SLOSA Steel Challenge matches are the Sunday after the 3rd Saturday of each month Usually, that makes it the 3rd Sunday, but sometimes it's the 4th. The Steel match is on the Sunday after the ICORE match. Registration begins by 8:15 AM, New Shooter Orientation is at 8:45 AM, and Shooting starts at 9:00 AM. Fees:
General Public: $20
SLOSA Members: $15
18 and under: $10
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d: $5
The Steel Challenge is friendly to all handgun, sight and action types. Shooters can participate in many different categories. Centerfire categories include:
Open (optics), Limited (USPSA guidelines),
Iron Sight Revolver, Optical Sight Revolver and Single Action,
Stock Guns and Holsters of IDPA Stock (SSP), IDPA Enhanced (ESP), IDPA Custom (CDP)
For rimfire shooters, we have:
Iron Sight Rimfire and Open Rimfire (optical sights)
(Note: A holster is not necessary for rimfire shooters, but a bag or case of some sort is needed to store the gun between stages)
At the national level, the Steel Challenge organization has some additional specialty categories which we do not currently track including:
Law Enforcement, Top Lady, Pre-Teen (10-12), Junior (13-17), Senior (55-64) and Super Senior (65+)
We shoot 8 stages. Each stage has 5 steel targets and we shoot each stage 5 times (strings) except for "Outer Limits" which we shoot 4 strings. That's a minimum of 195 rounds if you don't miss. Make-up shots are allowed so the typical match is around 250 rounds. It's preferable to have 5 magazines or speed loaders (or a good friend to reload for you between strings) to save time. We throw out the worst string and total up the rest to give a total time for the match.