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Turkish sharpshooter Yusuf Dikec took the internet BY STORM at the Paris Olympics
Youtube ^ | 2 Aug 2024 | Youtube

Posted on 08/02/2024 8:18:06 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

and by 3/10 will take the two

points they're not they're fighting

they're not going to give this up

willingly

and Serbia makes history with its

first shooting gold the two friends

embracing in Victory

(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Sports
KEYWORDS: olympics; sharpshooter; turkey
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Just a Turk and his pistol. “I did not need special equipment,” Dikec said, per EuroNews. “I’m a natural, a natural shooter.”

https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/sports/turkish-pistol-shooter-yusuf-dikec-delivered-savage-quote-after-olympics-silver/

Also see:South Korea, China separated by ONE TENTH in women's air rifle final https://youtu.be/UFtx1eqILaQ?si=NqKq_LF8JpzPZJfm

The target is 45.5 MM (about 2 inches.)

The bullseye is .5 MM (about 1/64 inch) The size of the period with 12 point type.

Still have my IZh-46M, after watching this I will have to get it out....

1 posted on 08/02/2024 8:18:06 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Geez, you can see the pistol movement, but they have mastered how to shoot with a moving sight picture.

Unreal.


2 posted on 08/02/2024 8:24:59 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I would rather have the Turkish guy watching my back than the Korean girl on any day of the week that ends in Y


3 posted on 08/02/2024 8:45:16 PM PDT by algore
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To: doorgunner69

I used to practice coming in from a hard long bike ride with my heart rate near maximum.

My IZh-46M set up and ready to shoot, once off the bike my HR drops quickly to ~85% of max.

With each heartbeat the sight picture JUMPS!
The shot has to be timed with my pulse.

The biathlon contestants are like robots.


4 posted on 08/02/2024 8:48:15 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: algore

—”any day of the week that ends in Y”

What about tomorrow


5 posted on 08/02/2024 8:51:58 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What caliber firearm and how far away do they shoot.


6 posted on 08/02/2024 9:04:15 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Ok I saw the video. Most impressive.


7 posted on 08/02/2024 9:09:38 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

10 meters ~33 feet, 177 cal lead pellet.

Pre-charged pneumatic air rifle or air pistol pumped to 3000 PSI. SCUBA tanks are a popular air source.


8 posted on 08/02/2024 9:24:35 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Those skills are most useful in a war.


9 posted on 08/02/2024 9:25:40 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: doorgunner69

Bullseye shooting the sights are always moving.


10 posted on 08/02/2024 9:31:55 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Thanks for the info. I enjoyed watching them shoot.


11 posted on 08/02/2024 9:39:44 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That’s what the Olympics should be, horsemanship, swordfighting, shooting, throwing spears...


12 posted on 08/02/2024 9:41:30 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

My favorite is Modern Pentathlon. It simulates a courier in war. Horsemanship, running, swimming, fencing and shooting. Patton scored bronze in it.


13 posted on 08/02/2024 10:27:15 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: broken_clock

Correction. Patton placed third in one event and was fifth overall.


14 posted on 08/02/2024 10:40:05 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: Redcitizen

But can he shoot from a hot, sloped roof?


15 posted on 08/02/2024 10:54:44 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: broken_clock

—”It simulates a courier in war.”

I had an teacher who had won a Bronze in the Pentathlon and OLD when I knew him, he was in incredible shape.
Old enough to have participated in the original Greek games.
He was also Lt Col USMC (Ret)

Not a braggart but if the topic of PT arose he could show some interesting tricks.

Once saw him doing single-leg deep knee bends, AKA pistol squats.

I knew they were ‘fun’ because my career Navy father taught me to do them. He could do them until his hip went out at 90.


16 posted on 08/03/2024 8:04:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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Thanks for sharing that story. Going to class with such a teacher must have been a great experience.


17 posted on 08/03/2024 8:31:53 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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—”Going to class with such a teacher must have been a great experience.”

IT WAS!

Being a senior septuagenarian, most of my male teachers most of the time were veterans.

An interesting group, with some incredible life lessons outside of the classroom; if only I had paid close attention.

All of my father’s friends were military with various letters attached to their names so not unusual to me.
No grisly war stories.

BUT.
A physics teacher who had been with the OSS during WWII!
Having a bean pole physique he was selected for a special operation near the end of the war.
They wanted to show a massive armor column for all to see.

Deferred maintenance has a downside and the OSS had a plan.
With a long reach and a pan, the hemorrhaging oil could be collected, and handed to a second on the top, to pour back into the engine... It worked.

A glider pilot on D-Day.

A former Japanese POW, he showed us the knot used on him.
Called a constrictor knot.
I’ve had more than a few volunteers claiming they could escape. Behind the back wrists crossed snug knot it is probably impossible.

A biochemistry teacher, and former Navy corpsman, in the Philippines.
How to carefully extract 28 feet of tapeworm...DO NOT PULL TO HARD.

A sociology instructor, a WWII guy with a soft spot for vets.
Propaganda was his topic, he loaned me a book from his collection. Today we are immersed in propaganda; if only I had paid more attention.

An uncle who hired me after RVN. An Infantryman with the Rainbow Div who walked across Europe and often awoke screaming in the night the rest of his life.
He often gave me a ride to work and we would yak...
One time he said, “Dachau, I wish I never went, I wish I never looked”.
Being hearing impaired since RVN I was not certain what he said.
Many years later after he passed, his daughter asked if I would help go through his Army stuff.
When I saw it, I knew why he did not sleep.
A Rainbow Division map with Dachau; “the times that try men’s souls”

Thank you for asking.
It felt good to remember them and many more.


18 posted on 08/03/2024 10:12:02 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: broken_clock
Do they still have that? Sounds like something I'd follow.

I liked watching the x-country part of the Equestrian 3-day. It made me think of old cavalry scouts.

19 posted on 08/03/2024 4:06:24 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Yes Modern Pentathlon is on the Paris schedule. It’s hard to find it televised as it’s not “fashionable”.


20 posted on 08/03/2024 4:50:20 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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