#OlympicShooting

Federal shotshells will be the official ammunition used by the United States Olympic Shooting team for shotgun events. Due to extremely strict regulations surrounding ammunition and firearms possession in Japan, competitors will have to have ammunition shipped to them and held offsite until on-site reserves need to be replenished. Federal will be shipping their Gold Medal 24-gram International loads and Federal Gold Medal Paper loads which are said to have the extremely consistent shot size and patterning.

With the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo just around the corner, the news is already beginning to fire up about the big summer event. One major event, the lighting of the Olympic flame and its journey to the host nation for the Olympic Games. A Gold Medalist from the 2016 Olympics, Anna Korakaki, will be honoring her country of Greece by being the first to bear the torch after it is lit.

The Olympic Biathlon has always intrigued me. A sport with roots in Scandinavian military history, the Biathlon is a test of not only athletic prowess but marksmanship as well. Today in the Rimfire Report we’ll briefly delve into the history and modern interpretation of the Olympic Biathlon as well as the Rimfire Rifles that are used today in the sport.

I have a dream! A dream to compete in IPSC Practical Shooting in The Olympics before I die (better hurry!)

Three-time US Olympic medallist Lt. Colonel Lones W. Wigger, Jr. passed away on the 14th December.

Apparently, before any of us were born, the 1906 Olympics had dueling pistols as an Olympic event. The shooters used wax bullets but no gun powder. Instead the primer was all they needed to propel the wax bullet. Like fencing, the athletes wore a mask and a handguard was fitted to the gun in order to protect the shooter’s hand. Looking at the photos below, the two competitors seem to be decent distance apart from one another. That does look a bit challenging. The current IOC could bring this back with airsoft or even simmunition equipped handguns.