Talk:Shooting sports

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)


 * There is no mention made of at least 3 complete forms of metallic silhouette shooting. High power rifle, smallbore and air rifle. Airgun sports are mixed in with firearm sports as well. At minimum it would be appropriate to have a section for air rifle shooting sports added to the page. As well, a small introduction to the rifle and airgun forms of metallic silhouette and an appropriate link similar to the paragraph on metallic silhouette that exists in the handgun section.
 * ref:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_silhouette_shooting  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.42.151.137 (talk) 07:09, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

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.

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.


 * From reading the short definition, I got the impression that the chair is the bench. I thought "benchrest" referred to the rifle resting on the bench, not the shooter sitting on it.  I'm an ISSF pistol shooter though so correct me if I'm wrong; I don't know much about rifle shooting... and I won't get into my thoughts on benchrest shooting. Jack Stoner (talk) 20:52, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

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)

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

Rewrite sentence
I'm not sure what this line from the history section is trying to say: "The Olympic Games continue to provide the shooting sports with its greatest public relations opportunity." Louis Waweru  Talk  11:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Crossbows
This recently added info should be relocted to the Archery article. Kilmer-san (talk) 22:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Shooting Sports are traditionally limited to firearms and air rifles, however the case can be made for inclusion of paint balls (air rifles as well) and perhaps even airsoft. I think the case gets really weak when you add crossbows, but archery and accuracy are traditional sports much moreso than Crossbows (more traditionally weapons and curiosities than sporting tools). --Nukes4Tots (talk) 01:34, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I think there is a good case for crossbows in this article; they have triggers, sights and so forth, much like a rifle. Rajmond Debevec excels at rifle shooting and crossbow shooting alike, while it would probably be unlikely to find a high-level rifle–archery, or even crossbow–archery, combination shooter. -- Jao (talk) 12:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Arrows flying though the air is archery. Kilmer-san (talk) 07:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Crossbows are a part of the shooting sports (all forms of archery, too)...anything to the contrary is synthesis...and not all arrows are archery, see Flechettes. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►  ((⊕)) 11:47, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Refs..National 4-H Shooting Sports Program, Shooting Sports Retailer Websites, and the Boy Scouts Shooting Sports Programs.... ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►  ((⊕)) 12:06, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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Sources for statement that archery is a shooting sport?
In this discussion it is discussed if archery is a shooting sport. The two sources cited in the English Wikipedia article are not really proving that it is one. Does anyone have better sources for or against the claim that archery is a shooting sport? I find it pretty hard to find sources for either side. Most of the time it is not explicitly stated what is a shooting sport and what is not, because it is assumed everyone already knows that. And additionally there's probably not one definition that is the same worldwide and in all languages (e.g. English uses a different word for Archery than for other shooting sports, the German translation contains the German word for shooting: "Bogenschießen"). --Floscher (talk) 12:52, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Lasers not used in lasertag statement
It is said lasers are not used for safety reasons in lasertag, this is simply not true. There are systems using lasers to tag and send ID, while most systems played in the dark use lasers for light effect (while IR is used for sending the tagging signal). In such cases, the real reason IR is used to tag and not lasers is not safety, it is that IR beam can be large and will more easily tag sensors on the equipement, wherehas if laser is used to tag, it will likely misses the sensors on the equipment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.246.103.143 (talk) 08:04, 16 December 2018 (UTC)