LONG RANGE RIMFIRE PRECISION RIFLE COMPETITIONS
The 1st Edition Long Range Rimfire Precision Rifle Competition Rulebook is currently being reviewed and finalized by the Philippine Practical Shooting Association (PPSA) and the National Range Officers’ Institute (NROI). Pending its official release, the following general guidelines for the conduct of LRRP Rifle matches are being disseminated for the information of those intending to experience the new riflesport discipline. Long Range Rimfire Philippines Rifle Competitions (LRRP Rifle Competitions) are open to all single action, manual repeater actions (bolt action, lever action or pump) or semi-automatic rifles chambered for the .22 long rifle cartridge. Rifles chambered for the .22 rimfire magnum or .17 rimfires will not be allowed - but with enough interest, the PPSA Board may consider the use of rifles chambered for these cartridges in subsequent matches. Competitions will consist of shootings strings or courses of fire requiring no more than five rounds to complete with a par time of one minute. A combination of paper, frangible and reactive targets at distances of anywhere from 25 to 200 meters and farther will be used as target sets, with the shooter landing the most number of hits on target being declared as the match winner. To be competitive, rifles must be able to shoot a one-inch group or less at fifty meters - roughly the equivalent of a 2 MOA accuracy. Because of the distances involved, the use of a riflescope will be a necessity. There will be three types of matches, eg., the Short Range (SR) matches from 25 meters to 50 meters, the Medium Range (MR) matches from 25 meters up to a maximum of 200 meters (does not have to reach 200 meters - essentially anything above 50 meters is an MR match ), and the Long Range (LR) matches of 25 meters all the way up to 300-400 meters. At present and until further notice, all shooters will be competing in a single Open Division. However, the LRRP Rifle Rulebook as proposed eventually calls for classifying rifles into different divisions, e.g., Light Rifles weighing less than 8.5 pounds, Medium Rifles weighing more than 8.5 pound but less than 11.5 pounds and Heavy Rifles weighing more than 11.5 pounds. The top three shooters in each rifle division will be declared as match winners. Currently only the top three overall will receive medals, all others will only get certificates. All shooters competing in a LRRP rifle match will be awarded Certificates of Recognition which will provide their corresponding shooter classification for that particular match. The LRRP rifleman classification and the corresponding match scores needed to achieve the same as a percentage of total possible score are as follows: Master Rifleman - 90.001+% - 100.0% Expert Rifleman - 80.001+% - 90.0% Sharpshooter - 50.001+% - 80.0% Marksman - 35.001+% - 50.0% Basic Rifleman - 5.0% - 35.0% Unless otherwise indicated in the course of fire, targets may be engaged by the competitor in a freestyle manner. Usually we will have standard exercises for the first half and tactical exercises for the second half. Shooting mats or ground cloths that do not provide undue advantage are allowed as some of the targets will be engaged from a prone shooting position. Simple shooting slings, bipods, backpacks, rucksacks or sandbags may be used as an aid in shooting, along with elbow pads and knee pads unless prohibited in the course of fire. However, specially shooting jackets and shooting gloves that provide artificial support to the rifle while shooting will not be allowed, and so with palm rests, butt rests and butt hooks. Adjustable butts must be centered and adjustable cheek pieces fixed and taped in place. |
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LRRP
LRRP started life out as PTRA (Philippine Tactical RimFire Association), the morphed into Long Range RimFire Precision, and is now finally settled with LONG RANGE RIMFIRE PHILIPPINES (LRRP) - which we feel it should rightly be. It is under the wing of PPSA currently and internally it's chairman is Cong. Jack Enrile Jr. who realizes the value of RimFire rifles in this life. The LRRP strives to bring affordable competitions to the public by keeping costs down. All courses will be uploaded in this site so members can download them and enjoy them all throughout the country for no charge at all. All targets that we can accumulate will also be uploaded in PDF format so that when downloaded can be printed uniformly on simple bond paper. This is the same reason why we only give medals to the top three overall winners only - keeping the cost down and the fun plentiful and affordable. So far our competitions only had a registration fee of Php500 inclusive of 100 rounds of Armscor ammo. Currently this site is open to th public, soon we will just require registration wherein members register by just giving in their emails so we can send schedules and little reminders. Rest assured membership in this site will be free.
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