General Regulations for NRA Sanctioned Tournaments

Tournament sponsors must follow these Regulations as directed by Rule 1.4. They provide standard procedures required for the sanctioning of NRA Tournaments, establishing of fee structures, awards, reporting, cancellation, NRA membership requirements, and other items involved with NRA Sanctioned Tournaments, both Registered and Approved.

Send NRA your completed application and draft copies of your completed programs a minimum of 30 days in advance of the tournament date.

If the above is not done, NRA reserves the right to cancel its sanction of the tournament.

In order to be listed once in the Coming Events section of Shooting Sports USA, your application and programs must be sanctioned by the Competitive Shooting Division by the 15th of the month, 30 days before the month of issue. If you desire publicity in more than one issue an additional month's notice must be allowed for each monthly listing.

As soon as the tournament is granted Approved sanction, one copy of the signed application, an Official Sanction Poster, and a corrected (if necessary) copy of the draft program will be returned to the sponsor.

All changes and information provided in the approved draft program must appear in the final printed program. No major changes in courses of fire, number of matches, etc., may be made unless NRA is notified.

If a tournament is canceled, NRA must be notified immediately.

The NRA Classification System may be used, but is not required.

Courses of fire which may be used for classifications are listed in Rule 19.4. It is not required that these specific courses of fire be used in Approved Tournaments, but, if the scores are to be used for classification, they must be used.

All awards are furnished by the sponsor. The minimum award schedule must include only the Tournament Winner, that person/team firing the highest score regardless of classification or category.

The method, time and place of issuance of awards is at the option of the sponsor with due notice to the competitors in the Tournament Program.

NRA Registration Fee: A fee of $2.00 per competitor is charged by the NRA for Approved Tournaments.

Sponsor Entry Fees: The amount of these fees is determined by the sponsor, and must be stated in the program separately from the NRA Registration Fees.

All Officials of an NRA Approved Tournament may compete in that tournament.

NRA membership is encouraged but not required for participation in NRA Approved Tournaments. However, sponsors may elect to restrict those persons entering the tournament to NRA members only, if they wish to do so.

The Match Director is responsible for making certain that the following reports are forwarded to NRA within 30 days of firing. See Rule 19.13.

An SR-1 (Conventional) card for each competitor showing the total number of shots fired in individual matches and a total score; the number of shots fired in Fired Team Matches, and the total score of the fired match(es). The NRA membership ID number must be indicated on each card for classified competitors and NRA members who are not yet classified.

A registration fee reporting form, and remittance of $2.00 per competitor.

A copy of any special Match Director's Bulletins.

The following Regulations are established to provide standard procedures for all Registered Tournaments except Regional, Sectional, and National Championships. State Championships MUST be approved and recognized by the State Association (Rule 1.6).

Send NRA your completed applications and draft copies of your completed programs a minimum of 45 days in advance of the tournament date.

If the above is not done, the NRA reserves the right to cancel its sanction of the tournament.

In order to be listed once in the Coming Events section of Shooting Sports USA, your application and programs must be sanctioned by the Competitive Shooting Division by the 15th of the month, 30 days before the month of issue. If you desire publicity in more than one issue an additional month's notice must be allowed for each monthly listing.

As soon as the tournament is granted Registered sanction, one copy of the signed application, program, and an Official Sanction Poster, will be returned to the sponsor.

In cases where a Referee is assigned, the Official Poster will be mailed after the Referee assignment is made, and the sponsor will be notified of the identity of the Referee at the same time.

All changes and information provided in the approved draft program must appear in the final printed program. No major changes such as courses of fire, number of matches, etc., may be made unless NRA is notified.

If a tournament is canceled, NRA must be notified immediately.

Upon cancellation of a tournament, it is entirely possible that the Shooting Sports USA listing will continue for one month. It is not possible to remove a tournament from the listing after it has been submitted to the printer.

The NRA National Classification or Category System must be used in Registered Tournaments.

National Records may be set only in Registered Tournaments using courses of fire in Rule 17.5. Courses of fire which are used for classification are specified in Rule 19.4.

All awards are furnished by the sponsor. The method, time and place of issuance of awards is at the option of the sponsor with due notice to the competitors in the Tournament Program.

In Registered Tournaments, the minimum award schedule must consist of the following: Individual Match Awards Required and Team Awards Required (if there are team matches in the program).

Individual Match Awards Required: Winner in each individual fired match and in each aggregate, awarded to the competitor with the highest total score. Match winners may not receive a class award, but must be counted in with other members of that class to determine the number of class awards.

Individual Match Awards Required: High Scoring Competitor in each class in each match. Classes may be combined because of low entry, but the manner in which such combinations are made must be clearly stated in the program.

Team Awards Required: Winning Team of each team match - the team firing highest total score in the match.

NRA Registration Fee: A fee of $2.00 per competitor is charged by the NRA for Registered Tournaments.

Sponsor Entry Fees: The amount of these fees is determined by the sponsor, and must be stated in the program separately from the NRA Registration Fees.

The Match Director, Deputy Match Director, Chief Range Officer, and Chief Statistical Officer, may NOT compete in a tournament at which they are officiating. Rule 11 covers specific duties of Tournament Officials.

An NRA Official Referee will be assigned by NRA to all National Championships. Other Registered Tournaments will have a 3-member Jury appointed by the Match Director. See Rule 11.2.1.

NRA membership is encouraged, but not required of all competitors in a Registered Tournament, except for Juniors, who may be either individual members of the NRA, or members of an NRA affiliated organization.

Sponsors must check NRA membership cards when issuing entry packets. Sponsors may accept NRA membership applications and fees from non-members who wish to enter the tournament.

The Match Director is responsible for making certain that the following reports are forwarded to NRA within 30 days of firing. See Rule 19.13.

An SR-1 (Conventional) card for each competitor, showing the total number of shots fired in individual matches and a total score; the total number of shots fired in Fired Team Matches, and the total score of the fired team match(es). The NRA membership ID number must be indicated on each card. Score Reporting Cards are available free of charge on request in packs of 50.

A registration fee reporting form, and remittance of $2.00 per competitor.

A copy of any special Match Director's Bulletins.

A completed National Record Reporting form, even if no National Records were set.

One complete set of 'Official Final Results Bulletin of Standings' for the tournament.

A copy of the Official Final Results Bulletin must be sent to each competitor participating in the tournament within 30 days.

The requirement to get the Final Results Bulletin to competitors within 30 days may be met by posting the results on an internet web site, provided competitors can download and/or print a paper copy. Sponsors who post electronic results will provide the competitors with the web site address and must provide a paper copy to competitors upon request.