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PHR - Practical Pistol Shooting Team
Royal Hutt River Eagles
(RHR Eagles)
ANNOUNCING THE:
RHR Eagles -
Practical Shooting Team (Handguns)
HRH Prince Leonard is proud to announce
that a new team has entered the realm of representing the PHR in
international sport, the Royal Hutt River Eagles!
Here in the Principality we are excited about the team and it's future
prospects in competitions.
As is normal all for PHR sports, the teams primary aim is to bring honour in
the chosen sport of competitive shooting to the Principality of Hutt River
and all team members that represent her.
Bringing home Gold for the Principality of
Hutt River
by
Promoting good sportsmanship everywhere!
International Practical Shooting is dynamic,
challenging, and one of the fastest growing shooting sports in the world
today, shooters need to balance accuracy, power, and speed as their score is
derived from these. Multiple targets, moving targets, targets that react
when hit, penalty targets, or even partially covered targets, obstacles,
movement, competitive strategies, and other techniques are all used to keep
shooters challenged and spectators engaged.
The typical course of fire is an array of targets, which the competitor must
engage with two hits each (sometimes more). Also, steel plates that fall
when struck can be added to a course of fire, or stage. The shooter's time
is recorded electronically, by means of a timer that detects the sound of
the shots. Scoring is relatively simple to explain, but involved to
calculate for a match. The points generated by hits on the targets are
totalled. Penalties (if incurred) are subtracted. Then the points total is
divided by the time it took the competitor to engage the stage.
This calculation, called a "Hit Factor", is the ratio of points per second.
The highest hit factor wins the stage and the full total of Stage Points
assigned to it, and lesser scores are awarded Stage Points according to the
percentage hit factor they fired, compared to the winner.
The points from shots fired and hits generated vary slightly.
A centre hit for both Major calibre firearms and Minor calibre is five
points.
However, lesser scoring rings are not rewarded as much for Minor as for
Major, this is due to people shooting in the major catagory having to deal
with more recoil of the firearm.
The A-C-D rings on the target are scored 5-4-2 for Major, and 5-3-1 for
Minor. A shooter who has declared Minor must shoot more "A" hits or shoot
faster than one who has declared Major, in order to make up for lesser hits.
Each competitor then has his/her stage points totalled for all stages of the
match, to calculate the match standings. The highest total of points wins
the match. Comparing each shooter directly to the performance of the top
shooter of each stage allows for precise gradation of performance across a
match, but requires a computer and software to do in a timely fashion.
The Royal Hutt River Eagles
Team compete in both team and individual competitions, the sport being
governed by the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC).
Handguns used are Eagles STI .357sig ammunition, 2 of the members
handguns are pictured below.
phr.rhreagles@principality-hutt-river.org