Shooting sports.

Bullet shooting - a subspecies of the shooting sport. In this sport shooting is made from gunshot or air rifles and pistols rifled bullet. In the current program in shooting included the following exercises:

Normal shooting (1-3 minutes per shot) - shooting at targets with applied 10 concentric circles and a black circle ("Apple") in the center. Rapid Fire (3 with a shot or a series of 5 shots (20, 10, 8, 6 and 4 s)) - shooting at a figure (a silhouette) targets. Shooting at a moving target - target shooting "boar" (speed 2 and 4 m / s) and "deer" (5.75 m / s). Number of transcripts shots from 40 to 120 in the exercise.

History bullet shooting.

Shooting sports in general is one of the oldest applied sports. He originates from the competitions in archery and crossbow. With the advent of in the middle of the XIV century firearms began competition shooting, first of shotguns and rifles led to the creation of the development of bullet shooting.

Competition in rifle shooting and gun were included in the first Olympic Games in 1896, and since 1897 started regular world championships in shooting. One of the initiators include competitions in shooting in the Olympic Games was Pierre de Coubertin. He was a seven-time French champion pistol shooting.

Bullet shooting was part of the program of the Olympic Games, in addition to the Olympic Games in 1924 (St. Louis, USA) and the Olympic Games 1928, (Amsterdam, Netherlands). In Russia, the shooting sport began to develop at the end of the XIX century. The first competition was held in Khabarovsk, May 25, 1898 at the Garrison range as national competitions.