WPSF Official Rules for Practical Shooting Sport Competitions
Edition 2021 (First printing, 01/2022). In force as from 1st January 2022.
Contents
- I. General Principles
- II. General Terms and Participants of Competitions
- General Principles (Regulations) of practical shooting competitions conduct
- Ranks and types of practical shooting sport competitions
- Shooting disciplines
- Classes of Shooting discipline
- Age categories of participants
- Types of medal standings
- Competition Jury and Judges
- Other official persons
- Discipline on official competitions
- Appointment of official persons
- General safety requirements
- III. Designing of Stages
- IV. General Requirements Regarding Stage Design, Safe Locations of Targets and Organization of Special Zones
- V. Information About Stages
- VI. Equipments of a Shooting Range
- VII. Firearm and Equipment of Sportsman
- Firearm
- Movement and storage of firearms and non-firearms during competitions, athlete's equipment
- Sportsmen clothes
- Eye and ear protection
- Ammunition and related equipment
- Chronograph and power factor
- Athlete equipment malfunctions
- Official match cartridges and official throw gas of the competition
- VIII. Competition Structure
- IX. Shooting Matter
- X. Counting Points
- XI. Fines and Disqualifications
- Procedural fines. General rules
- Procedural fines. Some examples
- Procedural fines for "mixed" high-speed all-around Stages
- Disqualification. General rules
- Disqualification. Random shot
- Disqualification. Dangerous handling of firearms and non-firearms
- Disqualification for unsportsmanlike conduct
- Disqualification for the use of prohibited substances
- XII. Arbitration Committee
- XIII. Features of Shooting Multiathlon Competitions
- XIV. Other
- XV. Requirements for Shooting Ranges for Practical Shooting
- Annex 1. WPSF Paper Targets
- Annex 2. WPSF Hard Targets
- Annex 3. Requirements for Firearms and Non-Firearms
- Annex 4. Shooting Multiathlon
- Annex 5. Technical Requirements for Protective Structures (Elements)