The rules have changed very recently, effective Jul 1st, The old rule was JR's had to either be members or members of an NRA club. The trouble with JR's not being members is they or the Match Director would write their name differently on the results report, i.e. Johnny Johnson, John Johnson, Matthew J. Johnson using club ID # R3455are three different people to the NRA, when actually it was the same kid. It made it hard for kids to get their 120 shots for a classification that way. The individual membership number eliminated that. Hopefully they have fixed this. Also it is 120 shots for initial classification, 240 for upgrades. The SR1 scorebook/temporary classification should be accepted as well for unclassified shooters.
Now I will rant. I am not a fan of having non-member adults shoot in NRA competition. Like it or not I think if you own a gun you should belong to the NRA, PERIOD.
I have never and possibly will never forgive or even forget that the NRA abandoned their duties as the National Governing Body for International Shooting in the USA. They flat dropped that responsibility with no notice or any transfer to another sanctioning body. A group of volunteers started USA Shooting (since there already was USA Baseball, and USA Volleyball as NGB's) and performed those duties as volunteers for 2 years until they got it organized and funded. This caused JR's to have to shoot in two major sanctioning bodies competitions that often overlapped and conflicted. It makes me want to throw up when I see NRA Sports advertisements or even the logo. That is Bullshit. That is the NRA in the first place. Wayne and his cronys never call it the NRA or The National Rifle Association, they call it NRA like it is a P.A.C.; and that is how they treat it. One thing I will say about Dianne Feinstein is that she always at least calls the organization by it's proper name, The National Rifle Association.