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Metallic silhouette shooting is a group of target shooting disciplines that involves shooting at steel targets representing game animals at varying distances, seeking to knock the metal target over. Metallic silhouette is shot with large bore rifles fired freehand without support out to 500 meters, and with large bore handguns from the prone ...
The International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union was founded on 8 October 1992 in Paris, with founding members from Australia, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, the US and the European silhouette federation AETSM. [3]
Popular in action shooting, metallic silhouette, long range shooting and various field target/field shooting disciplines. Bouncing targets — freely moving targets made from a type of "self-healing" elastomer material, which roll/flip and bounce along the ground when shot with a bullet.
Gates was a central person in the development of handgun metallic silhouette shooting, [5] [6] and served as president of the International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association. [7] [8] During his leadership of IHMSA, Elgin published a newsletter titled The Silhouette where amongst others John Taffin contributed. [9]
A former math teacher from 1964 to 1995, Taffin is regarded as an authority on single-action revolvers, handloading, handgun hunting, big-bore revolvers, and metallic silhouette shooting. [2] Taffin has authored five books and over 500 published articles.
With the wide range of bullet weights available, the 7mm-08 is suitable for "varminting, game-hunting, Metallic Silhouette, and long-range shooting." [5] It is also suitable for plains game." [2] For long-range target and metallic silhouette shooting, the "plastic-tipped 162-grain A-Max has proven to be very accurate with a 0.625 BC (G1). This ...
Shooting Federation of Canada (SFC), international member of ISSF. The Silhouette Rifle Association of Canada (SRAC) Mexico. Mexican Hunting and Shooting Federation (Federacion Mexicana de Tiro y Caza, A.C.), international member of ISSF. United States (USA) A Girl and A Gun Women's Shooting League (AG & AG)
The silhouette pistols of Aseseppä Löppönen or "Gunsmith Loppo" has been favored by three-time world champion in metallic silhouette shooting Rauno Ärväs. [5] Loppo was the second pistol to come on the IMSSU Production list after the Excalibur pistol.