NRA World Shooting Championship Revisited…
Trijicon is out, and Magpul is in (as lead sponsor), so the much-ballyhooed NRA World Shooting Championship (WSC) will continue — at least for one more season. Held at the Peacemaker Nat’l Training Center in West Virginia, the inaugural 2014 “World Shooting Championship” left some folks shaking their heads after match directors made a few puzzling rule changes on the fly. In addition, it was hard to call last year’s NRA event a true “World Championship”. In 2014, almost all the WSC shooters were American, and, what’s more, a real ISSF World Championship was staged at the very same time last year in Granada, Spain. That important ISSF event in Spain had shooters from 40+ countries and many Olympic medalists.
Nonetheless, we’ll see more WSC action this fall. The 2015 NRA World Shooting Championship will be held September 24 – 26, 2015 at Peacemaker in WV. This will once again be a “big money” event, with a $200,000 prize table and $50,000 in cash awards. With a quarter-million dollars worth of cash and hardware prizes up for grabs, this is probably the richest shooting event in the world. And, as before, the match organizers will provide all the guns and all the ammo.
Competitors at the 2015 NRA World Shooting Championship will compete in three divisions: Pro, Amateur, and Junior. The event will feature twelve (12) stages drawing from a variety of firearm disciplines, such as Cowboy Action, F-Class, and Smallbore standing.
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Stage 1: Cowboy Action |
Stage 7: .22 Smallbore Standing |
“We’ve created the NRA World Shooting Championship to be the top competitive shooting event in the world,” said NRA General Operations Executive Director Kyle Weaver. “Not only will providing all firearms and ammunition help level the playing field, but it will alleviate competitors needing to buy new equipment and simplify international and domestic travel.”
Get more information about the WSC at NRAWorldShootingChampionship.com. Registration for the 2015 WSC is now open. Match fees, by division, are: Pro $395.00, Amateur $325.00, Junior $375.00. CLICK HERE to REGISTER
Peacemaker Nat’l Training Center, Glengary, West Virginia
I would caution you to not register until Peacemaker publishes a Final Match Program. Last year, they changed the course of fire and rules throughout the match.
Really surprised to see the NRA still involved this year. Besides, it’s really just a modified 3-Gun match.
Obviously, Trijicon recognized the short comings of Peacemaker staff to conduct a “championship” and are now running their own this October.
Trijicon Shooting Challenge
21-24 October 2015
Rockcastle Range
Park City, KY
Go to Trijicon.com
Rhino, I think you’re spot-on with the modified 3-gun comment. And it’s fine in that respect, but not what I was expecting to see.
The scope of the stages is very narrow, and anything that relates to non action-shooting disciplines was heavily modified last year.
When they first announced this, I was intrigued – a real multi-discipline event! But alas, most disciplines were either not represented or poorly represented in the courses of fire.
An interesting alternative would be to include actual courses of fire from all (or most) disciplines that have an NRA national championship, proper equipment and all. A couple days worth of clinics could be offered for shooters to learn how to compete in unfamiliar disciplines (sling rifle shooters learn to shoot movers with a pistol, action pistol shooters learn how to sling a rifle, etc.)
The concept is really cool, but the execution would need to change significantly to make this a true World Championship of (all) Shooting.
Thanks,
Jeff
Jeff,
You are spot on with your comments. I also was very interested in an actual multidiscipline challenge.
The “modified” courses of fire were far from actual events. For instance, small bore rifle was shot at 25 yds, normally 50 in the standing position, and the target was a 100 yd prone target. Yet, all the speed or action events followed their rules closely.
Definitely not for me.
Also wonder why the NRA supports a match that doesn’t follow rules established specifically for that discipline.
That small bore rifle event was a joke. They wouldn’t let you zero the rifle. You just had to hold off.
This entire match had little to do with accuracy. It was about speed at close range – mostly 25 yards and less.
Where’s the skill of precision shooting in hitting a piece of steel at 7-10 yards?