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I wondered too. The results of the National Championships are here: https://www.usashooting.org/library/Competitions/0_2019/RP_NATS_/Results_/RP_NATS%20Results%20_6.26.pdf , go to page 23 of the pdf file. And they are not, repeat NOT high at all. Most county championships here around score higher. I...

David Levene wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:35 am BobGee was comparing .38 to .22, so was absolutely correct.

Ach? Well, this thread discussion is about .32 vs. 38 in the context of ISSF Centrefire (only), so my statement is not only relatively correct, but absolutely in place. ;-)

BobGee wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:04 am

swilso wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 1:27 amI wouldn’t expect same level scores out of centrefire

Why not? Bigger holes cut more rings...

They don't. Because under ISSF and national rules, both .32 S&W Long and .38 Special are measured with the same .38 gauge. Nice advantage for the smaller calibre shhoters.

David's arguments are sweet. But they try to shift the topic, a bit back-handedly. What he writes, is mainly applicable to NRA Bullseye - but *NOT* to ISSF Centrefire. They also elegant cirumlocute all the main issues that constitute the revolver's disadvantages in this latter discipline.

He tried his worst to gag Keith Sanderson, to kick him out of shooting (in a very clumsy and heavy-handed manner) and to suppress any criticism of the USOC. Vocal athletes were a nuisance to him.
But ultimately, he lost - so, good riddance !!

I haven't tried a .32 myself, but I see all the posts here about the problems with accuracy. ??? The .38 (.357) has been used for generations successfully. I would say it is the reverse. The .32 S&W long is the 99.98 % used cartridge in ISSF centrefire competition. It has been used for generati...

I would NOT choose a .38. Been there, done that in competition. Don't do it.

Here is the statement of the ISSF:
https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3340

And for measure (not "good" measure for sure), here is the statement from British Shooting:
https://www.britishshooting.org.uk/article/1604

Alexander

Update: The executive board of the CGF has confirmed the exclusion (or rather omission) of shooting from the 2022 Birmingham Games. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1080945/shooting-left-off-birmingham-2022-programme-as-womens-cricket-beach-volleyball-and-para-table-tennis-added The final dec...

I have learned a big lot from Hemmers' responses in this as well as in the smaller Stirton forum, and I am very grateful for his willingness to share and to invest time in composing his thorough answers. Thank you ! One issue that he has repeatedly explained is the Commonwealth Games' differentiatio...

I would not call it "good news" yet. That might be much premature. But it is an important step into the right direction:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles ... ngham-2022

Keeping my fingers crossed,

Alexander

Why is it that large member organizations almost never talk about their "dirty laundry" in public. We always seem to have and wait and find out second or third hand, if at all. And when bad news does come out the upper level brass almost always makes every effort to avoid talking about it...

Not only are you wrong Which syllable of the word "pre-sent-ly" is inintelligible to you? Gwhite (the guy who is wont to feed junk ammunition to his trainees in national championships and in all earnest calls this coaching, since, to quote him, they are not worth anything better) has aske...

BEA wrote:Look at the box and see if it says made in Germany.

Please TRY to be less idiotic. Pretty please.
The Geco brand ammo (under the RUAG umbrella, their el-cheapo line) is presently made by Federal. And NOT the other way around.

Alexander

Answering my namesake's inquiry: The Walther GSP was a very modern and innovative pistol in the time of its invention. But this time is now fifty (50) years back. It is still a good gun for those who like its weight distribution and get along with it. But the crucial word in my above advice was and ...

Your question has been amply answered various times in the one relevant German competitive sport shooting forum ("Meisterschützen"), though I admit that the high-end absolutists are a bit dominant there at times. This of course is due partially to the ISSF imprint, and partially to the con...

Jaxon: I suggest you start _reading_ the thread. Attentively. To be more on target where it counts, not entirely in the white.
But I won't force you.

Recalcitrant persistence in obvious error is not the same as dignity. Dignity is the ability to learn, to correct oneself, and to grow. If you have held a wrong (and, to be frank: foolish, and detrimental to your trainees) opinion for 20 or even 25 years (see rec.guns), there is little "dignity...

Alexander is apparently fortunate enough to shoot in a world where cost is no object. Indeed that is an - entirely unmerited on my part - advantage that a denizen of a First World country may have vis-à-vis a US American. Namely, to live - well maybe not in a world, but in a nation or merely in a r...

Where did this come from ? Direct opposite to what I think of Gwhite..... it came from somebody who usually avoids putting both of his feet into his mouth at the same time, unike Gwhite (though from time to time, I might be caught with one... not all too frequently though I hope). In competitive sh...