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Pistol dueling was a competitive sport developed around 1900 [1] which involved opponents shooting at each other using dueling pistols adapted to fire wax bullets.The sport was briefly popular among some members of the metropolitan upper classes in the US, UK and France. [2]
In the 1906 Intercalated Games, competitors fired duelling pistols at plaster dummies from distances of 20 m (22 yd) and 30 m (33 yd). [1]In 1908, pistol dueling was demonstrated as part of the concurrent Franco-British Exhibition, using the Olympic fencing arena and in front of invited guests. [2]
Pistol dueling as an associate event at the 1908 London Olympic Games In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pistol dueling became popular as a sport in France. The duelists were armed with conventional pistols, but the cartridges had wax bullets and were without any powder charge; the bullet was propelled only by the explosion of the ...
The winner was Belgian sports shooter Léon de Lunden who, according to the Guinness World Records, managed to shoot down 21 birds in the tournament. Pistol dueling
Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. The Olympics got a taste of the Wild West when it included pistol dueling as an official event in 1906.Contrary to what the name suggests, it ...
Shooting was one of the nine events at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896.Early competitions included some events now regarded as unusual, such as live pigeon shooting in 1900; dueling in 1906 and 1908; and numerous events restricted to military weapons.
Olympic dueling is an archaic individual sport that sought to safely emulate the deadly practice of pistol duelling, akin to fencing emulating sword fighting. It involved the use of specially built primer-fired pistols to propel wax bullets. [41]
The men's 30 metre dueling pistol (originally called individual competition with revolver and pistol (duel shooting)) was a shooting sports pistol event held as part of the 1912 Summer Olympics shooting programme. It was later standardized by the ISSF to the men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol.