NRA Whittington Center — Coal Canyon Precision Rifle Match

We have a few exciting changes for 2025:

New Match Director – As many of you already know, our long time Match Director, Mike Kolar decided to retire from the match at the end of the 2024 season.  Fortunately, Mike wanted to ensure that the match continued for years to come.  Over the past year, Mike has been working to prepare his successor and new Match Director, David McInnis for the job.  Most match regulars will recognize David as a long time shooter (and frequent winner) of the match.

New Rimfire Match Director – Mike also wanted the Rimfire Match to continue on.  Taking over the Match Director position for the Rimfire Match is Brad Riley.  Brad has been a Rimfire Match regular and also runs the 2-gun match at the Coal Canyon site each year.

New Novice Class – The most common complaint we get from new and junior competitors is that they don’t have enough time to engage all of the targets.  So, we are introducing a new “Novice Class” that will allow 4 minutes to complete each stage in lieu of the 3 minutes allowed for Open Class.  More details available here.

We will be back in 2025 under a new name:

The NRA Whittington Center

COAL CANYON PRECISION RIFLE MATCH

But, you can expect the match itself to remain basically unchanged from its current format with monthly matches from February through September.

 

Last Matches of the season!

Saturday:

• SRM Rimfire Match 8:00 AM – Noon
• SRM set-up (we can always use help) 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
• Practice range open 3:00 – 5:00 PM
• Early SRM sign-in 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Sunday:

• Regular match sign-in  6:45 to 7:15 AM
• Practice range open 6:45 to 7:15 AM
• Gate locked and mandatory shooters meeting at 7:45 AM
• Match will start at 8:00 AM

As always, be sure to check back here before you leave home as matches are subject to cancellation due to weather conditions and other factors.

2024 will be the 20th year of the Sporting Rifle Match!

A brief history of the Sporting Rifle Match

The 2024 match schedule is now approved and available for viewing under the Schedule tab or as a PDF download under the Downloads tab.

For those of you who are familiar with our usual schedule, please note that the June matches will be on the last weekend of May this year to allow a PRS match on the first weekend.

The Sporting Rifle Match Schedule can be found at the “Schedule” and “Downloads” Tabs.

Please remember that all competitors in the various Sporting Rifle Match events must fill out and sign a NRA Whittington Center liability waiver annually.  We would prefer that you use the link below and do it online, but we will have the paper version for you to fill out and sign at each match as well.

NRA Whittington Center Online Waiver

Matches are limited as to the number of competitors.   Preregistration on Practiscore is strongly recommended to reserve a position for each match.  Preregistration for each match opens approximately 30 days prior the match date.  Match fees are to be paid in cash at each match.

IMPORTANT:  Matches are sometimes cancelled at the last minute due to weather of other unforeseen conditions.  Be sure to check back before you travel as we will post any cancellation notices here.