Oklahoma City, OK – Governor Kevin Stitt’s recent executive proclamation declaring August "Shooting Sports Month" has sent a ripple of bewildered compliance through the state's precision rifle community, with an unprecedented mandate requiring all licensed rifle owners to annually record and submit cold bore velocity data for *every* registered firearm. The official directive, issued yesterday, establishes a new "Oklahoma Ballistic Data Repository," into which all citizens must upload chronographed cold bore shots, validated at 100 yards, throughout August.
“The Governor firmly believes that a robust understanding of individual firearm performance metrics is paramount for civic duty and state readiness,” read an Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation press release, which neglected to elaborate on *which* civic duty. Competitive shooters, already meticulously tracking SD/ES on their 6 Dasher and 6 GT handloads, now face the logistical nightmare of official state oversight. Each submission must include ambient temperature, barometric pressure, and density altitude, along with a witnessed chrono reading using a state-approved MagnetoSpeed V3 or LabRadar unit.
Sources close to the Governor's office suggest a deeper, strategic intent: to leverage collective, individual rifle data for "real-time atmospheric ballistic modeling," potentially for optimizing state-sponsored 22LR steel challenge events. PRS competitors, many of whom have already committed to NRL22X matches and their own personal truing schedules, are reportedly "furious but resigned" to dedicating valuable reload cycles and barrel life to this administrative endeavor. One anonymous shooter, running a Defiance Ruckus in an MDT ACC Premier chassis, lamented, "I'm already chasing velocity nodes and confirming impacts out to 1200 yards. Now I'm forced to burn a Cold Bore and record it for *state* archives? My DOPE card is for *me*, not for some committee's theoretical 'state readiness' spreadsheet."
The proclamation also stipulates that any deviation exceeding 15 FPS from a rifle's previously submitted average velocity will trigger an "official firearm performance review" by ODWC, causing further anxiety among those who understand the delicate dance of barrel harmonics and ambient conditions.
