Kuortane '09

Sparks

Not sure if anyone's interested or not, but some notes on this year's ISSF rifle training camp in Kuortane (or at least it's first week), which is where I've been all week (not back yet, currently sitting in a hotel in Helsinki, but since I've no curfew for the first time in a week...):

K-7 days
K-2 days
Getting there is half the stress...
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Departure day

Sparks

Homecoming
Notes for next time...

It wasn't me!

Very tempted to do this next year. Must have a chat with Dan about it when he gets back, as I'd be going out for the prone.

Sparks

Worth it for the mindset change that training with the others produces, if for nothing else. Expensive though, it works out at around €1600 for the week or thereabouts. Excess baggage added onto that a bit this year for me

It wasn't me!

Sparks wrote: »

Worth it for the mindset change that training with the others produces, if for nothing else. Expensive though, it works out at around €1600 for the week or thereabouts. Excess baggage added onto that a bit this year for me

Eep! Bank-robbin' time! Unless I can shoot an MQS in competition within a few weeks, in which case, carding grant please.

Sparks

Yup, not cheap. But then competing in a World Cup is going to set you back by one to two grand anyway. Whomever said this was a cheap sport was thinking of club shooting, not international shooting

It wasn't me!

Sparks wrote: »

Yup, not cheap. But then competing in a World Cup is going to set you back by one to two grand anyway. Whomever said this was a cheap sport was thinking of club shooting, not international shooting

I need a salary, with the kind of number of zeroes you've to count several times to be sure.

Sparks

Good luck with that!

xesse

here lads, whats the competition you lads shoot in and whats the mqs for this W/C competition???
is it just 10m air rifle or is ther some other .22 comp

Sparks wrote: »

Yup, not cheap. But then competing in a World Cup is going to set you back by one to two grand anyway. Whomever said this was a cheap sport was thinking of club shooting, not international shooting

Sparks

xesse wrote: »

here lads, whats the competition you lads shoot in and whats the mqs for this W/C competition???
is it just 10m air rifle or is ther some other .22 comp

I was just training for 10m air rifle, but there's a few other disciplines as well; 10m air pistol, 25m smallbore pistol, 50m smallbore pistol, 50m smallbore rifle, 50m smallbore rifle three position, and a few variants on 300m fullbore rifle.

MQS is for the Olympics, and varies from discipline to discipline and is the score you must have shot to be eligible to shoot at all in the Games (it's 570/600 for men's air rifle for example); but you still have to earn a quota place by winning a world cup or championships before you can go to the Games.

Selection score is different, it's the score you must meet or exceed to earn a place on the Irish Team going to a specific event (for Intershoot, whose selection match is this weekend's DURC 10m Open, for example, it's 573/600 for men's air rifle).

Bananaman

I do a fair bit of National and International Stuff (CF Pistol)

A general rule of thumb is that it will cost you :-
100 yoyos if you have to travel and stay over at a match here (or Northern Ireland)
500 yoyos if you have to travel and stay over at a match in Europe
Haven't been any further afield for a match yet.

Obviously your match entry and ammo will be on top of that.

I've been to two internationals in March (had a baby in April so haven't been away since) - they were both one day events but ended up with a three day trip due to flights etc.

Each if them cost me ~1000 once I paid for flights, car hire, accommodation, match entry and ammo.

It's not that expensive - not much more than it would cost you to go and not attend the match - it's what you have to do if you want to shoot internationally.

The European Handgun Championships (5 day Match) are on next year and the World Handgun Championships (10-12 day match) are on the following year.

Now - those - will be expensive - thankfully the World shoot is in Europe this time so the cost will not be overly prohibitive but two weeks accomadation, flights, transport and two weeks worth of ammo will cost a tidy sum.

Assuming, of course, that we have any suitable firearms and can enter.

B'Man

Sparks

Two videos from Kuortane (in high-definition if you go to the videos on youtube.com itself).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA4b1dwoRmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8L47gW4Je4

Coronal

Nice fast shot routine Sparks (from dropping the head to taking the shot), need to work on that myself I think!