TargetTalk

Just to put a few things right: Haemmerli brand, machinery and some (few) employees were transferred into the Walther/Umarex corporation group in 2006 und moved to Ulm. Not the spare parts, unfortunately. :-( (One of our club pistols, a reliable and stalwart Hämmerli International (pre-208) finally...

The cheapest you could get here would be a used .22 short (Walther OSP or Hämmerli 230) which nobody wants anyhow, and almost nobody is licensed to buy, so they'll go for a mere 30 to 80 Euros - but then, the recoil is significantly different, so I wonder whether the project is really sensible. Alex...

To contact them is the difficult part. The Indian clique is said to try to transform the formerly open club into a closed shop for a small circle of friends. Whether there are counter-tendencies, I cannot say with certainty. Your best bet is to drive by and check, since the range is VERY easy to acc...

There is an update now. Unfortunately, it is not positive. Racism never has a place in sports. Not in (old) South Africa, and not in Kenya. I checked with my Kenyan friends. I know all the people involved. And unhappily, the writer (Cate Mukei) seems to have understated the case, not overstated. Rea...

This is an important point. If the highest you can achieve in a major match is the MQS then there would be very few governing bodies that would be prepared to select you. That's very true. The Olympics are not like the Commonwealth Games, with their very peculiar and charming mix of highest level i...

True. And if you look beyond the medals into the finals ranking, you'll see the distribution even wider spread.

I intend to respond to Morgan Cook's very informative posting lateron. But I would like to address one other issue before: I circulated Morgan Cook's regarding selection that were referenced earlier and they just confirmed what we had heard earlier that the shooters were well and truly shafted. This...

Tenx9, your ignorance is more than excusable because you post from the confines of a country that has not yet been much exposed to current technology. So, you'd better listen and learn from those that have. Indeed, electronic targets are MOSTLY used on club level these days, exactly because of finan...

Alexander, have you ever been to Camp Perry? No. It was _you_ who speculated about acquiring electronic targets for Camp Perry, and who made a rough cost estimate to realize such a project (or dream). Hence my input and suggestion of a potential supplier. I did however not suggest such a change to ...

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I doubt we (the US) would ever consider purchasing electronic targets (or anything) from Iran.

I understand you might prefer a Chinese purchase (like your Olympic uniforms), but so far there is no Chinese exporter of electronic targets yet... but that might soon come, if you wait a bit.

Isabell, it is *sometimes* difficult on the Net, true. Here however, it was deliberately over-easy. As to the electronic targets now, with such an immense volume (300 firing points) as you assess, a careful shopping for the cheapest offer really makes much sense. You will need a locally available se...

Trooperjake, back under your stone please.
You can whine from there over THE evil evil media.

THE media. Of course. All evil - starting with president Obama,. for you - is due to THE media. What else.

Like THE jews. And THE free masons. And THE red-haired.

Worst of all, all THE Americans. LOL.

:-) Instead of musing about the possible deep hidden wisdom behind this acronymic serendipity :-D, I would rather like to link to Morgan Cook's (pistol team captain) INSIDE (and INSIGHTful) information about British Shooting and their despicable behaviour: http://www.insidethegames.biz/blogs/17294-a...

I don't object to an electronic system in theory but feel that the scope and setting of Camp Perry will make it impractical. Does anyone know of an electronic system that is durable enough to use with large calibers like a 45? Our electronic system can deal with rifle bullet hits of at least 3000 J...

The British Shooting Selection Policy Document is available here (...) it has been adhered to. Yes, exactly as I said before (quote: "the Olympic Selection Policy that is (or at least was) on file on the BS website" ), and it has been adhered to; and this document is exactly the problem, ...

We would all like to see a much larger pool of shooters in all disciplines supported so that they may develop their potential. But where is the money coming from to do this? a) The word "we all" would include you, which assertion ostensibly would be incorrect. Try to exchange the personal...

Yesterday's answer from the German Pardini representative was the polite and professional form of a "DUH". Or, for the older "MAD" readers among us, Alfred E. Neuman's "What - me worry?" But just sending enough emailed inquiries to Germany and Italy might eventually tea...

Here is my comprehensive comment on the performance of the entire British pistol shooting team at these Olympic Games at home (consisting of a single [1] woman): Gorgs Geikie did her best in (women's) .22 sport pistol. After the first part (precision) she stood at rank 34, and after the second part ...

I can't remember for sure, but I don't recall Morgan or Ian acheiving the Olympic MQS at any of the world cups. The ISSF website lists Morgan Cook with the achieved two MQS results (Changwon and Sydney), so I suppose he has not really invented this claim. Mind you, he made it barely with 562 and 56...