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a. Break up the Summer Games into a Spring Games (indoor sports), Summer Games (water sports), and Autumn Games (outdoor sports). Each has ~5,000-6,000 competitors. This cuts the logistics of hosting an Olympic Games dramatically, allows more countries and cities to bid, and effectively increases t...

Also, what the f^#k is with this equality talk bullshit? You do know every guy shoots better than every girl right? Really? The Women's 3P World Record is higher than the equivalent Men's record. The 10M Air Rifle Records are almost exactly equivalent, and in the shotgun events, the world records f...

There are approximately 30,000 classification cards in all disciplines. Realistically we know that most of us hold at least two, but lets ignore that. There are 5,000,000 NRA members which means competitive shooters, at best, represent 0.006 percent of the membership. You neglected to multiply by 1...

The proposed ISSF rule changes may well prohibit some/most wooden stocks, which may be a consideration if the rifle is to be used in ISSF events or domestic events which enforce ISSF Equipment Control Regulations. It's discussed on this thread: http://targettalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=52226 50m...

totally agree it is ridiculous that this is allowed (and even encouraged!) to happen. We've all seen the OUTCRY and OUTRAGE when one person has made a relatively quiet comment at the tennis or golf Whilst there is certainly a disparity, I personally think that's an issue with Golf and Tennis, not t...

none of us would wish someone to click a camera have a phone ring etc etc such is the level of concentration is shooting any different, not at all. Would golfers be able to deal with clapping cameras phones ringing, I guess if they had too they would adapt. I don't mind the clapping talking and mus...

WTF? Those aren't even headlines in Britain!

Usual US media alarmism (and over 6 years old). Go back to speculating on Kate's tragic brain tumour or which celebrity is going to croak next, nothing to see here.

The MX-2 is VERY much better and I would be happy to do a remote match against someone using it. I've still had groups wandering (at 50m live) with the MX-02. It's good, but far from perfect. It's not subtle either - halfway through the session it'll just start grouping in the 6-ring, not slowly dr...

Funny in Paralympic shooting they have "mixed" genders in some matches, and it doesn't seem to matter. All have equal access to the same equipment, ammo, etc, and it is the SHOOTER that makes the difference. Yes, but there are a lot fewer people doing it, and the events aren't massively o...

Off the top of my head I can't think of any Olympic sport where men and women compete together. Racquet sports mostly. Mixed doubles badminton, tennis, etc. I believe FINA trialled mixed relays into their last World Swimming Championship, which no doubt is down to similar discussions with the IOC a...

I read it as meaning that there is too big a gap between competitive and non-competitive equipment in prone, so much so that a great shooters would find it very difficult to overcome that gap with skill, hence must shell out big $ to be competitive. I don't know how true that really is but you can ...

he also puts them through a heat treatment at his factory post-cutting. Not to be too much of a pedant, but Lilja barrels are button rifled. Post rifling heat treatment is done to relieve stress created in the barrel by the button as it deforms metal. From what I understand post-rifling stress reli...

I'd heard the first part of Hap's story - that the X-marked Anschutz barrels used a magic batch of special steel, but not that it was supposedly salvage from the German Fleet! Incidentally, the steel from the fleet is indeed prized, but for different reasons : Minor salvage is still carried out to r...

I am surprised to learn that there is still ownership of semi-auto guns in Europe. Rules across the EU are extremely diverse. In the Czech Republic they not only have fully-automatic firearms, but also concealed carry. There's a shall-issue license, and then for certain classes of firearm you need ...

I've had a Monard Standard for the past 7 years. It's been good but I'm now waiting on a new Sauer. A teammate has one and the suede in the right shoulder is a really nice. Doesn't bunch up under the buttplate like leather can.

Nice! Ventilation isn't too hard in small spaces. I seem to recall from somewhere that the working value in the UK was something like 8 air changes per hour, obviously sucking from the firing point down to the target end. On the standard dimensions of a 53' container, you get a volume of ~4300cu.ft....

Chen Ying won the Gold in 2008 with a Chinese Pistol. But beyond "it's Chinese", no one seems to know what it is. Nor does it actually seem to be available for sale. So really, it doesn't count. If I can't go out and buy one, then the answer is "No, there's isn't a quality Chinese Spo...

Dumb action design. What if I need my sights to be over the breech? Now that the breech is back you need to cater for people needing their sights to be over top of it. Basically anyone who buys this rifle has to get a smaller set of sights (not the Anschutz ones) if they want to have some available...

they can't just say "right, this is what you're shooting with now, all your existing gear is banned and worthless". Well, that's exactly what they did with Rapid Fire pistols in 2005. They became expensive paperweights overnight. Everyone complained (me included) but looking back 10 years...

An unintended new cost of the expensive clothing is that now 3P .22 rewards group size that is significantly smaller than most top level guns are capable of attaining. This will results in an equipment race to try and obtain .22 rifles (and ammo) that can group consistent 10.9 scores. With 10x curr...