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[edit] Metallic Silhouette
The US privately owned company IHMSA as the 'international' body for Silhouette? What about IMSSU?
You make a good point. IHMSA is limited to the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and Canada, iirc. IMSSU is active in France, Scandinavia (don't remember exactly where) and (again, relying on my faulty memory) some years ago had their championships in South Africa. The IMSSU was formed in reaction to the attitude problems displayed by the folks running IHMSA a long, long time ago. There was also the ASA (American Silhouette Association) in years gone by; I think those guys managed to put on one match before they went belly-up. All this is really old news and not pertinent to the state of affairs today. Obviously there are at least two competing sanctioning bodies. I think it's fair to say that IHMSA is definitely bigger and more active. Unfortunately, with an incredibly small-niche sport like pistol silhouette shooting, such a statement is roughly analagous to two fleas arguing over who owns the dog. For the sake of completeness, someone should look up IMSSU's web site (it's been problematical for me in the past) and post the link.152.216.3.5 20:42, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] What about Archery?
I dont now, but it seems to me that archery is a shooting sport. You have a device, (the bow) and a object (the arrow) how hits a target.
- By "Shooting Sports" I think it refers to firearm sports. But there is a link in the intro to Archery. Although you do shoot arrows, to me the term "shooting" refers to propelling something without your own force. An arrow is propelled primarliy through your own doing, while bullets are primarily propelled through the use of gunpowder and having miniaml force on your part.
[edit] Benchrest error
The short definition of benchrest shooting provided by the article is erroneous. To a non-participant, benchrest may appear to be concerned solely with equipment. However, while a certain level of equipment sophistication is required to be competitive, the tools of the sport are well-understood. Firearms of winning quality are obtained merely by writing sufficiently large checks to the gunsmith of your choice. The precision manufacturing of ammunition is a craft that must be mastered by the shooter, true enough, but this isn't particularly difficult. In fact, benchrest shooting is about shooting small groups, i.e. firing a series of bullets to the exact same spot on the target within a time limit. In practice, the greatest barrier to doing this and the thing that distinguishes winners from losers is the ability to "read" the wind, i.e. to predict and compensate for the effects of environmental conditions on the flight of the bullet. I'll shortly change the provided definition to something more accurate.
[edit] Full Bore shooting
I am quite surprised to see no mention of full-bore target shooting in this list, or indeed anywhere on the Wikipedia except the UK NRA page, given its status in the UK, USA, Germany and Commonwealth countries. If anyone can show me otherwise I would appreciate it! Otherwise, at some point I will add this to the list and start a page on this discipline. Rmbyoung 02:02, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
- Well, 300 m Rifle and 300 m Standard Rifle are two of the ISSF shooting events and so they are included. However, I see your point in that national versions of the disciplines might often be more popular (this is certainly the case in Sweden, probably partly because the number of shots is lower, so it doesn't get quite as expensive as the 120-shot match). -- Jao 10:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Service Rifle vs High Power
I corrected the previous entry that stated Service Rifle is the same as High Power Rifle (they are distinct events) and added Palma competition. I also made a separate entry for Action Shooting events, cross-referencing practical pistol and cowboy.
Billyt 23:38, 26 April 2006 (UTC) Billy
