Category: Guns

Michael Bane has the coverage.  Bitter was lamenting over the weekend why the United States doesn’t absolutely dominate at the shooting sports.  I think part of the reason is that a lot of our really good shooters compete in other shooting disciplines, and don’t get involved with the Olympic shooting sports to the extent people do in other countries.

Think about how many good high-power shooters there are out there?  Not an Olympic sport.  I do Silhouette, which is also not an Olympic sport.  IPSC?  IDPA?  Steel Challenge?  Pin shooting?  Olympic sports none.  I think the reason Americans don’t dominate Olympic shooting is because here, there’s just so many other disciplines to choose from, many of which are a lot more interesting than standing stationary ten meters away from a paper target with a $2000 air gun.

Breda takes a few more noobs to the range.

A picture of the team at the Camp Perry National Championships.  Notice all the black rifles that folks like the Brady Campaign and Josh Sugarmann tell us have no sporting purpose.  You’d almost think the AR-15 was the most popular target rifle in use today or something.

Over at Support Your Local Gunfighter.  That’s one sexy air rifle.  And the shooter ain’t bad either.

It’s occurred to me that I’m not certain that I would like to support Putin’s thuggish regime by helping their economy by purchasing more of their ammunition.  But what if the response to the Russian invasion of Georgia is sanctions?  Would the shooting community be willing to endure even higher ammo prices to teach the Russians a lesson that we won’t stand idly by while the Red Army strangles nascent democracies?

I for one, am willing to make that sacrifice.  I think the cold war is probably back on after this, which would mean the end of cheap supplies Russian made ammunition.