Slideshow: Past winners of the Youth Wildlife Art Contest

Some first place entries from the past few years at the NRA Youth Wildlife Art Contest:



Remember, the deadline for this year's Youth Wildlife Art Contest is October 3 -- entries have one month to arrive! For more information about the contest, or to view all of the winning entries from 2007, visit www.nrahq.org/youth/wildlife.asp.

Facebook Blog Network

Along with our Facebook Group, NRA in Motion, we recently created a page on the blog network for NRA Blog.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that you need to be logged into Facebook before you access nra blog on the blog network. Signing up is easy!

NPSC Championship Rings

Beretta, a long time supporter of the National Police Shooting Championships, is the provider of the NPSC Championship rings given to the male and female winners of Match 22.

Match 22 is an aggregate of the 1500 Semi Automatic and Revolver individual matches.

NRA Hunters Rights: PA Council seeks dialog on hunting’s future

The Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Council for Hunting, Fishing and Conservation wants residents to tell them how to improve the hunting experience in Pennsylvania.

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.

Happy Labor Day!

We’ll get back to blogging tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy those barbeques. For me, it’ll be another round of golf.