bullet shooting, i.e. shooting from rifled large-caliber, small-caliber and pneumatic sports weapons is one of the most popular and popular sports. Shooting sport has a long history - competitions in shooting from rifles and pistols are included in the program Olympic Games, starting with the first Games in 1896, and a year later, regular world shooting championships began to be held.

Unlike most other sports, marksmanship sports shooting is an art that anyone can master, regardless of age and physical data. The systematic practice of sports shooting develops composure, perseverance, self-discipline and the will to win, moreover, over oneself. In this sport, the winner is the one who is better than his rivals in controlling his actions in the stressful environment of the competition. That is why sports shooting is such a kind of human activity where there really is no limit to perfection. Moreover, the opportunities for men and women in achieving high results in this sport are almost equal.

In "Moskvich" department of bullet shooting was opened in January 2009. The department employs highly qualified coaches, among them there are recently honored athletes: Fedkin Yury Nikolaevich - Olympic champion 1992, Honored Master of Sports, Turishcheva Tatyana Mikhailovna- five-time European champion, multiple champion of the USSR, Honored Master of Sports.

From 1 September 2018 to The department trains 39 athletes, of which 6 people are at the stage of higher sportsmanship. Sports ranks and categories: "Honored Master of Sports" - 3 athletes, "Master of Sports of International Class" - 1 athlete, "Master of Sports" - 2 athletes.

Klimov Alexey- Honored Master of Sports, multiple winner and prize-winner of the World and European championships, World Cup finals, world record holder, participant in the 2008 Olympic Games (8th place) and 2012 (4th place), silver medalist of the first European Games in 2015, winner of the European Championship 2015, participant of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (9th place), bronze medalist of the 2016 World Cup final, 2017 European Championship medalist, 2018 Russian champion.

Alipova Julia- Master of sports of international class, winner of the European Championship 2013 in the team event, silver medalist of the European Championship 2015 in the team event, winner of the Russian Championships 2015-2016, bronze medalist of the Russian Championships 2017-2018.

Mozgalova (Klimova) Kira– Honored Master of Sports, multiple winner and medalist of the World and European championships, the World Cup final, participant in the 2012 Olympic Games (5th place), silver medalist of the Russian Championship 2018.

Bobkova Marina- Honored Master of Sports, winner and prize-winner of the World and European championships, champion of Russia in 2017, winner of the Russian Cup in 2018.

The national team of Russia from our school included 6 athletes.

Bullet shooting is one of the sports included in the Olympic program, which indicates the seriousness of this activity and, accordingly, the due attention to it from sports organizations and the coaching community. Of course, all this is directly related to specialized associations, where they train a new generation of young athletes.

Shooting classes are also held in our city. Sports schools, sections, shooting ranges opened their doors for young snipers. In them, experienced craftsmen will teach boys and girls all the subtleties of this business. Anyone who wants to achieve significant success in bullet shooting must understand that training lasts a long time: the athlete must not only pull the trigger, but also understand physics (especially ballistics), cultivate spatial thinking, control himself, be attentive and result oriented.

What is the use of bullet shooting, if you omit participation in competitions? This is the development of the eye - a skill that is useful in various areas of life, and the education of character, the ability to concentrate. For some children, this occupation is decisive in choosing further education. The ability to shoot accurately is an essential requirement for future military, police, and security personnel.

Air gun shooting safety

Almost every sport should start with safety. Of course, bullet shooting is not chess, and a few rules, perhaps, will help a young athlete to keep his health and life. Almost all professionals will tell you in the first place that a gun should always be handled as if it were loaded. It is better to check once than to hope for a chance. Before shooting, you need to check if the safety is working. If not, then the problem should be corrected. Never, even as a joke, point the gun at people and animals - the muzzle should “look” at the target. The rifle should be carried with the muzzle up. Any manipulation of the weapon should not be accompanied by overlapping the muzzle with the palm of your hand or other parts of the body. The rifle should be loaded only when you approach the firing line. Firearms must never be left unattended or handed over to another person to fire while the rifle is loaded or cocked. The air rifle requires special bullets - you can't use "seems to fit". If the distance to the target is less than ten meters, then eye protection goggles will be required. Remember that until you are ready to shoot, you can not pull the trigger and keep your finger on it.

Shooting match rules

One of the most spectacular and interesting types of bullet shooting is a shooting duel. Competitions are held from air rifle on a flat piece of terrain where the shooting distance is 8-10 meters, and the running distance is 18-35 meters. In a shooting duel, both individual athletes and teams converge. On firing line firing positions are selected. For each athlete, it is necessary to provide a distance of at least one and a half meters. The optimal depth of the boundary is 3 meters. With the help of multi-colored flags, mark the boundaries of the firing line - front and rear. The horizontally flat surface of the firing position will ensure the accuracy of the competition. Target lines should be equipped with drop targets. Their color is black on a white background, diameter is 40 millimeters. In a shooting duel, there are three bullets per athlete, which are located on the firing line. During the shooting, the elbow support on the table is assumed. After the start, the participants must reach the firing line at speed, load their weapons and shoot at the “enemy” target. You can replenish the clip only at the firing line. In crossfire, the first athlete to hit both targets wins.

Why does a young shooter need to move naturally?

Man, as you know, is not a robot. He has a heart respiratory system, his muscles can tremble - all this makes up his usual rhythms. Some believe they can be controlled to increase their accuracy and rate of fire. However, this way the novice shooter will only be distracted from his main task. Therefore, you should definitely listen to your body, waiting best moment for shooting. It is practically impossible to ensure that the weapon does not tremble in the hands at all, and the barrel does not sway. Forcibly combining the rear sight and front sight will not help: it is more important to wait until they are level, and then shoot without delay. A novice shooter will spend a few extra seconds on this, but you don’t need to chase speed.

It is subdivided into shooting from a pistol, rifle, shooting from a rifle at a moving target. It is produced by a bullet from rifled weapons: pneumatic (4.5 mm), small-caliber (5.6 mm) and large-caliber (6.5 mm - 7.62 mm for rifles and 7.62-9.65 mm for pistols).

The targets are printed in a typographical way on a dense material in white or cream color. When pierced by a bullet, such a target retains the shape of a bullet hole without excessively coarse distortions and breaks along the edges of the hole. The dimensions and dimensions of the zones of dignity of the hole are different, depending on the type of weapon and the distance from the line of fire to the target line.

Now all the major international competitions are held on electronic targets, which determine the dignity of the hole in an acoustic, optical or combined way.

Every year shooting competitions are held at various levels: from regional tournaments to world and European championships. Currently, the rules of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) for bullet shooting provide for 15 men's and 9 female exercises that are included in the programs international competitions. The mandatory Olympic program includes 6 men's exercises and 4 women's. Within the framework of the Shooting Union of Russia, competitions are held in 46 exercises.

IN official documents ISSF and international competition scorecards use short names of events, including shooting distance, type of weapon and number of shots (for example: "50 m. Free rifle. 3x40 shots").

In Russia, an abbreviation has been introduced for each exercise - two letters and numbers. The letters indicate the type of weapon (VP - air rifle; MV - small-caliber rifle; AB - (military) standard large-caliber rifle; PV - arbitrary large-caliber rifle; PP - pneumatic pistol; MP - small-caliber pistol; RP is a large-caliber pistol (center-fire revolver), and the numbers are the serial number of this exercise in the national sports classification on bullet shooting.

Types of shooting

Rifle shooting

Rifles for performing sports shooting exercises are divided by type: pneumatic (caliber - 4.5 mm), small-caliber (caliber - 5.6 mm) and large-caliber (caliber - from 6.5 mm to - 7.62 mm). Rifles of all types must be single-shot (except for large-caliber standard rifles, which may have a magazine). The distance from the line of fire to the target line is from 10 to 300 meters.

For shooting from a rifle, the positions “lying”, “from the knee” or “standing” are accepted.

“Lying” position: the athlete lies on the ground or on a special rug, leaning on his elbows. The weapon must be held with both hands and the right shoulder (for a left-handed athlete - the left). During aiming, the cheek of the shooter can be pressed against the butt of the rifle. The forearms are clearly separated from the mat. The forearm of the left hand supporting the rifle must form an angle of at least 30 degrees with the surface of the firing position. The use of a gun sling is permitted.

Kneeling position: the athlete sits on bent leg, under the rise of which a roller is placed. The foot of the front foot, the knee and the toe of the other foot are on the ground or on the mat. The weapon is held with two hands and the right shoulder. The elbow of the left hand holding the rifle must rest on the left knee and cannot be displaced from patella more than 100 mm forward or 150 mm back. The use of a gun sling is permitted.

Standing position: the athlete is standing. The weapon is held with two hands, the right shoulder, the cheek and part of the chest near the right shoulder. The butt rests against the shoulder of the opposite hand. The use of a gun sling is not permitted.

To prepare for the exercise, athletes are given at least 10 minutes.
The use of special shooting suits and boots is allowed.
It is forbidden to use optical sights, but it is possible to use a lens that corrects vision.

Pistol shooting

Pistols for performing sports shooting exercises are divided by type into pneumatic, small-caliber and large-caliber (revolver). Air pistols of 4.5 mm caliber are allowed, operating on compressed air or compressed gas and loaded when firing with only one bullet. All pellets for air pistols must be made of lead or similar soft material. Small-caliber pistols - caliber 5.6 mm chambered for side fire. Large-caliber pistol (center-fire revolver) - caliber from 7.62 to 9.65 mm.

Pistols and revolvers are fired only while standing, holding the weapon in a freely outstretched hand.
In speed events, the competition rules impose a special requirement on the preparation before the start of the exercise: the hand with the weapon must be tilted down, at an angle of at least 45 ° to the direction of shooting.

When performing an exercise, the shooter must be in the shooting place (firing position) assigned to him, not moving beyond the front border of the firing line and not leaning on anything during shooting.

Before the start of the exercise, the shooters are given time to prepare, depending on the type of exercise. It is forbidden to use optical sights, but it is possible to use a lens that corrects vision.

Shooting at a moving target

Shooting at a moving target is carried out from single-shot rifles. For shooting at 50 m, a small-caliber rifle (5.6 mm caliber) chambered for side fire is used. For shooting at 10 m - an air rifle (4.5 mm caliber) operating on compressed air or gas. The use of optical sights is allowed. At 50 m, the magnification of the sight is not limited, at 10 m the magnification is limited (4 times). The use of special shooting jackets is allowed.

For shooting at 50 m, a “Running Boar” target is used with a painted silhouette of a wild boar and a target located in the middle of the body.

For shooting at 10 m, a target is used, as for shooting from an air rifle, but with aiming points located on the left and right (electronic target), or a paper target with an aiming point between two targets.

The targets move alternately from right to left and from left to right, passing through an open space - a “window”. The passage of the “window” by the target is called the run. The target must pass the “window” with a slow run - in 5 seconds, with a fast run - in 2.5 seconds. Only one shot is fired in each run. In each half of the exercise, before the test runs, the shooter is given 4 test runs - 2 on the right and on the left side of the movement. In test runs, the target moves at the same speed as in the subsequent scoring series. Shooting at moving targets is carried out only from the “standing” position and takes place from a vskid, and before the target appears in the run window, the butt of the weapon must be at the waist.