The hand in pocket is a common stance in bullseye shooting. The photo went viral, because the guy just happens to look like he stopped by the Olympics after work to pick up a silver medal on the way home for dinner.
Also went viral cause the rest of the shooters has all this artificial gear while this dude looks like he’s trying to win his daughter a prize at the carnival.
Dang... I'm starting to think I would do very well at the Olympics in air rifle. If I can rip bullseye all day long with a 50cal Hawkins percussion cap black powder rifle at 25/30yards I think I could place on the podium at the next games.... Coon skin cap and all! Lol😅
Noir, I really didn't get the idea and the logic behind this video of yours as your follower. Your argument almost sounds like "Why do the Olympics have archery even though we have guns?". Those competitions are not about the tool's stopping power, it's about accuracy. So, I don't understand why a man like you would make a video like this. And for the people who are curious about it; Dikech is a retired gendarmerie officer (like military police) who actively participated in anti-terrorism operations. So, he's not only familiar with real guns, he's also familiar with real military operations and war zones. Respect from Turkey
Yes and no. The Olympics have long used tech to increase performance. Swimming comps in the games the swim suits they use have all sorts of tech from dimples like golf balls to super fine hairs that reduce drag. They have all sorts of rules that govern the use of tech in the swimming events that basically cap how much tech can be used similar to formula rules or nascar rules. With out the limits it would come down to a simple mater of who can spend the most money. The first time i heard of the Swimsuits with the various tech to reduce drag was on the old beyond 2000 discovery show in any sort of detail but i seen various reports on the news about it in less detail in the mid 90s Shooting events have also long used specialized rifles air rifles or 22s that are built to give extreme accuracy. The Olympics sports have always been ones that change and evolve over time and modern tech has always hard a big influence on them probably more so than professional sports.
As a 8 year veteran of competitive air rifle and small bore (.22), we Americans get too bored watching it. There is no loud bangs or dramatic events. Watching it is just as much fun as watching paint dry. However, being the one shooting was an absolute blast. I love the accuracy, precision, and discipline required to be good at it. The target is the size of a period at 33 or 50 ft away. The target you see is more as a reference. Your hate comments are nothing new. I was always made fun of because "they are not real guns." Yet, the skills transfer over very well to high power rifles and handguns. My teammates and I were always the ones qualifying the best at the range (and usually training others) during basic and at our units regardless of the weapon. As for why it's getting so much attention, probably some meme creators discovered this sport and laughed at the difference in equipment.
Maybe because its not about big bullets doing big damage and being macho. Maybe its about finesse of shooting a tiny pellet very very accurately . And this guy is cool because he's doing it naturally and nonchalantly at the freaking Olympic games
@@RealMTBAddict I I just looked him up on Google the guy is 51 so he's not that much older than I am and he can probably give me a run for my money in a pistol competition anytime yes he's 51 that puts him in the Boomer box but it doesn't matter he still got skills
@wwclay86 that’s exactly right. They don’t want you to know that you can get stuff done by yourself with no super specialized fancy gear. They want you thinking “you’ll need an F-15 to take on the government,” when in reality, you really don’t!!
After an opening ceremony of utter extravagance, distaste, and disrespect. An average man, with average equipment, wins a silver medal for an underdog country. He's the antithesis of today's Olympics, and the only competitor I can give a damn about .
Not necessarily no, because the top shots tend to stay on the forefront of gear developments, king of 2 mile isn't shot open sites and a slanted Montecarlo wall nut stock and a front bag
It’s not that kind of gear lol, the “special equipment” everyone uses is just a blinder so they don’t have to squint for hours. It’s not a performance aid. And the guy shoots with both eyes open anyways, wearing those probably would’ve made him shoot worse
It’s because he’s the guy that makes people want to quit. They spent 1000’s of hours practicing. Spent $1000’s of dollars on equipment and training. Little buddy in what amounts to a t-shirt and glasses smokes everyone except for the gold winner. Guess it goes to show that skill can beat out gear… although I love gear.
He did this who thing as a “F you” to his ex wife! 😂😂 he’s more driven and motivated then the others. Not that they’re not, but he’s driven by anger and revenge. Two of the most power human emotions. The others are driven by desire and wanting. Different things all together. Probably made him more calm too, he’s out to stick it to her, if it doesn’t happen he can just be like mehh. The others are whole life dedicated to this and it’s there whole world, messing up is bigger factor for them; hence more nerves.
Nobody should quit just because someone is better than them. Some people just have more natural talent at something than others, and even if they train equally, that can be a big gap to overcome. Nearly everyone will find someone is better than them at something. All you can do is do your best and take pride in how good you are and how much you improve without comparing it to others. If you're better at that skill than others, that's cool. If not, just chalk it up as a learning experience and continue improving how good you are as much as you can.
The hype on this competitor from Turkey is simply because he was not all dressed up in the gear that all the others were. Proving that it's skill, not the gear that matters.
Vincent Hancock just helped the United States take home another gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Hancock secured the gold medal in skeet shooting, defeating fellow American Conner Prince in a close competition. It was also the former Army sergeant’s fourth gold medal, making him one of only sixth athletes to ever win the same individual Olympic event four times.
As was stated, he scored a Silver medal without any of the cool kid toys. I for one salute him for taking it old school. It also shows his dedication to the sport and his abilities,
It's actually easier to shoot 10M AP without the cyborg stuff. I did it for years with safety glasses and a piece of tape over 1 eye. That's far less finicky to lock in than the shooting glasses with iris. But as I got better and my eyes got worse, I was only going to get to those margins with specialized equipment that is HARDER to use, but delivers better results in the sweet spot.
The Olympic medalists are hitting bullseyes the size of a dime at 10 meters. They're not shooting at IPSC torso sized targets. For distances over 10 meters, they are using .22 firearms, not airguns. Pistol (50m pistol, Men's 25m rapid fire pistol, Women's 25m pistol) Shotguns for Trap, Double Trap and Skeet.
@@capricekobain2996 A type of competition where you shoot a rifle, a pistol and a shotgun. Look it up. A 2 second search on Google will get you the info.
@@capricekobain2996 Pistol, rifle, and shotgun competition, usually involves movement and different targets depending on the firearm. You aren't standing still and plinking at one tiny target with an air pistol. It's the most popular form of shooting competition in the US IIRC.
I shot Olympic style air rifle and pistol in high school. The 10 ring is about the size of a dot that you could make with a ball point pen. The pellet coming out of a pistol is moving a little over 400 fps and a good rifle might get about 550 fps, so follow through is as vital as it is on a golf swing. You wouldn't believe how many people came to matches with the same attitude that were near master level and even master level in their discipline and walked out near the bottom of the score board. Don't mock it until you try it.
I could not agree more. Air Pistol and Precision Pistol / Bullseye are completely different disciplines in comparison to three gun. Running and gunning with two hands is fine, but put most of these shooters on the 50 or 25 yard line, one handed, unsupported.... let us count the fliers.
I crazily agree, my mind frame was in the same realm as Colion here when I first saw the picture on this guy and thought “how hard can this be” even looked up how much a good competitive air pistol was along what distance they shoot. Around $1500 can get you started which to me doesn’t sound unreasonable and 10m doesn’t seem far until I learned about the targets. You can shoot a pistol fast but to shoot an air pistol into the target they are required consistently isn’t easy at all. Ignorance in majority of these comments lack the knowledge of how difficult this sport is.
Jup, i tried it when i was younger and i endet up second to last place at a local competition after i did it for a few weeks. All the time in the world wont fix bad aim.
@@MrOldclunker LOL, they could give YOU the same gear and 50 years to practice, but it's still no guarantee that you'll be as good or better. Besides the fact that this whole video is about a guy using minimal equipment and winning. Are you not seeing the irony of your comment?
Having shot 22LR Bullseye competitively for years, I can tell you that it IS pretty cool to see him doing that well with none of the cyborg gear. Mad respect to him. And yes, Colion... you are hating.
I did the same thing at 8 years old with an airgun >_> real life guns are very different which is the point. This Turkish guy proved it as well as he walked out wearing no gear. That's the point. Everyone else wearing their cyberpunk wannable gear taking their sweet time to shoot a stationary target with a toy gun.....
I believe Colion simply doesn't understand what static shooting is about. He says "hitting a target" and that is about how wide his horizon is, his score is "pling" or not. Nothing wrong with dynamic shooting but you simply can't compare the two.
Hey man love your videos. But i have to say im disappointed in the lack of research and closemindedness in this video. Precision/bullseye shooting is a very challenging sport, which requires a huge amount of time, dedication and discipline to even become remotely good at. Everything shooting isn't just self defense and how fast you can shoot a standard ipsc target from 6 feet away. It's a sport with a long rich history and is a testimony of discipline. I started shooting from a very young age and have been shooting precision, field and ipsc competitively for a few years now and i have to say precision is by far the hardest. In my case i shoot with firearms, but the turkish man you see is shooting with an airgun, which is tremendously more difficult than a normal firearm, since the ballistics are far different from one another. The airgun pellet travels a lot slower than a bullet which means a longer time spent traveling in the barrel and in turn means more room for the shooter to mess up the accuracy of the shot. It would be cool to see you test out precision shooting, even if you find it "ridiculous".
... because winning without cyborg equipment is like winning 3-gun with a hi-point, cheapest Turkish shotgun and wannabe AR-15 from China. All iron sights and with magazines and shells floating freely in your jeans pockets. He proved he is whole league above the Olympic level.
That’s absolutely not true. The glasses don’t do that much, and help people get a consistent sight picture. If he gets a consistent sight picture without the glasses then that’s great. He’s still been doing this for 20 years and shooting the one of the same multi thousand dollar pistols everyone else is.
Nah, you're giving the people on social media way too much credit for nuance and the ability to recognize skill, he went viral because of his nonchalance and vaguely detached demeanor, things familiar to most internet users. Even more familiar, although somewhat subliminal, is another attitude the shooter projects through his posture and lack of equipment, one of...laziness. Now, let me reiterate, I am NOT accusing the shooter of laziness, nonchalance or detachment (Although a certain amount of detachment, of the Zen kind, probably isn't a bad thing.), in fact, clearly, he's a crack-shot and earned his way into the competition, I am however, accusing the average internet user of a certain amount of all three of those attributes and let me say this loud-and-clear: Myself included. The internet, with all its attraction, tends to diminish everything that lays outside the confines of the screen you're viewing it on thus detaching you from everything around you. The time that is devoted to your phone or computer can be calculated to reveal the time you've squandered that could have been spent with family or reading a book or talking to your children and the time spent semi-motionless as you scroll and troll, sitting in your office-chair or on the toilet accomplishing nothing except to stimulate whatever part of the brain that responds to that kind of stimuli can easily be mistaken for and is, in a sense, laziness.
I'm pretty sure he hasn't skimped on the air pistol he uses. It's probably tuned perfectly for him. Eyes and ears are negligible in comparison. But I have watched guys use hi-point PCC's and Turkish shotgun at bowling pins matches and get first place 🤣
I've given 10 metre air pistol a go on several occasions. Even at club level, it's hard. The target is only about 7 inches or so across and divided up into 10 rings (20 from side to side). You can shoot a pretty impressive group and barely score 50, sometimes.
I think he just looks cool. He looks like your avg joe just walking in and doing it without the helpful gear. You make valid points, for sure. But the dude still looks cool.
It's always funny seeing the uninformed bring in comparisons involving firearms, completely oblivious to the fact that they're holding airguns, complete apples to oranges comparison
Turkey over sees the production of Winchester now. They're actually very careful on how Winchesters are made and want to keep the "honor" so to speak Winchester has
The fact that the US has more guns than actual inhabitants doesn´t make everyone a marksman. You are just hating on someone who is far better than you, otherwise you would have shown a video of you shooting for comparison and not of other people.
I shoot centerfire, smallbore, and airgun, with High Power Rifle shot with an AR-15 being my focus. I have CMP and NRA High Master classifications in High Power Rifle Across the Course competition. Air rifle is the most difficult of any of the disciplines I shoot. The increased barrel time and lack of recoil makes it far more challenging. Air rifle practice is what got me from Expert to Master and then High Master for centerfire High Power. Virtually all of my practice for High Power is spent shooting air rifle offhand. It's like running with a weighted vest - it's so much easier when you go to shoot the AR.
@@Shot_GunnerNot Colt but I did shoot an A2 (Yes, with iron sights out to 600 yards.) until my eyes started to age out. I shoot in the Service Rifle division which attempts to match what is issued in the services. Several years ago both CMP and NRA rules began to allow low power optics (up to 4.5 power) in Service Rifle so now I'm using an A4 upper receiver.
@@АлакПатроваI will admit he seems to be a strong contender. If he starts beating some of Jerry’s world records and possibly even winning tournaments, it just might prove he’s better, since he has the accolades. And that’s exactly what Jerry wants. He wants the competition, he wants to see how far his limits can go.
@fleatactical7390 that's not proper comparison. A proper comparison would be the person using the scope going to iron sights against another person that only used iron sights.
@@XDWX The original poster made a general statement and didn't specify that, so my comment remains intact. Your added criteria, on the other hand, are perfectly valid and do in fact focus on the underlying differences in a quantifiable manner.
The Olympics is supposed to be the top tier of the top tier where 1/10ths of an inch make or break a score. And with all the other competitors using the fanciest of fancy gear and posture and everything to get as precise a hit on a target, he just walks up casually with no "shooting aides" and takes silver against all the other best in the worlds. Like if there was a pistol course competition, and everybody is turning up with sand vipers, staccatos, super high end competition-grade handguns with the best red dots, grips and magazine. But one guy shows up with a stock Glock 17 and comes in second. The confidence of "I'm so good at what I do, I don't high end gear to get the job done" and having that level of confidence at the highest level of competition and still getting a medal. It's just admirable, even if it's just air guns.
Sorry Colion but you’re wrong. Most American gun owners can’t shoot tiny groups like this athlete did at ten meters. Not even close. Marksmanship has gone downhill over the years in this country, even though gun ownership has skyrocketed
Americans if not gun owners hit refigirator size targets not pennys so why would they bother hitting tiny group if percision brely matters in a fire fight
Kimberly Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979) is an American double trap and skeet shooter.[1] A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple Olympic Champion and the only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap. She won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics, equaling the world record of 99 out of 100 clays.[2] Most recently, she won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, making her the first Olympian to win a medal on five continents, the first Summer Olympian to win an individual medal at six consecutive summer games, and the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympics.[
yeah, sad part is they barely mentioned her on television coverage only just mentioned she won first gold for our country at that past Olympics they want to hide that there are Olympic shooting sports all they cover is track swimming and team sports.
Ver impressive.I didn't know that! She's what?44? Maybe she could have tried it again Let's talk to Mr hands in the pants after four (4) FOUR Olympics How fast can he do the 100meter?
He shoots at that level without all of the crutches, plain and simple, it's not about the weapon itself, it's about the level of skill on the same playing field without all of the bullshyt.
My uncle taught me to shoot. One of his things is: Practice with basic gear. As basic as it gets. That way when the scope is broken, When the battery takes a dump, when the wind makes you think a house is about to land on someone. You can STILL shoot adequately. Muscle memory doesn't kick in until the 10,000th rep or so. Ten minutes after I heard an out-of-state hunter rag on an older gentleman's Lever 30-30..."That Round rainbows! Y' cant hit a barn outside of 100 yards!" Older Gentleman proceeded to put a round into the skull of a running coyote at 250. Old Gent sez: "My Grandad had 'er re-barreled for me when he gave it to me. I was 12. {Gent was 72} I can only estimate how many rounds he had put down the thing.
They are not as bad as everyone thinks. I have one that my dad gave to me, and his dad gave to him. I can hit a 3 inch group at 300yds with the same zeiss 4x scope gramps put on it in the 60's
We shoot silhouette competitions with lever actions, any caliber. I have won many pins and various places including match winner with my grandfather's 1973 win 94 30-30. I changed it over to peep sights that have a fine target adjustment and a tiny front post and cast my own bullets and load a mid level load that is far more fun than full power jacketed hunting loads he used. It is plenty accurate and many hunters have used lead bullets as well. Last year, I bought and slicked up a new 357 stainless lever action and drilled and tapped it for the same sights. Last Sunday I won the match. Yesterday, I won the rimfire silhouette match with the custom 10/22 I built (built my own sight bases, rear aluminum stock, forend weights, modified mag release, etc. ). Others shoot bolt actions, lever actions, and even anschutz olympic rifles, as well as other 10/22's. My shooting style is like 3 gun, not like most silhouette shooters, so I hold at the end of the forestock, but I have practiced a ton and do very well that way.
Its because other than F-Class Rifle, Bench Rest Rifle (and PRS type events to an extent), American shooting sports in general are not focused on accuracy and precision that is even close to Olympic level targets, but rather defensive use type accuracy and precision which is night and day different. Take the air pistol event in question here, the 10 ring is less than 1/2" (its 11.5mm or .45in for those my fellow American's who still don't understand the much easier to use metric system) in diameter at 10 meters (10.94yard). That's right at about 4 MOA which might seem large at first BUT considering that the A zone width of an IPSC at 50 meters is 10.3 MOA, the Olympic target 10 ring @ 10 meters requires a significantly higher degree of accuracy and precision than any ISPC competition which goes back to what I said about our focus being on defensive use where precision and accuracy is MUCH less important. Hell, even the 25 meter rapid fire pistol Olympic event has a 10 ring that is 100mm (3.94") which is still 50mm (1.97") smaller than the A zone width of an IPSC. That's 13.75MOA for the 10 ring for that distance vs. 20.63MOA for the IPSC target at the same distance (for those that like thinking of targets in MOA).
"You're late honey". "Yeah, sorry about that. I went for a quick shot in Paris and popped into Bob's for a quick beer on the way home. Time just got away from me. Is there anything in the oven"?
@@RedHuntsman Water gun can also be called a pistol but you wouldn't call it real would you like yes it's a pistol and it exists on this material plane but in this context real would mean a firearm
I dont think he was trying to say that it isnt difficult. The point is that doing this with real firearms is much harder and a showcase of greater skill. Why would something like this be in the olympics when its essentially the toy version of a real sport. Its not that it isnt extremely difficult, but it isnt the top level of difficulty in the world of real shooting.
@@Mike-sv3cxThat is true, but there are many other factors to consider. The Olympics is international, and not every country has privileges like the US to do shooting sports with real firearms. Plus, to coordinate the sport using real firearms would be a nightmare. Spectators need ear protection and the arena would have to be able to contain the power of the cartridge. There are already sports like USPSA and IPSC, but there are reasons why they can’t be implemented into an international event like the Olympics.
@@Mike-sv3cx First, airguns are weapons by law in an increasing number of countries and depending on their performance and build they absolutely have the potential to kill and are no toys at all. Secondly, it is by no means harder to win a competition with a firearm, the accuracy required compensates for whatever difference in the challenge. I do shoot .556 at 300m and getting a good result with an airrifle at 10m is in no way any easier.
Some years ago the National Shooting Sports Foundation sponsored Project Rapid+Action. Held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, numerous name, champion practical/action competition shooters were invited to try out for Rapid Fire Pistol and other International shooting events and win the Olympics. The result: all of these champion shooters shot well (no surprise) but none were good enough to qualify for the Olympics. There is no doubt any of these champion shooters could have improved enough to qualify for the Olympics if they dedicated themselves to it, but none of them did. The same thing would have happened if the shooters who did qualify for the Olympics tried out for their discipline. It’s very understandable why name, sponsored, champion shooters would not make the switch away from the thing they’re winning at. The point here is nobody, not even established champion shooters, is going to just sweep in and win something at a high level without putting in considerable specific effort toward that goal.
depends on the power, they have, at least in the netherlands, some can be legally bought without a license but over a certain power you have to go through the whole license thing.
In this case, yes, he's shooting an air pistol. But there is a sport in the USA that used to be known as Bullseye, which is now called Precision Pistol. This sport had it's super bowl just last month at Camp Perry, Ohio, for the NRA National Matches where hundreds of shooters gather to shoot .22lr, and centerfire pistols including a match with .45 ACP. There are small leagues across this country for this sport that do pretty much the same thing as Mr.Dikek with actual firearms and no fancy head gear. Of course, most shooters in this country are not interested in it because it takes immense focus to consistently hit a 10 ring the size of a nickel at 50ft, or proportionally larger at 25 or 50 yards. We just don't have that sort of attention span anymore, so the sport is slowly dying out. Even Mr. Micelek that you showed doing his thing will tell you Bullseye Pistol is tough.
I listened to what you said, but bullseye (or precision shooting) is another ballgame. Speed is not the issue, super precision is. This would be the closest to the precision of the air rifle or pistol.
After seeing this news and hearing that question posed by various social media personalities over the past few days, this is the conclusion I have come to: It's because we view shooting very differently from the rest of the world. The top three countries shown do not have the people's right to bear arms confirmed. Therefore, from a cultural perspective, shooting would be viewed more from a sporting mindset. From my limited knowledge of THIS kind of shooting, it's about as sporting as you can get. Meanwhile, shooting in the US is given a greater emphasis from the preparedness and civic duty mindset. Shooting for sporting purposes is an offshoot from the overall firearms culture and not a centerpiece of it. When we basically have access to the same cartridges that our military uses (and then some), it's not hard to see why we Americans would raise an eyebrow at an event like this.
My guess would be that most ordinary people around the world have little to no experience actually shooting guns and are used to seeing what they would consider top tier shooters use every thing they can legally use to get an advantage. So when a competitor shows up with some actual real world shooting experience, it seems like a major thing
I think we all look at the competitors with their high tech gear and wonder "How good are they without all that?" This dude just showed everyone how good he really is.
Dude just casually outscored the cyborgs, showing that all the gear and fluff isn’t necessary for raw talented individuals. Also, two eyes open is usually a combat technique to keep peripheral awareness, so the dude most likely has some real world training on his resume. Most of us here can relate I’m sure lol
the thing with airguns is, they are inherently less accurate than firearms. the lighter and slower pellets are disturbed by air currents that even a .22 short cb wouldnt notice. combine that with how finicky the gun itself can be (air density and humidity can affect the pressure, changing velocity of the pellet, throwing off trajectory; how the pellet is seated in the chamber can affect the seal, etc) and just how competitive the sport gets (seriously, the center ring is smaller than a dime) makes his seemingly indifferent appearance weird.
Big Fax. Everyone just wants an excuse to meme, so Im not surprised, but people who genuinely think the US sucks at shooting cause we dont care about the Olympic shooting is hilarious. It's just a style of shooting that we dont care about here air rifle shooting like this more of a hobby to people. And the countries winning are the same usual countries that even though they dont allow gun ownership will train an athlete from childhood because they treat Gold medals in the olympics like gifts from God. If this was a long range bolt rifle competition or three gun or even skeet shooting we would dominate like we have before. As for the two shooters everyones talking about the korean girl is popular cause shes attractive and korean the internet loves that, and the turkish guy because hes just a geniune humble dude in a sea of people with tens of thousands of dollars of goofy looking gear on.
Well the olympics have trap, skeet, positional rimfire rifle shooting, rimfire pistol etc. I agree that air pistol isnt that interesting, but in skeet the only dominance is by Vincent in mens category. Im really interested in seeing the results from RWS in Oulu
@tiputipu777 didn't know they still had trap cuz I remember they took double trap out of the olympics years ago so I thought it was gone. As for skeet yeah its predominantly Vincent in Gold but we also have more people placing there in general, which was what I was getting at. America is far more likely to have a presence in that competition because skeet is actually fairly popular here. The rest of the competitions just arent really conducive to American shooting practices like 3 gun competition would be. Basically, over half the shooting sports in the olympics are just stuff most American shooters do for fun and dont care about, like the Chinese or Korean athletes will. Really its stuff that most shooters in general dont care about if they live somewhere that actually allows gun ownership and shooting. Like you said RWS in oulu should be way more entertaining.
The thing is Olmypics have to be accessible and firearms simply aren't. Having something like three-gun or long distance shooting would ofc be dominated by USA simply because they are allowed to have it unlike 90% of the other people competeing. Its just not in the spirit of Olympics.
@@joetheschmoe1066 skeet is still a rich person's game. It's why you get countries that train people for the olympic events that provide them the equipment doing better. Here in the US we buy are own stuff.
Dude just looks cool, unpretentious. My kids are swimmers. Competition suits last a maximum of six meets and cost at least $500 each. The best swimmers always say, it’s not the suit. Same here. It’s not the gear; it’s the shooter’s skill. He owned his skill without pretense.
The Olympics has curling but not 3-gun lol but it's like you mentioned, if 3-gun was introduced, it would just be a total medal grab for the US every 4 years lol
2:50 We can own guns in Serbia. It's not as easy to get them as in the US, but Serbia has the third highest per capita rate of gun ownership in the world. The reason why US shooters dominate this is because you don't have good shooters for this discipline. Recoil doesn't meter here because air pistols are single-shot and they go for extreme accuracy. For clarification, I competed in IDPA and IPSC.
It's definitely because it's considered not a real gun by the hardcore shooters in the US. I remember Bill Burr complaining gun guys were giving him a hard time for getting a pansy low caliber pistol instead of at least a 9. Bill said he wanted to be able to hear in the pitch black dark of his apartment after the first round so he could keep shooting at an intruder by sound if he had to.
My home state of West Virginia WVU University currently holds the record for most NCAA National Championships in rifle competition. They have 19 national team championships 25 individual championships & have produced 13 Olympians. West Virginia is a pro 2A state with exceptionally high gun ownership & a constitutional carry state.
So, regarding the first question, why is it such a big deal, it isn’t, and the Turkish shooter just proved the point. He didn’t need all the cyborg gear, he simply picked up his air pistol and went to the line and shot. It’s the shooter not the gear. As to why America does not dominate the Olympic air gun competition, well even though air guns have made phenomenal strides in technology and power, unfortunately for most Americans they still are viewed as what you shoot as a kid until you get to use a real gun. But I suspect that is changing and I think we will see more interest and we will be more successful in the future.
The British beat us for many years in long range rifle shooting and the Russians dominated many Olympic shooting venues for many years. The fact is a lot of overseas shooters are government sponsored. When you can pick your country’s best and make shooting their profession where they are paid and sponsored by the government it makes a big difference.
Air pistol rifling combined with a long barrel makes for uncompromising precision, meaning a tiny 1 mm flinch in either direction sums up on your target at a 3-5 cm deviation. Look up how small the ten ring is. That naturally goes for the rifle as well. This game is not about the bang or target destruction as brought up in your video. Cyborg level of self-command with cutting-edge technique are what the airgun discipline is supposed to measure between the competitors.
Don't bother trying to explain this to him, they guy is set on "muh gun big so US more better" He doesn't get that it's an event based on aim and precision so a gun without recoil is the thing you want to use and not who has a better, bigger gun
I used to be part of the Army’s shooting unit, the AMU and the AMTU#6. This was the high power rifle/pistol team, plus we were marksmanship instructors for army units and civilians. I don’t see as many people doing the target precision shooting type of matches, which was very active throughout the country during the 70’s-80’s. I think the decline of JROTC at Texas schools is one of the reasons why shooting at the Olympic level, and other levels of precision shooting in college, plus the people who literally grew up with some kind of rifle or pistol shooting starting at 7-8 years old are not as prevalent today. Too many people don’t realize how hard the path to making an Olympic shooting team is exists. My dream, was to make the Olympic team and win every gold medal possible in the precision shooting sport. Unfortunately the army has no enlisted on the 3 position smallbore teams, least it didn’t during my service time. Trying to make the Olympics team is not a walk on thing, especially the precision teams. The amount of years, plus time behind the gun every single day, all day sometimes, isn’t a shooting sport most people can afford, or have time to do nowadays. Having a chance to make the Olympic team, means you have been shooting a rifle since 7 years old, have been concentrating on 1-2 types of precision shooting, and unless you’ve shot 4 years during your JROTC high school team, then maybe do good enough to make a college level team with a scholarship for another 4-6 years, then get the funding to do it privately, or as part of a military shooting team. The level of skill and training is a considerable difference compared to any other type of shooting. You shoot rounds in practice every day 8 or more hours, sending bullets down range using 500 rounds and up each day. It’s an expensive sport, just for the amount of rounds, and the firearms can be very specialized/expensive. I don’t know how many people even get the chance to shoot like this, and very few are getting the opportunity today. The anti gun crowd doesn’t know much about shooting, only what they have been told, and ZERO knowledge about any shooting, firearms, training, etc. The impact on our young people to even consider shooting a gun or touching one, is severe. How many times have you heard a kid say they were told to run away from any firearms they might see, on the ground or on someone’s body? At least 5-6 times personally, from my kids friends. The knowledge about guns being taught to kids declining still. I tell the anti gun people who bring up their bullshit that until they learn the history of firearms, learning everything they can how to handle, use, load, shoot, then clean, maintain, and store the 3 main types, pistol, rifle and shotgun, too STFU about something you 99% of anti gun people have no clue about, and after you do these things, then you can sit down and actually talk about the lie called “gun violence”. What’s coming outta your mouth is the reason why people are getting shot in “mass shootings”, and yes it’s because of your ignorance to think taking something away from the 200 million plus firearms owners who have nothing to do with the shootings, but it’s us who are being punished by telling us we have to give up our private property to make your feelings that you’ll be safer, means you don’t give a shit about who died in the last shooting, only the firearms are banned from private ownership, no one is allowed to have firearms. Not once has ANYONE from the anti gun crowd did learn the things I said above, or asked for the multiple ideas those of us who have guns have mentioned before… Maybe changing things called “gun free zones “ to be removed, and said publicly “ we will shoot you dead “ if you’re stupid enough to try to hurt or steal pulling a gun, you understand the concept of getting your ass ventilated by multiple people. This is 100% better for stopping the next warped evil bastard who skips the first 3 places he tries to go are not gun free zones, choosing to enter a gun free zone cause he knows there’s a 99.9% chance no one is going to shoot his ass until the law shows up. Over 75% of the shooters chose a gun free zone to kill strangers of any age, because his problems will be somehow solved due to the warped evil decision process, and many of the shooters have been identified by local police and family, yet passed the background check to buy a gun, which is run by the FBI , and they were given the information, yet he was told it was okay to buy it. Tell me changing that one thing, won’t help stop the killing. You’re full of shit to ignore this fact, you anti gun people want more people killed. Otherwise, the ideas told many times as a possible solution to help stop the shootings, would have been tried at least. But no, it’s trying to force firearms owners who might have stopped the next evil guy who needs to suffer and give up their private property to appease your feelings is the only way to stop it. Yeah, I don’t like the special kind of stupid people who think they have a right to force their opinion on others, and forget they have ZERO authority to do try it. Become knowledgeable, learn and use what I said about firearms, even if you never touch one again, you’ll know it’s no longer a evil gun, and have respect for it , yet know it’s just a tool, how you use it makes the difference. Sorry for the soapbox rant, but anti gun people irritate themselves with their ignorance, and use that ignorance to flap their lips throw’n bullshit on something, and I think it’s bad to live like gullible idiot, and showing everyone it’s a fact you are. Yes Colin, the anti gun crowd is one of the reasons why we don’t have the next generation of shooters in the Olympic Games. The sport of precision shooting is not as popular, and our kids ain’t being taught about firearms in the home, and schools. Definitely a factor for one part of your question.
I think its about casually shooting. In the global publics eye shooting for sport is this boring slow static thing with lots of gear. Firing one shot every couple minutes. Not the fast-paced dynamic shooting seen in three gun matches. So for those outside the gun community seeing a more casual type of shooting for the first seems special. I hope this will cause people outside the US to open up to guns more. Here in Europe most people have very little knowledge about guns or think they know stuff despite only having seen the hollywood tropes.
Consistently hitting a 5.5mm centre bull dot with a 4.5 mm round takes skill. This Turkish shooter has a fair bit of experience with real steel, former military. Yeah, you are being a hater, any discipline of shooting should be supported, not hated. Divided we fall gentlemen, divided we fall.
I think Colion should give air pistol and air rifle a try to see what it’s like. And because we just went gold and silver in skeet, he should collaborate with Vinny Hancock!
With the turkish guy, I think it's the fact everyone knows it's 100% his skill and not the gear that makes him that good, "ya he's good but take away all that gear and lets see him do the same thing". As far as Americans not placing higher I agree most of us dont care like you said because of all our options.
It's about accuracy vs precicion. Different shooting sport. Real guns, you just gotta be accurate. Olympic shooting, it's about precision. I've competed in both, and it's not as easy as it looks.
Most of these competitions rely so heavily on the contraptions the competitors use, that it takes most of the skill out of it. So it's nice to see a competitor showing 100% skill. If you want to see some really crazy contraptions, watch the air rifle shooters and archery shooter.
It doesn't matter if it's an air pistol or not. You use the same skills, techniques, and safety rules that you use with any firearm. There are air pistols and rifles that shoot the same 50 cal rounds that a black powder firearm does and they are just as effective and deadly. Putting down these firearms and the people who use them tells me that YOU don't know as much as you think.
Air guns are not as popular in the US, it’s his Wild West attitude that’s making him viral not his shooting skill, which is amazing. He’s calm likes it’s an July 4 picnic with the family
IT IS partly due to his shooting skill as he dominated the man's racket. However his female partner didn't do as well so with their combined points they got silver. If he was solo he would've literally won the entire thing.
I'm soooo dissapointed with you M. Colion Noir.... This guy has been shooting since 2001, got his *first gold medal in 2006 CISM World Championships 25m and won 12 European or world events.(29 podiums).* His silver medal is also won by *co shooter Sevval TARHAN in mixed Team 10m pistol, and yet nobody talks about her.* Please don't reduce him to the instant fame of social media for one image blown by medias.
In exception to some areas, we're an anti-gun country with a constitutional right to guns. There are a lot of people in US programmed to hate guns and discourage the use of guns (be it, self defense, hunting, recreational or sporting). You'll have a gun club or shooting range in the area, then a you got a gymnasium open up down the street and then all the Karen's that bring their kids to that gym freak about about guns near by and have the place shut down.
An FFL dealer (just a dealer, not a range or full-blown store or anything) opened up adjacent to a sewing store here. OMG the cat ladies blew a gasket!
To be fair the slow velocity of airguns can make them harder to be accurate with. Since the projectile is moving slower down the barrel the shooter has more time to jerk it off target.
@@Isthislife2135 Yes. Especially with spring powered airguns, just as he wrote. Because spring powered air guns have reverse recoil. They don't recoil backward, they recoil forward. The reason is the internal spring pushes a piston forward to compress the air behind the pellet enough so that the pellet is ejected from the barrel at rates between, say, four hundred to 1100 fps. Since at the highest, this velocity is below the speed of sound and therefore still comparatively slow, the time pellets spend in barrels (dwell time) means the shooter has to be dead consistent with hold follow through or the shot goes wide.
I understand that he has become a meme for people who haven't even watched the game, but it feels strange to say, "he is my hero." His partner, who was wearing the exact same gear as he was (except he had earplugs and she had noise-canceling headphones), showed a result twice as good despite being less experienced and a very young woman. It was thanks to her that their team won silver. And another point: everyone compares him to those who wore special shooting glasses that cover one eye, but didn’t it bother you that they had completely different weapons and weren't actually competing against each other?
No, quite the opposite.(That day) His teammate low score..Yusuf Dikeç 151.6, Şevval İlayda Tarhan 145.4 Serbian team won but their points are as follows Damir Mikec 148.9 Zorona Aronoviç 149.1..
He's the talk because he literally looks like he rolled out of bed and went to the Olympics. He's the talk because he didn't have to look ridiculous to medal.
This is why the UK got gold on mens trap shooting, and Silver (Should have been gold due to a poor judge decision) for womens skeet. Because over/under shotguns are by far the most common, less restricted and easiest type of shooting to get into (excluding air rifle/pistol). You need a license but once you have it and have a place to store them safely you can buy and sell and do what you want, you aren't restricted on how much ammunition you can have or where you put it, you also dont need any prior experience just a safe attitude and you aren't told what you can and cant do with them. Where as you are with rifles and rifle ammunition which you are limited to a certain amount and you cannot buy and sell rifles like you can with shotguns as easily, are questioned on every new rifle you want to purchase and have to ask permission and have to prove a good reason to have a duplicate rifle in the same calibre and action type. So it makes sense we would have more chances of people being good at the small type of shooting we have available to the masses.
The hand in pocket is a common stance in bullseye shooting. The photo went viral, because the guy just happens to look like he stopped by the Olympics after work to pick up a silver medal on the way home for dinner.
Lmfaoooo
Also went viral cause the rest of the shooters has all this artificial gear while this dude looks like he’s trying to win his daughter a prize at the carnival.
That was our off hand position in the Corps in the 1911 days
Dang... I'm starting to think I would do very well at the Olympics in air rifle. If I can rip bullseye all day long with a 50cal Hawkins percussion cap black powder rifle at 25/30yards I think I could place on the podium at the next games.... Coon skin cap and all! Lol😅
guy looked like he was on a school run and took a detour through the olympics lol
Homeboy didn't brag, didn't front, didn't act like a big deal. Just walked out, handled his shit, went home. Thats why hes viral.
Gigachad steps up, no gear, rawdogs it, hits target, refuses to elaborate, leaves.
Cold af
Classic position, natural skill set, no accoutrements needed...😊
that's what an OG Olympian looks like!!...i know...I know...there were no guns in the original Olympics...but you get the point (pun intended!!)...
Top scored too. He only gotten silver cause his team sandbagged. They had to, else it wouldn't even be a competition.
This guy did it with no special gear. He showed up every one of his competitors who bought out all of the Tactical stores.
Noir, I really didn't get the idea and the logic behind this video of yours as your follower. Your argument almost sounds like "Why do the Olympics have archery even though we have guns?". Those competitions are not about the tool's stopping power, it's about accuracy. So, I don't understand why a man like you would make a video like this. And for the people who are curious about it; Dikech is a retired gendarmerie officer (like military police) who actively participated in anti-terrorism operations. So, he's not only familiar with real guns, he's also familiar with real military operations and war zones. Respect from Turkey
Aren’t the Olympics supposed to be about the person’s raw ability without any external factors?
Authenticity in an Artificial world is an alien concept.
The olympics have turned into more of means to generate revenue than a way to display people's talent.
@ld8151 ah, beat me to it, yeah the Olympics is trash now
But that does generate any sponsorship money for the companies that make the equipment.
Yes and no. The Olympics have long used tech to increase performance. Swimming comps in the games the swim suits they use have all sorts of tech from dimples like golf balls to super fine hairs that reduce drag. They have all sorts of rules that govern the use of tech in the swimming events that basically cap how much tech can be used similar to formula rules or nascar rules. With out the limits it would come down to a simple mater of who can spend the most money.
The first time i heard of the Swimsuits with the various tech to reduce drag was on the old beyond 2000 discovery show in any sort of detail but i seen various reports on the news about it in less detail in the mid 90s
Shooting events have also long used specialized rifles air rifles or 22s that are built to give extreme accuracy.
The Olympics sports have always been ones that change and evolve over time and modern tech has always hard a big influence on them probably more so than professional sports.
As a 8 year veteran of competitive air rifle and small bore (.22), we Americans get too bored watching it. There is no loud bangs or dramatic events. Watching it is just as much fun as watching paint dry. However, being the one shooting was an absolute blast. I love the accuracy, precision, and discipline required to be good at it. The target is the size of a period at 33 or 50 ft away. The target you see is more as a reference. Your hate comments are nothing new. I was always made fun of because "they are not real guns." Yet, the skills transfer over very well to high power rifles and handguns. My teammates and I were always the ones qualifying the best at the range (and usually training others) during basic and at our units regardless of the weapon. As for why it's getting so much attention, probably some meme creators discovered this sport and laughed at the difference in equipment.
Thank you for your reply.
Everybody is going crazy about this guy not because of his skill alone but the nonchalant nature he brought to the Olympics while also being good
For a lot of people it's the sheer spite this man had inside him towards his divorce!! 😂😂
Maybe because its not about big bullets doing big damage and being macho. Maybe its about finesse of shooting a tiny pellet very very accurately . And this guy is cool because he's doing it naturally and nonchalantly at the freaking Olympic games
Hes the old dude that just strolled out without crazy gear and just got it done. Thats why.
He's 28!
@@RealMTBAddict I I just looked him up on Google the guy is 51 so he's not that much older than I am and he can probably give me a run for my money in a pistol competition anytime yes he's 51 that puts him in the Boomer box but it doesn't matter he still got skills
@@RealMTBAddict try again
@wwclay86 that’s exactly right. They don’t want you to know that you can get stuff done by yourself with no super specialized fancy gear.
They want you thinking “you’ll need an F-15 to take on the government,” when in reality, you really don’t!!
@@CookJunkie Don't care! Learn about sarcasm!
Oh, buddy, the Olympics are measured in millimeters, not the half-human torso.
You missed the bullseye (point)
ATF: “We must regulate the Olympics”
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After an opening ceremony of utter extravagance, distaste, and disrespect. An average man, with average equipment, wins a silver medal for an underdog country. He's the antithesis of today's Olympics, and the only competitor I can give a damn about .
The more you rely on gear, the less you rely on skill.
Not necessarily no, because the top shots tend to stay on the forefront of gear developments, king of 2 mile isn't shot open sites and a slanted Montecarlo wall nut stock and a front bag
Both of you have a valid point.
Agreed, it's the craftsman, not his tools.
It’s not that kind of gear lol, the “special equipment” everyone uses is just a blinder so they don’t have to squint for hours. It’s not a performance aid. And the guy shoots with both eyes open anyways, wearing those probably would’ve made him shoot worse
Relying on gear might not even give you a better shooting result. Not being used to your gear will fuck you up
"With his hand in his pocket."
A stance used by the U.S. Army Marksmanship unit for over a century.
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Yup, remember it well. Still believe the stooping "Weaver stance" now mandated throughout the US for pistol shooting is real world stupid.
@@steveg2406 I thought we used isosceles now... Do we still use weaver?
It’s because he’s the guy that makes people want to quit. They spent 1000’s of hours practicing. Spent $1000’s of dollars on equipment and training. Little buddy in what amounts to a t-shirt and glasses smokes everyone except for the gold winner.
Guess it goes to show that skill can beat out gear… although I love gear.
This guy isn’t just coming off the street and isn’t a nobody. Dude has the same training, just doesn’t like the eyewear.
He did this who thing as a “F you” to his ex wife! 😂😂 he’s more driven and motivated then the others.
Not that they’re not, but he’s driven by anger and revenge. Two of the most power human emotions.
The others are driven by desire and wanting. Different things all together.
Probably made him more calm too, he’s out to stick it to her, if it doesn’t happen he can just be like mehh. The others are whole life dedicated to this and it’s there whole world, messing up is bigger factor for them; hence more nerves.
He is just ex-gendarme which is essentially military police which has authority in rural parts of Türkiye, espacially near borders of Syria, Iran etc.
Some people also think he missed that last shot on purpose.
Nobody should quit just because someone is better than them. Some people just have more natural talent at something than others, and even if they train equally, that can be a big gap to overcome. Nearly everyone will find someone is better than them at something. All you can do is do your best and take pride in how good you are and how much you improve without comparing it to others. If you're better at that skill than others, that's cool. If not, just chalk it up as a learning experience and continue improving how good you are as much as you can.
It's fascinating to see how a Turkish shooter like Yusuf Dikec can win a medal with minimal gear, proving that skill truly matters.
Minimal? How about no-gear... what gear do you think he's wearing?
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@Actualy1234 you mean standard eye glasses that being used everyday is a gear?
@@mizipianist8962 i said it as a joke
He did not buy his air pistol off of Amazon...
The hype on this competitor from Turkey is simply because he was not all dressed up in the gear that all the others were. Proving that it's skill, not the gear that matters.
Vincent Hancock just helped the United States take home another gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Hancock secured the gold medal in skeet shooting, defeating fellow American Conner Prince in a close competition. It was also the former Army sergeant’s fourth gold medal, making him one of only sixth athletes to ever win the same individual Olympic event four times.
As was stated, he scored a Silver medal without any of the cool kid toys. I for one salute him for taking it old school. It also shows his dedication to the sport and his abilities,
It's actually easier to shoot 10M AP without the cyborg stuff. I did it for years with safety glasses and a piece of tape over 1 eye. That's far less finicky to lock in than the shooting glasses with iris. But as I got better and my eyes got worse, I was only going to get to those margins with specialized equipment that is HARDER to use, but delivers better results in the sweet spot.
Dikec and his team mate, Sevval Ilayda Tarhan, won silver in the mixed team event. People can't even be bothered to get it right.
The Olympic medalists are hitting bullseyes the size of a dime at 10 meters. They're not shooting at IPSC torso sized targets.
For distances over 10 meters, they are using .22 firearms, not airguns.
Pistol (50m pistol, Men's 25m rapid fire pistol, Women's 25m pistol)
Shotguns for Trap, Double Trap and Skeet.
And your point is? It’s 32 feet at 10m ,
@@dannymccraw4841Small targets
Even so, it's 10 yds, approximately. I'd expect Olympians to hit bullseyes the size of a dime at 10 yards.
@@jgfr22 11 yards (10,94 if you want to get anal about it)
@@Eddneton94 I stand corrected
“If the Olympic committee ever decides to add 3 gun…nobody is beating the US” Therefor they won’t.
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What is 3 gun???
@@capricekobain2996 A type of competition where you shoot a rifle, a pistol and a shotgun. Look it up. A 2 second search on Google will get you the info.
@@capricekobain2996pistol, rifle and shotgun competition
@@capricekobain2996 Pistol, rifle, and shotgun competition, usually involves movement and different targets depending on the firearm. You aren't standing still and plinking at one tiny target with an air pistol. It's the most popular form of shooting competition in the US IIRC.
I shot Olympic style air rifle and pistol in high school.
The 10 ring is about the size of a dot that you could make with a ball point pen.
The pellet coming out of a pistol is moving a little over 400 fps and a good rifle might get about 550 fps, so follow through is as vital as it is on a golf swing.
You wouldn't believe how many people came to matches with the same attitude that were near master level and even master level in their discipline and walked out near the bottom of the score board.
Don't mock it until you try it.
I could not agree more. Air Pistol and Precision Pistol / Bullseye are completely different disciplines in comparison to three gun.
Running and gunning with two hands is fine, but put most of these shooters on the 50 or 25 yard line, one handed, unsupported.... let us count the fliers.
I crazily agree, my mind frame was in the same realm as Colion here when I first saw the picture on this guy and thought “how hard can this be” even looked up how much a good competitive air pistol was along what distance they shoot. Around $1500 can get you started which to me doesn’t sound unreasonable and 10m doesn’t seem far until I learned about the targets. You can shoot a pistol fast but to shoot an air pistol into the target they are required consistently isn’t easy at all. Ignorance in majority of these comments lack the knowledge of how difficult this sport is.
Jup, i tried it when i was younger and i endet up second to last place at a local competition after i did it for a few weeks. All the time in the world wont fix bad aim.
Ok that reload clip 2:03 is fucking mental
I know. It looks more like he just dropped the rounds and they magically teleported into the cylinder, than being put in it.
Its Jerry Miculek
Because it’s Jerry the GOAT Miculek 🐐
Low it to 1.5
@@MrOldclunker LOL, they could give YOU the same gear and 50 years to practice, but it's still no guarantee that you'll be as good or better. Besides the fact that this whole video is about a guy using minimal equipment and winning.
Are you not seeing the irony of your comment?
Having shot 22LR Bullseye competitively for years, I can tell you that it IS pretty cool to see him doing that well with none of the cyborg gear. Mad respect to him. And yes, Colion... you are hating.
I did the same thing at 8 years old with an airgun >_> real life guns are very different which is the point. This Turkish guy proved it as well as he walked out wearing no gear. That's the point. Everyone else wearing their cyberpunk wannable gear taking their sweet time to shoot a stationary target with a toy gun.....
I believe Colion simply doesn't understand what static shooting is about. He says "hitting a target" and that is about how wide his horizon is, his score is "pling" or not. Nothing wrong with dynamic shooting but you simply can't compare the two.
Dude getting his own anime.
"That Time I Won Silver in the Olympics in my PJs"
Go Dead Orbit!
The pistol they using looks like one of the old DO exclusives.
@@Garviel.Loken.Knight.Errant. you took it back in the day with this comment. I miss my old faction.
Olympia Einhandr.
@@crucial0072 I was a titan main. Dead Orbit and Iron Banner/lord factions.
Hey man love your videos. But i have to say im disappointed in the lack of research and closemindedness in this video. Precision/bullseye shooting is a very challenging sport, which requires a huge amount of time, dedication and discipline to even become remotely good at. Everything shooting isn't just self defense and how fast you can shoot a standard ipsc target from 6 feet away. It's a sport with a long rich history and is a testimony of discipline. I started shooting from a very young age and have been shooting precision, field and ipsc competitively for a few years now and i have to say precision is by far the hardest. In my case i shoot with firearms, but the turkish man you see is shooting with an airgun, which is tremendously more difficult than a normal firearm, since the ballistics are far different from one another. The airgun pellet travels a lot slower than a bullet which means a longer time spent traveling in the barrel and in turn means more room for the shooter to mess up the accuracy of the shot. It would be cool to see you test out precision shooting, even if you find it "ridiculous".
He’s got Fox News brain at this point. Everything is a conspiracy against American or something.
Boo hoo.
... because winning without cyborg equipment is like winning 3-gun with a hi-point, cheapest Turkish shotgun and wannabe AR-15 from China. All iron sights and with magazines and shells floating freely in your jeans pockets. He proved he is whole league above the Olympic level.
That's an excellent way to describe it.
Must be why he's only won silver in teams....
That’s absolutely not true. The glasses don’t do that much, and help people get a consistent sight picture. If he gets a consistent sight picture without the glasses then that’s great. He’s still been doing this for 20 years and shooting the one of the same multi thousand dollar pistols everyone else is.
Nah, you're giving the people on social media way too much credit for nuance and the ability to recognize skill, he went viral because of his nonchalance and vaguely detached demeanor, things familiar to most internet users. Even more familiar, although somewhat subliminal, is another attitude the shooter projects through his posture and lack of equipment, one of...laziness. Now, let me reiterate, I am NOT accusing the shooter of laziness, nonchalance or detachment (Although a certain amount of detachment, of the Zen kind, probably isn't a bad thing.), in fact, clearly, he's a crack-shot and earned his way into the competition, I am however, accusing the average internet user of a certain amount of all three of those attributes and let me say this loud-and-clear: Myself included. The internet, with all its attraction, tends to diminish everything that lays outside the confines of the screen you're viewing it on thus detaching you from everything around you. The time that is devoted to your phone or computer can be calculated to reveal the time you've squandered that could have been spent with family or reading a book or talking to your children and the time spent semi-motionless as you scroll and troll, sitting in your office-chair or on the toilet accomplishing nothing except to stimulate whatever part of the brain that responds to that kind of stimuli can easily be mistaken for and is, in a sense, laziness.
I'm pretty sure he hasn't skimped on the air pistol he uses. It's probably tuned perfectly for him. Eyes and ears are negligible in comparison. But I have watched guys use hi-point PCC's and Turkish shotgun at bowling pins matches and get first place 🤣
They put the pellet in the same hole shot after shot, they split playing cards, at 10 meters. I find that impressive
I've given 10 metre air pistol a go on several occasions. Even at club level, it's hard. The target is only about 7 inches or so across and divided up into 10 rings (20 from side to side).
You can shoot a pretty impressive group and barely score 50, sometimes.
I think he just looks cool. He looks like your avg joe just walking in and doing it without the helpful gear. You make valid points, for sure. But the dude still looks cool.
The USA used to have that kind of F-U spirit.
If you have never shot 10m air, you will never know.
It's always funny seeing the uninformed bring in comparisons involving firearms, completely oblivious to the fact that they're holding airguns, complete apples to oranges comparison
Turkey over sees the production of Winchester now. They're actually very careful on how Winchesters are made and want to keep the "honor" so to speak Winchester has
Turkey has a long history with Winchester and used the1866 model against in a war against Russia in the 1870s
Better them than the Chinese.
I thought FN owned both Winchester and Browning?
@RighteousJ Damn right.
Turkey makes plenty of guns and has many gun owners, not to the level of the US but it's not to be underestimated
The fact that the US has more guns than actual inhabitants doesn´t make everyone a marksman. You are just hating on someone who is far better than you, otherwise you would have shown a video of you shooting for comparison and not of other people.
I shoot centerfire, smallbore, and airgun, with High Power Rifle shot with an AR-15 being my focus. I have CMP and NRA High Master classifications in High Power Rifle Across the Course competition. Air rifle is the most difficult of any of the disciplines I shoot. The increased barrel time and lack of recoil makes it far more challenging. Air rifle practice is what got me from Expert to Master and then High Master for centerfire High Power. Virtually all of my practice for High Power is spent shooting air rifle offhand. It's like running with a weighted vest - it's so much easier when you go to shoot the AR.
That’s interesting. Do you use a Colt AR15 A2? I’ve been looking into shooting competitions since I got out of the Corps 😊
Im confused, the lack of recoil makes it harder to shoot?
@@WitnessretireThe lack of velocity makes it harder, there is significant time between trigger break and projectile exit.
@@minigpracing3068 ohhhh I see, thank you!
@@Shot_GunnerNot Colt but I did shoot an A2 (Yes, with iron sights out to 600 yards.) until my eyes started to age out. I shoot in the Service Rifle division which attempts to match what is issued in the services. Several years ago both CMP and NRA rules began to allow low power optics (up to 4.5 power) in Service Rifle so now I'm using an A4 upper receiver.
America had a 3 time women’s shotgun gold medalist. No one seemed to notice.
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its all about sending a message not winning
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Ppl are trying to paint Americans (especially pro-2A Americans) as aimless & reckless with their firearms when it’s far from the truth
Jerry Miculek is the GOAT
Damn straight!
This is not a contested fact :)
Nick from PewView will overtake him.
@@АлакПатроваI will admit he seems to be a strong contender. If he starts beating some of Jerry’s world records and possibly even winning tournaments, it just might prove he’s better, since he has the accolades. And that’s exactly what Jerry wants. He wants the competition, he wants to see how far his limits can go.
No thats Eric grauffel
Oh wow, years of following and supporting Colion and finally a hard clown take. Well, it had to happen sooner or later.
Skill tops gear every time
Nope. Try taking a 300 yard shot with iron sights versus a scope.
@fleatactical7390 that's not proper comparison. A proper comparison would be the person using the scope going to iron sights against another person that only used iron sights.
@@XDWX The original poster made a general statement and didn't specify that, so my comment remains intact.
Your added criteria, on the other hand, are perfectly valid and do in fact focus on the underlying differences in a quantifiable manner.
@fleatactical7390 I didn't "add criteria". A person with two brain cells would see what that statement was saying.
@@fleatactical7390simo hyha ?
People are just happy that someone beat the competition without all the nonsense gear.
Fact
That revolver reload tho... damn
The Olympics is supposed to be the top tier of the top tier where 1/10ths of an inch make or break a score. And with all the other competitors using the fanciest of fancy gear and posture and everything to get as precise a hit on a target, he just walks up casually with no "shooting aides" and takes silver against all the other best in the worlds. Like if there was a pistol course competition, and everybody is turning up with sand vipers, staccatos, super high end competition-grade handguns with the best red dots, grips and magazine. But one guy shows up with a stock Glock 17 and comes in second. The confidence of "I'm so good at what I do, I don't high end gear to get the job done" and having that level of confidence at the highest level of competition and still getting a medal. It's just admirable, even if it's just air guns.
Sorry Colion but you’re wrong. Most American gun owners can’t shoot tiny groups like this athlete did at ten meters. Not even close. Marksmanship has gone downhill over the years in this country, even though gun ownership has skyrocketed
Americans if not gun owners hit refigirator size targets not pennys so why would they bother hitting tiny group if percision brely matters in a fire fight
The targets aren’t highschool kids….
...In other words, you can't hit anything without a pulse.
Kimberly Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979) is an American double trap and skeet shooter.[1] A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple Olympic Champion and the only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap. She won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics, equaling the world record of 99 out of 100 clays.[2] Most recently, she won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, making her the first Olympian to win a medal on five continents, the first Summer Olympian to win an individual medal at six consecutive summer games, and the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympics.[
You saved me a bunch of typing. Thanks.✌
yeah, sad part is they barely mentioned her on television coverage only just mentioned she won first gold for our country at that past Olympics they want to hide that there are Olympic shooting sports all they cover is track swimming and team sports.
I read DOUBLE TAP a couple of times before realizing what it actually said. 😂
I was like DOUBLE TAP??? OH I GOTTA SEE THIS!
Now I’m disappointed.
A skeet shooter from one of the most anti-2A states in the country? Color me shocked?
Ver impressive.I didn't know that! She's what?44? Maybe she could have tried it again Let's talk to Mr hands in the pants after four (4) FOUR Olympics How fast can he do the 100meter?
He shoots at that level without all of the crutches, plain and simple, it's not about the weapon itself, it's about the level of skill on the same playing field without all of the bullshyt.
My uncle taught me to shoot. One of his things is: Practice with basic gear. As basic as it gets. That way when the scope is broken, When the battery takes a dump, when the wind makes you think a house is about to land on someone. You can STILL shoot adequately. Muscle memory doesn't kick in until the 10,000th rep or so. Ten minutes after I heard an out-of-state hunter rag on an older gentleman's Lever 30-30..."That Round rainbows! Y' cant hit a barn outside of 100 yards!" Older Gentleman proceeded to put a round into the skull of a running coyote at 250. Old Gent sez: "My Grandad had 'er re-barreled for me when he gave it to me. I was 12. {Gent was 72} I can only estimate how many rounds he had put down the thing.
They are not as bad as everyone thinks. I have one that my dad gave to me, and his dad gave to him. I can hit a 3 inch group at 300yds with the same zeiss 4x scope gramps put on it in the 60's
@@nicholasneyhart396 My point exactly.
I have heard it said, "Beware the man with one gun. He knows how to use it".
We shoot silhouette competitions with lever actions, any caliber. I have won many pins and various places including match winner with my grandfather's 1973 win 94 30-30. I changed it over to peep sights that have a fine target adjustment and a tiny front post and cast my own bullets and load a mid level load that is far more fun than full power jacketed hunting loads he used. It is plenty accurate and many hunters have used lead bullets as well. Last year, I bought and slicked up a new 357 stainless lever action and drilled and tapped it for the same sights. Last Sunday I won the match. Yesterday, I won the rimfire silhouette match with the custom 10/22 I built (built my own sight bases, rear aluminum stock, forend weights, modified mag release, etc. ). Others shoot bolt actions, lever actions, and even anschutz olympic rifles, as well as other 10/22's. My shooting style is like 3 gun, not like most silhouette shooters, so I hold at the end of the forestock, but I have practiced a ton and do very well that way.
@@CGT80 That sounds like a hoot. Have you published the rules on the web anywhere?
Its because other than F-Class Rifle, Bench Rest Rifle (and PRS type events to an extent), American shooting sports in general are not focused on accuracy and precision that is even close to Olympic level targets, but rather defensive use type accuracy and precision which is night and day different.
Take the air pistol event in question here, the 10 ring is less than 1/2" (its 11.5mm or .45in for those my fellow American's who still don't understand the much easier to use metric system) in diameter at 10 meters (10.94yard). That's right at about 4 MOA which might seem large at first BUT considering that the A zone width of an IPSC at 50 meters is 10.3 MOA, the Olympic target 10 ring @ 10 meters requires a significantly higher degree of accuracy and precision than any ISPC competition which goes back to what I said about our focus being on defensive use where precision and accuracy is MUCH less important.
Hell, even the 25 meter rapid fire pistol Olympic event has a 10 ring that is 100mm (3.94") which is still 50mm (1.97") smaller than the A zone width of an IPSC. That's 13.75MOA for the 10 ring for that distance vs. 20.63MOA for the IPSC target at the same distance (for those that like thinking of targets in MOA).
Woke up, mowed the lawn, said goodbye to kids and wife, went to Olympics and won a medal and went home. 🏡
"You're late honey". "Yeah, sorry about that. I went for a quick shot in Paris and popped into Bob's for a quick beer on the way home. Time just got away from me. Is there anything in the oven"?
@@davidbrayshaw3529 OH YA, I won this Silver Medal by the way, NO BIGGIE.
@@NoWr2RunYeah, been trying to win one Olympic medal for past 16 years. It's not like this is his only appearance. 😅
@@nikhilreddy8550even better, he manages to qualify for every Olympics in t-shirt, nice
The precision required to medal with those air pistols is the same as always making head shots with a "real" pistols at 100 yards.
why are you putting real in quotes, air guns arent firearms by definition lol
@@randomdude2546 I didn't say firearm. I said pistol, which can be applied to both.
@@RedHuntsman Water gun can also be called a pistol but you wouldn't call it real would you like yes it's a pistol and it exists on this material plane but in this context real would mean a firearm
Never shot a real pistol at 100 yards have you?
Colin- Ive shot competitive pistol with air guns. It isn't as easy as you think. Winners are decided by millimeters.
Tenths of mm
Colion
I dont think he was trying to say that it isnt difficult. The point is that doing this with real firearms is much harder and a showcase of greater skill. Why would something like this be in the olympics when its essentially the toy version of a real sport. Its not that it isnt extremely difficult, but it isnt the top level of difficulty in the world of real shooting.
@@Mike-sv3cxThat is true, but there are many other factors to consider. The Olympics is international, and not every country has privileges like the US to do shooting sports with real firearms. Plus, to coordinate the sport using real firearms would be a nightmare. Spectators need ear protection and the arena would have to be able to contain the power of the cartridge. There are already sports like USPSA and IPSC, but there are reasons why they can’t be implemented into an international event like the Olympics.
@@Mike-sv3cx First, airguns are weapons by law in an increasing number of countries and depending on their performance and build they absolutely have the potential to kill and are no toys at all. Secondly, it is by no means harder to win a competition with a firearm, the accuracy required compensates for whatever difference in the challenge. I do shoot .556 at 300m and getting a good result with an airrifle at 10m is in no way any easier.
Some years ago the National Shooting Sports Foundation sponsored Project Rapid+Action. Held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, numerous name, champion practical/action competition shooters were invited to try out for Rapid Fire Pistol and other International shooting events and win the Olympics.
The result: all of these champion shooters shot well (no surprise) but none were good enough to qualify for the Olympics.
There is no doubt any of these champion shooters could have improved enough to qualify for the Olympics if they dedicated themselves to it, but none of them did. The same thing would have happened if the shooters who did qualify for the Olympics tried out for their discipline. It’s very understandable why name, sponsored, champion shooters would not make the switch away from the thing they’re winning at. The point here is nobody, not even established champion shooters, is going to just sweep in and win something at a high level without putting in considerable specific effort toward that goal.
By definition, air pistols and air rifles are not firearms.
Air arms don’t even sound as cool , psh 😎
No really
depends on the power, they have, at least in the netherlands, some can be legally bought without a license but over a certain power you have to go through the whole license thing.
@@abelfaber4457they were speaking literally, not legally. There's no fire in an air rifle.
Wrong
In this case, yes, he's shooting an air pistol. But there is a sport in the USA that used to be known as Bullseye, which is now called Precision Pistol. This sport had it's super bowl just last month at Camp Perry, Ohio, for the NRA National Matches where hundreds of shooters gather to shoot .22lr, and centerfire pistols including a match with .45 ACP. There are small leagues across this country for this sport that do pretty much the same thing as Mr.Dikek with actual firearms and no fancy head gear. Of course, most shooters in this country are not interested in it because it takes immense focus to consistently hit a 10 ring the size of a nickel at 50ft, or proportionally larger at 25 or 50 yards. We just don't have that sort of attention span anymore, so the sport is slowly dying out. Even Mr. Micelek that you showed doing his thing will tell you Bullseye Pistol is tough.
I listened to what you said, but bullseye (or precision shooting) is another ballgame. Speed is not the issue, super precision is. This would be the closest to the precision of the air rifle or pistol.
After seeing this news and hearing that question posed by various social media personalities over the past few days, this is the conclusion I have come to:
It's because we view shooting very differently from the rest of the world. The top three countries shown do not have the people's right to bear arms confirmed. Therefore, from a cultural perspective, shooting would be viewed more from a sporting mindset. From my limited knowledge of THIS kind of shooting, it's about as sporting as you can get.
Meanwhile, shooting in the US is given a greater emphasis from the preparedness and civic duty mindset. Shooting for sporting purposes is an offshoot from the overall firearms culture and not a centerpiece of it. When we basically have access to the same cartridges that our military uses (and then some), it's not hard to see why we Americans would raise an eyebrow at an event like this.
My guess would be that most ordinary people around the world have little to no experience actually shooting guns and are used to seeing what they would consider top tier shooters use every thing they can legally use to get an advantage. So when a competitor shows up with some actual real world shooting experience, it seems like a major thing
I think we all look at the competitors with their high tech gear and wonder "How good are they without all that?" This dude just showed everyone how good he really is.
Dude just casually outscored the cyborgs, showing that all the gear and fluff isn’t necessary for raw talented individuals. Also, two eyes open is usually a combat technique to keep peripheral awareness, so the dude most likely has some real world training on his resume.
Most of us here can relate I’m sure lol
@@canalzinha bruh why specificially ''kurds''
@@noobguy9973are you familiar with geopolitics at all during that time and place
My guy, most of these people shoot real guns too and are good at it, it just so happens they compete in an Olympic air gun contest too.
Wrong.
All it takes is a simple google search on the top competitors to see that YOU are wrong sir. Know what your talking about before coming at me.
@@Isthislife2135 do research buddy
Olympics is a big scam...😂
joe rogan?
Yeah they are. Boycott them and any coverage that has ads
@@blantantyet ur watching a video about them 😂😂😂😂
@@Talkbouit-bh5ohdidn't come here for the Olympics Boy....They came here for his take on it.. 🤡
@@Talkbouit-bh5ohuse ur brain lil bro
the thing with airguns is, they are inherently less accurate than firearms. the lighter and slower pellets are disturbed by air currents that even a .22 short cb wouldnt notice. combine that with how finicky the gun itself can be (air density and humidity can affect the pressure, changing velocity of the pellet, throwing off trajectory; how the pellet is seated in the chamber can affect the seal, etc) and just how competitive the sport gets (seriously, the center ring is smaller than a dime) makes his seemingly indifferent appearance weird.
Looked indoors to me.
@@Isthislife2135 air currents arent exclusively wind. they can happen inside a pringles can.
Big Fax. Everyone just wants an excuse to meme, so Im not surprised, but people who genuinely think the US sucks at shooting cause we dont care about the Olympic shooting is hilarious. It's just a style of shooting that we dont care about here air rifle shooting like this more of a hobby to people. And the countries winning are the same usual countries that even though they dont allow gun ownership will train an athlete from childhood because they treat Gold medals in the olympics like gifts from God. If this was a long range bolt rifle competition or three gun or even skeet shooting we would dominate like we have before. As for the two shooters everyones talking about the korean girl is popular cause shes attractive and korean the internet loves that, and the turkish guy because hes just a geniune humble dude in a sea of people with tens of thousands of dollars of goofy looking gear on.
Well the olympics have trap, skeet, positional rimfire rifle shooting, rimfire pistol etc.
I agree that air pistol isnt that interesting, but in skeet the only dominance is by Vincent in mens category. Im really interested in seeing the results from RWS in Oulu
@tiputipu777 didn't know they still had trap cuz I remember they took double trap out of the olympics years ago so I thought it was gone. As for skeet yeah its predominantly Vincent in Gold but we also have more people placing there in general, which was what I was getting at. America is far more likely to have a presence in that competition because skeet is actually fairly popular here. The rest of the competitions just arent really conducive to American shooting practices like 3 gun competition would be. Basically, over half the shooting sports in the olympics are just stuff most American shooters do for fun and dont care about, like the Chinese or Korean athletes will. Really its stuff that most shooters in general dont care about if they live somewhere that actually allows gun ownership and shooting. Like you said RWS in oulu should be way more entertaining.
Facts
The thing is Olmypics have to be accessible and firearms simply aren't. Having something like three-gun or long distance shooting would ofc be dominated by USA simply because they are allowed to have it unlike 90% of the other people competeing. Its just not in the spirit of Olympics.
@@joetheschmoe1066 skeet is still a rich person's game. It's why you get countries that train people for the olympic events that provide them the equipment doing better. Here in the US we buy are own stuff.
Dude just looks cool, unpretentious. My kids are swimmers. Competition suits last a maximum of six meets and cost at least $500 each. The best swimmers always say, it’s not the suit. Same here. It’s not the gear; it’s the shooter’s skill. He owned his skill without pretense.
Takes a strong man to admit he is, in fact, hating on another's ability
We are pro gun. We are not pro-training. Competence is not ownership. Go out and train.
The Olympics has curling but not 3-gun lol but it's like you mentioned, if 3-gun was introduced, it would just be a total medal grab for the US every 4 years lol
Not like swimming, gymnastics, and basketball aren't already medal grabs for the US.
2:50 We can own guns in Serbia. It's not as easy to get them as in the US, but Serbia has the third highest per capita rate of gun ownership in the world. The reason why US shooters dominate this is because you don't have good shooters for this discipline. Recoil doesn't meter here because air pistols are single-shot and they go for extreme accuracy. For clarification, I competed in IDPA and IPSC.
It's definitely because it's considered not a real gun by the hardcore shooters in the US. I remember Bill Burr complaining gun guys were giving him a hard time for getting a pansy low caliber pistol instead of at least a 9. Bill said he wanted to be able to hear in the pitch black dark of his apartment after the first round so he could keep shooting at an intruder by sound if he had to.
Bill burr is a gun hater.
Yeah I thought you had a point to make. My mistake.
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My home state of West Virginia WVU University currently holds the record for most NCAA National Championships in rifle competition. They have 19 national team championships 25 individual championships & have produced 13 Olympians. West Virginia is a pro 2A state with exceptionally high gun ownership & a constitutional carry state.
Well said, fellow West Virginian! 💙💛
Pretty sure a young lady from the WVU team won a gold medal at the Rio games. Can't remember her name or home state.
@@georgenahodil23 Ginny Thrasher
Dude got lost, accidently got registered, and won
OH YEAH! NOIR REVIEWS! I should have expected this but it was a nice surprise!
Life of an retired Akinji: his wife sent him to the bazaar ... on the way he quickly wins a Olympia silver medallion ... 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
So, regarding the first question, why is it such a big deal, it isn’t, and the Turkish shooter just proved the point. He didn’t need all the cyborg gear, he simply picked up his air pistol and went to the line and shot. It’s the shooter not the gear. As to why America does not dominate the Olympic air gun competition, well even though air guns have made phenomenal strides in technology and power, unfortunately for most Americans they still are viewed as what you shoot as a kid until you get to use a real gun. But I suspect that is changing and I think we will see more interest and we will be more successful in the future.
The British beat us for many years in long range rifle shooting and the Russians dominated many Olympic shooting venues for many years. The fact is a lot of overseas shooters are government sponsored. When you can pick your country’s best and make shooting their profession where they are paid and sponsored by the government it makes a big difference.
Essentially what you're saying is that the ancient old magic of ''cold hard cash'' gets the job done.
Air pistol rifling combined with a long barrel makes for uncompromising precision, meaning a tiny 1 mm flinch in either direction sums up on your target at a 3-5 cm deviation. Look up how small the ten ring is. That naturally goes for the rifle as well. This game is not about the bang or target destruction as brought up in your video. Cyborg level of self-command with cutting-edge technique are what the airgun discipline is supposed to measure between the competitors.
Don't bother trying to explain this to him, they guy is set on "muh gun big so US more better"
He doesn't get that it's an event based on aim and precision so a gun without recoil is the thing you want to use and not who has a better, bigger gun
I used to be part of the Army’s shooting unit, the AMU and the AMTU#6.
This was the high power rifle/pistol team, plus we were marksmanship instructors for army units and civilians.
I don’t see as many people doing the target precision shooting type of matches, which was very active throughout the country during the 70’s-80’s. I think the decline of JROTC at Texas schools is one of the reasons why shooting at the Olympic level, and other levels of precision shooting in college, plus the people who literally grew up with some kind of rifle or pistol shooting starting at 7-8 years old are not as prevalent today.
Too many people don’t realize how hard the path to making an Olympic shooting team is exists. My dream, was to make the Olympic team and win every gold medal possible in the precision shooting sport. Unfortunately the army has no enlisted on the 3 position smallbore teams, least it didn’t during my service time. Trying to make the Olympics team is not a walk on thing, especially the precision teams. The amount of years, plus time behind the gun every single day, all day sometimes, isn’t a shooting sport most people can afford, or have time to do nowadays.
Having a chance to make the Olympic team, means you have been shooting a rifle since 7 years old, have been concentrating on 1-2 types of precision shooting, and unless you’ve shot 4 years during your JROTC high school team, then maybe do good enough to make a college level team with a scholarship for another 4-6 years, then get the funding to do it privately, or as part of a military shooting team.
The level of skill and training is a considerable difference compared to any other type of shooting. You shoot rounds in practice every day 8 or more hours, sending bullets down range using 500 rounds and up each day. It’s an expensive sport, just for the amount of rounds, and the firearms can be very specialized/expensive. I don’t know how many people even get the chance to shoot like this, and very few are getting the opportunity today.
The anti gun crowd doesn’t know much about shooting, only what they have been told, and ZERO knowledge about any shooting, firearms, training, etc. The impact on our young people to even consider shooting a gun or touching one, is severe. How many times have you heard a kid say they were told to run away from any firearms they might see, on the ground or on someone’s body? At least 5-6 times personally, from my kids friends. The knowledge about guns being taught to kids declining still. I tell the anti gun people who bring up their bullshit that until they learn the history of firearms, learning everything they can how to handle, use, load, shoot, then clean, maintain, and store the 3 main types, pistol, rifle and shotgun, too STFU about something you 99% of anti gun people have no clue about, and after you do these things, then you can sit down and actually talk about the lie called “gun violence”. What’s coming outta your mouth is the reason why people are getting shot in “mass shootings”, and yes it’s because of your ignorance to think taking something away from the 200 million plus firearms owners who have nothing to do with the shootings, but it’s us who are being punished by telling us we have to give up our private property to make your feelings that you’ll be safer, means you don’t give a shit about who died in the last shooting, only the firearms are banned from private ownership, no one is allowed to have firearms. Not once has ANYONE from the anti gun crowd did learn the things I said above, or asked for the multiple ideas those of us who have guns have mentioned before… Maybe changing things called “gun free zones “ to be removed, and said publicly “ we will shoot you dead “ if you’re stupid enough to try to hurt or steal pulling a gun, you understand the concept of getting your ass ventilated by multiple people. This is 100% better for stopping the next warped evil bastard who skips the first 3 places he tries to go are not gun free zones, choosing to enter a gun free zone cause he knows there’s a 99.9% chance no one is going to shoot his ass until the law shows up.
Over 75% of the shooters chose a gun free zone to kill strangers of any age, because his problems will be somehow solved due to the warped evil decision process, and many of the shooters have been identified by local police and family, yet passed the background check to buy a gun, which is run by the FBI , and they were given the information, yet he was told it was okay to buy it.
Tell me changing that one thing, won’t help stop the killing. You’re full of shit to ignore this fact, you anti gun people want more people killed. Otherwise, the ideas told many times as a possible solution to help stop the shootings, would have been tried at least. But no, it’s trying to force firearms owners who might have stopped the next evil guy who needs to suffer and give up their private property to appease your feelings is the only way to stop it.
Yeah, I don’t like the special kind of stupid people who think they have a right to force their opinion on others, and forget they have ZERO authority to do try it. Become knowledgeable, learn and use what I said about firearms, even if you never touch one again, you’ll know it’s no longer a evil gun, and have respect for it , yet know it’s just a tool, how you use it makes the difference.
Sorry for the soapbox rant, but anti gun people irritate themselves with their ignorance, and use that ignorance to flap their lips throw’n bullshit on something, and I think it’s bad to live like gullible idiot, and showing everyone it’s a fact you are.
Yes Colin, the anti gun crowd is one of the reasons why we don’t have the next generation of shooters in the Olympic Games. The sport of precision shooting is not as popular, and our kids ain’t being taught about firearms in the home, and schools. Definitely a factor for one part of your question.
Jerry Miculek is an amazing marksman. His daughter is doing very well following his footsteps. Always him to watch him. Get Some!
I think its about casually shooting. In the global publics eye shooting for sport is this boring slow static thing with lots of gear. Firing one shot every couple minutes. Not the fast-paced dynamic shooting seen in three gun matches.
So for those outside the gun community seeing a more casual type of shooting for the first seems special. I hope this will cause people outside the US to open up to guns more.
Here in Europe most people have very little knowledge about guns or think they know stuff despite only having seen the hollywood tropes.
Consistently hitting a 5.5mm centre bull dot with a 4.5 mm round takes skill. This Turkish shooter has a fair bit of experience with real steel, former military. Yeah, you are being a hater, any discipline of shooting should be supported, not hated.
Divided we fall gentlemen, divided we fall.
I think Colion should give air pistol and air rifle a try to see what it’s like. And because we just went gold and silver in skeet, he should collaborate with Vinny Hancock!
This guy made a whole UA-cam video to hate on this man 😭
He had skill issue.
if you so good, why you not have all the medals?
Turkish dude rocks
Ooooh, AIR guns, i was wondering wtf they were doing shooting like that
With the turkish guy, I think it's the fact everyone knows it's 100% his skill and not the gear that makes him that good, "ya he's good but take away all that gear and lets see him do the same thing".
As far as Americans not placing higher I agree most of us dont care like you said because of all our options.
It's about accuracy vs precicion. Different shooting sport. Real guns, you just gotta be accurate. Olympic shooting, it's about precision. I've competed in both, and it's not as easy as it looks.
So what are long range rifle competition not precise? Lol.
Most of these competitions rely so heavily on the contraptions the competitors use, that it takes most of the skill out of it. So it's nice to see a competitor showing 100% skill. If you want to see some really crazy contraptions, watch the air rifle shooters and archery shooter.
I did not even know the Olympics were on.
Turkey sent a hitman to the olympics
he looks like a cold killer that works in a book shop
The real reason why he's popular it's because he doesn't brag that he's good
It doesn't matter if it's an air pistol or not. You use the same skills, techniques, and safety rules that you use with any firearm. There are air pistols and rifles that shoot the same 50 cal rounds that a black powder firearm does and they are just as effective and deadly. Putting down these firearms and the people who use them tells me that YOU don't know as much as you think.
The military doesn't use air pistols for a reason. Law enforcement doesn't use them either.
I think the impressive thing about this guy is that he seems to have zero anxiety for one competing at the Olympics
51 years old...still handsome and sexy
Air guns are not as popular in the US, it’s his Wild West attitude that’s making him viral not his shooting skill, which is amazing. He’s calm likes it’s an July 4 picnic with the family
PCP airgun are getting pretty popular. My state has separate deer hunting seasons just for PCP.
@@Steve-ev6vx nice! We are still behind here as far as I know.
@@kennethharman2779 Oh I am sure. The technology started in places were it was a necessity, but we now have many high end manufacturers in the US.
IT IS partly due to his shooting skill as he dominated the man's racket. However his female partner didn't do as well so with their combined points they got silver. If he was solo he would've literally won the entire thing.
I'm soooo dissapointed with you M. Colion Noir....
This guy has been shooting since 2001, got his *first gold medal in 2006 CISM World Championships 25m and won 12 European or world events.(29 podiums).*
His silver medal is also won by *co shooter Sevval TARHAN in mixed Team 10m pistol, and yet nobody talks about her.*
Please don't reduce him to the instant fame of social media for one image blown by medias.
In exception to some areas, we're an anti-gun country with a constitutional right to guns. There are a lot of people in US programmed to hate guns and discourage the use of guns (be it, self defense, hunting, recreational or sporting). You'll have a gun club or shooting range in the area, then a you got a gymnasium open up down the street and then all the Karen's that bring their kids to that gym freak about about guns near by and have the place shut down.
An FFL dealer (just a dealer, not a range or full-blown store or anything) opened up adjacent to a sewing store here. OMG the cat ladies blew a gasket!
the fact he did it casually like it's second nature vs the people needing advantages in order to be superior
To be fair the slow velocity of airguns can make them harder to be accurate with. Since the projectile is moving slower down the barrel the shooter has more time to jerk it off target.
Especially spring powered air guns.
Airgun and recoil😂😂😂 get out of town.
@@Isthislife2135 Yes. Especially with spring powered airguns, just as he wrote. Because spring powered air guns have reverse recoil. They don't recoil backward, they recoil forward. The reason is the internal spring pushes a piston forward to compress the air behind the pellet enough so that the pellet is ejected from the barrel at rates between, say, four hundred to 1100 fps. Since at the highest, this velocity is below the speed of sound and therefore still comparatively slow, the time pellets spend in barrels (dwell time) means the shooter has to be dead consistent with hold follow through or the shot goes wide.
I understand that he has become a meme for people who haven't even watched the game, but it feels strange to say, "he is my hero." His partner, who was wearing the exact same gear as he was (except he had earplugs and she had noise-canceling headphones), showed a result twice as good despite being less experienced and a very young woman. It was thanks to her that their team won silver. And another point: everyone compares him to those who wore special shooting glasses that cover one eye, but didn’t it bother you that they had completely different weapons and weren't actually competing against each other?
No, quite the opposite.(That day) His teammate low score..Yusuf Dikeç 151.6, Şevval İlayda Tarhan 145.4 Serbian team won but their points are as follows Damir Mikec 148.9 Zorona Aronoviç 149.1..
He's the talk because he literally looks like he rolled out of bed and went to the Olympics. He's the talk because he didn't have to look ridiculous to medal.
This is why the UK got gold on mens trap shooting, and Silver (Should have been gold due to a poor judge decision) for womens skeet. Because over/under shotguns are by far the most common, less restricted and easiest type of shooting to get into (excluding air rifle/pistol). You need a license but once you have it and have a place to store them safely you can buy and sell and do what you want, you aren't restricted on how much ammunition you can have or where you put it, you also dont need any prior experience just a safe attitude and you aren't told what you can and cant do with them. Where as you are with rifles and rifle ammunition which you are limited to a certain amount and you cannot buy and sell rifles like you can with shotguns as easily, are questioned on every new rifle you want to purchase and have to ask permission and have to prove a good reason to have a duplicate rifle in the same calibre and action type. So it makes sense we would have more chances of people being good at the small type of shooting we have available to the masses.