CMP Updates Smallbore Rifle Competition Rules for 2022
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The updated 2022 CMP Smallbore Rifle Competition Rules are now posted at: https://thecmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022SmallboreRifleRulebook.pdf. The major change in this update is the recognition of the 3×20 course of fire as the standard 3-position event.
In January 2022, the CMP noted that the ISSF was changing its 3×40 three-position event to a 3×20 course of fire and that three-position and air gun finals were also being changed. There has been uncertainty as to what the final version of these rules will be. Since CMP competitors need to know what the CMP rules are going to be this year, the CMP has decided to finalize its 2022 CMP Smallbore Rifle Competition Rules based on what is now known, namely that the 60-shot 3×20 course of fire is likely to stay, while ISSF rules for finals have just seen yet another change.
The updated CMP Smallbore Rifle Rules adopt the 60-shot 3×20 course of fire as the standard three-position event but leave previous finals rules in place until there is more clarity regarding whether the new 2024 Olympic finals rules can or should be adopted for CMP smallbore competitions.
The major change in this Smallbore Rules update is the recognition of the 3×20 course of fire as the standard 3-position event. All smallbore position EIC matches where competitors can earn credit points for the new Distinguished Smallbore Position Badge must be 3×20, not 3×40, events.
Smallbore position tie-breaking has also changed. Three-position ties will be broken according to the highest standing score, then the highest kneeling score. Inner tens will not be used unless two competitors are tied in all three positions. Smallbore prone competitors are NOTE affected by these latest rule changes except that new rules for conducting 40-shot prone events on electronic targets have been added.
Given the uncertainty regarding ISSF finals rules, this edition of the CMP Smallbore Rifle Rules will still include the 45-shot progressive elimination final that the ISSF previously used (Rule SB10.4) and a 24-shot prone final that was previously used by the ISSF.
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