TargetTalk

The shooting sports developed out of practical shooting - whether that be military, hunting/quarry shooting, etc. The ISSF works very hard to maintain a distance from that now, and shuns things such as Practical Shooting (IPSC, USPSA, etc), but go back and that's our heritage. The NRA of Great Brita...

Also interesting that Bleiker advocate the use of short movements, whereas most schools of thought advocate one smooth, continuous motion through the barrel to ensure you don't leave any rings of fouling that could act as a collecting point for more fouling (which in theory could ultimately result i...

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Yeah, so the kit is one side of the story. If she can convince other people to buy her kit for her, then well done. Certainly this side of the pond, "buying an experience" is not unheard of (depending which country you're in), especially for events that are high level but sub-World Cup whe...

Absolute temperature is less important than the change in temperature you can expect. Unless you can get the humidity right down, warm air chilling down will result in condensation forming, which is the usual problem with fitting a cabinet in a garage or similar where temperature changes correlate t...

I know of no other place than the USA where sitting is shot competitively. Field Target Air Rifle permits the sitting position, along with the other three - unless a peg is marked as having to be shot using a specific position in which case you obviously have to adopt that position. Bit different t...

By the way, even the most securely clamped barrel is likely to perform better in the shoulder than on the test rig, so a group of 13mm or even 14mm is really excellent, even though a group of 13-14mm on an actual card would put you comfortably into the 9 ring. What sort of card? The 10-ring of a 50...

How can you be an NRA instructor , CPRA ? USA Shooting ? and not what the load command means are you for real. or does NRA - stand for -- Not Really Anything Harsh. The ISSF is... different. It is not surprising that people from other disciplines and areas of shooting are not fully conversant - tha...

How very odd. Olympic Quota places are up for grabs and 2016 would be boring if it was populated entirely by Americans, so you need a control mechanism, but quota places != medals and even if you want to spread the medals about, why not simply only allow two entries per country - with an option for ...

I'm relatively new to this sport, but after watching a few finals I have thought to myself that cheering whilst the final shots in a competition are being made can only put the contestants off, and from what I've seen, it sometimes does. In some other sports, where concentration is not key to perfo...

I've been taking in all the replies to my request for ideas, and I'm finding them very helpful, especially "you're doing it all wrong" from Muffo. Whilst at first this was a bit of a dent to my ego, I think he's right. I should be shooting much better than I am after the period of time th...

Svensta - You've never seen a Bundesliga match have you? Commentary, crowd participation, with the added yellow triangle of doom that tells you whether you are ahead or behind the shooter you are competing against. Talk about that for a mind-f*ck. And that's why Germany produces so many world class ...

Thanks, although I think you possibly misunderstood my intention with that bit. That was pretty much what I meant. With a cross-shot you will be disrupted whilst the RO establishes who shot what onto where, and you just have to pick up where you left off. Unlike a lane-move where you would get fresh...

Is dry fire useful? Depends on what you're training for. Putting lead downrange doesn't - on it's own - make you a better shooter. As others have said, it's better to go and put down twenty focussed shots and make them the best shots you can, than to smash out 60 shots as quick as possible just so y...

"Conventional" is generally considered to mean "not Nuclear/Biological/Chemical/Radiological". That means you can't exactly "creep" from tanks to .50cal to smaller arms. And seriously, that whole email is junk. Read the Snopes article . It's a ham-fisted attempt by an e...

I've seen grown men (in videos, admittedly) firing Uzis in full-auto mode and having a considerable difficulty maintaining anything close to focus on the actual target, spraying lead well above and often to the sides of the intended area of delivery. Yeah but is that because they're actually diffic...

Well isn't there some sort of foot-pound level above which a projectile might be referred to as having 'high power?' No, not really. Whenever some snotrag gets in the papers for shooting cats or swans it is invariably with "a high powered air rifle". There is of course no definition as to...

I was curious about hybridscore as it doesn't use a rubber roll. Am I right in thinking the lasers cover the black, so if you're shooting in the black, they pick up those shots, and that the acoustic sensors detect shots on the white mask, on the basis if you're shooting into the white it's probably...

I once saw one of the worlds top shooters have to borrow a pistol at a world champs because theirs had gone missing in transit. I asked his coach how he would get on with a grip that didn't fit 100% He said "not a problem for the good shooter". I try to remind myself of that statement whe...

I see where the confusion is. ISSF have set up a feed to Eurovision in addition to their in-house ISSF-TV platform that they run themselves. Eurovision is a platform from the European Broadcasting Union to distribute content. National broadcasters and networks may or may not choose to subscribe to t...