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I believe the decision has already been made that FP is being replaced by Standard Pistol. As a historian, I would be sorry indeed, because of the legacy and tradition. As an active shooter (note ambiguity in Americanese? replace expression? no !!), I think it is a good move. Aleaxnder (loves stand...

From a standpoint of worldwide firearms laws and expendiency, it would be the most important goal to get Centrefire Pistol into the Olympic Games. If necessary, even as male / female pair, while then dropping .22 sport pistol female. Alas, any new discipline will necessarily have to displace at leas...

And replace it with gay events like snowboard, curling and all that other crap? I concur both with the likelihood assessment and with the choice of adjective (which I have outlined above). Gay, merry and blitheful events that are nicely televisable (ideal would be 10 metres air pistol falling plate...

The principal reason for the demise of 300 metres rifle in the Olympic Games events calendar are probably the enormous costs for an Olympic range. The last one to be built was in Munich for1972, and more recently, I happened to save its endangered 300 metres part for lasting legacy. It was an intere...

What bewilders me here in this thread, is that nobody - not a single one - of the commentators seems to have even remotely tried to understand the challenges under which the IOC operates, and the concerns that the IOC expressed. Some of which are rather unreasonable (e.g. laser), and some of which a...

Like they will not sell the "double circle" .22 ammo (like we used to be able to get in NZL) outside China now? Am actually now pre-negotiating with their sales manager about an import to Europe. There are two factories for .22 ammunition (under the brand icons of "Double Ring" ...

I am pedantic. But you are only silly.
A match conducted with airguns in Texas is NOT the Texan Airgun Championship.
If you would still not see why, I would recommend remedial English classes.

Just being pedantic, and duly following David Levene's brief rectifying remark: the Bavarian airgun championships wil be held in late June and early July 2016, on several days. The present match is an (annual) international competition under ISSF auspices called "IWK Hochbrück 2016". Alexa...

I think I can now open a new and separate thread, given that the continental Olympic qualification match has started in India, and the first quotas have already been given out. E.g., Heena Sidhu won a quota place for India in Women's Air Pistol. http://results.sius.com/Events.aspx?Championship=AsiaO...

With the interest (and Olympic success) of ISSF pistol shooting in China I have long hoped that we would see a new entry-level inexpensive .22 target pistol emerge from that country. Alas I've been waiting ten years to no avail. The DongFeng pistol was essentially just this and Chen Ying took Gold ...

There are many updates on this epic saga. As to the athletes, the NRAI has now made public the list of those Indian athletes who will (again) compete for Olympic quota places and MQS: http://www.thenrai.in/PDF/a69588e0-66df-48d1-a321-a1dedb37346d.pdf As to knights and knaves, hobbits and orcs, the h...

Update: using Baidu as search engine, I found a long and very substantial article on the "new" Chinese .22 sport and standard pistol. The Google machine translation is of course cumbersome and distorted, but it at least gives some insight: http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/pc/2005-10-16/29/1146....

Fair enough ! Bravo. :-)

The Kuwaiti side has published a (slanted and selected) excerpt of correspondence. One of the pieces is this example:
http://www.alqabas.com.kw/Photo.aspx?id=839518

During the ASC general assembly (which was reported on 18th/19th November), the "unanimous" (ahem) diplomatic silence was more of a diplomatic ruse. You know what I mean. ;-)
I was a bit miffed about that double-tonguedness, but...

I have been much talking with myself in this thread. Well. That ensures congeniality. ;-) :-P But here are the latest news, fresh out of the oven: 1. The ISSF just held its annual championship organizers meeting in Munich (Hilton Hotel), on FRday 20th and Saturday 21st. The report of the meeting ver...

And the story goes on. For the third time, the state of Kuwait loses with much egg on its (collective) face. Here: http://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Release_3867.pdf http://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=2449 But its continuing hardened obstreperousness (as reflected here: htt...

*Sigh*
*Sighest* (now that was Kenyanese)

If some kind soul endeavoured to translate that piece from Americanese (with all it insipid mental and macho idiosyncrasies) to proper universal English, it would really be(come) a very helpful piece.
Americans...
*shakes head*

The official results book of the Asian Championships is available now online:

http://asia-shooting.org/news/articlefi ... nships.pdf

Update 1: The first sacrifice is a high Kuwaiti official. The signal of IOC and ISSF was understood. "The General Assembly of Asian Shooting Confederation has also held Elections where upon commencement H.E. Sheikh Salman Al Sabah has informed the house that he would like to withdraw his nomin...