Where is the national match?

[randy]

In reading through the posts and looking through some web sites and Brownells.

You can buy a National Match bushing, barrel, trigger, upper assy, sear disconnector, firing pin, blah, blah, blah.

Where is the match and for those of you that do know do you shoot rifle or pistol or both?

When is it held? How much to enter? Who puts it on? Do I have to join another club or organization?

What are the advantages of buying a National Match part vs. a quality part from somebody?

Who does the testing to determine it's a NM part?

What are the disadvantages of the parts?

If I were going to build a save your life gun instead of a game gun should I still use NM parts?

Or is National Match just an over used term somebody slaps on their stuff?

Thanks,

[CALI-gula]

It's held at the same time and in the same place as the Gold Cup. Everybody knows that! Where have you been?

Just kidding. My dad used to shoot at Camp Perry in the National Match. The NRA and Citizen Marksmenship Program can guide you to various matches around the country, and both have info on the National Match at Camp Perry. CMP probably has the best guide on the Camp Perry NM.

"The National Matches, considered America's "World Series of the Shooting Sports", have been a tradition at Camp Perry, Ohio since 1907. Each summer, the nation's finest civilian and military marksmen and women square off for five weeks of rifle and handgun competition in a variety of formats and events."

http://www.odcmp.com/NationalMatches.htm

http://www.nrahq.org/compete/nm_campperry.asp

http://www.cpmr-oh.org/files/2007NMLodgingPro.html

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