Rattle Battle at Camp Perry Next Week
Next week, on August 2, 2017, the nation’s top Service Rifle Teams will compete in National Trophy Infantry Team (NTIT) Match at Camp Perry, Ohio. In this match, known informally as the “Rattle Battle”, six-member teams shoot at 200, 300, 500 and 600 yards with time limits — 384 rounds total. To win this match, the six shooters must work like a finely-tuned machine. This is a popular match with spectators as there is plenty of action in a short time span. SEE Camp Perry 2018 NM Schedule.
This video shows the winning 2011 NTIT team at Camp Perry. Six USAMU shooters started with a combined load of 384 rounds to be fired at 8 targets from 600 and 500 yards prone, then 300 yards seated, and finally 200 yards standing.
Last year, the USAMU-Barnhart Team won the title with a score of 1439, with the USMC Team seconed as 1406. The record for this match is 1466, set by the USAMU-Remily Team in 1996. 2017 Team Barnhart members included: SFC Shane Barnhart (coach), SFC Evan Hess (captain), SFC Brandon Green, SFC William Pace, SSG Cody Shields, SGT Joseph Peterson, SPC Lane Ichord, and PVT Forrest Greenwood. (U.S. Army photos by Michelle Lunato/released).
The National Trophy Infantry Team Match (NTIT) was first fired in 1922 and is part of the the CMP’s annual National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry. The NTIT is called the “Rattle Battle” because it emphasizes extremely fast, accurate fire.
Our friend Grant U., who runs the Precision Shooting Journal on Facebook, says the NTIT is a special match, a real “crowd-pleaser: “The National Trophy Infantry Team Match (Rattle Battle)… was always one of my favorite team events. It takes a hell of a lot more planning, practice, and precision than one might expect. You get one shot at it and the entire team had better be running on all cylinders because there are no alibis. Each team of six shooters is allocated 384 rounds and when the teams fire at 600 and 500 yards, it sounds like a war.”
SFC Brandon Green, one of the nation’s finest marksmen, won the 2018 NRA High Power Rifle Championship at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.
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Tags: Camp Perry, Infantry Team Match, National Matches, NTIT, Rattle Battle, Service Rifle, SFC Brandon Green, USAMU
The last pic (of the fired cases) appears to show a couple with incipient separations. I wonder what the story is there? (I followed the link to the UAAMU’s FB pages, but couldn’t find that photo and/or associated warnings on this issue.)
Not ICHS. Just dirty.
You are correct RD. My AR leaves the same ring around the brass with some ammo.Zoom to 400% and you can see it`s just grim.
This is the game of games. I’ve coached it and know the tingle of that moment when you make that first wind call for your team at 600 that it’s either gonna be glory or catastophy. And I’ve shot it, counting rounds into magazines, barking out your target number, hyperventilating for oxygen and waiting for Jenny to say it, “Load and Be Ready’”
Have 3 plaques and lost another by the score of ONE bullet at 600yds in 4 tries. Lots of fun. It’s the consummate team match because need to be running on all 8 cylinders or you wait until next year to try again.