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Collegiate Rifle Rules and More

Learn the rifles, the time limits and scoring for NCAA teams.

Head Coach Karen Monez talks with members of the rifle team after practice. Photo by Rodger Mallison

Collegiate Rifle Rules and More

Learn the rifles, the time limits and scoring for NCAA teams.

Members of the rifle team take their positions practice, including standing, kneeling and laying. Photo by Rodger Mallison

Members of the rifle team take their positions, including standing, kneeling and prone. Photo by Rodger Mallison

TCU Rifle is one of 33 registered collegiate rifle teams with the NCAA. It is a coed sport, but four teams are all female. Men and women compete against one another in the same categories.

The NCAA teams follow the USA Shooting Olympic rifle rules, which means the rifles are the same. The distance to the target is the same for air rifles. For smallbore, the Olympic event is fired outdoors at 50 meters and for NCAA it is indoors at 50 feet.

The Rifles: An air rifle and a .22-caliber smallbore rifle.

The Times: Shooters have 75 minutes to fire 60 shots in the air rifle event and 95 minutes to fire 60 shots in the smallbore.

The Smallbore (.22) Rules: The shooter must fire 20 shots in each of three positions — kneeling, prone and standing — from 50 feet away.

The Air Rifle Rules: All shots are fired in the standing position from 10 meters away.

The Scoring: Shooters are given a score for each shot based on how close it is to the center of the target, the center being a 10. A “perfect 10” is actually a score of 10.9 since they are measured to the closest 10th.

Sources: Elizabeth Marsh and Karen Monez