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Shooting results software

Steve — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:28:09 +0000

Mark Dennehy is a programmer and an ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) qualified judge. He is developing a tool to analyze the results of the air rifle shooters at his gun club.

Cool stuff.

More here.

SHOT Show Air Guns

Steve — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:19:39 +0000

B.B. has written two posts about the air guns launched at SHOT. I was going to cover the SHOT air guns, but B.B. knows a lot more about the subject than I do.

Ruger Air Hawk

Read it here.

Zimmerstutzen rifles

Steve — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:00:12 +0000

B.B. has written an interesting article on early target shooting with the Zimmerstutzen rifles.

The Zimmerstutzen was the ancestor of the 10-meter target [air] rifle and extends back to at least 1840. Zimmerstutzen is the rough translation of “parlor rifle” in German. The first zimmer was powered by a percussion cap that propelled a small lead ball through a short rifled barrel.

What I found fascinating was that there were 25 different Zimmerstutzen calibers!

A Zimmerstutzen comes in the nominal caliber 4mm, but in fact there are over 25 discrete calibers that range from 4mm to 5.55mm, in half-milimeter increments.

Zimmerstutzen vs .22LR

Read the article here.