Best Olympic Air Pistol Book?

kbergphd · Post by **kbergphd** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:27 pm

I am a Senior new to Olympic air pistol shooting. I am looking for a good book on training techniques, and strategies to improve your score, similar to the MEC book on air rifles. Any suggestions. Thanks, Kent.

RobStubbs · Post by **RobStubbs** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:40 pm

Skanaker and Antal's book or yur yev's are the two that spring to mind but they both only have bits of what your after and not in great detail. Try looking at the ISSF's pistol shooting e-learning 'course' which is partly what they cover in their coaching courses.

Rob.

funtoz · Post by **funtoz** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:22 am

Precision shooting technique is very similar, whether you are shooting air, free, standard, or conventional. Stance, aim, and basic trigger control are very similar. The differences lie mainly in trigger weight and the pistol grip. In fact many shoot free pistol with a standard pistol when starting and conventional pistol shooters use air pistols to increase their live fire time.

Training ideas are available at http://www.targetshooting.ca/ in the training section.

For books, "Competitive Shooting" by Yur Yev is arguably the most complete explanation of the mechanics of target shooting, which includes air. It was translated from the original Russian in1985 and was made available from the NRA. It has been reprinted a few times. It is not currently listed by the NRA (that I could find). It can be found in the resale market for $250 to $700. If you can find a copy for a price you can afford, grab it.

Scott has some training articles at http://www.pilkguns.com/pistolcoaching.shtml

Igor (ruig on this forum) has a blog with good information at http://toz35.blogspot.co.at/ You may have to use google's translator function for some of the entries.

Larry

kbergphd · Post by **kbergphd** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:51 am

Thanks very much, Rob and Larry. I did not know about the website links suggested and am checking those out. I will keep an eye out for the books. There is very helpful information to be had, if you know where to look :)

Kent.

v76 · Post by **v76** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:04 pm

I put my web drive back on with all the shooting litterature I accumulated for posterity at http://tinyurl.com/AirPistolTraining . Enjoy!

kbergphd · Post by **kbergphd** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:20 am

v76, WOW...what a resource. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. Kent.

taz · Post by **taz** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:38 am

v76 wrote:I put my web drive back on with all the shooting litterature I accumulated for posterity at http://tinyurl.com/AirPistolTraining . Enjoy!

Thanks for sharing.
I know this is pushing it and I apologize for this, but could you consider putting all this into an archive (rar, zip etc) so it could be downloaded as one file. Bulk downloading is only possible for mediafire subscribers and these are a lot of files...

BOTL · Post by **BOTL** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:09 pm

"Competitive Shooting" by Yur Yev is the best.

Topic closed.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:10 pm

BOTL wrote:"Competitive Shooting" by Yur Yev is the best.

Topic closed.

+1

v76 · Post by **v76** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:19 pm

taz wrote:
v76 wrote:I put my web drive back on with all the shooting litterature I accumulated for posterity at http://tinyurl.com/AirPistolTraining . Enjoy!
Thanks for sharing.
I know this is pushing it and I apologize for this, but could you consider putting all this into an archive (rar, zip etc) so it could be downloaded as one file. Bulk downloading is only possible for mediafire subscribers and these are a lot of files...

Yea I think they just introduced that limitation. I'll do it and upload it as soon as I'm done with my semester in 2 weeks or so.

tqb · Post by **tqb** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:24 pm

Thank You v76

shooter560 · Post by **shooter560** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:08 am

v76, many thanks for sharing your files. I hope you don't mind but I copied them to my file space and also saved then as a zip file for others

link

superstring · Post by **superstring** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 7:54 pm

Excellent stuff V76 and shooter560! Thanks!

taz · Post by **taz** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:14 pm

superstring wrote:Excellent stuff V76 and shooter560! Thanks!

+1.

Thanks guys.

Gnr527 · Post by **Gnr527** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:24 am

Much appreciated
John

Hamiltair · Post by **Hamiltair** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:39 am

Just found one , "Competitive Shooting" by Yur Yev -- on eBay for $175.00 -- the're out there!

Sportzkidz · Post by **Sportzkidz** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:34 pm

v76 wrote:I put my web drive back on with all the shooting litterature I accumulated for posterity at http://tinyurl.com/AirPistolTraining . Enjoy!

Thank you very much for sharing this!

walter.redaelli · Post by **walter.redaelli** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:12 am

Hey !

V76 and shooter560 thanks so much for this goldmine.

It's a very complete collection, I have found even the third paper by Anatolii P. ("Vital problems of pistol shooting") .

I just want to highlight the '80 back and white Russian introduction movie ..
:-)

All the best

Thanks

Waltz

v76 · Post by **v76** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:15 pm

I think Igor (the toz35 blog) posted that video but I added subtitles to the video file. Thanks for the good words - knowledge should be shared!

Have fun.