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R-3 SH-1 Prone
21st Joss - USA - 624.5
32nd - USA - Delano 619.9
40th Beach - USA - 615.0
!st Park - KOR - 636.0
2nd Alaryani - UAE 634.1
3rd Bai - CHN - 633.3

At the IPC (Paralympic) Shooting World Cup in Sydney, AUS the US team had a much better showing on day 2. The highlight was a great gold medal winning performance by OTC resident Mike Tagliapietra in the P3 Sport Pistol competition. After a shaky start in the precision phase shooting only 275, he re...

R-1 SH-1 Air Rifle Men Beach USA 20th 570.1 1st Park KOR 627.5 2nd Neumaier GER 616.5 3rd Gav KHN 616.0 P-5 Air Pistol Tagliapietva USA 7th 338.2 1st Carter GBR 354.3 2nd Lebedinsky RUS 347.2 3rd Kalne RSA 343.7 R-2 SH-1 AR Women Delano USA 13th 399.2 1st Lee KOR 411.7 2nd King KOR 409.9 3rd Vanouc...

USAS latest issue has an article on testing. Very good

On September 7, Paralympic athletes everywhere will celebrate the one-year countdown to the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. USA Shooting Team athletes are busy preparing for their opportunity, trying to secure more than the two country quotas they have already earned. Two remaining ...

P-5 Air Pistol Len Esporza 23rd 232
R-4 Air Rifle SH-2 Pedro Aquino 39th 614.6, McKenna Dahl 48th 604.1, Isreal DeTorro 50th 588
R-3 Air Rifle Prone SH-1 John Joss 45th 621.1, Nick Beach 57th 612.4,
P-5 25M SH-1 Mike Tegliapietra 7th 564

SH-1 R-1 Standing
Nick Beach 32nd 559.2

SH-1 P-3 Pistol
Mike Tagliapietra 6th

Voting is now open for USOC’s May Athlete of the Month.

Shooter Mike McPhail is one of the choices for male AOM.

He won GOLD medals at two World Cups and earned an Olympic Quota Place for Team USA!!!

http://www.teamusa.org/awards

Please be reminded that the new version of the IPC Shooting Technical Rules and Regulations, published in April 2015 on the IPC Shooting website (http://www.ipc-shooting.org/Rules-and-Regulations/Technical-Rules), will be in full force from 01 June 2015. Ahead of the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cups wit...

McKenna’s 629.2 was a match personal best in R4, just a fraction of a point out of the final. Mike T. had a 510 in P4 today to earn his MQS in that event, completing his quest for MQS to be eligible for all three events in 2016. If he represents USA in Rio in the P3 event he earned the quota place i...

McKenna Dahl 9th in R4.
Just 0.6 out of final.

John Joss 6th in R3 both before and after final Yesterday John Joss (AMU) had a frustrating day in R6 (50m Prone Rifle Mixed), finishing just out of the final in 10th place. Scores were quite low in the tricky wind conditions. Today, OTC Resident Mike Tagliapietra shot a fine score of 569 in the P3 ...

The IPC World Cup POL concluded today with McKenna Dahl finishing 10th in the R5 SH2 Air Rifle Prone Mixed event. Her score of 529.9 was a new personal record in that event and left her jus 0.9 out of the final. In a very close final Vasyl Kovalchuk UKR beat out Johnny Andersen DEN by just 0.1 for t...

McKenna Dahl won the silver medal in FTR2 in POL today.
Tomorrow concludes POL with McKenna shooting R5.

Team USA heads to Hanover, GER on Wednesday for the ISCH competition.

Bob Foth

Britain's Matt Skelhon secured gold by the narrowest of margins on the second day of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting World Cup at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. Skelhon, a gold medallist at Beijing 2008, was made to work hard for the R3 10 metre air rifle prone mixed SH1, eventually...

The first IPC World Cup started today in Stoke-Mandeville, GBR (considered the birthplace of the Paralympic Movement). 80 shooters from 21 are here for the competition. The President of the IPC, Sir Philip Craven, was here to award the first medals and observe a memorial for AUS 5x Paralympian Ashle...

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Most prople just apply the brakes to the chair. Some use curved blocks to sit under the wheels and prevent movement. Others place rods at the corners of the chair. My opinion is that just locking the wheel brakes is adequate. Most wheel chair users sit on a cushion either foam or air to prevent sore...

Check for the results For a complete look at scores and results, click here. To view photos from the event, click here.

Pellets tuned to the rifle should produce a single hole. (I like my shot group to hold the pellet after a 5 shot group) That being said a .1 increase in shot value over a 60 shot match would result in a 6.0 increase in total score which is a major improvement in score. In the finals some results are...