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What?! You mean to tell me that Curtis DOESN’T have a RWS R50 for sale?! SHOCKING!!

Kudos to the CMP for hosting the 2025 Junior Olympics Rifle events at Talladega Marksmanship Park. The staff and facilities are fantastic. Not sure of all the behind the scenes reason(s) for the move. It gave athletes the opportunity to shoot in CHALLENGING winds at 50m. Thank you Ashley Mcalister a...

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Good call.

Did you look in Buy Sell Trade section of this forum? “proneshooter” has several listed for sale

Jamie had to add several extra steps to finish these plugs after printing. This was covered in depth in an earlier post. I have three and they are in spec as I mic them. He may have found them too much trouble to continue making. Since I am scoring paper USA50s I use them or my metal ones but I pref...

Anschutz wrote the book on how to baffle with mountains of different numbers on actions and stocks. However, as advertised by both ANA and Champions Choice this a “1907 in a 1914 Walnut Stock.” They also still list a “1907 in Walnut Stock” which does not have the “Precise” hardware. There is also th...

A device used on paper targets to check a shot too close to “eyeball” whether it is touching the scoring ring of the next higher value to see if the shot receives the higher value. “Inner Plugs” are used to check most targets while “outer plugs are used for small bulls shot at 10m and 50 ft. There i...

1845greyhounds (on this site) made some great 3-D printed outer scoring plugs for me. He received some questions about the construction (on this site) and replied that he found it necessary to add additional operations to surfaces to provide accurate scoring surfaces. Sounds like it was not a print ...

I have had success coaching left eye dominant shooters who were already doing things right-handed by having them use a blocker(blinder) on the left eye while shooting right-handed. It is a good idea to get a new shooter to use their dominant eye/hand when starting out. You will have to decide which ...

Tim, You are like the James Bond of Smallbore. Living on the ragged edge and pushing the envelope…..;-)

Th.,
That link shows the original Ways of the Rifle. It is good but the 2009 version is much improved. The new Rifle Training appears to only contain air rifle info. I think this calls for a second printing of Ways of the Rifle 2009.

I have some experience with kids and shooting programs and have learned a few things. PM me if you want some ideas on stirring up interest.
Bob

IMO that is a good opinion.

Okay then. If you hadn't quoted me to begin with, for some yet to be determined reason, we wouldn't be here right now. I'm done

dude, the OP wrote “as long as his arm.” I think he already found a coach. If he had not, your comment would have been appropriate and correct. In shooting sports a coach’s gender is not indicative of their abilities.

In my opinion the number 1 thing that makes someone coachable is that person recognizing that they want or need to work with a coach. The student is much more likely to be receptive and adaptive which, as mentioned by the previous posters, is key. Since you have that box checked make sure to enjoy t...

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Athletes and manufacturers can only push ISSF rules so far and they will test the limits. This arms and clothing race is perpetuated in Europe and Asia. We don’t make anything here. In my opinion you would lose a great many more people if we started going backwards and our community is small enough ...