r/canadaguns • u/22GageEnthusiast • 24d ago

Competitions/matches Recently started my journey on becoming an "Olympic" sports shooter.

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Recently started attending bullseye/sport pistol practices at the gun club. I also plan to compete in sanctioned SFC matches as well. This is the gun that I've chosen to borrow from the club in the meantime. It's a Ruger Mark II Target. The gun belongs to the club but I will stick to using this exact model every time so I can build familiarity with it.

Hopefully by the end of the year I will have accumulated enough practice sessions and matches to get an exemption letter so I can buy my own "Olympic" style handgun.

I know the state of firearm laws in Canada are trash at the moment but I will continue to enjoy the sport/hobby any way I can.

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u/One_Salary_9068 23d ago

You keep saying 20/25m... But i tought olypic style is 25m... Im asking for the examption purpose 😁

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u/22GageEnthusiast 23d ago

Bullseye is 20m and the Sport Pistol is supposed to be 25m but I think they do 20m for practice. That's why I can't say for sure between 20m or 25m.

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u/One_Salary_9068 23d ago

So unless im mistaken ... There is only one discipline (Olympic 25m rapid fire pistol) is a men's-only shooting event where athletes use .22 caliber pistols to shoot at five distinct targets in rapid succession. The target distance is exactly 25 meters away. Shooters have only four seconds per round to hit all five targets. So im trying to inderstand how far appart are those targets. Are they on the same paper?

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u/Agent_1812 https://youtu.be/mrAwb9ptu9U 22d ago edited 22d ago

https://backoffice.issf-sports.org/getfile.aspx?mod=docf&pane=1&inst=455&file=ISSF-Rule-Book-2026-Edition-2025-Second-Print-07-2026-Effective-1-July-2026.pdf

Page 199, standard pistol target, 25m

That being said, our targets are a little bit smailler as the range predates Metric in Canada and was designed in yards, not meters. The targets are about 10% closer and 10% smaller.