2025 Rule Change Summary

(See Rule Version 25.1, March 1, 2025)

There are no substantial changes to rules for 2025. As explained below, a few adjustments have been made, and several rules were further clarified.

Page 3 – Open round counts are encouraged.
Page 3 & 10 – Explains when chamber flags are to be used.
Page 5 – The age categories were renamed for simplification to Junior Trooper and Senior Trooper.
Page 7 – long guns with tubular magazines may have an extended magazine with limitations.
Page 8 – We clarified the section titled “Standards” by changing it to “Range and Match Standards”.
Page 8 – For emphasis and clarity, the RO Command first command was changed to “Load and make safe.”
Page 10 – A dropped gun, in any condition, from the loading table until cleared after the shooter has finished the stage is a Match DQ. A dropped gun includes a gun that slips and falls. All of this is unsafe gun handling.
Page 10 – Clarifies that, on an open round count stage, there is no penalty for a shooter putting too many rounds on a target except there is no correction of time.
Page 14 – Clubs must have a training program to where they allow starting in Condition 1.
Page 17 – The definition of a dropped gun includes a gun that slips and falls.