Steel Challenge is a pistol shooting Action Match competition shot from a stationary position at five static steel plates per stage. Competitors shoot each of the eight stages five times and add their best four times to become their stage score. The lowest score is the winner. The eight stages shot in the Steel Challenge match are Accelerator, Five to Go, Outer Limits, Pendulum, Roundabout, Showdown, Smoke & Hope and Speed Option. Each stage is unique in its design and offers a different challenge to the shooter.

Steel shooting offers a port of entry to the pistol shooting sports and is an excellent starting place for young or beginner shooters. It also provides a ‘soft’ way for those who have begun to suffer the problems associated with aging to remain involved in the shooting sports. All this provides an alternative for those who might otherwise be lost to shooting. Regardless of your shooting background or skill level, all shooters walk away smiling after shooting Steel Challenge. This competition is a level playing field for shooters of all backgrounds.

Competitors are scored based solely on the time it takes them to shoot each stage. The last target that is shot is known as the “stop plate”, which stops the timer. All primary target hits made after the stop plate has been struck, will be scored with a 3 second penalty each. The maximum time permitted for a run is 30 seconds and a competitor will be stopped and asked to reload if they reach the 30 second limit. Each competitor shoots each stage five times, with their slowest run dropped, excluding the stage Outer Limits where only four runs are shot and the top three counted. The competitor’s best four out of five runs are totaled for their stage score and the eight stage scores are added together to establish the competitor’s match score. The winner is the competitor with the lowest overall time.

Email: steelchallenge@afgc.ca

Steel Challenge Report January 2024

We’ve had a great group of cold braving shooters this last month and into the new year, the new doors make it so much nicer to shoot on Tuesdays. If you have a rimfire rifle, pistol, or centerfire pistol or PCC, with iron sights or optics, come on out and play! Holsters are not needed [...]

By |2024-01-12T09:26:02-08:00January 12th, 2024|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge Report January 2024

Steel Challenge’s Report November 2, 2023

October was a low in attendance, our regulars had other things going on, so two nights got cancelled. Hopefully we see more coming out in November. Come out and give Steel a try on Tuesday nights on Range 4, we accept everyone! 22s both rifle and pistol, centerfire pistol, and PCC too. No holster [...]

By |2023-11-03T08:44:43-07:00November 3rd, 2023|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge’s Report November 2, 2023

Steel Challenge’s Report October 2023

Nights have been going good, big thanks to Bob for running the nights while Warren and I were gone to Europe. The new steel is really sounding good, much more ring to it than the old stuff. Come out and give Steel a try on Tuesday nights on Range 4, we accept everyone! 22s [...]

By |2023-10-12T20:07:26-07:00October 12th, 2023|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge’s Report October 2023

Steel Challenge September 2023

Our new steel has arrived and it sure does sing! Much different than the old steel which must be work hardened to have dulled out. Big thanks to Bob Papp for all the help in the seacan with the shelves and benches, looks awesome in there now. Nice and organized! Also, big thanks to [...]

By |2023-09-07T20:03:25-07:00September 7th, 2023|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge September 2023

Steel Challenge July 13, 2023

Nights have been running great this summer with plenty of new faces and the stable of regulars as well. We are waiting on some new steel and props to arrive and look forward to putting them to use. If anyone has any heavy duty shelving that they would like to donate to the club, [...]

By |2023-07-14T10:15:02-07:00July 14th, 2023|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge July 13, 2023

Steel Challenge Update March 2023

Turn out has been good, with lots of bullets going downrange into the steel! We’ve run some renegade stages lately just to mix things up and people seemed to really like that, so expect to see more going forward, but official Steel Challenge will always be the mainstay of the club. Rob

By |2023-03-10T08:35:25-08:00March 10th, 2023|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge Update March 2023

Steel Challenge Report September 2022

A slow night this week, but we’ve been steady otherwise. Looking forward to running the full match this fall. If you’ve never shot Steel Challenge and are looking to, bring out your pistol, 22 or centerfire, or even your 22 rifle or PCC, we’d love to see you! We start setup at 1830 on Tuesday [...]

By |2022-09-09T09:53:15-07:00September 9th, 2022|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge Report September 2022

Steel Challenge Report August 2022

Turnout has been good, back to our old numbers again with lots of new faces coming out too. We did a new stage a couple weeks ago that was a lot of fun. One large rectangle plate at 7yds, with only 1 shot being fired, do that 5 times for the stage, then once [...]

By |2022-08-05T08:15:25-07:00August 5th, 2022|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge Report August 2022

Steel Challenge Report July 2022

Steel has been going great, we did our first longer distance stage of the year this past Tuesday. Utilizing range 3 we shot Outer Limits, the only SC stage with movement, and targets out to 105ft. Strangely we had a lower turnout that night, either the long weekend had people recuperating at home, or the [...]

By |2022-07-08T08:14:38-07:00July 8th, 2022|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge Report July 2022

Steel Challenge Report June 2022

Tuesdays have been going great, with many of our regulars returning and also some new faces showing up. We’ll be running a 4 week match in the fall, where each week we will shoot two of the stages, for score and then after we’ve shot all 8 matches, awards will be given. If you are [...]

By |2022-06-03T08:35:02-07:00June 3rd, 2022|Steel Challenge|Comments Off on Steel Challenge Report June 2022
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