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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on August 03, 2024, 08:56:50 AM
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Dikec Yusuf
Olympic Silver Medalist from Turkey.
Check this guy out!
Walks up to the firing line in air pistol, no special glasses, no heavy coat or pants. Just a T-shirt and jeans, as if he was plinking in the back yard. He walks away with an Olympic Silver Medal!
Lesson to us all: Don't let the gear overload keep us away. Don't stay away because we don't have all the latest and greatest. Pickup your gun, go to the range, join a club or league, and HAVE A GOOD TIME!
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He did have some experience in the military shooting, but basically while going through a divorce he took up the Olympic pistol shooting to relieve stress. Reading between the lines I think his ex might have said he'd never amount to anything. Because, rumor has it, after he got the silver medal he was heard to say to the camera, <wife's name> I want my dog back.
Very cool. No sponsor, no "uniform", no fancy gear, and when he got done shooting he wanted to know where the smoking area was.
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He's a former NCO who set the Conseil International du Sport Militaire (CISM), or International Military Sports Council (IMSC), Individual Record in in 25 m Pistol, Center Fire. His record still stands 18 years later. 8)
https://www.milsport.one/sports/cism-disciplines-world-level-sport/shooting
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When you can shoot, you can shoot. One of the greatest Trap shooters that ever lived was Leo Harrison III. He shot a box stock Remington 1100 Trap.
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When you can shoot, you can shoot. One of the greatest Trap shooters that ever lived was Leo Harrison III. He shot a box stock Remington 1100 Trap.
Some of those were beautiful guns. Other than a Monte Carlo cheek piece the trap guns weren't set up much differently from plain M11100s. But that wood...