NRA Competitive Shooting News

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2010 National Championships
I hope that you all would agree that the 2010 Championship season was one of the best in recent years. Many of the upgrades and improvements that your Competitive Shooting Staff members have developed are making a marked improvement on our Championships.

Some of the highlights of these efforts are the improved awards schedules implemented in all NRA National Championships, improved communications with the upgrades to Shooting Sports, USA and the advent of our new E News letter that you are now reading. More care and attention to our ranges and range maintenance at our Championships host ranges including better targets, frames, wind flags and other such improvements. New Corporate sponsors have made a lot of this new activity possible and I would like to thank all of our Sponsors for their continued support.

You have asked us for these improvements and we are listening. The NRA is not immune to the effects of the turndown of the economy so we may not be able to continue the improvements at the pace we have over the past three years but we will continue our efforts to bring you the best Championships possible.

One of the most important 2010 objectives for the Competitive Shooting Division was to have a fully operational web based online sanction program up and running by year end. Well, the work is complete and the program will go up online October 1, 2010. We will send out a special email alerting you to the proper URL as we get everything finalized.

Online Tournament Sanctioning Up and Running
NRA sanctioned over 11,000 tournaments in 2010 and this is a very nice increase in local, State and Regional Tournaments. We thank each of you for working with NRA Staff to sanction your matches. Next year it will even be easier with our new online tournament sanction website, I discussed this in last month’s issue. Watch Shooting Sports, USA for a complete story “New Online Tournament Process Goes Live” in the November 2010 digital edition. This story will walk you through the system and show you screen shots of the actual program.

We are working hard to get our 2011 Sectional programs written and available to all Sectional Tournament sponsors. Rifle, Pistol and Collegiate Sectional information will be out soon.  The online tournament sanctioning is up and running!  To get started, visit our NRA Online Tournament Registration website at www.nrahq.org/compete/tournaments/.

About H

Dan started shooting competitive smallbore in 1986. During his Junior career, he earned two national junior team titles as well as local and regional wins. After a 10 year year hiatus to attend college and start a family, Dan returned to the sport and has added local, sectional and regional wins to his shooting resume. Dan is a Distinguished Rifleman, National Record Holder, U.S Dewar Team Member, Black Hawk Rifle Club Member, Digby Hand Schützenverein member, and is the founder of pronematch.com. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and 2 children.
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