Thread: ISSF 10 Metre Running Target

I used to shoot this a dozen years ago. It's the scaled down version of Running Boar that a few DA branches still have going. It was pulled from the Olympics after the 2008 games, in favour of some crowd-pleaser like tiddlywinks or some bloody bollox. I just heard today from an Aussie mate that the 10MRT powers that be are trying to get it back into the Olympics. They havent much chance unless they can engage every region. We used to go up against the Aussies for the single Oceania region olympic quota place in this discipline. We used to be pretty active, about 4 of us shot regularly. Back in 1999, we had the US, Columbian, Czech Republic, Finland, German and Aussie teams come here and shoot with us at our Nationals. It's still very strong in the EU, but us and the US and the Aussies have pretty much dropped out. Our old ranges were pulled out of the Shooting Federation at ardmore so i don't really know how we would revitalise the discipline. Here's some recent footage of Mike Jakosits, one of our visitors in '99, he won the Olympic gold at Barcelona in '92. He only shoots a couple times a year now. Check out the consistent 10's...

Michael Jakosits In Plzen - 13 jan - 2012 - 10m Running Target - YouTube

The shooter behind the screen is doing dry-runs, he's next to shoot the match. The target runs alternately from right and left across a 2 metre gap in 5 seconds for slow runs and 2.5 seconds for fast runs. You can't mount the air rifle until you see the target, 30 slow and 30 fast is a match, so you're score is out of 600. 560+ is competitive, the top guys are usually doing high 580's. Scope is usually a twin post Nikel or Gerhardt that you can build in the lead with, max 4x.

If anyone is particularly interested, PM me.

Ray.