NRA National Records

The NRA is the national governing body of a variety of disciplines within competitive shooting. The NRA sponsors over 50 national championships and sanctions 10,000 shooting tournaments each year.

We also keep track of hundreds of NRA national records that open for any NRA member to attempt to break. After a quick look through our national records, I found some that date back to the 1960s.

So how does one break a national record? First, an NRA member has to compete in an NRA Registered match; the NRA Competitive Shooting Division has a schedule of upcoming NRA Sanctioned Tournaments, NRA Regionals, NRA Sectionals, State Championships, and NRA National Championships.

National records cannot be broken in all NRA Sanctioned Tournaments; just at NRA Registered Tournaments.

If you do break an NRA national record, the tournament sponsor will fill out a national record form, which comes with the initial packet that the NRA sends to the sponsor of a registered tournament.

The form is then sent via snail mail back to headquarters, where it goes through an approval process. The time it takes to get approved back at headquarters depends on when the record is sent. If it’s sent during July, when the NRA National Matches are under way, the wait could be up to a month.

On average, though, it might take a few weeks. Once the record is approved, the athlete is sent a letter, along with a frameable certificate.