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by Bill Poole
Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:18 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Sport Shooting On Shortwave Radio
Replies: 9
Views: 2102

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by Bill Poole
Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:26 am
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Suggestions for Air Pistol?
Replies: 6
Views: 1808

Steyr LP10 or Morini CM162e Vogel pellets, a pellet trap and good european or canadian targets from http://www.pilkguns.com/ depending on her age she may need add'l eye correction but if she's a student probably not old enough yet. there is already one serious shooter named Michelle L in Amarillo, s...
by Bill Poole
Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:42 am
Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
Topic: Coaching help - front-back wobble 3-9:00 groups
Replies: 8
Views: 2200

yes, I see the balance boards on page 103, we have discussed that and plan to build some soon.

thanks

Poole
by Bill Poole
Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:06 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: N4JEE
Replies: 5
Views: 1279

4. If I need a professional, who & where? http://www.pilkguns.com/ has some pretty skilled air-gunsmiths, if its one they sell, they are the professional you are looking for, if not, they probably STILL are the professional you are looking for. there is or was also a place, jeez what was it cal...
by Bill Poole
Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:07 am
Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
Topic: New Version of Anschutz Air Rifle
Replies: 15
Views: 7808

Safety: Protects your target gun from inadvertent shot release. oh boy THAT makes me feel secure!!!! I thought not loading until I was ready to shoot and keeping my finger off the trigger until I was shooting it protects my target gun from inadvertent shot release. Maybe that section should read: S...
by Bill Poole
Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:48 am
Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
Topic: Coaching help - front-back wobble 3-9:00 groups
Replies: 8
Views: 2200

Coaching help - front-back wobble 3-9:00 groups

I am volunteer coaching an air rifle shooter. We spent a bunch of time working on rifle adjustments and position, everything feels good to him. He looks sorta like the images for the "average" shooter in the "ways of the rifle" book, except the arm of the trigger hand is lower ag...
by Bill Poole
Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:13 am
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Need some Advice (new to AP)
Replies: 27
Views: 5479

"calling one's shot" means to watch the front sight and sight picture so intently that at the instant it goes click, pop or bang (depending on whether you are dry firing shooting air or firearm) you remember the exact sight picture and relationship between the (blurry) target and the (in f...
by Bill Poole
Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:26 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Need some Advice (new to AP)
Replies: 27
Views: 5479

get a good natural point of aim FOCUS ON THE FRONT SIGHT nice smoooooooooooooooooooooooth trigger squeeze dry fire dry fire dry fire FOCUS ON THE FRONT SIGHT dry fire dry fire FOCUS ON THE FRONT SIGHT do some arm exercises cut back on sugar and caffiene dry fire dry fire FOCUS ON THE FRONT SIGHT do ...
by Bill Poole
Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:50 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Kim Rhode's guns is stolen
Replies: 11
Views: 3975

saw it off and sell for $100 to a gang member?
by Bill Poole
Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:28 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Need advice on Rapid Fire or Standard!
Replies: 12
Views: 2135

the trigger feels different on the electronic trigger version vs the mechanical

one huge advantage for the RFP shooter with the electronic trigger is that you can dry fire FIVE shots

Poole
by Bill Poole
Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:00 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Urban legend or problem
Replies: 46
Views: 10138

that kid of mine started shooting service rifle at 11 went to Camp Perry with the team 4 years in a row, WON the state junior championship when he was 15, turned 16, discovered girls and QUIT SHOOTING

Poole
by Bill Poole
Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:04 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Urban legend or problem
Replies: 46
Views: 10138

$200 a man for a 100 man club you have NO IDEA how STINGY american shooters are! The same guys who will put $2000 into pimping out an AR-15 for plinking at 25 yds refuse to join a $90/year club because its too expensive.... (and they'd keep going weekly to the $7/day pudlic range). If we told the m...
by Bill Poole
Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:11 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Urban legend or problem
Replies: 46
Views: 10138

(look at the many young shooters on the nice "Pilk-uns" picture website, and count the absence of black faces e.g.). Why not? Implicit subliminal racism? ABSOLUTELY NOT due to racism on our part. I have never met a competition shooting director who would not enthusiastically welcome minor...
by Bill Poole
Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:40 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: ISSF rule question about contacts and glasses
Replies: 1
Views: 847

ISSF rule question about contacts and glasses

I scanned thru the issf rules at http://www.issf-shooting.org/ they say the shooter can wear corrective glasses, presumably contacts are permitted too. (no correction on the gun) How about both contacts and glasses at the same time for example, wearing one's street prescription contacts and then +0....
by Bill Poole
Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:35 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: trigger ?
Replies: 4
Views: 1093

improve your trigger: gunsmith

improve your release: DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE, DRY FIRE

repeat as necessary

Poole
by Bill Poole
Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:32 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Need info to become rifle competitor
Replies: 5
Views: 1438

where are you? if you are in Arizona Contact me immediately, if not, post your location and ask for locals (maybe on the rifle shooting forum instead of shooters lounge) are you an adult or a junior? there are a lot of NRA-based junior .22 programs in nearly every community, adults are more on their...
by Bill Poole
Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:17 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: toddler shot in head with air gun
Replies: 7
Views: 1742

all the shooting finals were online on nbcolympics.com and may still be there.
by Bill Poole
Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:18 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Newbie Question
Replies: 27
Views: 4822

In view of the Beijing Olympics 2008, I shall thus define "world class" as 563 AP men, 365 AP women, 555 25m pistol women http://www.usashooting.org/downloads/08_usasnc_results_final.xls 563 for 2 matches is 1126 only 8 shooters broke 1126 in the nationals, 4 more broke 563, only 17 shot ...
by Bill Poole
Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:26 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Newbie Question
Replies: 27
Views: 4822

there are 100 million pudlic range shooters in the US, 10,000 NRA bullseye shooters 9500 of them are inactive and about, literally, 100 international style shooters in the US... this is a VERY VERY demanding and exacting precision sport! I am probably guilty of a little exageration and poetic licen...
by Bill Poole
Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:04 am
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Newbie Question
Replies: 27
Views: 4822

first, if you're serious about this, DON'T buy a gun until you've met some folks and shot some guns there are 100 million pudlic range shooters in the US, 10,000 NRA bullseye shooters 9500 of them are inactive and about, literally, 100 international style shooters in the US... this is a VERY VERY de...