NRA SR-3 300yd Rifle target
The SR-3 is the Short Range target with its black enlarged to take in the 8 ring, made for rapid-fire matches: ten shots prone in 70 seconds, reloading after the second or fifth shot. It carries that stage of the National Match Course at full distance, and the Springfield Course fires all four of its stages on it.
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Courses of fire
10 or 20 shots
| Course | Shots | Maximum |
|---|---|---|
| NMC rapid fire70 s | 10 | 100 |
| Regional rapid2 × 10 · 70 s per series | 20 | 200 |
| Springfield slow22 min | 20 | 200 |
Badges
United States · CMP and NRA
CMP Achievement Awards
Every CMP rulebook, from air gun and smallbore to service rifle, pistol and the CMP Games, sets achievement awards as an incentive to take part and improve. In EIC matches, shooters already Distinguished, who earn no more credit points, still compete for achievement pins. If extreme weather lowers every score in a CMP Games match, or many competitors are new, the match director may lower the bronze score, but not below the 40th-percentile competitor.
Gold, silver or bronze for equalling or exceeding the cut score in one match at a CMP-sanctioned or CMP-run competition. The cut scores come from earlier national championship scores, set so that roughly the top 40 percent of competitors earn an award: the top sixth of them gold, the next two sixths silver, the rest bronze.
CMP Air Rifle and Air Pistol Competition Rules, 5th ed. (2026), rule 11.1; CMP Highpower Rifle Competition Rules, 29th ed. (2026), rules 4.11.3, 9.3.9–9.3.10 and 10.3.3; CMP Games Rifle and Pistol Competition Rules, 13th ed. (2026), rules 4.8 and 4.8.4
Benchrest VMR Match
CMP
Course of fire30 record shots at 300 yd in 30 min, after 5 sighters, from a benchrest
| Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benchrest VMR MatchVMR category | 287+ | 279–286 | 270–278 |
| Vintage Sniper Rifle Benchrest | 300+ | 296–299 | 292–295 |
- Points over 30 record shots at 300 yards on the SR-3 target, after five sighters, in 30 minutes from a benchrest with at most two sandbag supports.
- The match has a vintage military rifle (VMR) category — as-issued M1 Garands, Springfields and other vintage military rifles — and a vintage sniper rifle category.
- At competitions only: medals at the National Matches and CMP Competition Games, pins that clubs order for their CMP-sanctioned matches.
CMP Games Rifle and Pistol Competition Rules, 13th ed. (2026), rules 4.8 and 5.6.6, pp. 39–40, 51–52; Annex A, p. 104
NRA Marksmanship Qualification Program
The NRA dates the programme to 1903 and measures shooters against par scores in 23 qualifications, from BB gun to shotgun and multi-gun. Awards are ordered from the NRA’s Program Materials Center: the discipline’s patch at the start, then a rocker, medal, pin and certificate for each rating. NRA members who reach Distinguished Expert get its packet free, and those who earn it in 2 or 3 of rifle, pistol and shotgun become Double or Triple Distinguished.
Ratings are earned in order, from Pro-Marksman up, at the shooter’s own pace; a score counts only toward the rating being worked on and cannot be held for a higher one, and the repetitions need not be fired in a row or in one session. Distinguished Expert firing is witnessed by an NRA member, instructor or coach, unless it is shot in competition.
NRA Marksmanship Qualification Program guide book, 11th ed. (January 2021), pp. 1–3 and 53–54; NRA Marksmanship Qualification Program, “Courses of Fire” and “FAQs”
High Power Rifle Qualification
NRA
Course of fire50, 80 or 100 shots: 200 yd standing slow, sitting or kneeling rapid, 60 s; 300 prone rapid, 70 s; 500–600 prone slow
| Rating | Scoreof the possible | Times |
|---|---|---|
| Pro-Marksman | 40% | 2 |
| Marksman | 55% | 2 |
| Sharpshooter | 70% | 3 |
| Expert | 80% | 3 |
| Distinguished Expert | 88% | 10 |
| Distinguished ExpertAt two NRA sanctioned high power competitions | 84% | 2 |
- Percent of the possible score over a 50-, 80- or 100-shot course, any of them at any rating, its four stages fired in one session: standing slow fire at 200 yards, sitting or kneeling rapid fire at 200 (60 seconds), prone rapid fire at 300 (70 seconds), prone slow fire at 500 or 600.
- Times is how many such scores.
- Any U.S. service rifle or centrefire rifle with metallic sights; a sling in every position but standing.
- Cards by range length: 600 yards SR, SR-3 and MR-1; 300 yards SR, SR-3 and MR-63; 200 yards SR, SR-42 and MR-52; 100 yards SR-1, SR-21 and MR-31.
- Open to everyone, NRA members or not; practice, league and match scores all count.
NRA Marksmanship Qualification Program guide book, 11th ed. (January 2021), pp. 26–27
How it is shot
Course · Championships · Springfield Course · Time · Reloading · Marking · Ties
- Course
- In the National Match Course it carries the 10-shot prone rapid-fire stage when that stage is fired at 300 yd; the SR-21 and SR-42 simulate it at 100 and 200 yd.NRA rules 4.2(b), 4.3(b) and 7.14
- Championships
- The four-day National Championship course has three 20-shot prone rapid-fire matches on the SR-3, on days 1, 3 and 4.NRA rule 7.23
- Springfield Course
- The 50-shot Springfield Course is fired entirely on the SR-3 at 300 yd: 20 shots prone slow fire, 10 prone rapid, 10 sitting rapid and 10 standing slow.NRA rule 7.21
- Time
- A 10-shot rapid-fire string allows 70 seconds prone and 60 seconds sitting or kneeling.NRA rule 8.2(b)
- Reloading
- In rapid fire the shooter loads 2 or 5 rounds when the targets appear and, after firing them, reloads 8 or 5. Reloading before the 2nd or 5th shot is fired scores zero for the whole 10-shot string.NRA rule 10.1.7
- Marking
- Where targets are scored in the pits, rapid-fire hits are signalled only after the string: spotters go into the hits and a chalk board hung on the frame shows how many hits of each value were scored.NRA rules 14.1(b) and 14.18(b)
- Ties
- Ties go to the most X’s over the course, then to the higher score at the longest (or simulated longest) range; where slow and rapid fire share one range, as in the Springfield Course, rapid-fire scores are compared first.NRA rules 15.4 and 15.7
Dimensions
6 rings · 939.8 mm
7.82 mm scoring gauge
| Ring | Colour | Diameter | Centre within |
|---|---|---|---|
| X ring | Black | 76.2 mm3.0 in | 42.01 mm |
| 10 | Black | 177.8 mm7.0 in | 92.81 mm |
| 9 | Black | 330.2 mm13.0 in | 169.01 mm |
| 8 | Black | 482.6 mm19.0 in | 245.21 mm |
| 7 | White | 635 mm25.0 in | 321.41 mm |
| 6 | White | 787.4 mm31.0 in | 397.61 mm |
| 5 | White | 939.8 mm37.0 in | 473.81 mm |
Source: NRA High Power Rifle Rules, Revised January 2026, rule 4.4(a). Sizes are nominal. Dimensions checked ; page updated .
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