We are very pleased to announce our Inaugural 2025 SK Lone Star Cup at the Bayou Rifles Addicks Facility in Houston, Texas on June 7th-8th, 2025!
The 2025 SK Lone Star Cup (SKLSC) consists of two days of Smallbore Standard Rifle Matches (two 40-shot matches per day) for a total aggregate of 160 shots. We are also including Smallbore Benchrest Silhouette fired on the same relays for a total 160 shot aggregate as well!
SK Ammunition is the “Title Sponsor” for the SK Lone Star Cup. We greatly appreciate the generous support from both SK Ammunition & the Capstone Precision Group for making this “International Super Regional” possible!
Your Hosts for the SK Lone Star Cup are the North American Silhouette Shooting Association (NASSA), Silueteros.com and Bayou Rifles Inc.
North American Silhouette Shooting Association (NASSA) – NASSA has multiple initiatives underway to help grow our Rifle Silhouette Sport throughout North America, one of which is to successfully launch the 2025 SKLSC.
Bayou Rifles Inc. (BRI) – Bayou Rifles is one of the oldest and largest gun clubs in the Southern US. Bayou Rifles holds many large championship matches in other disciplines and has a well established Rifle Silhouette program.
Silueteros.com – Silueteros.com, based in Mexico and created by Ricardo Arellano, has over 8500+ Facebook followers throughout North and South America to help promote the SKLSC through social media.
SKLSC Vision & Mission
SKLSC Vision:
Partner with SK Ammunition (Title Sponsor), to make the SK Lone Star Cup the largest and most successful Silhouette Smallbore Rifle Championship thoughout the NASSA USA Southwest/South Central & Mexico Northwest/Northeast Regions.
SKLSC Mission:
Execute our Vision through:
- Developing an Innovative SKLSC Match Program that makes it a “must attend” major annual championship event.
- Building the NASSA Mexico Organization throughout the Mexican Northwest & Northeast Regions that drives more Mexico/USA cross-border participation and camaraderie.
- Launching an unprecedented SKLSC Junior Sponsorship Program to support & recruit record junior participation, thus ensuring the future and continued growth of our silhouette rifle discipline.
- Beta testing and implementing a new innovative NASSA Digital Match Directors Program & Performance Database for the SKLSC to “modernize” silhouette match logistics.
Match Information
The SK Lone Star Cup (SKLSC) Steering Committee is committed to creating an unprecedented Southern USA/Northern Mexico International Super Regional Championship.
SKLSC Steering Committee Members:
- Chris Cawthorne (Chairman) – NASSA USA South Central Region Director & Lapua Monarch Cup Board Member
- Daniel Salazar – Lapua Monarch Cup Board Chairman
- Ricardo Arellano – Founder of Silueteros.com & NASSA Mexico Integration Director
- John Hood – NASSA USA Southwest Region Director
The SKLSC course of fire will consist of:
- The SKLSC will be an “All Standard Rifle Championship”. This will support Mexican shooters who wish to bring their Standard Rifles to Houston as there is no Hunting Rifle class in Mexico. Since many Mexican shooters also need to borrow rifles, there will be more silhouette rifles available since many US shooters have Standard Rifles to loan in addition to Hunter Rifles to their Mexican friends.
- Course of fire will be (2) 40-shot Standard Rifle matches on Saturday and (2) 40-shot Standard Rifle matches on Sunday for an aggregate of 160 shots. The 160-shot aggregate will incentivize more US out-of-state and Mexican shooters to show up as Sunday will be a full day of shooting.
- Three-man team matches will also be conducted using only Saturday’s 80 shot aggregate to determine the championship teams in Open, Master, AAA, AA and A classes.
- Smallbore Benchrest Silhouette will follow a similar course of fire as the Silhouette Standard Rifle in that these competitors will shoot on the same relays as the Silhouette Standard Rifle competitors using the same range commands, 15 second ready and 2 1/2 minutes of firing for record.
Cash/Awards Program
No singular element in the SKLSC Vision & Mission is more important than increasing the % of juniors traveling to and participating in our championship matches. Therefore, the SKLSC Steering Committee is implementing a formal SKLSC Junior Sponsorship Program. The first element of our SKLSC Junior Sponsorship Program we are proud to implement is the SK Rifle Match Ammo Junior Donation Program.
EVERY JUNIOR ATTENDING THE 2025 SKLSC WILL GET A BRICK OF SK RIFLE MATCH TO SHOOT OUR MATCH!
At this point, we have a minimum of $2500.00 US in cash prizes available that could grow depending on how our SKLSC budgeting shapes up. Cash will be distributed to the individual aggregate SKLSC Open Champion, 2nd Open, 3rd Open and a certain number of places into Master, AAA, AA and A Classes. This is in addition to the SKLSC trophies/medals that are currently being planned.
The Sk Lone Star Cup Steering Committee will post this cash and awards criteria as soon as it become available on the SKLoneStarCup.com website.
ALL PROCEEDS & DONATIONS WILL BE PUT BACK INTO THE SKLSC CASH & AWARDS PROGRAM, THE PRIZE TABLE, FOOD, TARGET SETTERS AND OTHER CURRENT AND FUTURE MATCH EXPENSES.
So don’t miss out on the 2025 SK Lone Star Cup as it is represents a chance to compete with some of the best Smallbore Silhouette competitors in the USA & Mexico for great awards and cash prizes!
For more information about the Inaugural 2025 SK Lone Star Cup, please click on the SKLSC website link below:
