A friend is setting up a competative rifle shoot for police officers. Competators will range from inexperienced patrol officers to qualified snipers. The targets will be standard size clay pigeons set at 25, 50, 75, and 100 yards. Five shots will be fired at each distance. What would you suggest for the time restrictions for each distance?

Based on my highpower rifle competition experience, it is easy for a competent rifleman to place four well-aimed shots in a 2" circle at 100 yards in under 30 seconds with a bolt action rifle.

Use that as your guide.

What kind of rifles and sights are we talking about here?

[ 08-26-2003, 21:11: Message edited by: Orion 1 ]

If I remember correctly, Jeff Cooper suggested something on the order of 2 seconds from signal to shot on both a 25 yard headshot (ordinary IPSC target) and a 50 yard center mass shot on a 10" round A-Zone. Given the size and distance of your targets, some adjustment would be appropriate I'd guess.

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One minute for a five shot string would be OK, since you are just breaking or missing.

NRA highpower rifle competition rules allow 60 seconds for sitting rapid fire. The shooter starts from the standing position and when targets rise or command is given to "commence fire", time starts; shooter assumes sitting position and fires 10 shots with one magazine change or reload being a requirement. Iron sights are the norm, rifle can be either semi-automatic or bolt gun. The SR 1, 100 yard target used has a 3.35" 10 ring. (The SR1 is a reduced target to similate the 200 yd. target normally used for this stage.)

For prone rapid fire @ 100 yds, the 10 ring on the SR 21 target is 2.12", time limit is 70 seconds for 10 rounds. As in sitting, shooter starts from standing position and one reload or magazine change is required. (SR 21 target is a reduced similation of the normal 300 yd target used for this stage)

Regards,
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