ITCC Region: BULGARIA

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnwxQeOY9XY

Full Match briefing, scoring and Match Ranking: http://scoring.t-class.org/Home/Index?match_id=105

For the first time, the «V T-Class Moscow Sniper Cup 2021» will be held on August 14-15 at the range MFOC Patriot Park (https://patriotp.ru/o-parke/informatsiya). This event opens up new opportunities for athletes who are fans of all types of accurate, dynamic, long-range shooting. The excellent infrastructure and conditions of this shooting range allow it to host even international competitions with shooting distances up to 2050 meters. At the «V T-Class Moscow Sniper Cup 2021», 2 sets of awards in the divisions will be presented: “Bolt action» and “Semi auto” rifle. Tournament participants will have 17 exercises in 3 competition modules. Targets: paper, metal gongs. To participate in the competition, you will need at least 100 cartridges. Participants of the V T-Class Moscow Sniper Cup 2021 will have the opportunity to achieve the standard of the prestigious FVSR nomination – “Sniping Long Range 1200 m”.

Uncompromising and fair sports classification of the participants in each division and determination of prize-winners will be ensured by the set of rules of the T-Class sport,

using an automated system for calculating results adopted by the international sports organization ITCC (International T-Class Confederation).

The advantage of T-Class in one of the most popular disciplines: [TS] Tactical Sniper is the optimal system for evaluating the shooter’s skills in all aspects of accurate, dynamic shooting, including long distances up to 1200 meters. (see https://t-class.org/rules/)

MODULE 1 – “ACCURACY”. This module contains exercises that allow you to evaluate basic shooting skills from various standard, stable positions. It uses paper and metal targets at distances up to 500 meters. The result is calculated by the number of points.
MODULE 2 – “DYNAMICS”. Dynamic T-CLASS exercises, including shooting with changing different shooting positions (including unstable ones), shooting at moving targets at distances up to 700 meters. Points for hits and the time of the exercise are taken into account – the “hit factor” is applied.
MODULE 3 – “LONG RANGE”. In this module, shooting is conducted from stable positions at distances up to 1200 meters, points for hits and/or the “hit factor” are taken into account in the exercises.

The results are calculated by determining the highest score in each module, the rankings occur as a percentage of the best result. The winners will be determined and the places in each division of the final scorings will be distributed according to the sum of the results of each module M1+M2+M3.

The reliability of data on the positive hits of metal gongs in the entire shooting range up to 1200 meters, as well as moving targets will be provided by an automatic target hit identification system.

The annual T-Class Kahles Cup took place on April 16-18th 2021 at the shooting range of Slivnitsa, Bulgaria.

It was a three days and two nights shooting event in the T-Class Tactical Sniper discipline, which yet again highlighted the tradition of continuous improvement and elaboration, shown in every consequent T-Class competition, so far.

The T-Class Kahles Cup enlisted a total of 20 shooting stages in three Modules. There were 7 nighttime exercises, including cold-bore first shots at partially lightened targets, precision shots at paper and 3D targets in the dark, long-range smart-target midnight scenarios, laser illuminated targets, flashlight aimed hidden targets, etc.

In the daylight, there were other interesting stages, e.g. shooting at a Shot Marker target at 450m from tire racks with Hit factor, shooting of a tripod at 1000 m, dynamic style -supported and unsupported precision shooting, radio guided shooting, shooting from trenches, bunkers, terraces, windows, barricades, hedgehogs, moving target at 380 m, etc.

On top of these demanding shooting challenges, the weather conditions were not very friendly at all – temperatures from 1 to 4 C, winds varying from 3 to 7 m/s, continuous rainfall and thick mud.

This proved to be one of the toughest T-Class competitions ever, most difficult in nearly every aspect – from the complexity of the shooting scenarios, through the physical challenges of almost restless 72 hours contest and towards the mental confronts of adverse weather conditions.

However, all of the above could not break down the spirit of more than 20 competitors and a highly motivated team of Range Officers. All participants enjoyed the opportunity and the pleasure of enduring these remarkable three days.

This was a test to remember! It has been emotional…

Stage briefings, match scorings and rankings can be found at: http://scoring.t-class.org/Home/Index?match_id=88

Official sponsors of the T-Class Kahles Cup 2021 were:
Kahles optics 
Zarimex 
Optix 

The winners of the T-Class Kahles Cup 2021 are granted the opportunity to attend the Kahles DLR Finals on September 2021 in Italy.

All changes in the Set of Rules are related with the ambition to make T-Class more realistic tactical and practical shooting sport.

The important changes in the Rules of Sport T-Class, valid for Season 2021 are:
– new minimum distances for paper targets in T-Class MultiGun and T-Class Support and Backup Weapons;
– regulation for night shooting has been introduced;
– new paper target T-Class A1 mini;
– added an appendix with principles that must be observed when organizing competitions in various disciplines;
– changes in the administration of competitions and others.

T-Class full Set of Rules for all disciplines download: T-Class Rules v.1.11_eng [English language version]

How did we get here?

Long range shooting with precision rifle systems has been an ever growing and popular sport with many different disciplines like Benchrest competitions, F-class competitions, Varmint rifle competitions, etc.

Most of these shooting sports are static and involve precise shooting with certain high-power rifles on targets, at various known distances.

Over the past 50 years, the sport Dynamic shooting emerged, also called Practical shooting. While it involves shooting with semi-auto pistols, semi-auto rifles and even shotguns, this sport utilizes the idea that speed is equally important as precision of the shooting, hence the use of the so called Hit Factor in Practical shooting is implemented. Also, many of the shooting stages are dynamic, meaning that the shooter has to move rapidly between the various scenes, has to be able to handle the weapons safely under stressful conditions.

“T-Class shooting sport” successfully merges the above. It uses precision rifle systems for shooting at various short and long distances (known and unknown), but it is a dynamic sport. The competitor has to be able to move between the scenes of a shooting stage, to use successfully his theoretical background about making a precise long range shot along with the physical demanding challenges to reach and quickly assume stable or unstable shooting positions, under the limitations of time.

The main idea behind this sport is to recreate realistic shooting scenarios, which resemble the practical sniping used in combat situations by police and military forces around the world.

The issues of safety weapon manipulations are of major importance in T-Class competitions.

There are six major Divisions in T-Class competitions.

# T-Class Tactical Sniper division. It uses precision rifle systems (sniper rifles) for shooting in artificially created but realistic stages with shooting distances from 10 meters to 1200 meters.

# T-Class Multigun division. Sniper rifles, semi-auto assault rifles and semi-auto pistols are used in different or in the same scenes of the shooting stage.

# T-Class Ultra Long Range division. Sniper rifle shooting at very long distances of 1600 meters or more.

# T-Class Tactical Long Range division. Sniper rifle shooting at distances from 1000 meters to 1600 meters.

# T-Class Rimfire division. Target rifle shooting with .22LR caliber rifles.

# T-Class Support and Backup Weapons. Assisting discipline for shooting (combined or separately) only with semi-auto assault rifles and semi-auto pistols, designed to improve those specific skills necessary for combined shooting with different weapon systems.

Each T-Class competition is divided into three Modules of shooting stages, which will eventually test and evaluate the basic or advanced marksmanship qualities of the competitor – precision, speed, physical and mental resilience.

T-Class competitions can be held as individual or teamwork challenges. Teamwork T-Class competitions involve two-men teams in which the results and rankings of both competitors are scored together as a team.

T-Class competitions are usually very challenging and hard two-day or three-day events, involving both daytime and nighttime stages, with shooting at a diversity of static or moving targets with most complex shooting scenarios.

Many shooting clubs and organizations around the world promote and develop the ideas of long range shooting combined with dynamic shooting.

In USA, the Precision Rifle Series is the most popular shooting event in this relation.

In Europe, there is the annual Sniper World Cup held in Hungary and many other local or international shooting competitions in Italy, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, etc.

Many of these shooting events are restricted only for military and police forces, while others are open events.

The differences between T-Class shooting sport and the others mentioned above relate onto several features – the MultiGun competitions, Teamwork competitions and the Scoring system.

Each target in every exercise should be measured in milliradians (MRAD), in regard to it’s size and distance. This MRAD system allows the use of virtually all kinds of targets, like golf balls, coke cans, clay targets, metal plates, paper targets and so on. Scoring is made with points, which are attributed to the angular measurements of the target, according to pre-defined tables. For some shooting stages of Module 2 and 3, the so called Hit Factor is applied (the number of hits per target divided by the time, needed by the competitor to complete the course of fire).

The scoring is calculated by adding the results from all module’s stages. There is an automated online Scoring system, which allows the real-time evaluation and publication of the results and scorings. The live results can be accessed online by every competitor or guest at any time during the competition.

The International T-Class Confederation (ITCC) was founded in 2014 for the purpose of promotion of the T-Class shooting sport internationally, with headquarters residing in Bulgaria.

It offers the Set of Rules which regulate the design and management of T-Class Competitions.

Currently, there are ten ITCC licensed regions:

* Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia)
* Bulgaria
* Russian Federation
* Serbia
* Western Balkans
* Poland
* Malta
* Germany
* Mongolia
* Ukraine

Other regions have expressed their interest in T-Class, but have not become members of ITCC yet.

ITCC remains open for any other membership candidates willing to take part in our journey!

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Practical sniping with precision rifle systems is a shooting sport, which gains tremendous popularity worldwide over a short period of time.

It concentrates on shooting onto static or dynamic targets of various distances (known and unknown) from different positions, under artificially created, but realistic stressful circumstances.

This sport poses a great challenge for the competitors. It compiles and develops various physical and mental qualities. It proves to be extremely interesting both for implementation and observation, due to its demanding level of difficulty.

This is the reason for the continuous grow in the number of shooting competitions, registered shooting clubs, regional and international organizations, which manage the promotion, arrangement and realization of this sport.

T-Class shooting sport aims at achievement of balance among speed, dynamics and precision of practical rifle sniping and assigns its specific challenges for:

• Good theoretical background of the competitor, proper understanding of the weapon systems, ammunition, ballistics, etc.
• Prominent practical experience with handling of precision rifle systems, optical sighting devices, various shooting accessories and tools
• Well-shaped physical aspect of the competitor, the knowledge and the ability to control his own body
• Mental resilience under stressful conditions, fast reactions and adaptation to numerous changes in the environment during the various shooting exercises.

The collection of new and unique, static and dynamic shooting exercises drives T-Class to be a remarkably different shooting sport with a high level of diversity and difficulty. Realistic scenarios are the main focus during the design of the stages and provide the practical application of T-Class. Many T-Class matches are performed with the participation of military and police sniper forces, specialized in precision shooting, whose job in real life is to protect the public order and security.

T-Class shooting sport involves real sniping with live ammo, which means that the main considerations during practice focus on the issue of safety weapon regulations. Each briefing of every exercise in all competitions specifically emphasizes on the measures of secure weapon manipulations and any violation of the rules in this regard is to be punished without compromise.