Welcome to the home page for web information from the NRC of Pistol Australia Inc. Updated – 18^th April 2013 Unless otherwise attributed, © 2013, Pistol Australia Inc. This web information is provided by Pistol Australia for those Australian pistol shooters who value our sport enough to be affiliated to PA.

By Discipline · *ISSF · *Service · Black Powder · Metallic Silhouette · Mayleigh Cup · *Action Pistol (1920 Match) · WA1500 NRC Newsletter · *Latest Newsletter Resources · Resources listing · Downloads · PA RO Guides · Rules · NRC Info Sheets · Links · Manuals · Officials’ Courses · Q&A General information · PA Holster Accreditation · Officiating Q&A · Targets · Definitions · Past PA Nationals · PA shooters at the Olympics past Paralympics · PA shooters at the Commonwealth Games · About the NRC

Latest Items · ISSF Video of Changwon World Cup Finals o 25m RFP Final o 25m Womens Final o 10m Air Pistol Men o 10m Air Pistol Women o 50m Pistol Thinking caps on! How do we run 25m RFP Finals on paper targets; and at what point do we call it quits for tied scores for 25m Womens Finals medal shoot-offs? (more, here) · New PA Judges Congratulations to: o Barry Ducket – PA Judge B, Service Pistol o Ray Gray – PA Judge B, Service Pistol & Black Powder o Cherie May – PA Judge B, Service Pistol & Black Powder o Karl Friehe – PA Judge B, ISSF o John Harris – PA Judge B, ISSF · Some information on chamber/barrel indicator flags (ISSF Rule 6.2.2.2) – here NOTE – this is for information only! · E-mail notifications I sent out an e-mail update notification today, and there were a number of ‘returns’. If you are on the notification list and did not get the notification, send me you current (new?) e-mail address. · Call for Jury Nominations, Commonwealth Games, Glasgow (closes 15 March) Jury Application form and Shooting Sport Selection Criteria and Principles · PA Printing of the 2013 ISSF rule book There are numerous typos and (how do I put it?) some areas of inconsistency in the ISSF’s 1^st printing, Rather than authorise a print run of the existing, somewhat flawed, rules the NRC intends to wait for the corrected version from the ISSF. PA will not be adopting the ‘new’ rules until 2^nd April 2013, but for those who want to be ‘prepared’: o 2013 1^st Printing available as a zipped pdf file. This is the complete 466 pages! o Interim (not the final version!) RO Guides for 10m and 50m Pistol on paper targets (pdf) o Explanation sheets for Finals (pdf) o My extract of the bits that will affect ISSF pistol o (Note that AISL AusCups will be to the new rules from AusCup 1 in February – more>) o Most ranges will be able to accommodate “ATTENTION (7 seconds delay) for Rapid Fire Pistol when it is introduced by using the 8, 6 and 4 seconds settings on Service Pistol timers. · VALE Peter Newlyn HARDING – 11/12/1934 - 20/01/2013 NRC Councillor, PA Judge A and ISSF Judge. For many years Peter was in charge of the ordering, stocking and dispatch of the various NRC items. Please allow us a bit of time to reorganise the procedures for the dispatch of NRC items (rule books, etc.). · PA adopts changes to PA Service Pistol rules for disabled shooters Following an electronic vote in December, PA has adopted provisions for disabled shooters in the PA Service Pistol events. Effective immediately. More> · PA adopts changes to pistol specifications for the 25 yards Service Pistol event Following an electronic vote in December, PA has adopted changes to the pistol specifications for 25 yards Service Pistol. This will allow a number of semi-automatic pistols that previously wer slightly outside the maximum barrel length to be used for this event. Effective immediately. More> · Action Pistol (International 1920 Match) At the PA ECM 20/10/2012 the Executive Offers voted to change the discipline name back to ‘Action Pistol’ – more · WA1500 information page updated · WA1500 RO Course here · 2013 Nationals, Perth – more …and, of course… · NRC Director’s personal view on life, its meaning, etc.