NRA Silhouette Air Rifle Rules Regarding Scope Height....Question...

Jump to latest Follow Reply
edgarner

edgarner

Member
Apr 26, 2019
59
4
Arkansas, United States
Hi All,

A friend mentioned that I needed to be careful about putting risers on my air rifle scopes and that the limit measured from the receiver to the bottom of the scope tube could not be more than 1.5". Using BKL risers, my Open class rifle measured 1.52" in the front and 1.56" at the back rings. This was measured from the top of the receiver not the mount groove in the receiver. (I wondered because it seems different rifles might have a different depth of groove from the actual top of the receiver...) The reason for the difference front to back is the back ring has a shim).

I went to the NRA rule book. While High Power and High Power Hunting have height restrictions and Smallbore and Smallbore Hunting refer to those, being 2" and 1.5", respectively, the Air Rifle classes do not refer to any of the previous rules on scope height. I couldn't see any overall rule which applied to Air Rifle scope height.

Any NRA national match directors/judges out there? A tall necked fellow could use some advice.....

Ed Garner


 
I would not worry about being challenged for scope height because almost nobody is running NRA Approved air rifle matches. We do but the chance anyone would challenge you would be slim to none. Oh forget the slim. We are so glad to have people come and shoot we do not nit pick.

Open air rifle is pretty much that. Rifle weight and target damage would generally be the only issues that ever come up and we never weight the guns anyway.

Rick B.
 
Upvote 0
I have never attended a sanctioned air gun silhouette match. But I came into airguns from the silhouette discipline. I have never found written rules to questions I had from small bore and high-power. Such as the scope to receiver height limit or the maximum thickness of the forearm of the stock or the trigger pull. There is the phrase that mentions unaltered 10 meter guns. I think with that it is seen that the rules that usually apply to the rifles can not be met using air guns that are in production. Like my Wolverine would have too thick of a stock in the palm area. At first I wanted to duplicate my 1712 Anschutz so I set up a AA 400 exactly then a Regal Huntsman. But since there isn't any desire from the crowd to hold real silhouette matches. I shoot what I want.



Copied

Target Air Rifle: Any unaltered factory target air rifle designed for U.S. and International 10 meter competition. (i.e., as produced or sold by Anschutz, Beeman, Crosman, Daisy, Feinwerkbau, RWS, Steyr and Walther). Use of scopes or iron sights, including diopter sights is allowed. Any older gun may be brought up to current fac- tory specifications using only factory catalogue barrel weights.

Sporter Air Rifle: Any unaltered factory sporter air rifle that is or was a catalogue item, readily available over the counter to the general public, weighing no more than 11 pounds, with a scope and mounts. Rifles utilizing pre-charged systems of any kind other than 12.0 gram disposable CO2 units are prohibited.

Open Air Rifle: Any air rifle weighing no more than 16 Ibs. with scope and mounts. Length of barrel and action measured from the rear of the metal action or air chamber to the end of the muzzle, including any extension, must not exceed 40”. Rifle may utilize any self-contained or externally-charged compressed air system, but such system must be completely self-contained at time of fir- ing. Hook buttplates are prohibited. All air rifles not meeting Rules 3.3(a) or 3.3(b) will be fired in the Open Air Rifle class. The storage of reservoir tanks for either compressed air or CO2 is prohibited on the firing line or in adjacent spectator areas. (See Rule 
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back
Home
Forums
Resources
Menu