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Olympic silver medalist Dikec Yusuf, who only recently took up shooting after a particularly heated argument with his ex-wife, credits his success to his newfound passion for seeing his kids and a relentless drive to prove his ex wrong. "I never thought I'd be here," Yusuf said, shrugging nonchalantly. "I was just aiming for a weekend with the kids."
The 52-year-old, who works as a mechanic in a small garage in Istanbul, first picked up a gun during a particularly frustrating divorce mediation.
His unorthodox approach – no specialty gear, no training regimen, and a wardrobe consisting of his everyday jeans and a T-shirt – has baffled professional shooters. "He just shows up, shoots a near perfect round, and then asks if there's a smoking area nearby."
After winning silver, Yusuf stood emotionless on the Olympic podium and declared, "Sharon, if you're watching this, I want my dog back."

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I don't shoot air pistols but have shot cartridge pistols a fair bit, and also shoot rifles, although clay pigeon shooting is really my thing - when I was younger I shot competitively, I now do it just for fun, which is a pretty good reason for doing anything.

To achieve a silver, without the pro training, coaching etc is an unbelievable achievement, he must have incredible natural ability. Clothing is neither here nor there.
 
I saw a bit of the target shooting earlier today and was a bit puzzled.

The guns look like alien matter transfer devices and the competitors are wearing massive heavy coats and all sorts of bits and bobs.

What's the purpose of all that?
 
simon ess said:
I saw a bit of the target shooting earlier today and was a bit puzzled.

The guns look like alien matter transfer devices and the competitors are wearing massive heavy coats and all sorts of bits and bobs.

What's the purpose of all that?
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Maybe someone else can comment on the clothing, I just don't know and I don't think that it would make much if any difference with any kind of pistol, which is simply held and doesn't have any other contact with the shooter's body.

The guns are a bit odd looking, designed for a very smooth and light trigger release and extreme accuracy - very low-powered because power at a range of 10 metres is neither here nor there. Low power equals zero or near-zero recoil. One-handed pistol shooting also requires a perfectly balanced gun, another reason for them to look a bit odd.
 
There is a distinct difference between clothing for rifle shooting , particularly standing and pistol shooting.
Rifle shooting clothing is designed to stop the shooter moving ( its akin to suit of armour) simply because a target rifle is extremely heavy and difficult to hold while standing.
Anyone who has been in the military and shot .303/7.62 rifles will know what I mean.
Pistol shooting on the other hand is totally different and loose clothing is the order of the day, indeed and clothing which gives support to the shooters body is not allowed as is any contact with the shooting bench.
 
From the look of some of them the clothing is designed to help them 'lock' into a shooting stance. Maybe to help cut down any wavering caused by muscles?
 
troutfisher said:
There is a distinct difference between clothing for rifle shooting , particularly standing and pistol shooting.
Rifle shooting clothing is designed to stop the shooter moving ( its akin to suit of armour) simply because a target rifle is extremely heavy and difficult to hold while standing.
Anyone who has been in the military and shot .303/7.62 rifles will know what I mean.
Pistol shooting on the other hand is totally different and loose clothing is the order of the day, indeed and clothing which gives support to the shooters body is not allowed as is any contact with the shooting bench.
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Yes. Think looking through a telescope, or looking through your camera viewfinder with a very long lens, any unsteadiness is greatly magnified, and cameras don't have substantial barrel length to make things even worse.

In practical terms, we shoot pistols two-handed (recoil and steady grip, forget what you think you know from watching movies) and we shoot rifles in either prone or kneeling position, we only shoot standing if we have a support for the barrel.
 
Match pistols 0.22 and 0.32 we shot one handed,anything bigger, 0.38/9mm/0.45 we shot two handed,sadly no longer.
I know there are long barreled pistols which I understand are legal but I have never shot one.
When I had to give up my pistols I took up Archery.
A compound bow is similar to rifle and just as difficult to shoot well
 
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