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While she could shoot well with handguns, rifles, and shotguns, Oakley's preferred firearm was a .22 caliber rifle. Standard tricks of Oakley's included: Cutting a playing card in half with a rifle bullet at long ranges; Shooting cigarettes in half while they were held by volunteers; Shooting a dime tossed in the air, at range of 90 feet
High Standard target pistols were manufactured in a variety of models in .22 Short and .22 Long Rifle chamberings for use in competition. One selling point was the similarity in grip angle and manual safety location to the M1911A1 series, a pistol common in service pistol competition. Manufactured from 1926 until 2018, High Standards are ...
Intratec TEC-22: Intratec.22 Long Rifle United States: c.1988-1994 (TEC-22) 1994–2000 (Sport-22) Jennings J-22: Jimenez Arms.22 Long Rifle United States: 1970s–present JO.LO.AR. Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A..380 ACP 9×23mm Largo Spain: 1924-? Jericho 941: Israel Weapons Industries: 9×19mm Parabellum.45 ACP Israel: 1990-present Jieffeco ...
Abbreviation. CFP. 25 meter center-fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events, and is normally a men-only event. Its origin lies in competitions with military -style service pistols, and as such its history dates back to the 19th century. 25 meter pistol (formerly called sport pistol) is essentially the women's equivalent of this event, the ...
Abbreviation. RFP. 25 meter rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events and is shot with .22 LR pistols. The event has been a part of the Olympic program ever since the beginning in 1896, although its rules changed greatly before World War II, after which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005.
Weapons. Ruger 10/22. Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist (born July 31, 1960) is an American murderer who on October 30, 1985, opened fire at the Springfield Mall, a shopping mall in Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Seegrist killed three people and wounded seven others before being disarmed by a man who was shopping at ...
NRA Precision Pistol. Kimber Raptor with a paper target, 91-1X score. NRA Precision Pistol, formerly known as NRA Conventional Pistol, [1] is a national bullseye shooting discipline organized in the United States by the National Rifle Association of America. Emphasis is on accuracy and precision, and participants shoot handguns at paper targets ...
Jerry Charles Miculek Jr. (/ ˈmɪtʃəlɛk / MITCH-ə-lek; born September 7, 1954) is an American professional competition shooter known for his achievements in 3-Gun and speed shooting. [ 1 ] He holds five officially sanctioned world records in revolver shooting and over 15 unsanctioned records with firearms ranging from 9mm semi-automatic ...