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Rifle: Steps to Success - Launi Meili
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Rifle - Steps to Success
by Launi Meili
NEW, 184 pages
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About Rifle - Steps to Success
Master technique, improve accuracy, and achieve competitive excellence.
In Rifle: Steps to Success, Olympic gold medalist, world record holder, and respected coach Launi Meili shares the training secrets used by the top shooters in the sport.
Rifle: Steps to Success covers every aspect of the sport:
- Equipment selection and fitting
- Safe shooting guidelines
- Proven techniques for improved accuracy in the prone, standing, kneeling, and sitting positions
- Mental and physical training
- Shooting drills to increase all-around consistency
- Practice, prematch, and competitive routines
As part of the Steps to Success Series—with more than 1.5 million copies sold—Rifle: Steps to Success will help you hit your mark every time.
About Launi Meili
Launi Meili has a long and distinguished career in rifle. Meili won gold at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and set three Olympic records in her career. She placed in the air rifle competition that year and had also placed in both air rifle and smallbore at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Meili has also won the three-position rifle championship seven times while setting three world shooting records and numerous national records throughout her career.
In 1992, Meili turned to coaching. She was the assistant coach for the U.S. national rifle team from 1997 to 2000. She wrote the International Coach Certification Program, which is the highest coaching credential recognized by USA Shooting and the NRA. Meili then moved on to coach at the college level at the University of Nebraska. During that time she was inducted into the Shooting Hall of Fame. In 2007 Meili took on the challenge of being the head coach of the United States Air Force Academy NCAA rifle team.
Reviews of the book
"Rifle: Steps to Success really hits the mark! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in becoming a rifle shooter as well as experienced shooters looking for ways to improve their performance.
Marcus Raab, National Coach Trainer
National Rifle Association of America
About Rifle Shooting
Air Rifles, 10 m. Sport shooting
* There are a vast number of nationally recognized sports, including:
o Full bore and small bore, rifle shooting in the United Kingdom.
o Three position airgun competitions, popular in the United States.
o Field shooting, often at very long distances, popular in Scandinavia.
o Running target shooting at 80 m, on a target depicting an elk, popular in Sweden as a hunting exercise.
o Summer biathlon, with skiing replaced by running, popular in Germany.
* Military Service Rifle is a shooting discipline that involves the use of rifles that are used by military forces and law-enforcement agencies, both past and present use. Ex-military rifles, sniper rifles (both past and present) and civilian versions of current use service rifles are commonly used in the Military Service Rifle shooting competitions. It is popular in the United States and culminates each year with the National Matches being held at Camp Perry, Ohio. Some countries have outlawed civilian shooting at human-silhouette targets, though. Silhouette targets are not used in the National Match Course of Fire. Bullseye targets are used. High Power Rifle competition often is held at the same events as Service Rifle, such as the U.S. national championships each year at Camp Perry. High Power competitors generally are civilians using whatever rifles they prefer within the rules, whereas Service Rifle entrants are limited to current or previous U.S. armed forces weapons. Although according to NRA rules only certain matches allow optical sights, normally those conducted at ranges over 600 yards.
* Palma competition dates from 1876, featuring long-range rifle shooting, out to 1,000 yards. The first Palma match was contested by teams from the U.S. and Ireland (with muzzle loaded rifles at that time), and continues in various nations today.
* One other air rifle event is the 3-position (3P), which consists of the standing, kneeling and prone (lying down) positions.
* Finally, there is a different air rifle class, not yet in the olympics, called the sporter class. This is where you shoot under strict rules, and are not allowed much of the stiff clothing precision shooters use. You can also get sporter 3P events.
Handgun
* The four Rifle ISSF shooting events (including two Olympic events) consist of long-time target shooting from distances of 10, 50 and 300 m.
* The two Running Target ISSF shooting events consist of rapid shooting at a target that moves sideways from distances of 10 and 50 m.
* Biathlon is an Olympic sport combining shooting and cross-country skiing.
* The CISM Rapid Fire match is a speeded version of the ISSF 300 m Standard Rifle event.
* Muzzle loading and Cowboy action shooting are concerned with shooting replica (or antique) guns.
* Gallery rifle shooting is popular in the UK and was introduced as a substitute for many pistol shooting disciplines following the 1997 handgun ban.
* Benchrest shooting is concerned with shooting small groups with the rifleman sitting on a chair (bench) and the rifle supported from a table. Of all shooting disciplines, this is the most demanding equipment-wise.
* High Power Rifle (also known as "Across the Course" or 'traditional' High power) in the United States is a format that shoots 3-position (standing, kneeling or sitting, and prone) at 200, 300, and 600 yards. The term "Across the Course" is used because the match format requires the competitors to shoot at different distances to complete the course of fire.
* Fullbore target shooting is concerned with shooting at targets at ranges of 300–1200 yards.
* Field Target is an outdoor air gun discipline originating in the United Kingdom, but gaining popularity worldwide.
* The six Pistol ISSF shooting events (including four Olympic events) consist of both precision and rapid-fire target shooting from distances of 10, 25, and 50 metres. In the UK it is not possible to practice for some of the Olympic events following the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997.
* Modern pentathlon includes timed shooting with an air pistol as the first of its five parts.
* The CISM Rapid Fire match is similar to the ISSF 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol event.
* Practical shooting, developed by civilian marksmen and later used as a basis for military and police exercises, is a variation where the shooter often moves during shooting, and hit scores and shooting time are equally important.
* PPC 1500, also developed into police exercises, is standard precision shooting, as opposed to practical shooting, but somewhat imitating real-life conditions.
* Muzzle loading and Cowboy Action Shooting, as above, also use revolvers.
* Metallic silhouette shooting, developed to loosely simulate hunting, is shooting at heavy animal-shaped steel silhouettes that must be knocked down to score, typically at long range using very powerful pistols.
* ActionAirgun is an indoor action shooting sport using semi-automatic airsoft pistols and courses of fire downloaded from a central hub. Shooters upload shooting times to a website to resolve competitions.
* Here also there are a vast number of nationally recognized sports, including:
o The National Rifle Association (NRA) Conventional Pistol, shot with up to three different handguns, popular in the United States and Canada and also some other countries. This is sometimes termed Bullseye (shooting competition).
o Field shooting, a type of variable rapid-fire competition, popular in Scandinavia.
* The Bianchi Cup One of the most lucrative of all shooting sports championships worldwide
* Other, less formally organized shooting sports include:
o Steel "reactive" targets,
o and general "plinking" at miscellaneous object
o Knocking bowling pins off a table top,
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