TPA Competition Code of Conduct – click here: Approved TPA Competition Code of Conduct Policy – Effective 1 February 2025

PA Dress Guidelines – 2025 TPA-Dress-Code-Guidelines

Pistol Australia Grades – click here for the current list of PA grades

    Grades are set by the National Coaching Council – they are included here for the convenience of officials involved in producing results of competition.

The following rules and regulations are the current versions

ACTION MATCH

Action Pistol Rules that are recognized by Pistol Australia are found in the NRA Action Pistol Rules

Link to NRA Action Pistol rules NRA Rule Book for Action Pistol

BLACK POWDER MATCHES

Rules for the Black Powder matchesBlack Powder Rules 2025

   For a Summary of the 2023 rule change (formatted to be pasted into the current 2020 rulebook)  Click here for 2023 changes

GENERAL TECHNICAL RULES (GTRs) 

Pistol Australia General Technical Regulations (GTRs)TPA GTR’s 2025 v1

ISSF

1. ISSF General and Specific Pistol Rules with PA variations – PAPrint-ISSFRules-2023-2nd print

2. ISSF Supported Rest Shooting Rules 2017  Supported Rest Rules

3 Link to ISSF website for the full ISSF rulebook  ISSF Rulebook

SERVICE MATCHES

Special Technical Rules for the Service matchesService Rules 2025

      For a Summary of the 2023 rule changes (formatted to be pasted into the current 2022 rulebook)  Click here for 2023 changes 

      (Includes rules 7.1.4 & 7.1.5 that had a few words accidentally omitted in the last printing of the rulebook)

WA1500

Link to WA1500 website for all WA1500 rules –  WA1500 Rulebook – 2023

CLARIFICATION ON WA60 DISTINGUISED REVOLVER AND WA48 STANDARD REVOLVER PROJECTILE DESIGN & WEIGHT

Link to the old NRC website