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Greetings,

I plan to shoot an NRA, not ISSF, Air Pistol, and Standard Pistol match in the next month and would like to know the correct way to record the scores of my fellow shooter.

Is the Inner Ten marked on the scorecard with an "X"?

Is a miss marked on the scorecard as an "M" or "0" (zero)?

I have been studying the NRA rule book on-line and find reference to breaking ties with the number of inner tens; but, no instruction as how to record them on the scorecard.

These matches are "low key" and do not have scoring machines. So 10.3 and 10.7, etc have no value at this point.

Cheers,

Dave

Greetings,

I see that my post has been viewed over 100 times and yet no one has posted a reply. Certainly my question may be considered simplistic; but, I would appreciate knowing the proper way to score the targets.

Just a simple post with reference to the rule number would suffice.

With kind regards,

Dave

fc60 wrote:Greetings,

I see that my post has been viewed over 100 times and yet no one has posted a reply.

Well, a good proportion of those 100 may be concerned only with ISSF rules, and therefore have no knowledge of or interest in NRA rules. For the rest of us, we have the same rulebook you do! Since it's not addressed in the rulebook, you'll have to fall back on the tradition at that particular match. A "C" or a "10C" or an "X" shouldn't be that hard for someone to understand. For what it's worth, I've always marked them as "C".

In my area, a ten is marked "X", an inner ten is marked "X" with an "O" around it. A miss is marked with a bar, "-".

Greetings to all,

I have not seen either of the two previous methods of scoring. It's got me thinking.

Many thanks for your input!

Cheers,

Dave

fc60 wrote:Greetings to all,

I have not seen either of the two previous methods of scoring. It's got me thinking.

Many thanks for your input!

Cheers,

Dave

The simple maxim, is if in doubt, ask. Ask at the range when you get there what the scorers want you to do.

Rob.

RobStubbs wrote:The simple maxim, is if in doubt, ask. Ask at the range when you get there what the scorers want you to do.

Rob.

Absolutely, just find out what the local convention is when you get there.

Hi Dave,

I'm not familiar with NRA rules for standard pistol, but in conventional (bullseye) matches each shot is given the value of the highest ring it touches, and inner 10's or X's are not scored. If your shot touches the '10' ring but not the 'X' ring you get a '10.' If your shot touches the 'X' ring you get an 'X'. That's the best you can do.

In my experience misses are scored 'M', but I suppose that '0' could be used at the match staff's discretion. The rule book is not explicit about this. As Ron Stubbs wrote, ask at the range. In most conventional pistol matches competitors score each others' targets, and an experienced competitor will probably be happy to tell you how things are done at that range.

By the way, there are on-line rule books for all NRA disciplines at:

http://www.nrahq.org/compete/nra-rule-books.asp

BC

The matches I've competed in, we've marked the inner tens "C" and the outer tens "10 " -- then when totaled, each card would look something like this:

C, C, 10, 8, 7
C, C, C, 10, 8
10, 9, 9, 9, 9
C, 10, 10, 9, 7
etc.
and the totals would look like this:
45 - 2
48 - 3
46
46 - 1
etc.

Hope this helps.