Various Shooting Competitions in Australia.
Australia has a rich history in sport on the world stage. There are various sports played in Australia and Cricket is the National Sport of Australia.
Shooting is one of the few sports that encourages and caters for the participation of the young and old, males and females, able-bodied and disabled. Sport shooting is a family-oriented pastime.
There are various shooting competitions in Australia. And people participate in such a way that makes the sport more interesting. Here are the various shooting competitions in Australia.
Action Match
Action Match is a dynamic handgun shooting competition catering to revolver and self-loading pistol shooters. While international rules dictate that the firearm’s calibre must be at least 9mm, due to Australia’s handgun regulations, Action Match competitors can use either a .38 Super or 9mm Parabellum self-loading pistol or a .38 Special/.357 Magnum revolver.
The competition includes four firearm classes and four main courses of fire, with each course having its own time, distance and scoring conditions. Action Match also has a subdiscipline called Steel Challenge, which caters to both rimfire and centrefire handgun events.
Air Rifle Speed Target
Air Rifle Field Target is a simulated field-shooting competition that caters to springer and precharged pneumatic (PCP) air rifle shooters. The competition includes five firearm classes: Open Air Rifle, Open PCP, Open Springer, International PCP and International Springer, with shooters aiming to hit reactive ‘fall-when-hit’ targets of various sizes at often unknown ranges from 8 to 50m.
As the name suggests, Air Rifle Field Target lends itself to being contested in a bush-type environment, although it may also be held on a more traditional range line.
Benchrest
Benchrest is a precision rifle shooting competition where shooters aim to put five or 10 shots into the smallest possible group on paper targets placed at 50m, 100, 200 and 300 yards.
Groups are measured from the centre to the centre of the two widest shots in a group. Rifles are fired from rests, comprising a front rest to support the fore-end and a rear sandbag to support the rifle’s butt.
Benchrest includes 10 main classes within this competition, with the differences largely determined by rifle weight and calibre.
Big Game Rifle
Big Game Rifle is a rifle shooting competition that aims to foster the collection, preservation and use of vintage and modern classic large-calibre big-game rifles, particularly those of British origin, including black powder and early Nitro cartridge firearms.
The competition includes eight categories of matches and the courses of fire within these are largely determined by rifle types and eras, shooting times and shooting positions. The matches aim to simulate field-shooting conditions to improve the shooter’s firearm skills in the pursuit of large and dangerous game.
Combined Services
Combined Services is a rifle and handgun shooting competition that aims to encourage organised competitive shooting with a view towards a better knowledge of the safe handling and proper care of military or service firearms.
The competition encompasses more than a dozen Service Rifle and Service Pistol classes in which competitors use original or faithful reproduction rimfire, centrefire and black powder military and other service rifles, carbines, revolvers and self-loading pistols shoot for score at paper targets of different sizes and from various distances and positions.
Field Rifle, 3-Positional, Scoped Air Rifle and NRA Any Sight
Field Rifle & 3-Positional is a rifle competition that aims to improve hunting marksmanship under rifle range conditions, while teaching them the capabilities and limitations of their equipment.
Field Rifle uses rimfire and centrefire rifles and is designed around the four most used field shooting positions of rapid fire, standing, standing post rest and sitting/kneeling post rest over various distances, while 3-Positional uses the same rifles as Field Rifle, but is a slow-fire event that uses the prone, standing and sitting/kneeling positions.
Fly Shoot
Fly Shoot is a shooting competition that caters exclusively to rifles. The competition includes Rimfire and Centrefire matches generally shot at 200 yards and 500m respectively. Each match comprises five targets, with the target having a ‘fly’ 30mm in size as the X-ring and scoring rings around it.
Fly Shoot is a unique competition as both the size of the groups and scores count towards a shooter’s final result. It is best to try to keep the five-shot group as close to the fly as possible for a maximum score.
Gallery Rifle
Gallery Rifle includes short- and medium-distance shooting events for rifles and pistols chambered in pistol-calibre cartridges. The international rule book comprises four main events: Gallery Rifle Centrefire, Gallery Rifle Smallbore, Long Barrelled Revolver and Long Barrelled Pistol, though the SSAA principally supports Gallery Rifle Centrefire at a national level.
This event is based around scoped and iron-sighted tubular magazine lever-action rifles in .32-20, .38-.357, .44 and .45 pistol calibres. Gallery Rifle matches require the competitor to load and shoot very quickly either at stationary paper or reactive steel targets.
International Handgun Metallic Silhouette
International Handgun Metallic Silhouette is a rimfire and centrefire revolver and pistol shooting competition where competitors aim to knock down metal animal-shaped targets. The targets are placed on steel stands in banks of five and set at a variety of known distances, with the competitors having a certain amount of time to knock as many down as they can.
The firearms used must fall into one of four categories: Production, Revolver, Standing and Unlimited, and there are three official matches: Big Bore, Smallbore and Field Pistol, with each match having its own categories.
Law Enforcement Activities
Law Enforcement Activities is a handgun shooting competition that aims to encourage organised competitive shooting of law enforcement-orientated Australian and international handgun matches. The matches involve the use of centrefire revolvers and self-loading pistols, which are shot at various targets from various distances and positions.
Lever Action
Lever Action is a shooting competition that caters exclusively for lever-action rifles. The competition includes two categories: Classic Calibre for as-issued rifles in any centrefire cartridge produced up to 1938 and Open Calibre for rifles in any factory, hand loaded or wildcat rimfire or centrefire cartridge.
Lever Action aims to improve hunting marksmanship skills and includes contour animal profile targets and traditional paper ring targets. The matches require a variety of shooting positions and distances, and courses of fire can vary from 15 seconds to five minutes for five shots.
Long Range Precision
Long Range Precision is a handgun, rifle and black powder rifle competition that aims to refine and develop the accuracy of firearms, ammunition and equipment for shooting at extreme distances.
The handgun events vary from rimfire to centrefire calibres and are shot up to 500m, while the rifle events cover .22LR to .50 BMG calibres and are shot up to 2000m. The core matches require the competitor to shoot five shots from a cold barrel, without the use of benches or wind flags, as they would in a normal field situation.
Muzzleloading
Muzzleloading is an interactive competition that caters to the original and replica rifles, muskets, handguns and shotguns that were used during Australia’s colonial days. The firearm categories are very detailed, with each having its own classes and subsections.
The rifle events are shot from the offhand, cross-sticks/prone, bench rest and sometimes kneeling/sitting positions, while the shotgun events are shot around stations placed various distances from the thrower, shooting 25 clay targets overall. In addition to range shooting, Muzzleloading shooters are often enthusiastic followers of historical events and re-enactments.
Practical Shooting
Practical Shooting is a quick and energetic competition that caters to rimfire and centrefire pistols, revolvers and rifles, and shotguns, with each having their own classes.
Most matches comprise a minimum of three stages and the courses of fire are designed to offer challenging and active scenarios that test the capacity of the shooter and their equipment.
The targets are mainly paper, cardboard or steel, and the competitor is scored on their accuracy and time in comparison with all the scores and times shot on the day.
Rifle Metallic Silhouette
Rifle Metallic Silhouette is an air, rimfire, centrefire, service and black powder rifle shooting competition where competitors aim to knock down metal animal-shaped targets.
The targets are placed on steel stands in banks of five and set at a variety of known distances, with the competitors having a certain amount of time to knock as many down as they can.
The various competitions are shot from a range of distance and positions, depending on the firearm calibre and category, but all competitions aim to improve hunting marksmanship skills under range conditions.
Shotgun
Shotgun permits the use of any smoothbore shotgun up to 12-gauge to shoot clay targets. The competition includes four main competitions.
Sporting Clays is usually held in a bush setting, with competitors shooting from six or seven stands and traps throwing targets to simulate hunting. 5-Stand has five stands separated by a couple of metres each, with traps throwing single or double targets in different directions.
Low-Field and High-Field competitions are shot from pads level with or close to the trap house and the traps being above or below ground level.
Single Action
Single Action is a multifaceted competition that uses original or replica firearms that were commonly used in the Old West period of 1800 to 1899.
This includes single-action revolvers, lever-action and slide-action rifles and carbines, lever-action and pump-action shotguns, and side-by-side shotguns without automatic ejectors. The targets are generally reactive and vary in shape and dimension.
In addition to competition, Single Action shooters also preserve, promote and respect the skills, traditions and pioneering spirit of the historic American Old West, often adopting a shooting alias appropriate to the era.
Target Pistol
Target Pistol is an international rimfire and centrefire revolver and self-loading pistol shooting competition. There are six main classes and several side matches, with each based around the class of the handgun and ammunition used and many having their roots in different eras and types of service pistol shooting.
The competition includes four main matches: National Match Course, 900 Match Course, International Mayleigh Match, and Short Course Match, and competitors have varying time restrictions to shoot single-handedly in the standing position at paper targets placed at 25 and 50m.
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