USHPSA NationaL RECORDS
The shooting sports are different now in the 2020s then they were back in the mid 20th Century. There are many new different courses of fire that didn't exist back then. Rifle types are different than they were back then. Also certain segments of the shooting community that were at a disadvantage possible are now on equal footing. With this in mind the USHPSA National Records are different.
- Sperate E-Target and Manual Target Records will be kept as there is an advantage to shooting on E-Targets with faster pit service and seeing your shots in rapid fire.
- Records will be kept by rifle type, certain rifle types have advantages ballistically than other types. This should apply to both sling and F-Class.
- Records are divided by course of fire across the course match slow fire records are not the same as mid range prone.
- Records will not be kept based on shooter category as rifle type and sighting system are more of a limiting factor than sex, age, or occupation.
- Since the records are on a shared document they are updated instantly when the match director enters the scores.
- Any scores shot in USHPSA affiliated matches since 2020 are eligible for national records
The different categories are pretty self explanatory but here are a couple of important distinctions.
- Palma rifles in Mid and Long range are iron sight and have no bullet weight limit
- Palma rifles in Fullbore have a 155gr limit for .308 and a 91gr limit for .223
- In a Palma and Fullbore Matches service rifles are permitted to use optics and thus have a separate record. With their ballistic limitations they are not at any advantage using a 4.5x optic.
- Iron sights are eligible for Any sight records if it is an Any sight match.
- Iron sights are eligible for Iron sight records because they shot iron sights.
National Records are found here
