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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]
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]
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Swiss Metallic Silhouette Shooting Association (Verein Schweizerischer Metallsilhouetten-Schützen) Swiss Shooting Sport Federation (Schweizer Schiesssportverband, SSV), international member of ISSF. Swiss Fifty Calibre Shooters Association (FCSA) Ukraine. Ukrainian Practical Shooting Association, international member of IPSC.
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.
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The IMSSU was formed in reaction to the attitude problems displayed by the folks running IHMSA a long, long time ago. There was also the ASA (American Silhouette Association) in years gone by; I think those guys managed to put on one match before they went belly-up. All this is really old news and not pertinent to the state of affairs today.