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Updated Ammunition Policy for World Shoot

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The National Shooting Complex has updated its ammunition policy for the upcoming World Skeet Championships to address availability issues:

We have been working diligently with all of our ammunition sponsors to secure as much ammunition as possible for the World Skeet Championships. Despite our efforts to ensure that we have enough ammunition on hand, we unfortunately WILL NOT have enough on site for everyone to purchase for everything they are planning to participate in. We have a great deal of ammunition on hand, but knowing the demand will be higher this year, we want to ensure there isn’t a shortage.

Based on this information, we strongly advise bringing your own ammunition, especially sub-gauge loads, to the event. Bringing your own is the only way to guarantee you will have ammunition to shoot.

This does not mean you cannot attend if you cannot bring your own ammo. Our request for participants to bring ammunition is to ensure that EVERY shooter is able to shoot EVERY event they want.

Many shooters already possess or have local access to all the ammunition they need for the World Shoot and the rest of their shooting year, and many shooters drive to the National Shooting Complex, making it easy for them to bring ammunition with them. If that applies to you, we encourage you to consider bringing yours to allow those who do not have and cannot acquire it locally, international shooters who cannot bring or ship theirs, and those for whom shipping is cost-prohibitive to purchase what they need at the event.

Sub-gauge loads are our primary concern, especially 20-gauge. As a reminder, reloads are allowed for all events.

If you must purchase ammunition at the event, please be aware that you will only be allowed to purchase enough to cover your competition events. Verification of event entry will be required to purchase ammunition. No practice ammunition will be sold at the event.

For participants flying to the World Skeet Championships, we advise shipping your ammunition. UPS guidelines for shipping can be viewed at UPS Guidelines (Scroll down for Shipping Ammunition). Ammunition should be sent to the participant’s name and reference the event. The mailing address is 5931 Roft Road, San Antonio, TX 78253.

Again, we are not requiring every shooter to bring ammunition to the National Championship. If you are one of the fortunate shooters to have adequate supplies and a means of transporting it to the NSC, we are asking you to help us ensure that EVERY shooter has access to what they need.

We understand this is an inconvenience and apologize in advance.
 

Photo Gallery: 2021 Kolar U.S. Open Skeet Championship

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With 785 shooters in the HOA, the 2021 Kolar U.S. Open iShoot was a success by all accounts. Held simultaneously at 15 different clubs across multiple states and time zones, the event saw terrific attendance and stiff competition. Stuart Brown, shooting at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, broke 399×400 to win HOA outright.

Enjoy this series of photos from various clubs. If you have photos from a club that’s not represented here, you can email them to hdyer@nssa-nsca.com, and we’ll be happy to add to our photo gallery.

Click on the photo to enlarge.

3F Conservation Society, Lewiston, New York

 

Sauk Prairie Trap & Skeet, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Photos by Mark Brendemuehl

 

Big Hollow Shooting Complex, Heber, Utah

 

National Shooting Complex, San Antonio, Texas

Photos by Lefty Ray Chapa

 

Shenecoy Sportsman, McConnellstown, Pennsylvania

 

Salisbury Gun Club, Parsonburg, Maryland

 

Blue Rock Sportsman’s Club, North Little Rock, Arkansas

Photos by Keith Sutton

 

Jacksonville Clay Target Sports, Jacksonville, Florida

Photos by Melissa Fuller

 

Fort Bragg Clay Target Center, North Carolina

 

United Sportsmen Incorporated, Concord, California

Photos by Casey Campbell

Attention Referees: We’re Hiring for the World Shoot

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The World Skeet Championships will be here before you know it, and we’re busy making sure we have enough staff on hand to make it run smoothly. The NSSA is looking for well-qualified referees to officiate the event, held from October 1-8, 2021. To attract the best referees, we’re offering excellent pay, hotel accommodations for non-local refs, a travel stipend for full-time refs working the Mini and Main, daily lunch, and a fuel stipend for local referees. Referees wanting to work the Mini World October 1-3 and shoot the Main events on October 4-8 are welcome to apply. You can apply to work the Mini, the Main or both.

Applicants should note that for 2021, we are not using the Briley wand, as a sanitation precaution.

 

Download 2021 World Shoot Referee Information

Download 2021 World Shoot Referee Application

2021 Temporary Change to Defective Ammunition Rule

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As many of you know, there is a temporary lack of availability of factory ammunition which is impacting the 2021 shooting year. It is often difficult for shooters and clubs to obtain reasonable factory ammunition. With that said, the Executive Committee has approved a TEMPORARY rule modification for the 2021 SHOOTING YEAR ONLY as it pertains to defective ammunition.

While the overall rule does not change, this special note has been added to III-A-12-d:
NOTE for 2021 ONLY: If factory ammunition is not readily available at the shoot location, and a shooter has had two instances of defective ammunition, the shooter may obtain a different box of reloads and then is allowed two additional instances of defective ammunition. But the shooter is capped at 4 malfunctions a round with reloads. See full rule below.

III-A-12. Defective Ammunition

    a. Defective Ammunition will be defined as:

      1) Failure to fire, provided firing pin indentation is clearly noticeable.
      2) When a target is missed in the case of an odd-sounding shell, which in the sole judgment of the field referee does not deliver the shot the distance to the target, and therefore does not give the shooter a fair opportunity to break the target. NOTE: If a target is broken with an odd-sounding shell, it shall be scored dead regardless and will not be considered defective ammo. Odd-sounding shells where the shot does travel the distance to the bird and provide the shooter a fair chance to break the target will not be considered defective ammo and the results of those shots will be scored.
      3) Brass pulling off hull between shots on doubles.
      4) Separation of brass from casing when gun is fired (usually accompanied by a whistling sound as the plastic sleeve leaves the barrel).

     
    b. Wrong sized shells or empty shells shall not be considered defective ammunition.

    c. Repeated Targets – A target shall be repeated for each allowable instance of defective ammunition.

    d. Number allowed – A shooter will be allowed only two instances of defective ammunition from the first box of shells used in that round. After two instances of defective ammunition in a round or a shoot-off round, a shooter may obtain a FACTORY box of ammunition and is then allowed two additional instances per box of FACTORY shells in that round. If shells are not changed in a round after two ammo malfunctions have been ruled, the third and all subsequent occurrences in that round will be excessive. EXCEPTION: If a shooter is provided a proof shell by the referee and defective ammunition is ruled on that proof shot, that instance will not count against the shooter as defective ammunition.

    NOTE for 2021 ONLY: If factory ammunition is not readily available at the shoot location, and a shooter has had two instances of defective ammunition, the shooter may obtain a different box of reloads and then is allowed two additional instances of defective ammunition. But the shooter is capped at 4 malfunctions a round with reloads.

Do You Know the Rule on Colliding Doubles?

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It has been over a year since the updated rule on Doubles or Proof Doubles was proposed and approved by the Board of Directors. You can see the entire Rule III-E Doubles or Proof Doubles at right or see the Rule Book.

This change was made to reduce the inconsistency in how the rule is applied. Let’s start with the definition of a III-A-13 – Dead Target. “A Dead Target is a target from which, in the sole judgement of the referee, a visible piece is observed before the target hits the ground as a result of legally being fired upon.” With that said, on a double or proof double, if two whole targets collide before or after being legally fired at, the referee is prevented from observing the (first) target to the ground, and, therefore, it cannot be ruled as either dead or lost.

Rule III-E-2 now gives the shooter the benefit of the doubt when two whole targets collide on a pair before or after being legally fired at; the correct call is “No Bird, Proof Doubles to establish both birds of the pair.” The rule remains the same in the situations when both targets are broken with one shot (III-E-5-e), or a piece off the first target which was properly broken breaks the second target of a double (III-E-5-h). Both these instances will not be affected and will still be: “First target dead; proof double to determine the results of the second target.” The only change is when two whole targets collide on a pair before or after being legally fired at; and since the first bird could not be observed to the ground, the correct call would be “Nothing established, proof doubles to establish both targets.”

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