How To Fix Olympic Shooting In The U.S.
This country’s international rifle and pistol teams need a swift kick in the shooting pants, a gold medalist believes. I am constantly asked what is wrong with the U.S. Olympic shooting program,...
View ArticleEuropeans Dominate Olympic Shooting
U.S. shotgunners capture three medals—one of them gold—but rifle and pistol competitors falter. We spent two weeks at the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games watching the world’s best rifle, pistol,...
View ArticleReloading For The Match M14
M14 rifles have unique reloading requirements, beginning with case selection and preparation. A lot goes into transforming a rack-grade M14 into a High Power competition rifle, but just having the...
View ArticleHigh-Cap Revolvers: Are They Competitive Pin Guns?
You bet, especially the eight-shot Taurus 608 .357 Magnum, which outduels the Taurus 607 and S&W; 686 seven-shooters. 1995, Taurus International introduced the first commercially produced...
View ArticleFollow-Up: We Still Like The Matchmaster Semi-Custom
We think the Olympic/Safari Arm’s handgun is a better IPSC choice than Springfield’s Trophy Match and Colt’s $1,550 Special Combat Government Model. In the May issue of Performance Shooter, we...
View ArticleBrave New World: High-Tech Shooting Comes to Atlanta
Improvements in targets, guns, and scoring will change ISU-style shooting at next month’s Olympic Games. The times, they are a-changing, Bob Dylan sang thirty years ago, and the wisdom in those...
View ArticleHandgun Technique: Vision Training
If you’re hung up on front-sight focus, you need to learn advanced ways to see and shoot Limited-Class iron sights. In my 15 years of practical pistol competition, I’ve seen when the match winner...
View ArticleAction Pistol: The Making Of A Bianchi Revolver
Many shooters don’t know the steps they should follow to build a competitive wheelgun. Here’s what you have to do. On the action-shooting circuit, the Bianchi Cup guns have rapidly evolved over the...
View ArticleTweaking The AR15 For High Power Use
To make this .223 product capable of winning Service Rifle matches, shooters should heavily—but legally—modify it. Most everyone knows the general history of the AR15. It started life as an Air Force...
View ArticleOlympic Shooting Insights From Accuracymeister Dieter Anschutz
He tells how his name came to adorn 80 percent of the air rifles and .22 rifles at the world’s greatest shooting event, and divulges what’s coming up from his German gun firm. Observers at the...
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