BR30 .22LR Rimfire Rifle Medal Shoot
Selected days and start times throughout the year. Emmaville Rifle Range.
About This Shoot
BR30 is a 50 metre .22 rimfire benchrest target shooting discipline, which is similar to International Rimfire Benchrest (IRB) matches, except that it is run by SSAA NSW as a ‘postal competition’, and has a somewhat different set of rules, including ‘worst edge scoring’ of shots, a tighter time period to complete shots on target, and a weight penalty for heavy rifles …. which all goes to make the competition a notoriously difficult one.
A particular difference with our BR30 shoots to our other club competition matches, is that we do not run BR30 as regular monthly event on our calendar, but usually hold two or three shoots a year, often on weekdays, which our members hear about by being on our email list. The days for the shoots are most commonly selected based on weather forecasts for low winds, because the aim for our members in attending one of the shoots is to punch a personal best card, and hopefully, one which scores them either a Bronze, Silver or Gold medal from SSAA NSW.
BR30 shooting is hard enough even in good wind conditions, so we avoid days when the flags are likely to be flapping hard and switching!
If you are familiar with IRB shooting, you can jump right into the detail of how BR30 works by clicking the links below, to download details on how our shoots run, and the official SSAA rulebook. Then look out for an email from the club saying one is planned to get in touch with the organiser to say you are coming along. If on the other hand you are new to rimfire target shooting, why don’t you look out for an email of a BR30 shoot date, and just come along and try your hand? As with a lot of sports, you will get good most quickly at BR30 rimfire shooting, by just giving it a regular go!
Contact our BR30 Rimfire Shoot Organiser - Wayne Wells 0400 573 231 for more information.
In BR30, rifles are weighed before a shoot, and scores are adjusted via with percentage bonuses or penalties being applied depending on the weight. Thus a light hunting style rifle like this can compete with heavy target shooting rifles in the hands of a good shooter. Check our BR30 guide to see how your rifle would fit in the weight categories.
Shooting great cards in BR30 requires excellent technique, and especially with the need to fire a ‘shot every 30 seconds’ to make the time limit, a top mind-game also so as not to get flustered when a hole appears in to be ouching the 25 ring instead of the bull!
A BR30 target has, as the name implies, thirty small targets on it, set at 50metres from the benches You place one shot each target for a maximum score of 3000. In the 15 minutes allowed, you may however also shoot as many ‘sighting shots’ as you wish, into the top part of the target to test your rifle and the wind.
If you shoot a gun-weight-adjusted score on a card of 1000 or more, your card is sent to SSAA NSW Head Office for checking, and if the score adds up, they send back a Bronze Pin for our Chairman to present to you. A couple of our regular shooters have however shot above 1800 points, and so they are the proud owners of a silver pin. No one in the club has yet shot 2400 points to earn a Gold award, but we hope with shoots being regularly enough shot, that great day will soon arrive.