TargetTalk

Somewhat late to this thread, and I shoot mainly .22 which has slightly different considerations (e.g. more third-party stocks for .22 than air actions, air rifles tend to be traded as whole items, etc). The first and most obvious thing is: have you performed any sort of batch testing. Do you know w...

https://esc-shooting.org/news/read/leadership-crisis-for-issf-910 Now, apparently, this alliance is over. When a similar crisis happens in everyday political life, the leader of the broken coalition normally resigns and the new leader, supported by the community, is elected. Reads like something fr...

I've run a SCATT MX-02 on an 8" LINX tablet running W10 that cost <£100 (garbage-grade Atom processor IIRC). It does not need a powerful computer by any means, though you can't run an older USB-SCATT on the tablet because it seems to be fussy about "native" USB ports (in the same way ...

I contribute to Wikipedia - mostly UK shooting athletes and the NRA of the UK, etc. Recently I have had a little nose around at tidying up some bits to do with the NRA of America (mostly articles erroneously linking there when they should be pointing at NRA of UK/Australia/etc). In doing so I have n...

My perception is that the IOC see themselves as acting to promote participation, which includes acting against those gender barriers. Your perception may have some validity today, but you have to understand the history that lead to separate women's shooting event that began in 1976 when Silver Meda...

The IOC hate Mixed Individual - Equestrian being the exception to the rule for historic reasons. Whichever way you cut it, an Open individual event will not have an even gender split from 3 medallists. The IOC don't want the possibility of an all-men or all-women final. Heck, they'd probably want yo...

From a hard-nosed point of view, our opinions are irrelevant. It's more or less impossible to televise 60 people shooting a match. To "tell a story" you have to focus on 6-10 athletes. For the Olympics therefore they're a fact of life. Whether or not the final should be a different format ...

It's important to remember that a single photo doesn't tell the whole story. From the angle above side it looks as though the rifle isn't even on her left hand, but obviously it must be and watching different angles on the TV it clearly is. Her hands are fine, and the rifle isn't touching her jacket...

Well it will be Paris in 2024 or Los Angles 2028 That will have all air or all laser for shooting or perhaps NONE. Statements like that should be supported by reputable sources and citations. Especially since Shooting for Paris 2024 is already confirmed. I have seen many people claim that shooting ...

As others have said, for the mainstream manufacturers like Sius, Meyton & Megalink, the "aiming mark" is actually just a hole in the mask. There's no physical target that you could go back and compare against the monitor or printout (unless you fit a witness sheet, but that's not a tar...

Team/Edge are a product of Eley's quality control and the order volumes they have coming in. They occupy about the same price point so Eley tend to sell one or the other, not both. Long story short: * Team is Tenex that didn't make the grade to get a Tenex or Match label. It's the same as the "...

I find this all a bit unlikely. There's more to this than the ISSF are letting on. This isn’t a purge of firearms content or else the NRA of America would have been first on the block - yet they’re still up and verified with a blue tick, as are all the shooting groups, the NRA of GB, NSRA, British S...

The document quite clearly said 10m ONLY. "Exactly. "can include 10m events only". It does not say "may only include 10m events" or "may include only 10m events". I would gently suggest that this level of nuance may have passed by the Russian Secretary General wor...

That's interesting. Being in the UK I haven't seen (nor have access to) that stuff. In the bulk box it looks very like Eley Action , which is oriented at mini-rifle/Practical Competition. Action has paraffin lube and a velocity of 1060-1100fps. The CMP states 1090, which is higher than Eley's tradit...

- a reduced or even much reduced program WITHIN the framing of the Commonwealth Games Technically the athlete quota has been filled by the other events, so the CWG Village is "full". There is no possibility of a reduced programme within the Games as an "official" event - if BS/I...

Pentathlon was at risk of being dropped entirely from the Olympics back ~2002. It's expensive to run and to participate in (elitist), had limited global participation (basically "rich countries") and was/is a logistical nightmare to run. The shift to Run-Shoot with staggered starts based o...

One of the big problems with rifle and pistol is that we have more than 1 atlete performing at the same time. Whilst it is possible to show a few shooters with split screen, any more than about 2 or 3 and it just becomes too busy and confusing. Shotgun and Archery are so much easier with only 1 ath...

The media want televisable events. Shooting doesn't really offer that outside - possibly - clay shooting where you have a clay busting into dust. Much more televisual than seeing someone fire a shot you can't see and waiting for a computer to tell you what happened. Heck, even Archery can have a spl...

So, what 'refurbishments' are they referring to? - or am I missing something? The Lord Roberts Centre is totally unsuitable for the CWG (despite having been built for the 2002 Games), it is semi-derelict, the targetry needed replacing 5 years ago. Hell, they don't have have Guest Wifi for Range use...