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Rumor has it that the Navel Academy rifle team has been cancelled. Does anyone know if this is correct?

Richard, one way to start teaching young shooters about Olympic style shooting is to have collegiate shooting go under the USA Shooting banner and their rule book. Further, college shooting clubs should be led by quality coaches of good character, most are, who would establish outreach programs to f...

Consider this: locally all the ROTC programs dropped smallbore, fired here since 1933 for sporter air. Smallbore was putting kids in college, many worked to obtain their own equipment, they went to Nationals and traveled to enjoy shooting targets. Now, with the dumbing down of sporter air there is n...

Gentlemen, my concern is that the avalanche of sporter air rifle is suffocating Olympic shooting sports. As a side affect smallbore is equally depreciating. Soon, enough all of us lead throwers will be shooting laser beams and the Olympic movement in the US goes by the wayside.

There has been some talk about the lack of base, total shooters participating, in the Olympic shooting sports. The governing bodies are in some small way responsible for this but the proponderance of responsibility falls on the principles selling sporter air rifle to the United States. The statistic...

Ammo testing is a must. The best method is to fire groups over a bench rest. Machine rests do not hold the rifle like a shooter would. Your rifle will allways preform better groups with you holding it and letting it vibrate and be damped in a normal manner. Obtain about 5 lots of ammo that you would...