NRA National F-Class Prone Championships

Lodi, Wisconsin will host the NRA National F-Class Prone Championships starting September 30 through October 4th. I’m not that knowledgeable on F-Class shooting so I came across f-classinfo.com and they had some good background on the sport:

F-Class is the fastest growing long-range shooting sport in the world, and it is sure to continue growing as more and more people become familiar with its unique advantages and challenges.

F-Class was started in Canada. It was started as a fun class. In the beginning, it was mostly old time shooters, who put a scope and bipod on their rifle and shot along with the rest of the TR shooters. Mr. Farquharson came up with the idea of F-Class to enable he and other older long-range shooters to continue shooting along side of the people they had been competing with for most of their lives. Farquharson was a Canadian who shot what in most of the world is known as Fullbore Rifle. Fullbore (known as long-range or Palma shooting here in the States) is shot prone with a sling and iron sights, using a .308 Winchester and a bullet weight of no more than 156 grains.

Farquharson figured, that older shooters would be able to continue long-range shooting longer if their eyesight and bodies could be augmented by allowing them to use a scope and a rest to shoot. He convinced the Canadian NRA (the DCRA) to approve his idea and F-Class was named after him. F-Class migrated to the rest of the British Commonwealth and also to Germany, France, the Netherlands and the USA.

Check out f-classinfo.com for more information.

If you’re interested in competing in the NRA National F-Class Prone Championship, contact Karin Liebetrau at (608) 625-6005 or ekl@mwt.net.