Olympic Shooting

[flyingsquirrel]

It's a shame that our USA Olympic Shooting Team gets no taxpayer money to help sponsor them. Most other sports do. I support what I can. Wish they would show more on TV and the news.

 

[Tanfodude]

Because guns are bad in the eyes of......never mind, I mind get banned just like I get banned on imgur and reddit.

 

[Twangbanger]

It's a shame that our USA Olympic Shooting Team gets no taxpayer money to help sponsor them. Most other sports do. I support what I can. Wish they would show more on TV and the news.

I like it, but to spectators, it's really about as interesting as watching paint dry. Most gun owners would be hard-pressed to name two Olympic shooting events in each discipline.

 

[miguel]

I like it, but to spectators, it's really about as interesting as watching paint dry. Most gun owners would be hard-pressed to name two Olympic shooting events in each discipline.

Make 3-Gun an Olympic sport. Show action instead of people standing there shooting guns that look like Nerf guns.

 

[cg21]

Watching the Olympic bunker trap matches is pretty intriguing

 

[Hawkeye7br]

Wife and I like to watch winter biathlon. Wish a few USA events were televised, even if it was a tape from a previous week.
A few years ago I watched 10 meter shooting televised via website from X-Count in Ft. Wayne. It was pretty cool to be able to pick a couple top shelf NCAA shooters and watch their computer target score shots.

 

[Twangbanger]

Make 3-Gun an Olympic sport. Show action instead of people standing there shooting guns that look like Nerf guns.

It wouldn't matter. It would be like watching paint dry with a fly landing on it. Once you've watched a couple shooters run through the course, people would figure out nothing is going to change on the next run. Just one dood after another. The skater-chick is not going to get dropped by her partner, or have a wardrobe malfunction and pop out one of the girls. Pole vault girl is not going to slip and impale herself like a huge popsicle on a stilt. John Wick is not going to shoot somebody in the face...and that would be it. Off to the fridge.

Now if team-mates shot apples off each others' heads, or the Tour de France guys are given pistols and a 5-minute deduction off their time for each sheep they hit in a field while riding by? *Now* you've got me.

 

[miguel]

It wouldn't matter. It would be like watching paint dry with a fly landing on it. Once you've watched a couple shooters run through the course, people would figure out nothing is going to change on the next run. Just one dood after another. The skater-chick is not going to get dropped by her partner, or have a wardrobe malfunction and pop out one of the girls. Pole vault girl is not going to slip and impale herself like a huge popsicle on a stilt. John Wick is not going to shoot somebody in the face...and that would be it. Off to the fridge.

Now if team-mates shot apples off each others' heads, or the Tour de France guys are given pistols and a 5-minute deduction off their time for each sheep they hit in a field while riding by? *Now* you've got me.

Maybe mix skeet and pole vaulting?

 

[Hawkeye7br]

Creedmoor Sports sent a link last week to update the Olympic trials for women's 10 meter. There were 124 women with 1200+ score for 2 rounds. Top 50 were much higher, top 20 were around 1900 for 3 rounds. Averages of 630+ in a 600 point match is crazy impressive. That's like sandbag accuracy for 180 offhand shots.