NRA SR-42 200yd Rifle target
The SR-42 scales down the SR-3 rapid-fire target so that the prone rapid-fire stage of NRA High Power’s National Match Course can be shot at a reduced distance: ten shots in 70 seconds, reloading after the second or fifth. With the SR and MR-52 the whole course can be fired at one distance, with national records kept for it.
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Courses of fire
10 or 20 shots
| Course | Shots | Maximum |
|---|---|---|
| Rapid fire prone70 s | 10 | 100 |
| Regional rapid2 × 10 · 70 s per series | 20 | 200 |
Badges
United States · NRA
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 · Time · Sighters · Reloading · Pit marking · Extra hits
- Course
- On its own it carries 10- or 20-shot prone rapid-fire matches at 200 yd, which NRA marks as a reduced target and distance course; national records are kept for 20 shots.NRA rules 7.7 and 17.5(j)
- Time
- A 10-shot rapid-fire string allows 70 seconds prone, against 60 seconds sitting or kneeling.NRA rule 8.2(b)
- Sighters
- If the match allows sighters, they come first: two slow-fire sighters in a two-minute period, loaded one round at a time; any sighter not fired in that time is recorded as a miss in the sighter space.NRA rules 9.2(d) and 10.7
- 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
- Pit 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)
- Extra hits
- When a shooter fires all ten rapid-fire shots in time and 11 or 12 hits appear on the target, the ten highest count, with no option to refire.NRA rule 14.10(c)(3)
Dimensions
6 rings · 623.8 mm
7.82 mm scoring gauge
| Ring | Colour | Diameter | Centre within |
|---|---|---|---|
| X ring | Black | 48.26 mm1.9 in | 28.04 mm |
| 10 | Black | 115.83 mm4.6 in | 61.83 mm |
| 9 | Black | 217.42 mm8.6 in | 112.62 mm |
| 8 | Black | 319.02 mm12.6 in | 163.42 mm |
| 7 | White | 420.62 mm16.6 in | 214.22 mm |
| 6 | White | 522.22 mm20.6 in | 265.02 mm |
| 5 | White | 623.82 mm24.6 in | 315.82 mm |
The card
- X ring
- The X is an inner circle that breaks ties without changing the total: the highest value on an NRA high power target is 10, so the inner circle is marked X, the Roman numeral ten.NRA Glossary, “X” Ring
Source: NRA High Power Rifle Rules, Revised January 2026, rule 4.3(b). Sizes are nominal. Dimensions checked ; page updated .
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