In this issue: 2013 barrel length Re: Opinions on FWB P70 Air rifle? For sale How to deal with heat? Re: Gripping a Pistol Why not to "call the shot" .22 barrel twist ******************************************************************** Dear Michael, For the first time I am take courage to send some questions. Sorry if i am asking things who were already discussed before. So, Lets go. What are the general opinion of the coaches and shooters about the reduced barrel lenght of anschutz 2013? This can get the precision down on windy days? Thank you and sorry a lot for my poor english! Fabio Coelho - BRAZIL [Editor - Anschutz put a lot of research into the 2000 series and they apparently feel that 16+" gives the optimum accuracy, regardless of weather conditions. I have not heard any complaints. How about everyone else?] ********************************************************************* I have heard from the Swedish national team that they tested all major compressed air rifles and found all except the Anschutz had reliability problems relative to their compressed air mechanisms. The one rifle they did not test is the Steyer. Terry L. Friesz ******************************************************************** *Small LH grip for Walther air pistols, made of epoxy and painted "Walther blue" looks pretty good & won 1995 Oly. fest. tryouts w/it $30 *XS Sauer glove, almost new, purple w/lots of Top Grip, $30 *Sauer rifle boots - the "Robocop" ones, ladies' 6-1/2 95%new $80 *Stenvaag/Anschutz rifle boots, green/purple, 99% new, ladies' 6-1/2 $80 *Kustermann rifle boots, the steadiest, 95% new, ladies' 6-1/2 $80 *Kowa TSN-1 w/25X-LER eyepiece, orig. box, soft case, 99%, $500 *EKL scope stand, missing one base screw, $50 *Torque wrench, in-lb, nifty dial, $30 *Winchester 52C prone stock, adj. cheek, rail, unfinished. $50 *Small LH Walther air pistol grip, WALNUT, used in oly. trials. $80 Interested? Email me at trigger@bslnet.com or write to: Alex Carter PO Box 1668 Dewey, AZ 86327 Phone/FAX (after 4 rings) 520-775-6988 ****************************************************************** Hi, Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with exxesive heat. I nearly passed out today at a 3-p outdoor sectional today because of this. The one I did learn today was not to eat eggs + bacon for dinner on a day like this. [Editor - drink LOTS of water during the match and wear a hat. Keep in mind everyone else is "suffering" along with you so never give up.] ****************************************************************** I think that every good shooter is a combination of both mental and physical athelete. To say that a person is one or the other is ludicrous. [Editor - Agreed. Don't take things so literally.] The basic rule of thumb is that anyone who knows how many seconds they are holding before a shot, is paying to much attention to what they shouldn't. They only should be able to tell you that a shot would not break clean, or seemed to take a lot longer that others. It is the coach who knows exactly how long on average they are taking, not the shooter. [Editor - the shooter doesn't pay attention to how long it takes. It just happens to take a very short amount of time. This is a complex subject to explain, and I try to keep my comments as brief as possible, which I'm afraid has caused some abiguity.] On the #32 mailing the editor wrote: >> In pistol, you must freeze the wrist to reduce angular misalignment. << In relation to the "freezing" of the wrist, or locking it for that matter, one of the primary purposes behind anatomical grips is that they create the locking for you with the grip angle. This is why most top of the line pistols have a forward grip rotation of 10 or more degrees. Many air pistols now offer adjustments over a 25 +/- angle of the grip to frame pivot. The grip creates the "lock" so that you can use minimal pressure, and concentrate on the effort needed to produce consistant shots. Editor; I wonder how much pistol shooting have you done at the competitive level? Just for my own interest. 10.9s to you, Patrick Rowling Air Pistol Coach Oyster River I.S.U. [Editor - Again I agree with your grip analysis. I didn't say how the "freezing" was done. The grip angle will provide some tension for free and the fingers will provide some as well. For your own interest, I don't shoot bullseye pistol very much at all. I speak from what I learned from an international pistol coach, books such as Yur Yev's, and an engineering background.] ****************************************************************** CALLING THE SHOT. How many times have we heard the shooting instructor or the coach telling the athlete to "CALL THE SHOT" ? And yet this single procedure is very destructive to the competitive athlete. In reading the many books on the subject, it is noted that it is also poor advice to the beginning shooter. This is all wrong and an idea which is acceptable only to noncompetitive style shooting. We note that many experienced coaches offer this advice and yet never consider the psychological consequences involved in this incorrect advisement. The psychologist knows well the rule that says, " any thing you think will tend to realize itself spontaneously." We also noted the sage saying, "What is strongly conceived with a high level of concentrated intensity will be easily realized." Both are in compliance with the rules of psychology. As young children we learn by repetition and so a learned skill becomes very easy for us after many reputations of the function or action desired becomes a learnt skill that will remain with us for, in many cases, life. In the year 1854 a noted gentleman by the name of M. E. Chevreul, noted an application which verified the rule stated above "any thing you think will tend to realize itself spontaneously" and applied it to an experiment called "Chevreul's pendulum." This experiment clearly demonstrated that the athletes thought (mental pictorial representation of the pendulum swinging and its direction of movement), not their will, was the sole cause of the resultant functioning of the athletes neurophysical systems in causing the oscillations of the pendulum. In the same way the athlete viewing a pictorial representation of a poor or bad shot (calling the shot) will naturally cause this same thought to be reproduced by the neurophysical system resulting in poor or bad shots by the athlete. If the athlete is mentally viewing poor or bad shots, then the correct pictorial representation of the perfect bull's-eye can not be used for the next one-shot match by the athlete. Added to this the fact that the athlete learns through repetition, the athlete is in fact learning how to fire bad and very poor shots instead of Perfect bull's-eyes. So by misinformation and poor knowledge on the part of our coach/instructors we suffer the misapplication of a mental procedure that is so important to the shooting athlete. Calling the shot is a tactical match pressure incident. A match pressure incident which must not be repeated as it is a way to also eliminate the athlete from achieving superior performance and the competition Gold. Chet Skinner, Coach ****************************************************************** I have a question. I'm a smallbore prone shooter. We all try to get the most out of our equipment. Well, this new barrel company call Blackstar is willing to make a barrel to your specs. I was wondering, has any one experimented or heard of changing the twist rate of a .22 cal. barrel and got good results? I've heard, but can not confirm, of individual going with a faster twist and got better accuracy. Any thougths? Alan Tokumura ****************************************************************** End of UIT Mailing List #33 Michael Ray - Systems Engineer Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. Rifle Coach UIT Shooting Page - http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1190/index.htm