooting consists of a number of events across the four disciplines of rifle, pistol, running target and shotgun. All events are conducted as individual and team events.

Shooting Rifle

Small bore rilfe

There are two types of rifle shooting, 0.177 air rifle and 0.22 rimfire rifle. Air rifle shooting is done over 10m from a free standing position. Rimfire rifle shooting is done at a target 50m away. Rimfire shooting is done unsupported in the prone, kneeling or standing positions.
  • 10m air rifle (60 shots) men
  • Shooters, in a free standing position, fire 60 competition shots and any number of sighters are fired in a maximum of 105 minutes at a target 10m away.
  • 10m air rifle (40 shots) women
  • Shooters, in a free standing position, fire 40 competition shots and any number of sighters are fired in a maximum of 75 minutes at a target 10m away.

Fullbore rifle

Fullbore Target Rifle is an outdoor shooting discipline that uses high powered rifles. The most common class of competition, TR, is restricted to using 5.56mm NATO and 7.62mm NATO calibre rifles.
Competitors shoot distances at ranges every 100m between 300m and 1000m. Galleries are typically from five to 40 targets wide depending on the number of competitors for which the range has been designed.
Competitors normally shoot in groups of 12 shots over a single distance with the best 10 consecutive shots making up the score for the match.

Running target

Running target involves shooting at targets with dedicated target air rifles and four scopes from 10m. Maximum rifle weight is 5.5kg. The match consists of 30 shots 'slow runs' and 30 shots 'fast runs'. Slow runs means the target takes five seconds to pass across a 2m gap. Fast runs means the target passes the same gap in 2.5 seconds.
  • 10m air rifle (60 shots) men
  • Shots fired in the standing position at a distance of 10m. Men shoot 60 shots in 105 minutes.
  • 10m air rifle (40 shots) women
  • Shots are fired in the standing position at a distance of 10m. Women complete 40 shots in a maximum of 75 minutes.


Pistol

Pistol shooting comprises a number of types including rapid fire, sports pistol, centre fire, standard pistol, 50m pistol, air pistol and others. For pistol events, targets are at 50m and 25m for the rapid fire and sport pistol events and 10m for the air pistol. The shooter must stand free without supporting and with both feet and/or shoes completely within the firing point. The pistol must be held and fired with one hand only. The wrist must be visibly free of support.
  • 10m air pistol (60 shots) men
  • Shooters fire from the standing position at targets 10m away. Men fire 60 competition shots in 105 minutes.
  • 10m air pistol (40 shots) women
  • Shooters fire from the standing position at targets 10m away. 40 shots must be fired within 75 minutes at electronic targets.
  • 25m rapid fire pistol (60 shot) men
  • There are two rounds of 30 shots each. One round consists of two series of five shots fired in eight seconds; two series of five shots fired in six seconds and two series of five shots fired in four seconds at a distance of 25m.
  • 25m pistol (30+30 shot) women
  • At a 25m distance six series of five precision shots must be completed in five minutes each and six series of five rapid shots must be completed in three seconds each.
  • 50m pistol (60 shots) men
  • Within 120 minutes, any number of sighting shots plus 60 competition shots are fired at a target 50m away.

Sporting clays

Sporting clays is a clay target discipline to simulate the type of shooting one could normally expect in the field while hunting. The size of the targets, their speed and angles of flight are all variable, making sporting clays a challenging clay target sport.
The different types of targets are:
  • standard clays
  • 'midis' or 'minis' which are smaller
  • the larger but very thin 'battue' targets that turn on their side at the end of their trajectories
  • hard-rimmed 'rabbit' targets that roll along the ground
  • the smallest of all, the 'super-mini' is a high-speed midget

Shotgun

Clay target shooting is one of the most popular target shooting sports. The firearm used is a shotgun with spinning saucer-shaped clay targets (normally 100mm in diameter and 20mm thick) that are thrown by machine at variable speeds and trajectories to provide the shooter with a small, moving target. Other clay target disciplines such as skeet and trap have set target trajectories.
  • Trap (125 targets) men
  • Trap (75 targets) women
  • Double trap (120 targets) men
  • Skeet (125 targets) men
  • Skeet (75 targets) women

Rules

Download: ISSF_Shooting_Rules.pdf

Reference

International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) http://www.issf-sports.org