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Sporting Rifle |
This discipline is very popular. It was developed to encourage beginners and junior shooters in shooting events and is primarily a Canadian event. Activities range from recreational shooting at local clubs through to the B.C. Summer Games as well as Provincial and Canadian Championships. The lower cost of equipment and availability of used Rifles has made this event very popular. It is a really good learning tool for young shooters to get started into the sport and it is used to teach safety , proper gun handling and target skills all across Canada.
Targets are normally placed at 50 metres outdoors and 20 yards indoors with appropriately scaled scoring rings.
Two events are shot in competitions. The prone event consists of 60 shots for a possible score of 600
points and the 3 position event of 120 shots, with 40 shots each in the prone, kneeling
and standing positions for a possible score of 1200 points. ( See
Coaching Information page for shooting times of each
event ). Individual and team
competitions are common also. This is the event shot in the B.C. Summer Games every two years.