[T Ruth]

The names of the 29 competitors are at the link.

[waterhill]

Love good pellet/bb gun.

[GaltAdonis]

Do any high schools have have marksmanship shooting programs anymore?
Mine did, but I graduated in 1982.
We used real guns, and nothing bad ever happened.
Nobody flipped-out and became a “school shooter”.

I guess that society has degenerated so fast and so far since then that such a
thing (high school marksman teams) is unthinkable now.

I suppose between the widely prescribed psychoactive medications and
the loss of civility it may be wise, tragically.
We are on the brink of losing our very civilization, it appears.
Maybe not ‘losing’ it, but watching it being transformed to something far less than it was.
Something crude, juvenile and barbaric.

[crusty old prospector]

Good for them.

[FlyingEagle]

Careful! You boys can put your eye out with that thing!

[threefinger]

"Air rifle" is a very broad term. Your entire gun collection probably didn't cost as much as any one rifle on this firing line: