Re: F Class Classifications
The shooter is required to maintain a temporary scorebook. You only shoot unclassified in your very first match.
19.14 Score Record Book - (Temporary Classification)-A competitor who does not have a regular NRA High
Power Rifle classification will obtain an NRA ''Score Record Book" from the Official Referee, Supervisor, or
Tournament Statistical Office, or from the Secretary of a sanctioned league, in which he will enter all his High
Power Rifle scores fired in NRA sanctioned individual and team competition of the types defined in Rule 1.6
subparagraphs (c) through (h) inclusive. The total of all scores so recorded, divided by the number of 10-shot
strings represented, will be the competitor's average for temporary classification in accordance with Table Il below.
Scores from at least one complete tournament (Rule 1.1) or league match (Rule 1.6(h)) are required in order to
establish an initial temporary classification. The Score Record Book and any such temporary classification are
superseded when the competitor's regular classification becomes effective.
F-Class classification percentages are as follows:
Table III
Individual F-Class
High Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.00 and above
Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.50 to 97.99
Expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.00 to 96.49
Sharpshooter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.50 to 93.99
Marksman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Below 91.50
Initial Classification -
19.16 Establishing Classification - A competitor will be classified when his scores for not less than 120 shots
have been reported as prescribed, except that classification will not include tournament or league scores until after
all scores for the tournament or league concerned have been reported. When his classification is assigned, he will
be furnished an official classification card showing the effective date.
High Power Rifle
19.17 Reclassification - A competitor who has been classified by the NRA will be reclassified as follows:
(a) NRA Headquarters will record all scores which qualify for classification purposes according to Rule 19.4.
(b) A competitor will be considered for reclassification upward when his most recently reported scores, for not
less than 240 shots (120 shots for Prone Classification), fired subsequent to the tournament date at which
he earned his current classification, have been recorded as prescribed, except that such consideration will
not include tournament or league scores until after all scores for the tournament or league competition
concerned have been recorded. If his average score so justifies, he will be reclassified upward
accordingly.
(c) A competitor will be reclassified downward only upon a request in writing by him to the NRA, and only on
the basis of at least 320 shots (180 shots for Prone Classification) recorded as prescribed, fired
subsequent to the effective date of his current classification. If his average on this basis so justifies he will
be reclassified downward accordingly.
(d) If after reclassification downward, a competitor regains the classification thus vacated, he will not again be
reclassified below the latter.
(e) A reclassified competitor will be provided a new Classification Card showing the effective date.
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