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- Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:18 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Why Shooting Jackets for Rifle but not Pistol?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8720
Re: Why Shooting Jackets for Rifle but not Pistol?
The shooting sports developed out of practical shooting - whether that be military, hunting/quarry shooting, etc. The ISSF works very hard to maintain a distance from that now, and shuns things such as Practical Shooting (IPSC, USPSA, etc), but go back and that's our heritage. The NRA of Great Brita...
- Wed May 13, 2015 6:30 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: cleaning anschutz 1913 22
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2915
Re: cleaning anschutz 1913 22
Also interesting that Bleiker advocate the use of short movements, whereas most schools of thought advocate one smooth, continuous motion through the barrel to ensure you don't leave any rings of fouling that could act as a collecting point for more fouling (which in theory could ultimately result i...
- Tue May 12, 2015 8:16 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: cleaning anschutz 1913 22
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2915
Re: cleaning anschutz 1913 22
Bleiker's Cleaning Guide:
- Fri May 08, 2015 10:03 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: USA Shooting Not Funding Competitors?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2630
Re: USA Shooting Not Funding Competitors?
Yeah, so the kit is one side of the story. If she can convince other people to buy her kit for her, then well done. Certainly this side of the pond, "buying an experience" is not unheard of (depending which country you're in), especially for events that are high level but sub-World Cup whe...
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:09 pm
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Ideal conditions for storage of guns in a safe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2467
Re: Ideal conditions for storage of guns in a safe
Absolute temperature is less important than the change in temperature you can expect. Unless you can get the humidity right down, warm air chilling down will result in condensation forming, which is the usual problem with fitting a cabinet in a garage or similar where temperature changes correlate t...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:54 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: different 3P targets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1253
Re: different 3P targets
I know of no other place than the USA where sitting is shot competitively. Field Target Air Rifle permits the sitting position, along with the other three - unless a peg is marked as having to be shot using a specific position in which case you obviously have to adopt that position. Bit different t...
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:19 pm
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Matching Ammo to Rifle Question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2730
Re: Matching Ammo to Rifle Question
By the way, even the most securely clamped barrel is likely to perform better in the shoulder than on the test rig, so a group of 13mm or even 14mm is really excellent, even though a group of 13-14mm on an actual card would put you comfortably into the 9 ring. What sort of card? The 10-ring of a 50...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:29 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: "load"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3384
Re: "load"
How can you be an NRA instructor , CPRA ? USA Shooting ? and not what the load command means are you for real. or does NRA - stand for -- Not Really Anything Harsh. The ISSF is... different. It is not surprising that people from other disciplines and areas of shooting are not fully conversant - tha...
- Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:39 am
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Now we don't want to hurt feelings?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1709
Re: Now we don't want to hurt feelings?
How very odd. Olympic Quota places are up for grabs and 2016 would be boring if it was populated entirely by Americans, so you need a control mechanism, but quota places != medals and even if you want to spread the medals about, why not simply only allow two entries per country - with an option for ...
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:28 pm
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Noise in the World Cup Finals
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8895
Re: Noise in the World Cup Finals
I'm relatively new to this sport, but after watching a few finals I have thought to myself that cheering whilst the final shots in a competition are being made can only put the contestants off, and from what I've seen, it sometimes does. In some other sports, where concentration is not key to perfo...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:31 pm
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Keeping Calm
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8938
Re: Keeping Calm
I've been taking in all the replies to my request for ideas, and I'm finding them very helpful, especially "you're doing it all wrong" from Muffo. Whilst at first this was a bit of a dent to my ego, I think he's right. I should be shooting much better than I am after the period of time th...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:10 pm
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Noise in the World Cup Finals
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8895
Re: Noise in the World Cup Finals
Svensta - You've never seen a Bundesliga match have you? Commentary, crowd participation, with the added yellow triangle of doom that tells you whether you are ahead or behind the shooter you are competing against. Talk about that for a mind-f*ck. And that's why Germany produces so many world class ...
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:04 pm
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Keeping Calm
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8938
Re: Keeping Calm
Thanks, although I think you possibly misunderstood my intention with that bit. That was pretty much what I meant. With a cross-shot you will be disrupted whilst the RO establishes who shot what onto where, and you just have to pick up where you left off. Unlike a lane-move where you would get fresh...
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:24 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Keeping Calm
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8938
Re: Keeping Calm
Is dry fire useful? Depends on what you're training for. Putting lead downrange doesn't - on it's own - make you a better shooter. As others have said, it's better to go and put down twenty focussed shots and make them the best shots you can, than to smash out 60 shots as quick as possible just so y...
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 2:46 pm
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Vote for WHO?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1649
Re: Vote for WHO?
"Conventional" is generally considered to mean "not Nuclear/Biological/Chemical/Radiological". That means you can't exactly "creep" from tanks to .50cal to smaller arms. And seriously, that whole email is junk. Read the Snopes article . It's a ham-fisted attempt by an e...
- Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:17 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: age
- Replies: 74
- Views: 6667
Re: age
I've seen grown men (in videos, admittedly) firing Uzis in full-auto mode and having a considerable difficulty maintaining anything close to focus on the actual target, spraying lead well above and often to the sides of the intended area of delivery. Yeah but is that because they're actually diffic...
- Sun Aug 31, 2014 5:44 pm
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: age
- Replies: 74
- Views: 6667
Re: age
Well isn't there some sort of foot-pound level above which a projectile might be referred to as having 'high power?' No, not really. Whenever some snotrag gets in the papers for shooting cats or swans it is invariably with "a high powered air rifle". There is of course no definition as to...
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:35 am
- Forum: Olympic Rifle - Air and Smallbore
- Topic: Mega link versus suis electronic targets
- Replies: 35
- Views: 21069
Re: Mega link versus suis electronic targets
I was curious about hybridscore as it doesn't use a rubber roll. Am I right in thinking the lasers cover the black, so if you're shooting in the black, they pick up those shots, and that the acoustic sensors detect shots on the white mask, on the basis if you're shooting into the white it's probably...
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:55 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Shooting as Formula 1?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1579
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:48 am
- Forum: Shooters Lounge
- Topic: Eurovision and the World Championships
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1184
I see where the confusion is. ISSF have set up a feed to Eurovision in addition to their in-house ISSF-TV platform that they run themselves. Eurovision is a platform from the European Broadcasting Union to distribute content. National broadcasters and networks may or may not choose to subscribe to t...