This year the championship was arranged from July the 28th to August the 4th, in Steinkjer, north of Trondheim. Once again with electronic targets/scoring system from Kongsberg Mikroelektronikk. This year close to 6.000 shooters participated.
The Norwegian National Rifle Championship is in total one of the largest and most technical advanced shooting competitions in the world, with close to 6000 shooters this year.
Since 2001 this huge competition has been arranged with 75 electronic targets from Kongsberg Mikroelektronikk (25 targets at 100m and 50 targets at 200m). The Norwegian Army has bought the whole package, in order to support such shooting in Norway.
The results were transmitted graphically in real time to the arena, teletext, Internet and WAP.
In addition totally 13 hours of the competition were broadcasted at Norwegian TV.
All this make the shooting sport much more popular for the whole population and is really nice for the recruiting.
Although approximately 250.000 rounds were fired during this week, the electronic targets/scoring system worked perfect all the time, and the championship was arranged successfully.
Follow the link below to read more about The National Rifle Association of Norway and the championship.
This article was written by Åge Bjøråsen, 17.08.2007.