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Posted on 02/11/2014 11:16:39 AM PST by 1rudeboy
SOCHI, Russia—The most carefully guarded sporting equipment in the Winter Olympics lies behind the door of a sealed-off corridor in a stadium near the upper reaches of the Caucasus Mountains. It is monitored at all hours by security guards who open the door only for its owners. And even then, they need personalized keys to retrieve it from their lockers. For biathletes, the security measures are just one more reminder: It isn't easy getting your equipment around the Olympics when your equipment includes a .22-caliber rifle.
Only the biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing with target shooting, requires athletes to carry firearms on their backs. And while many countries allow biathletes to take their rifles back to their hotel rooms, Russia has stricter rules.
When biathletes arrived in Sochi, their rifles were taken off their planes and delivered directly to the biathlon venue, which is the only place they can access them. Biathletes must sign out their rifles when they arrive and sign them back in before they leave. Every box of ammunition must also be signed out and accounted for.
The measures are similar to those used at previous Olympics, and Russia isn't the only country with such tight controls. But it is among the strictest. "There aren't a lot of other countries like that," said U.S. biathlete Sara Studebaker.
For American biathletes in particular, it represents a stark change from what they are accustomed to at home
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Why, ValMart, of course.
And what about the LGTQ athletes?
Still easier than walking your rifle to the shooting range in the U.S.
The flame lit up OK, the problem is that one of the four supporting pillars failed to deploy.
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US Athletes would use the US Rifle Cal .30 M1 aka the Garand.
Not a bolt action, but what they hey ... It's what our GIs used.
This is my rifle. There are many others like it, but this one is MINE.
22s are fun to start with. They’re accurate and low recoil.
But I think it would be sweet to have something in .30 caliber, with a little longer range, and historic relevance as well.
Imagine - cross country ski, with a .30-40 Krag Jorgensen strapped on your back... or a Mauser...
But hey... either way, it’s a gun sport, and we Americans are gun people (most of us, anyway), and we should be supporting and encouraging and pretty much demanding that OUR people bring home the Gold.
As a firearms instructor myself, I love to watch how people handle firearms in active sporting contests and under pressure. Loved the show “Top Shot” and look forward to it coming back on.
They used ‘03 Springfields in World War II too. And Marine and Army snipers were still using them in Korea and Vietnam.
For me, it would have to be bolt guns. I’d pick the M1903A2. Or a British Enfield No.4 Rifle (LOVE those...)
While I absolutely LOVE the M1 Garand (it was the first rifle I ever learned to shoot) and I have one, I think the bolt-action levels the playing field a but more. EVERY one would be handicapped by losing the sight picture from operating the bolt, re-acquiring the target, etc.,
And yes, there ARE many like it, but THIS one... THIS one is MINE, baby!! Haha!
You're right, of course. It would have to be '03 Springfields.
BUT... here’s the kicker...
You put vintage Battle Rifles in the hands of people from other countries - countries than have been systematically disarmed, conditioned AGAINST guns, etc., and all those years of careful Pavlovian conditioning - all those “links” - will disappear as a segment of the population suddenly starts to remember what “Freedom” felt like... and suddenly understands that they have the ability to say “No” again.
And to Universal Big Brother, “No” is THE single strongest and most feared word in ANY language...
Yet another reason we here will never give up ours.
Idiots.
Yeah man... The Garand was a SERIOUS game changer.
I mean, the Germans had the G43 Gewehr, which was a semi-auto, magazine fed 7.92 rifle, but the Japs, Italians, British, were still using bolt actions, and the majority of the Wermacht Landsers were still using the Kar98K (which is still an amazing rifle).
Even the Russians fielded the SVT-38 and-40 Tokarev rifles (and later on, at the VERY end of the war, the SKS carbines were starting to be issued). The Swedes had the AG42 Ljungman.
There were semi-autos out there, but for the most part, we were the only force that went wide-issue with one.
Now... all of the belligerents had SMGs... so THAT’s an option too... heheh.... I’ll take a Thompson M1928A1, if you please...
If we were a truly free country (Get rid of NFA '34, GCA '68, FOPA '86) ... I'd want a Thompson in 10mm. Nothing against the .45 ACP ... in a pistol. Just that the carbine barrel could really bring out the advantages of the 10mm.
If I’m a new viewer just starting to get into biathlon would that make me bi-curious?
It would be one of the highlights at the next Red Neck Olympics.
Sounds like they use special waddage for these events.. Low grain, or sumthin’
You’d think China did better. Gunpowder yada yada
LOL, it must have! Read today his pink eye has spread to the other eye as well.
A new variant of the game should use the M107 Barrett at 1500 yards. Lets see who has the real breath control!
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