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- Wed Jan 28, 2015 5:04 pm
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Why Santa would be put in jail under Irish Firearms Law :D
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1577
Re: Why Santa would be put in jail under Irish Firearms Law
Mark I took the time fully to read of of your links. in several places I note that you talk about power levels for air guns before they become firearms. You state that the Republic is the only EU state in which an airgun is considered a firearm if the energy is above 1J. This is actually incorrect....
- Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:49 pm
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Why Santa would be put in jail under Irish Firearms Law :D
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1577
Why Santa would be put in jail under Irish Firearms Law :D
So, Ireland is seeing some fairly controversial changes being proposed to its firearms laws at the moment: http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/11/17/leave-our-guns-alone/ (Irish Firearms Law is *spectacularly* complex btw: http://guns.ie/2015/01/23/just-complicated-irish-firearms-law-let-draw-diagram/ ) A...
- Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:01 pm
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Centra Duplex
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1372
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:21 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Changwong - New finals format
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7083
Finally shot a finals under the new rules in the Irish air pistol nationals recently and placed fourth. If I was on the fence before, I'm sure now - that new ISSF finals format is Shite with a capital S. There's no way I should have been anywhere near fourth, but I was in first place for most of the...
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:14 pm
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: ISSF Changwon 2013 results review?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3529
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:01 pm
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: ISSF Changwon 2013 results review?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3529
Jury still out, but Sparks made me laugh, my 10 year old beat Campriani in 1 shot with a 10.8 over Campriani's 10.4. Exactly! However that is such a memorable awesome day, how many days do you get to shoot next to an inspirational figure for you? As a coach I appreciate the interaction with the Oly...
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:00 pm
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: ISSF Changwon 2013 results review?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3529
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:56 am
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: ISSF Changwon 2013 results review?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3529
Re: ISSF Changwon 2013 results review?
Decimal scoring is a much better indicator of overall shooting performance. Agreed, and with the electronic targets it's much easier. It makes it even more of a shame that they throw away the qualifying score in the finals and make a mockery of the whole thing. I watched the youtube video of the Ch...
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:46 pm
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: IOC Drop Shooting
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4575
I'd hate to see it go to nothing but laser scored shooting. That is simply not shooting. The laserscore system refers to a laser in the target that detects the bullet's point of impact and scores the shot, not a laser in the gun like the new modern pentathlon experiments. Oh and Modern Pent. is goi...
- Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:53 am
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Centra Duplex sight
- Replies: 22
- Views: 46254
Not so easily because it wouldn't be secured, it would wiggle about from the vibrations of the shot Hmmm, that doesn't sound good. I guess I'll have to cobble together something similar that's suitably robust then... K. That should be doable, and I know they can be made to work, Peter Hellenbrand w...
- Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:25 am
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Centra Duplex sight
- Replies: 22
- Views: 46254
Sparks, couldn't you just attach the Duplex to the anti-glare tube such that the iris DOES hang vertically when canted? Not so easily because it wouldn't be secured, it would wiggle about from the vibrations of the shot. You could lock-tite it in place I suppose, but that's a bit unadjustable (not ...
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:03 am
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Centra Duplex sight
- Replies: 22
- Views: 46254
I got one of these a while ago to try out. http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/~mdennehy/20111111_007a.jpg Looked great, but had a few problems - for a start, my rearsight got a little complicated: http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/~mdennehy/20111111_003a.jpg Okay, so some of that got stripped off, but ...
- Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:36 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: ISSF rule change from 1st January 2013
- Replies: 156
- Views: 73572
By email just now: Here is the final version of the rule: 8.4.1.6 Movement or Oscillation Reduction Systems. Any device, mechanism or system that actively reduces, slows or minimizes pistol oscillations or movements before the shot is released is prohibited. This new rule will not prohibit any featu...
- Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:36 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: ISSF rule change from 1st January 2013
- Replies: 193
- Views: 79624
By email just now: Here is the final version of the rule: 8.4.1.6 Movement or Oscillation Reduction Systems. Any device, mechanism or system that actively reduces, slows or minimizes pistol oscillations or movements before the shot is released is prohibited. This new rule will not prohibit any featu...
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 2:06 pm
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: lead bullets article/ Good news
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4870
As to the question of lead, I saw no evidence presented by you that suggests that it is a threat to public health. We know lead isn't a good thing to ingest: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/leadpoisoning.html The fear is that if you have a high concentration of lead (say, in a backstop), then th...
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:23 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Vibration Reduction System: Defined
- Replies: 83
- Views: 20575
So, stop doing it! I'm not. I suggested a very simple way to phrase the rule based on the terminology that has been used when describing this kind of thing for over two hundred years, and you went off on some daft tangent about how it should be down to the local judges (and that's not mentioning th...
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:20 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: ISSF rule change from 1st January 2013
- Replies: 193
- Views: 79624
Re: Cylinders
And I thought you couldn't mathematically prove if I'd had my morning coffee or not :)caa028 wrote:(300 x 100) / (365 x 10) = 8.219
BTW, I checked and the cost is closer to €230.
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 5:55 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Vibration Reduction System: Defined
- Replies: 83
- Views: 20575
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 5:53 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Vibration Reduction System: Defined
- Replies: 83
- Views: 20575
They have. Elastic potential energy, gravitational potential energy Elastic potential energy and gravitational potential energy do not appear out of the aether. Bricks don't just appear ten metres up in the air, for example. The definition is simple and centuries old - A passive system or component...
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 5:31 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: ISSF rule change from 1st January 2013
- Replies: 193
- Views: 79624
Re: Cylinders
Has anybody noticed that cylinders older then 10 years from their labeled date are now illegal in the new general technical rules? We have junior clubs in our state that have cylinders that are older then the kids using them. These combined rule changes could bankrupt most small clubs. The two year...