Sport Shooting

6.1   It is not compulsory for members to submit six Grading Category-specific targets per annum if they do not want to (participation in the Marksman Grading System is voluntary). But if a member should enter six targets in one Grading Category, s/he will automatically be evaluated for qualification in one or other Marksman Grading Category, if s/he should qualify.

6.2   The NHSA Marksman Grading System will annually be calculated against scores entered for postal targets shot from 1 December to 30 November the following year to coincide with the prescribed period for entering activities to annually maintain dedicated status (the first NHSA Marksman Grading will be done on 1 December 2018 against a member’s scores entered per paragraph 5 mentioned Grading Category for postal target scores shot between 1 December 2017 and 30 November 2018).

6.3   Only postal scores entered on or before 30 November annually for targets shot in the specific grading year (1 December to 30 November), will be taken into account for that year’s Marksman Grading. Thus scores of targets shot on, i.e., 15 November 2018, and of which the scores are only entered on 12 December 2018, will not be taken into account for Marksman Grading for 2018 or for 2019 because these were not shot in the year for which the targets for the 2019 grading will be calculated.

6.4   A member’s Marksman Grading starts afresh every year without taking the Marksman Grading Level of the previous year into account. A member can thus on 1 December 2018 achieve a Marksman Grading Level of, i.e. Distinguished NHSA Master Marksman (.22 Rimfire Rifles), and on 1 December 2019 only achieve a Marksman Grading of, i.e. Distinguished NHSA Marksman (.22 Rimfire Rifles).

6.5   A member’s evaluation to achieve a Marksman Grading Level in a specific Grading Category in a specific grading year, will only be initiated once s/he had entered a minimum of six target scores for a specific paragraph 5 mentioned Grading Category.

6.6   The six targets for which the highest scores were achieved in a specific Marksman Grading Category in a specific year, could all have been shot on one day.

6.7   A member may annually enter target scores in as many Marksman Grading Categories as s/he wishes.

6.8   A member may annually enter as many target scores in a specific Marksman Grading Category as s/he wishes.

6.9   A certificate indicating the Marksman Grading Level per Marksman Grading Category the member had achieved in a specific year, will on 1 December annually, be available for download on his/her Natshoot Profile Pages under the left-side menu heading, My NHSA Documents.

6.10   Achieving a Marksman Grading Level will annually be indicated on a member’s existing Activities & Scores Report as, for instance: 2018: Distinguished NHSA Expert Marksman (Hunting Handguns) – with Expert Marksman indicating the Marksman Grading Level achieved, and the in brackets (Hunting Handguns) indicating that the Grading Category in which the distinction was achieved, was for centre-fire hunting handguns.

6.11   Members may, from 1 December each year and not later than 15 January the following year in which the Marksman Grading Level was achieved, order Marksman Grading Level cloth badges from the office, indicating the specific Distinguished Marksman Grading Level the member had achieved in a specific year. No order for these cloth badges will be accepted later than 15 January per annum (for the previous year), so as to ascertain the best possible price for making the quality badges NHSA requires. Orders for badges are to be placed with the Natshoot Shop.