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Ouch! i'm new to competitive shooting and at my second league night for international standard pistol, i found myself in the wrong station. two shooters to the left was a walther shooter, and his brass was coming down on my head, shoulders, arms..and even TWO down my collar! (I still have the burn ...

Greg wrote:I have recently bought a MG2 and find the slide needs a push to get it home for the first bullet to load. Has anyone else had this trouble or is it just being new it needs to work in a bit.
Thanks

are you 'lowering' gently, or letting the slide stop off?

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So I could in fact, in the 7 second pause in between shots, use my other hand to support the pistol, as long as I return to the ready position before the next target is shown? No, I think you cannot. 8.6.1.1. : "...The pistol must be HELD and fired with one hand only...." . Bjørnar What a...

Under rule 6.3.15.4.3 the light levels at the firing point and halfway to the targets must be a minimum of 300 lux with the measuring device pointed towards the ceiling illumination. BTW, the minimum level at the target is 1500 lux (not lumens). Please don't ask me what the difference is. The targe...

Anonymous wrote:I think lead styphenate (excuse spelling) might be used.

Tim S

Exeter UK

Arghh! Something else to worry about

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GA Guest wrote:... I know we’ll have to deal with some lead from the primers, but we can manage that, I just don’t want lead bullets slamming into steel.

Lead in primers? I know the mercury has been replaced (some years ago), but is there lead now?

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Pär Hylander wrote:

Spencer C wrote:
And the 20-shot Finals

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Have I missed a recent rule change for finals? Or are you refering to an old final procedure? Wasnt it 30 shots? Semifinals and finals?

8.14.6.3.2 four (4) competition series of five (5) shots each in the Rapid Fire Stage

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David Levene wrote:They must be, the same way as they started again with the new targets in '89.

Minor tinkering with an event is fine but a major change to targets or gun/ammunition combinations must reset the scoreboard.

And the 20-shot Finals

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It is a great shame that the ISSF didn't take the opportunity in the 2005 rules of specifying how much umph (UK technical term) is needed to make the target fall. It would be interesting to hear what force people are using. I would presume that, provided it was applied slowly, a measurement of the ...

Off The Wall Question: At a typical target bank served by the individual "goose neck lamp" mounted on the target frame (such as at the OTC, Ft Benning, etc) what size/type of light bulb do they use? 60 watt frosted? Not interested in lumens etc. just want to know about the light bulbs use...

There was a competitor Sven FISCHER of Germany. I think he was the one shooting the rifle that had the action toggle in the grip. Does anyone know who makes that rifle? I have been all over the net trying to find what equipment is used and there is no mention that I can find. Thanks! The types of a...

from observation - it would be more dependent on the velocity that the pistol was set to, rather than the type of propellant

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On the ISSF NEWS site is the "Procedure for testing minimum velocity & bullet weight..." for Rapid Fire Pistol.
At least we now know that the testing will be through the competitor's own pistol.

What Joy!

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As an 'explanation', I agree with David that the bit on the ISSF News is a bit difficult for 'readability'. For those familiar with 25m malfunction scoring, under the 2005 rules it is probably easiest to deal with the first malfunction reshoot as you would have with the second malfunction reshoot in...

Thanks all.

This forum is a great (and quick) way to get info.
What did we do in the days before the internet?

Spencer

saw the comment in an article "...it should be remembered that the World Record Centrefire score (on the old targets) is still held by a S&W Model 14 (K38) revolver shot at the World Shooting Championships in Cairo, Egypt in the 1960s..." to my recollected myths, it was a M52 or Colt G...

My current FAS CF603 centre fire gun has just died and I can't get another one before a competion next week and friend offered his old K-38 to use. What I would like to know is in comparison to an auto in 32S&W Long what type of points drop can I expect? I shoot 575-580 on ISSF centre fire. Is ...

Okay, I picked up a Nygord pellet uniformer from another AP shooter the other day. Is there really such a thing or did I get taken? Either way, being an Engineer, it was a gadget I had to have. Drop a pellet in one end of a tube, push it through the choke point with a ram, and viola, a uniformed pe...

I agree with everybody. NYC is a wretched place to host the Olympics (I liked the Washington-area bid a lot better), but my money would be on Paris for 2012. The problem is, the USOC tends to stick with one bid until it DOES win. Now, there is a very distinct potential for USAS here - I'd bet long ...

4- An interesting idea, but I wonder if ISSF regs would permit this? Keep up the good thinking and maybe we can get some action. Richard Newman Yes -sort of - ISSF rules cover entries to ISSF Championships (World Cups, World Championships, Regional Championships + some others). For these, entry is ...