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womans shoot short pistols
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:22 am
by Nano
a shooter of my club, said that the womans, in the world championship, don't shoot with short pistols.
is that true?
Thank you,
Nano
Re: womans shoot short pistols
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:42 am
by RobStubbs
Nano wrote:a shooter of my club, said that the womans, in the world championship, don't shoot with short pistols.
is that true?
Thank you,
Nano
It is obviously down to personal choice but all women shooters I've seen shoot 'ordinary' pistols. I don't for example remember seeing any woman shooters shooting short guns in either the olympics or any other world class competitions (although I've only seen photo's). The longer gun is theoretically more stable by virtue of its weight so that fact probably outweighs any small benefit from a shorter (lighter) gun.
Rob.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:54 am
by Steve Swartz
The perceived advantages of the short pistols are:
1) reduced detection of angular error in the sight alignment (yes, that can be an advantage)
2) lower overall weight
3) rear center of gravity
Each of those are also perceived disadvantages. All depends on where you are in your shooting and what characteristics will help you perform at your potential.
Arguably (of course!) it could be said that "in general, those three characteristics become less of an advantage and more of a disadvantage as the skill of the shooter increases."
So while you might see a lot of women using the stumpies at local matches, the trend would be toward regular equipment at the more competitive venues.
Steve Swartz
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:25 am
by Mark Briggs
If you take a look at the 2005 USAS World Cup pictures our host has so graciously posted on his site, you'll see there is a wide variety of pistols in use by the female air pistol competitors.
Having stood in line with everybody else to go through equipment check I'd be tempted to say that "short" pistols were in the minority. That's not to say there were none, as I saw several CM162EI Short models. But I also saw lots of full-length LP1's, LP-10's CM162's, etc in use by the female shooters.
Probably the safest thing to say in terms of a general comment is that at Ft Benning there may have been a wider array of air pistol types used by women than by men. The men seemed to predominantly use LP10's and CM162's (both short and long) with fewer of the other air pistol types present.