ENTRY OPENING DATE

Tuesday 8 November 2022

ENTRY CLOSING DATE

Tuesday 22 November 2022 at 23:59 – Student / Competitor Deadline

(Students / Competitors must apply by this deadline)

Thursday 24 November 2022 at 23:59 – Institution Administrator Deadline

(Institutional Administrators are given 48 hours after the student / competitor deadline to approve entries)

ENTRY COSTS

£22.50 per team entry.

£5.50 per individual competitor (for Individual Championship entry in addition to Team Championship)

SINGLE ENTRY

This competition will NOT operate a staged entry process. As such, please ensure all entries are submitted through BUCS Play prior to the closing date listed above.

The 2022-23 BUCS Rifle: Short Range Championships will consist of five postal rounds spread across December - February. All stickers and paperwork will be sent to the captain of each club to be disseminated amongst members.

The final day for shooting for each of the five rounds is as follows:

After the completion of these five postal rounds, there will be a Team and Individual Final, to be held on 25-26 March 2023 at Staveley Rifle and Pistol Club

BUCS Points available from this event can be viewed in Appendix 1.

No BUCS Points are awarded for the postal rounds, only the Championship round held on 18-19 March 2023.

All competitors will be supplied via post with 5 shooting stickers by the NSRA which will need affixing to competition cards. Cards from each round must be shot and returned to the NSRA’s Scorer within the timeframes listed in the BUCS Short Range Championships.

All cards must be shot in round/set order but can be shot ahead of the issued timetable. Cards must also be signed and dated by a witness.  

The top 12 Men, top 12 Women, top 6 Novice individuals as well as the top 8 teams with the highest combined scores will qualify for Short Range Championship Finals. 

Please see here for the BUCS Rifle regulations.

All shooters, team captains and witnesses must also familiarise themselves with the NSRA Rules & Regulations for postal competitions.  These can be found here.

Particularly:

Rule 7.4.10.1.1 – stickers must be affixed to the cards before shooting.

Rule 7.4.10.1.2 – the shooter must be correctly named on each card, either on the sticker or written in block capitals.

Rule 7.4.2 – The only thing that a shooter should be doing after shooting is signing the cards – nothing else.

Witnesses must be qualified to act as a witness under Rule 7.5.2 and must be fully conversant with their duties under R 7.6.

Rule 7.6.3.1 - the witness checks that the shooter has signed the card after shooting

Rule 7.6.3.2 - the witness signs and dates the card with the date of shooting after the card has been shot (and, de facto, signs that they have actually witnessed the shoot).

Therefore, to summarise:

1. Cards must not be dated before shooting commences as this is strictly forbidden.
   If there is already a date on the card, the witness should cross it out, initial it and write the date in again in their own handwriting.
    
2. Witnesses must witness the shoot, ie they must be watching while the competitor shoots their competition cards.
    
3. Competitors sign their card after shooting.
    
4. Witnesses sign and date the card after the competitor has shot and signed it.

1. Individuals and Team Members need to submit their most recent Short Range Average when entering on BUCS Play. This is calculated by using the best 10 of 12 last cards shot, or best 5 of 6 last cards shot. This should fall within the parameter range of 50.0 – 100.0.
2. For Short Range Rifle a Novice is a person within their first year of shooting NOT a fresher in their first year of university. Please ensure this question is answered correctly when entering on BUCS Play
3. Competitors may shoot their Individual and Team competitions concurrently, meaning that a series of shots is used to count for more than one competition by affixing stickers for both competitions to a single target prior to shooting.

Withdrawals before the entry deadline, 24 November 2022 at 11:59pm will not be charged.

Withdrawals after the entry deadline, 24 November 2022 at 11:59pm will still be charged the entry fee.

Withdrawals should be made through an institution administrator to Chris Lamb.