Gallery Rifle Shooting

In countries such as the UK, Ireland, Germany, South Africa and Australia national and international competitions are regularly undertaken.

Individual member countries who have an interest in International gallery rifle shooting are free to join the IGRF.

Some competitions are deliberate precision events whilst others require the competitor to shoot and reload quite quickly.

For other IGRF member nations governance is managed as follows: There are four main categories: A standard set of gallery rifle events exists which have courses of fire and conditions defined in the GR&P Handbook.

[3] There are currently four open meetings of similar style and duration held at the National Shooting Centre at Bisley every year.

It attracts over 500 competitors and has a very wide range of events on offer not constrained to just gallery rifle shooting.

[1] Competitive meetings offer events for all or a subset of main GR&P gun types - GRCF, GRSB, LBP and LBR.

A Long Barrelled Revolver
Long barrelled firearms are unique to the UK and are manufactured to comply with firearms legislation. Long barrelled revolvers are part of the gallery rifle and pistol discipline and compete in their own class.
Line of Gallery Rifle shooters
A typical line of competitors shooting a gallery rifle event
The PL17 target used for rifle and pistol competitions
A B1 full size 1500 target
A PL7 Bullseye Target