NRA

Highpower

Rifle

Questions or comments? Please contact:

John Donald

732-367-8052

jd1041@juno.com

Central Jersey Rifle & Pistol Club
168 Stump Tavern Road
Jackson, NJ 08701

Layout assistance Mark Havlik, American Legion Post 435, Webster, MN

What is Highpower you ask?

Rifles.
High Power competition is shot with center fire rifles divided into two categories.
  • 1 Service rifle, which consist of

The M1 Garand

The M14(M1A)

The AR15

 

Match Rifles have the advantage of better sights and a wider choice of caliber's

Were also seeing more and more AR15's modified to "match rifle" class

Courses of Fire
The courses of fire consist of four separate matches shot in three different shooting positions at three different distances.
 
The 80 round "National Match" course.

20 shots slow fire from "standing" at 200 yards. 
20 shots rapid fire from "sitting" at 200 yards. 
20 shots rapid fire from "prone" at 300 yards. 
20 Shots slow fire from "prone" at 600 yards. 

  The 50 round "National Match" course.

10 shots slow fire from "standing" at 200 yards. 
10 shots rapid fire from "sitting" at 200 yards. 
10 shots rapid fire from "prone" at 300 yards. 
20 shots slow fire from "prone" at 600 yards
*** Note: At Central Jersey we fire the 80 round course for all 4th Sunday NRA matches, while the CMP John C. Garand matches fire the 50 round course. All positions can be shot at reduced range with the appropriate reduced targets, here at Central Jersey we fire at 200 and 300 yards only. Each shooter has the option of firing the entire match at 200 yards or of move back to 300 yards for the prone stages.

 
You start in Standing position, at the 200 yard line. Standing is fired "slow fire" loading one shot at a time. You are allowed one minute per shot and are also allowed two additional minutes for two "sighting" shots.

 

The 80 round course is 22 shots, two sighting shots and 20 shots for record in 22 minutes.                      

The 50 round course is 12 shots, two sighting shots and 10 shots for record in 12 minutes.
 
Next is Sitting position, also shot at the 200 yard line. Sitting position is shot "rapid fire", 10 shots in sixty seconds with a mandatory reload. Just like in standing you are allowed two minutes for two sighting shots. Then the command is given for "shooters to rise", you load either two or five rounds for Service Rifle or five rounds for Match Rifle. When the targets come up you get into shooting position, fire your two or five shots, reload (eight or five) and finish firing in sixty seconds.

For the 80 round course you shoot two strings of 10 shots.

For the 50 round course you shoot one string of 10 shots.
The third match is shot from the "Prone" position at 200 or 300 yards. Just like "Sitting" it is shot "rapid fire" only now you have seventy seconds for ten rounds. As in Sitting you are allowed two minutes for two sighting shots.

For the 80 round course you shoot two strings of 10 shots.

For the 50 round course you shoot one string of 10 shots.

Note: All positions can be shot at reduced range with the appropriate reduced targets, here at Central Jersey we fire at 200 and 300 yards only. Each shooter has the option of firing the entire match at 200 yards or of move back to 300 yards for the prone stages.

The final match is shot from the "prone" position, only now in "slow fire" from the 200 or 300 yard line. 
You are allowed twenty two minutes for two "sighting" shots and twenty shots for record.

Note: All positions can be shot at reduced range with the appropriate reduced targets, here at Central Jersey we fire at 200 and 300 yards only. Each shooter has the option of firing the entire match at 200 yards or of move back to 300 yards for the prone stages.

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