NSSA - National Skeet Shooting Association
The National Skeet Shooting Association is the world's largest organization dedicated to the sport of Skeet Shooting.
You can plan your registered shooting events for the next three months with our printable NSSA Shoot Register.
So you won’t have to search through monthly target listings to find registered tournaments, we’ve separated those two categories into separate lists.
Our list is automatically updated weekly, so you can check back at any time to find events for the next three months, by state. You’ll also find Top 100, Zone, and State shoots on every month’s listing.
NSSA and NSCA will each award four $2500 college scholarships this year to deserving members who will graduate from high school and start a four-year college program in 2020.
The scholarships will be awarded based on academics, citizenship, and participation in NSSA or NSCA. Applicants must submit an application, a short essay, a transcript, and a letter of recommendation. The scholarships are paid incrementally by semester, and students must maintain a B average.
The deadline to apply is March 1, 2020. Scholarship winners will be notified prior to the end of the school year and will be featured in an upcoming issue of Clay Target Nation.
See full requirements and application forms below.
The NSSA Board of Directors has adopted three rule changes that will be effective January 1.
The change to rule III-E eliminates some language regarding the ruling on Doubles or Proof Doubles. Deletions from the current rule are struck through.
2. If a double is thrown but the targets collide, before the result of the first bird is determined, it shall be declared no bird, and the result of a proof double shall determine the score of both shots.
5. If the shooter is deprived of a normal second shot for any of the following reasons, the result of the first shot shall be scored even if an apparent gun malfunction may have occurred on the second shot, and the second target only shall be declared no bird and a proof double shall be fired to determine the result of the second shot.
g. The first shot is lost and a collision occurs before the result of the second shot is determined.
Explanation:
This rule change stems from inconsistency in how the rule is applied. Additionally, it does not allow a referee to “watch the (first) target to the ground…” Some referees do make a call of, “no bird; nothing established, proof double to determine the results of both targets,” but it is not consistent across referees. The rules regarding breaking both targets with one shot (III-E-5-e), or a piece off the first target properly broken breaking the second target of a double (III-E-5-h). Both these instances will still be, “first target dead; proof double to determine the results of the second target,” would not be affected.
This rule gives the shooter the benefit of the doubt when the targets collide on a pair. The rule change will also help in more consistent calls when this situation does arise.
He/she then shoots 100 straight in the first shoot of the current year. The new average and class are (dropping 95 at the top of the list): 94+97+97+99+100=487/500=.9740 and is still in class A for the next shoot.
d. A classified shooter who wishes to self-declare into a higher class may do so, including into AAA but thereafter may not shoot below the declared class for the remainder of the shooting year. When a shooter so elects, he/ she must present his/her card at a registered shoot and have his/her card marked by management with his/her self-declared class before competing in the event for which he/she is declaring upward and also be entered upon the official entry form as self-declared.
Changes to II-H-1-b. Deletions from current rule are struck through. The rule is returned to its original intent and includes the Robert Nesbitt Veteran HOA Award.
That for the consideration for Annual High Average Leader (Open and Concurrent) recognition, only targets shot at registered shoots with ten or more entrants per event will be counted. Monthly targets and targets only are excluded from the calculation, except where a Sub-Junior, Junior or Collegiate shooter chooses not to pay the mandatory purse portion of an entry fee. This rule applies ONLY to the seven (7) Jay Schatz Annual High Average Leader awards for Open 12, 20, 28, 410, Doubles HOA, Lady HOA and the Robert Nesbitt Veteran HOA award., and any national team, award or recognition based on averages.
The Rules Committee provides some history on this rule and why this change is being made:
It recently came to the Rules Committee’s attention that the rule regarding qualification for High Average Leader is being applied to awards it was not originally intended to. To wit, the Honor Squad. The requirement for there to be at least 10 entries in an event for the score (average) to count was originally intended to apply ONLY to the seven annual High Average Awards (Jay Schatz) that are presented at the Hall of Fame banquet for the high average individual in the five gauges, HOA and Lady HOA. The rule currently states this, but, at the end of it, the Nesbitt award “…and any national team, award or recognition based on averages” are also included.
In June 2006, the Executive Committee voted to send a ballot to the Board of Directors to change II-H-1-b (which was II-I-1-b at that time), adding the requirement for 10 or more entries in an event and to exclude monthly targets and TOs from the high average calculation, but ONLY for the seven Jay Schatz awards. The change was approved by the Board, retroactive to Nov. 1, 2005 (the start of the 2006 shooting year), and it was worded that way in the Rules Book, and every year through 2012.
In 2013, the wording was changed, adding the Nesbitt Award and any national team, award, or recognition based on averages. In 2012, we had a rather lengthy rules ballot as part of the consolidation effort for the Rules Book, but II-H-1 was not part of the revision. Nothing could be found in any Rules or Executive Committee meeting minutes in 2012 or 2013 recommending the addition. When, or how, the wording was changed is unknown.
The current wording of the rule affects not only the Honor Squad and Robert Nesbitt awards but also, unintentionally, Sub-Junior, Junior and Sr. Veteran All-America teams because they use a “hybrid” of points and averages to select those teams. The All-American Selection Committee Chairman was unaware that some individuals were removed from consideration for those teams in past years. Additionally, individuals were not included on the High Average lists in the Records Annual if they didn’t have the standard requirements of registered targets from events with at least 10 entries; the “10-entry” requirement was intended to apply only to the individual with the highest average, not to anyone else.
The new rule offers more shooters the opportunity to be recognized and does not dissuade shooters from participating in smaller events while still maintaining a competitive requirement for the top nationally recognized high average awards.
