Posted on 08/06/2016 10:52:25 PM PDT by Rabin
Unflappable American teenager Virginia Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday, holding her nerve against two Chinese Olympic champions to clinch the women's 10m air rifle event.
The 19-year-old U.S. college champion bumpped out China's Du Li, gold in Athens in 2004,. and Yi Siling, also of China.
Competing in her first Olympics, Thrasher, as the first champion of the 2016 Games, said the achievement was beyond her wildest dreams.
The youngest of the eight finalists by several years, Thrasher established an early lead after battling with the Russian shooter Daria Vdovina, who finished fifth.
Thrasher learned to love shooting while hunting deer with her grandfather in eighth grade. "I got my first deer and I liked the adrenaline of pulling the trigger," She joined her high school air rifle team and was recruited by West Virginia University, where she became a national collegiate champion as a freshman this year.
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Hopefully Trump will follow through on letting the Euros know they are on their own, no more free ride.
Obama - “Team USA reminds the world why America always sets the gold standard: We’re a nation of immigrants that finds strength in our diversity and unity in our national pride.”
Must have ticked him off that a blue-eyed blonde won our first gold.
I wonder which wave of illegals/”refugees” her family came in on. /s
She beat Red China. Excellent!!!!!
Whoops, I pinged Chris73 instead of you. ;d
USA. NRA. USA.NRA.USA
Next, the combat pistol event...
Is there rifling on the inside of the barrel of an air rifle?
No, I think the “mass shootings” event will be taken by the “Unsponsored Refugee [Muslim]” Team.
I certainly would think so. The pellet/slug needs to spin-stabilize to be accurate I’d think.
I am pretty sure all air rifles are smooth bores which is an error of names when you consider. Of course there is not much PR in selling an “air musket”. LOL.
Ohhhhhhh yeah
Not contradicting you but there are indications out on the web that discuss air rifle barrels and they type and extent of rifling at least some of them use.
Air rifles and pistols have rifled barrels. They are the most accurate shooting devices in existence. The X ring on a 10m rifle target is about the size of a period on a printed page. Most matches are fired one shot per target because experts group their shots so closely. Nowadays air rifles are being made powerful enough for hunting. Lewis and Clark took and early air rife along on their expedition; it was capable of killing big game.
I had a Crosman pellet gun with a rifled barrel when I was a kid. It was an air gun. I think we bought it at Wal Mart or something so it was nothing special. I would be very surprised if these competition air guns are not rifled.
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