Shooting in the Olympics...

[B Lafferty]

Written from a Canadian viewpoint, but contains much relevant information heading toward holding the games in Tokyo this Summer.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/the-buzzer-ne ... -1.6002788

Also:
https://www.thenation.com/article/socie ... -pandemic/

[6string]

Back in 1957, Charles Askins wrote an article about Olympic shooting.
It begins on p. 12 of this:

https://gunsmagazine.com/wp-content/upl ... /G0457.pdf

While the article is concerned primarily with the American perspective, it's an interesting opportunity to see some retrospective images and get a sense of what has changed and what hasn't.
Askins is provocative, as usual, so you're sure to have your own personal takeaway.

[JamesHH]

Its funny how all the captions to the photos have trivial detail about the firearm but not the shooter, their training method etc

[6string]

Its funny how all the captions to the photos have trivial detail about the firearm but not the shooter, their training method etc

You mean in the Askins article, I assume? True!

My personal perspective about the publishing business is, as an auther, photo captions are often under the control of the editor and/or publisher.
By contrast, Askins, in the body of the text, seems mostly concerned with the disconnect between the American approach to training (at that time) and the reality of Int'l competition.

[B Lafferty]

Back in 1957, Charles Askins wrote an article about Olympic shooting.
It begins on p. 12 of this:

https://gunsmagazine.com/wp-content/upl ... /G0457.pdf

While the article is concerned primarily with the American perspective, it's an interesting opportunity to see some retrospective images and get a sense of what has changed and what hasn't.
Askins is provocative, as usual, so you're sure to have your own personal takeaway.

Thank you for posting. Interesting piece for its time. I very much enjoyed looking at the ads. They reminded me of when was just getting interested in small-bore target shooting. The only place to shoot back then in post-WWII suburban Long Island was with the Nassau County Police Boys Club. One had to be 12 years old to shoot with them and I was only 9 when my interest began. Three of the longest years of my life......

In the issue linked to, there was an add from Walther for pistols and .22 target rifles. By 1961 or 1962 there were three readily available target rifles available to us. Remington Targetmaster 513T (I think that was the model), Mossberg 144LS (I still have mine in mint condition) and an intro model from Anschutz that cost roughly twice as much as the Mossberg. My best friend had the Anschutz and it was a lovely rifle with a clearly better trigger than the Remington and Mossbergs of the day.

[Rickhem]

I suggest we look at Heads up shooting, just like archery, short man on man eliminations on the clock. It made Archery good on TV. Use an untelevised 60 shot precision event to set the firld and then go man on man...... Its worth a look.

I wish that the archery events would be shown without the exclusive use of close-ups. For me, a zoomed in view of the target showing a couple tens isn't nearly as impressive as a view from a bit behind the archer, showing their draw, release, and then the arrow arching like a rainbow downrange 90 meters to hit that ten ring. That perspective is lacking in my opinion, and it allows better appreciation for what the archers are doing..