timer. Any primary targets that have not been hit 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. The Steel Challenge comprises eight courses of fire called 'stages.' They are: Five To Go (diagram) Showdown (diagram) Smoke & Hope (diagram) Outer Limits (diagram) Accelerator (diagram) Pendulum (diagram) Speed Option (diagram) Roundabout (diagram) All stages have competitors fire from square boxes. In the American Steel Challenge, the boxes have side lengths of , except the stage Outer Limits where the boxes' sides are . The European Steel Challenge has used boxes of 1×1 meter on all stages. Showdown has two boxes, and requires the competitor to make the first two runs from one of the boxes, and the two following runs from the other box. On the fifth and final run the competitor can choose which box to shoot from. There is no movement, so each run is to be shot from one box only. The competitor can choose whether to make the two first runs from the left or right box. Outer Limits has the longest shots in the match, and is also the only stage with movement. Contrary to the other stages, Outer Limits only has four runs (instead of five), which with one throwaway run makes for three counting runs in the aggregate score. In the American Steel Challenge the shooting boxes on Outer Limits are larger than those on the other stages. The stage has three boxes, and the competitor starts on their weakhand side. For example, for a right handed shooter, the procedure is to start in the leftmost box from where they are to engage the leftmost plate at and the leftmost 18×24 in plate (45.7×60.9 cm) plate at . Thereafter the shooter is to move to the center box and engage the two similar plates on their stronghand side, before engaging the stop plate. Targets Every stage consists of 5 steel targets, giving a total of 40 targets for a match with all eight official World Championship stages. A World Championship will therefore consist of minimum 195 rounds to complete, since all stages are shot five times except Outer Limits which is only shot four times. The targets must be made