The future of cadet shooting within the RAFAC

[Chief_Tech]

Quick question although it’s primarily CCF oriented.

Does the assegai trophy still continue & if so in what form?

[MikeJenvey]

CISSAM 2026

20260626_CadetSAAM_26_Calling_Notice_FINAL.pdf

[MikeJenvey]

@Abacist

The cadet Smallbore meeting ought to combine with the NSRA Smallbore rifle meeting as both organisations numbers are in decline!.

RAFAC should adopt NSRA policies and qualifications for air rifle RCO’s and Club Instructors to simplify it. It’s currently overly bureaucratic and OTT generally.

Cadets should be able to get badges based on achieved groups and scores on proportional NSRA targets and using .22 target rifles.

I also suggested that that RAFAC should adopt all NSRA / RCO aspects - sadly, it’s not as simple as this, the whole process has to be taken under risk = such a huge change that it won’t happen.

Going back quite along way, for both air rifle & .22, it was the normal process to get shooting awards based on grouping & for the higher awards, scoring. A side note - different levels could be run on the same detail which made it much easier to manage range time.

I don’t think that anyone has ever looked at running the 2 Smallbore Meetings together - it would make some sense - although I can’t remember when the NSRA is in the calendar to cope with school holidays for cadets.

[Abacist]

The NSRA small-bore meeting is usually the 2nd or 3rd week in August but this year was a week later due to the F class world championships on Century range

[Abacist]

The NSRA also hold a junior international meeting the week prior to the main meeting but I think it might be ISSF based at 50m. I think Denmark and South Africa send teams. The kids have a great time. Our club has had juniors in it in the past.