“Tag: smallbore rifle”

Starting on July 10, 2016 and ending July 18, 2016, the Championships, including the International Postal Team matches, will be fired over ten days of competition to reduce costs for the competitors. The Metric and Conventional Championships will be combined into a 3-Position Championship. Metric Prone was taken out of the program and the 50 Yard Match was added to the Conventional Prone Championship (6400). This action was in response to the numerous prone competitors’ requests. A winner will be selected from the 3-Position Championship (Metric and Conventional) and the Conventional Prone Champion as our National Smallbore Rifle Champion.

TCU, Murray State rounded out the top three. Twenty different Mountaineer shooters have claimed 27 National Championships since 1961. The Mountaineers claimed their fifth straight NCAA title in commanding fashion.

Ginny Thrasher won this year’s NRA Smallbore Metric 3-P Championship, dominating the competition with a score of 2305-81X, a full 35 points higher than 2nd place.

The selection of the 15-person U.S. Roberts team began in 2015.

ELEY ammunition is no longer just your competition .22LR. ELEY has entered the commercial .22LR market with one goal—produce the most accurate and reliable .22LR available to shooters at every level.

What to do when you are one of only a few in your area dedicated to a particular discipline?

Del Cotto won the Critchfield Trophy in 2016 at the NRA National Smallbore Rifle Conventional Prone Championships

The weather was cold, but the shooting was hot in merry England for the 2017 U.S. Roberts Team—pictured here celebrating their victory

In the past, smallbore referred to any caliber significantly less than .577