TargetTalk

With white background and the traditional sub six aiming what could be better than black, even Carbide flame soot black (these lighters are still available from Germany!) How would a lighter colour help here? Some people say they find coloured sights easier on the Rapid target. (I always preferred ...

Xman wrote:...Front and rear sights must be black..period!...

Is that what you read it as saying?

I would wait for a re-wording or a clarification.

Having tried both hands and eyes during 18 months of a severe tendonitis I would say strong hand weak eye every time. With left hand I never got closer than 80% of my right hand scores. Good alternative is a skew grip and go right hand left eye. And then, there are those (few) who shoot 25m precisi...

Assuming that you mean a progressive 'varifocal' lens as found in spectacles (not a varifocal camera lens - might be a bit bulky :) ), I use them all the time OTHER THAN FOR SHOOTING. Either hydraulic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable-focus_eyeglasses ) or mechanical (Alvarez) adjustable fo...

bdutton wrote:Scatt and a good coach to help interpret it. Look at nc state too. They have a very good engineering program.

Q/ Other than a coach, best training tool for junior shooter?
A/ Best training tool for junior shooter is a coach - there really is no alternative!

...Seriously, who goes to a precision pistol event for audience entertainment? It is most definitely a boring sport to watch... If it is a handful of shooters with a widely diverse skill level, I agree. A World Cup or Olympics is altogether a different thing. After all, if they can sell golf to TV ...

SamEEE wrote:...CM22 is kind of finicky from what I have seen...

Not in my experience.
The CM22M seems to be the pistol of choice for W25mPistol

Yes I have had a busted ejector (at about 20000 rounds) - but then, my CM22M RF has had MANY cases of .22LR through it.

Love it!

Spencer

Pheyden wrote:... I wimply cut off the trigger finger, so that the trigger sensation remains the same.

the glove, or the whole finger???

At a World Cup some years back for 50m Prone, a RO informed me that a coach (in the spectator area) was coughing occassioanally ... anybody can have a tickle in the throat and his shooter fired a shot within a very short time after each cough ...coincidnce? and the coughs consistently coincided with...

From 1896 to 1948 the targets were usually a man-sized silhouette and the targets (and distance and timing) varied a bit at the whim of the host organisers. The target scoring rings (when used) were elliptical and used to break ties - scores were based on hit/miss. Early RF was six targets and the r...

A wadcutter bullet travelling sideways makes a wide rectangular hole which has not been elongated but which would fail the skid gauge. but obviously not when the target is not in motion so the skid gauge would not be used. A wadcutter bullet travelling forwards through a target which has turned a l...

As an aside to this topic, 'topples' seem to come and go in cycles. As a scorer one will go through a period when any topple is comment-worthy; and periods when they are commonplace. I remember doing some accuracy testing with .22LR pistol at 50m and having maybe 20% of the bullet holes showing topp...

JamesH wrote:We know that a skid tends to give an elongated oval hole, and a topple an almost normal hole with a smudge, what about the bullet going fully sideways?
That would be an 'elongated hole'.

It would?

JamesH wrote:

Spencer wrote:

JamesH wrote:...a slightly precessing .38 can easily make a mark wider than 11mm for example.

Skids and 'topples' leave different holes.

True, but the rules don't differentiate.

Nope!
Shots fired while the target is in motion (i.e. skid shots) are measured with a skid gauge 6.14.13.1; topples are not.

JamesH wrote:...a slightly precessing .38 can easily make a mark wider than 11mm for example.

Skids and 'topples' leave different holes.

8.7.1 Firing Position The athlete must stand free, without any artificial or other support, with both feet and/or shoes completely within the firing point. The pistol must be held and fired with one (1) hand only . The wrist must be visibly free of support. While the ISSF does not have any provisio...

...With electronic targets, since the computed shot location is determined from the center of the bullet, there is no need to account for what caliber is being shot. Some systems may have a means of showing the actual bullet diameter on the target, but that would not be used to determine the shot v...

Of course if you make your lens to focus on front sight, your front sight will be clear. But for native hyperopic, TARGET would still be CLEAR, unlike myopic or people with normal vision made +0.75. I will check with my ophthalmologist friend, and confirm with my optometrist about the validity of m...

... By definition, Every thing beyond to distance will be clear; Any thing closer, like front sight, would be still unclear... Nope! Not how it works. If the focus is adjusted (by the appropriate orrective lens) to the front sight, the depth of field will be same for either myopia or hyperopia - ch...

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