CS: Target-Olympic 50m Rifle Event
From: "Tom Charnock", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Been watching the shooting results (sadly not on TV) and have asked a couple of people about the _50m 3 Position_, and the _50m Rifle_ Events in Olympics. Does anyone have details on exactly what the course of fire is? what positions are? what cal. rifles used? target type / size / scoring / timing? Just wonder if might be worth setting up on our next range day !! Thanks for any info, or site Tom -- All the information you could ever want and a cure for insomnia to boot are available at www.issf-shooting.org The rule book is immense. The general rule book is 56 pages long, the rifle rules are 38 pages long. The 3-position is prone, kneeling and off-hand. The target is the 50m ISSF bullseye, and the rifles are .22LR to ISSF rules. Anschutz, Walther and Steyr are the main makers of ISSF rifles, there are lots of links to the clothing makers and so on from the ISSF website. Prone is a sixty-shot course of fire, I think three position is 40 shots from each position. One shot per target. The 50m target is 154.4mm in diameter, the bullseye is 112.4mm in diameter, the 10-ring is 10.4mm in diameter. For the 50m prone event, you have one and a half hours to complete the course of fire, for three position you have one hour for the prone, one and a quarter for kneeling, and one and a half for standing. The women's three position has half as many shots and longer time limits. Yes, being the sad git I am I have actually read the ISSF rulebook! Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Misc-Land Warrior
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hmm > >What happens when an enemy sniper or FOO captures one >of these headsets that so nicely show you where all >your own troops are? > >Tim : ) Steve, & Tim, What's even so much more important, is that old saying about radio and radar: if it radiates, it's a beacon. The U.S. Military seems to think that it has the lock on technology, when it comes to fielded communications. But, when push comes to shove, and if the wrong adversary is chosen, what seems to be such a nice little toy right now will very possibly rend itself useless in short order. Either the emitter will become a good locator of the tactical center, and become its own Judas, or it will draw attention to itself by easily being detected, and then jammed. Along with jamming is spoofing, that art of sending out more powerful signals that confuse the intended recipient. Spread spectrum (or secure communication) is just as easily detected as either CW (continuous wave) or SSB (single side band). It matters only in the detection and processing of the signal. Much of this stuff is so cheap that a third world country outfitting a small force with it would pose a serious problem for any NATO unit deploying it. The hitch is in training those troops to be effective detectors, something that takes a bit of time, and well as having technology that mimics the stuff that you might be up against. If it can be done, it can also be undone. ET -- The main problem with all these electronic gizmos is the effect of EMP. Unless technology has come a long way lately you can't build a Faraday cage around all these battery operated rifles and helmets and so on. But on the other hand, there are a lot of people out there designing gizmos that generate EMP. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Legal-Range Safety Certification
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have heard from a reliable source that the new requirement is in the pipeline requiring all ranges to have 600 yds danger area behind the butts, or where this is not possible a 100 foot wall. The really sinister implication is that where a re-certification is required due to, say, any alterations or an additional calibre, ranges that cannot satisfy the new danger area requirement will be closed Do you have any more information about this? Alex -- Sounds like nonsense to me. The MoD uses the NATO spec., so unless NATO has proposed doing this I don't see it happening. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Field-Anne Robinson Quote
From: "Neil Roberts", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This weeks Radio Times talks to Ann Robinson. One of the questions "What would be your first act as world leader" Answer "I'd lock up all the hunt saboteurs because they are destructive. They are campaigning about something of which they know nothing about" Neil Roberts Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Misc-Land Warrior
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm What happens when an enemy sniper or FOO captures one of these headsets that so nicely show you where all your own troops are? Tim : ) Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
