Saw it coming after Beijing 2008 but did not expect it going to be so quick.

Call me gloom and doom or whatever but I really wish we have a stronger voice in shooting competition or hunting. Look at the NRA in the states .

To quote a friend of mine from the states K.R.
"There are bandits everywhere............"

First Biathalon and now this soon Saeed and I will be shooting laser clays.



Lasers Replace Pistols for Modern Pentathlon at London Olympics

PentathlonThe Modern Pentathlon is a 5-discipline Olympic event that combines Horse Riding, Running, Swimming, Fencing, and Shooting. However it looks like there won’t be real shooting anymore, at least at the 2012 London Games. Last week, Union International de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) President Klaus Schormann declared that laser guns will be used instead of air pistols in the Modern Pentathlon at the 2012 London Olympics. Schormann claimed the lasers would enhance safety and allow “competitions in parks and even shooting malls”. Last year, UIPM officials argued for the use of lasers to reduce the environmental impact of lead pellets from air pistols. Schormann stated: “The decision to introduce non-air pistol shooting … is a significant development in terms of lowering the environmental impact of the sport.” That’s nonsense — Pentathlon air pistols fire tiny 7-grain pellets that are easily captured by bullet traps, so there is virtually no environmental risk. UIPM logo PentathlonSebastian, creator of the Snowflakes in Hell Blog, observed: “The reasoning of the [UIPM] committee is disturbing. I hope this doesn’t portend bad things to come with other Olympic shooting sports, whose environmental footprint is arguably worse.” One Snowflakes Blog reader astutely commented: “It would have been trivially easy to mandate lead-free pellets, if the ‘lead poisoning’ argument were the real reason behind this change. Replacing air pistols with lasers instead of a much simpler requirement to use nontoxic shot suggests that it was the ‘gun-ishness’ of the air pistols, and not the environmental impact, that may have been the primary driver here.” UIPM Decision Criticized by USA Shooting & ISSF The Outdoor Wire’s Jim Shepherd polled leading shooting sports officials and found widespread criticism of the UIPM decision to replace pistols with laser devices. According to Shepherd: “USA Shooting and International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) dislike the change. Their position is simple, the laser gun takes much out of the ’shooting’ element of external conditions (pistol and pellet accuracy) and turns shooting ‘into an arcade game’. They view it as a possible threat to shooting, moving away from what is ’shooting sport’.” Lasers Replace Pistols for Modern Pentathlon at London Olympics


Should really place an order for the first LASER double rifle for my son's first DG !

Will they produce a digitised "phut" sound?

And I´m afraid that when the ball start to roll, Biathlon will be on the "laser list" as well.

Biathalon is already changed. This is the second dicipline and soon there is talk of rifle shooting as well.

Yes there is a PHUT DAAD DAAD when there is a hit

and FUCK if you miss !

and the horses fart and that releases methane into the atmosfere.
i think they should be replaced with pedal bikes.

and fencing is dangerus, you could poke an eye out with those things. better to change them into role playing swords made out of rubber.

this desision is so doumb it defies sanity.

oh how i wish i could be political correct, my life could proberly be much simpler.....

Yes this makes me feel despair, concern and depression all sort of rolled into one.

It is beyond the ridiculous.

Very very sad and pathetic.

We are living in an increasingly weird world. OTOH we also allow these things to happen.

I am convinced that the most important thing for us to do is to interest young people for the hunting ans shooting sports.

It's amazing!!!

To many people around have no relationship with firearms. It's only through what they see or hear on TV, and that's mainly how dangerous they are. Therefor they will support all efforts to remove dangerous object from our society.

Recruiting and learning young people is very cruicial!

Yes, this will be the future.
In Germany are many attemps to change all shooting disciplines to laser guns. Many of the politicians and anti-gun groups are working to ban every sport with "dangerous" weapons. And since last year a few company´s propagate this laser guns and other "Smart guns" for target shooting and hunting. The newest idea is this one: http://forum.waffen-online.de/...h&type=post&id=26656

If this goes on in such a way, I see in at the latest 5 years no more proper shooting sport in Germany or Europe.


Martin

However it's only a matter of time before laser guns are dangerous then what do we do my friends ?

Shall we earmark this topic shall we say ten years from now ?

Did they overlook that lasers are dangerous to eyes?