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How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2025 2:31 pm
by David M
Air Pistol is the backbone of your competition shooting no matter what ever your favourite discipline.
It is your training discipline that demands precision, control, patience, mental focus, mental toughness and concentration that you should keep coming back too.
It is the unemotional execution of the same repetitive, boring, precise action over a long time.
It is the stepping stone into Olympic and International shooting competitions, that requiring athletes to exhibit mastery in marksmanship, concentration, and mental fortitude.
Re: How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 10:49 pm
by motorcycle_dan
Completely agree. If you practice and become good with air pistol it will improve all of your other shooting. The hardest and most rewarding at the same time.
Re: How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:01 am
by Gwhite
If you want hardest, try free pistol... I view air pistol as the gateway drug to free pistol, with all of its frustrations...
Re: How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:38 am
by brent375hh
It is entirely too bad that free pistol is a dying sport.
Re: How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:25 am
by renzo
Gwhite wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:01 am
If you want hardest, try free pistol... I view air pistol as the gateway drug to free pistol, with all of its frustrations...
Agreed!!!!!
Re: How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:35 am
by David M
Yes, Free pistol has a higher difficulty level, but Airpistol is your training pistol for all the shooting basics.
Re: How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 10:32 am
by Gwhite
For the college team I help coach, we start everyone on air pistol, even students that have taken the PE .22 class, which is focused on safety and familiarization, not marksmanship. Until they can shoot a 500 in an air pistol match, they stick with Hammerli AP20's. When they do that, we upgrade them to higher end end air pistols with better grips (Steyr, Morini, Benelli, Hammerli AP40's). When they shoot 500 or better in a second match, then we start them on .22's. Over several decades, this process has produced multiple collegiate National Champions.
Re: How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:03 pm
by Dwight
renzo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:25 am
Gwhite wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:01 am
If you want hardest, try free pistol... I view air pistol as the gateway drug to free pistol, with all of its frustrations...
Agreed!!!!!
So true. We need to keep free pistol alive.
Re: How do you define Air Pistol
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 2:51 pm
by Gort
The only way to save free pistol is to make it an Olympic event again, like it was for over 100 years.
Gort