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Shooting USA - High School Air Rifle
 The shooting sports are alive and well in our high schools. We’ll show you, as we cover the largest high school air rifle match in the country.
It’s the news you never hear anywhere else. The shooting sports are thriving and growing in the high schools across the United States. We’ve shown you the scholastic clay target program that’s getting more high school athletes shooting trap each year, but you likely don’t know that air rifle competition is also a growing sport in high schools. The proof is the largest invitational high school team match in the country.
 Mongomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee hosts the largest high school tournament in the country with 400 competitors from 72 high schools in 16 heartland states.
The format is Olympic style competition with shots taken from a distance of 10 meters. The match is 20 shots from each of three positions—standing, kneeling and prone. 600 is a perfect score, but with the ten ring the size of a period on this page, perfect scores are very unusual, but that’s always the objective in a match.
 There are three classes of competition. Entry level is the Sporter Pneumatic Class. Shooters use a single-shot pump gun and do not wear specialized shooting clothes or equipment.
In the Open Sporter Class, competitors have compressed air rifles and they are allowed the use of a shooting glove on the support hand.
The top level of competition is the Precision Class. These competitors use the same gear and equipment as the Olympic shooters—Shooting Suits, Shoes and Gloves to help stabilize their aim.
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