National Rimfire Sporter Match Adds New Classes and Events
One of the most popular events at the Camp Perry National Matches is the Rimfire Sporter Competition. This fun, affordable, family-oriented event allows competitors of all ages to shoot inexpensive factory rimfire rifles. And the ammo is even free — thanks to Lapua. There are classes for both youths and adults, and open sighted rifles (O-Class) as well as scoped rifles (T-Class). New this year is a third class for Tactical Rimfire rifles. CLICK HERE for National Rimfire Sporter Match Official Program.
Each year Camp Perry’s Rimfire Sporter Match attracts hundreds of competitors, from grade schoolers to grand-dads. It’s not unusual to see three generations of family members participating. Registration for the 2010 National Rimfire Sporter Championship is now open. To register, simply fill out the CMP Online Registration Form. Entry in CMP Rimfire Sporter matches is open to all persons, male or female, any age, regardless of previous competition experience. For Juniors (born after 1990), entries are FREE, while adult entries cost $25.00 for one rifle class or $35.00 for two classes.
Hundreds of Rimfire Sporter Competitors Expected at Camp Perry
The Ninth Annual National Rimfire Sporter Match is expected to expand again in 2010 after eight consecutive years of increased participation. In 2009, 333 individual competitors made 421 event entries. This year the range will feature a full 125 covered firing points that can accommodate 500 event entries in four relays. If there are more than 500 entries, a fifth relay will be added.
New Tactical Rimfire Class
Now that several companies are manufacturing tactical .22LR rimfire rifles (both bolt-action and semi-auto), the CMP will include a new “Tactical Rimfire” class in the 2010 National Rimfire Sporter Championship program. Also new in 2010, if sufficient range capacity is available, competitors may be allowed to make a third event entry at the match. This would allow a shooter to compete in the new Tactical Class, as well as in both O-Class and T-Class (“T” for telescopic sights).
New Youth-Adult Partner Match
The 2010 National Rimfire Sporter Match will feature a new Youth-Adult Partner Match which combines an adult or older junior with a younger junior in a two-person team event. This will be a fun match to encourage multi-generation family participation and to get more adult shooters to mentor new and younger shooters. The CMP is considering special rules for this match that will give bonus points to teams that have both male and female members as well as to teams that have greater age differences between the two team members .
Lapua Provides Ammo to Competitors; Savage Awards Rifles
Lapua, a world-renowned ammunition manufacturer with plants in Finland and Germany, is once again the official ammunition supplier for the match and will provide 100 rounds of rimfire ammo for each competitor. Savage Arms is also sponsoring the Rimfire Sporter Match. Savage will present a Mark I or Mark II FVT rifle to the top O-Class and T-Class Juniors.
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I wish the CMP defined the tactical class as inferred by the article. It doesn’t. Note the following from the match program: “Rifles that are legal in the Tactical Class must comply with the requirements listed above and have a configuration that is similar to that of common AR and modern military rifles.”
Yes, the tactical class of Rimfire Sporter is for AR-15/16 types of rifles. Not the Tactical heavy target type rifles you see shooting .308 and other cal. It is to be for the now many dirrerent types of military looking .22rl rifles and not heavy target type rifles
I view myself as about as normal as they come in terms of rifle shooters. I however, don’t have a rifle that is legal for this sport. All my .22’s for one reason or another won’t qualify.
As such, it seems to me that the CMP would do well to include a class for the large group of .22 rifles that won’t quite make the weight limits.
I’d remove all restrictions on the weapon (keeping those on the shooters personal equipment). This would allow for more competitors but wouldn’t pinch the sporter crowd as they would have their own class. Heck I’d even want .17’s included.
The rule that works so well for other shooting sports should be considered: Allow people to compete with the equipment they HAVE. In other words, this is why trapshooting and sporting clays thrive while other shooting sports languish. If I (or the average competitor) have to BUY a gun just to show up once, we probably won’t. If we can give it a spin with what we have, I for one will be there.
Something the brass at CMP should consider.
Well, the idea behind the thinging of the CMP was that everyone had a plinking rifle in the closet somewhere around the house. This is what the CMP rule book states; “The CMP Rimfire Sporter Rifle Match gives shooters a recreation-oriented competition
that allows them to use their favorite rimfire sporters (plinking and small
game rifles) on the range”. That was a whole attraction for me, I got back to shooting my plinking .22 rifles. I still love my Anschutz rifles but the matches I shoot with the Anschutz are more hard work then fun. The Rimfire Sporter matches are just pure fun to shoot.
I wish I could find similar matches in Central/South Texas…nothing but run and gun found here