NSSA CLASSIFICATION

New/Unclassified shooters can participate in a NSSA Registered Skeet shoot. The results of their first shoot will be used to determine the shooter’s classification as shown by the table below. This tactic does put a new shooter at something of a disadvantage as often shooters who win their class, do so by shooting better than their class average.

Unclassified shooters can shoot as few as 50 “Monthly Targets” (two rounds) in order to classify prior to participating in a NSSA Registered shooting event. “Monthly Targets” can also be used by an experienced shooters to add to his/her registered target numbers and may impact movement from one class to another. “Monthly Targets” are submitted in 50 target blocks per gauge and must be submitted by a NSSA member club. It is the shooter’s responsibility to inform the scorekeeper that targets are intended as “Monthly Targets” prior to shooting. The NSSA charges a small fee, $0.04 per target ($1.00 per round) for “Monthly Targets”

Once a shooter is classified per the chart below, the shooter’s average will be used for classification until the shooter has participated in five shooting events with that gauge. After five shoots the rolling average is based upon the last five shoots, registered events or monthly targets.

Shooters will need to qualify individually by the events (gauges, doubles, etc.) they intend to shoots in. It is the shooters responsibility to keep track of his/her own average and current class during the shooting year.