Those pistols don't look anywhere near 50 meters long
Those are actually giants
How can you tell? There's no banana.
Those boys are looking sharp!
Positively smashing, just as they hope to do to the world records!
they dominated the meme market that year
Guy on the left looks like a Dishonored NPC.
Let me know if you want to gamble on the hounds again
I hope this is a promo picture on a cold range, because I doubt those are air pistols like today, and that photographer is clearly ahead of the firing line
Here's an old picture of men testing bulletproof vests
Here's a new picture of men testing a bulletproof cup.
Men were MEN back then, and MEN always put themselves in needless danger!
🥹🇺🇸
I am uncertain of the nationality of the photographer, but I believe the two Swedish men in the picture might disagree on which flag should be flying.
Fully agree with a modern lens, but to be fair if there was one place I'd stand down a live range the Olympic pistol would be pretty high up there.
I wouldn't even for a million Euros, the French federation thinks the four rules are too good for them and they also write self-contradicting bullshit. I'm willing to bet they're not the worst.
Are you kidding? For 250k, I'd stand down range for the whole of all shooting events at the Olympics.
Today's athletes for shooting are probably at such a high level. Even if they did miss the target, it wouldn't be by much.
*Sees an old picture
"Oh boy! Something I can worry about!"
Range safety wasn’t really a thing back then.
Or angles with zoom lens.
I'm not sure zoom lenses were a thing in 1912...
Maybe not zoom, but telephoto, yes. https://www.alamy.com/expedition-photographer-herbert-george-ponting-and-telephoto-camera-apparatus-antarctica-january-1912-image594717472.html
Bro in the middle has 100% shot someone.
50 meters?! Good gods. With the pistol I'm best at, I'm happy to ring 10" steel at 10 meters.
Most of the guys practicing pistols at the range are shooting paper plates at 3-4M.
How big was the target?
The olympic airsoft is at 10m. The pellets are 4.5mm and the bullseye is 11.5mm.
This would similar to hitting at target with a bullseye of 57.5mm or 2.26" at 50m. Adding in greater inaccuracy of the bullet due to wind, etc... say a bullseye 2.5".
When I was a teen on the ranch in Montana and shooting was my main form of entertainment, I could do it easily. Today, I would be lucky to clip the edge of the paper until I got a few thousand rounds of practice in. It's about form, breathing, trigger control and a hell of a lot of practice.
The target was 50cm/~20in diameter, so the bullseye was probably 5cm/~2in diameter. I don't think the full results are recorded but the top shooters were probably hitting a few tens in 60 shots.
Cool hat
Must be a special equipment to protect from the sun
See, this is why Turkish guy is the goat. My man defies the sun itself!
The 1912 summer games had 18 shooting events! Including trap shooting solo and in teams, and "running deer"
I hope that last one ended with a barbeque
It was a team event, and each team got 10 passes of the "deer", so I think it was about 80% lead at that point.
The Turkish dude would fit right in
I'm assuming the hand in the pocket is a regulated stance or at least is a pretty common pose to take. Makes me wonder what the most absurd item someone had in there pocket during an olympic event is.
Take your hand and hold it out and watch how much it shakes/moves.
Notice how much effort it takes you to stop the ever so slight shaking and movement of your hand. Now your arm. Now your shoulder. Now notice how much of the rest of your body you had to ignore to just control that.
Now place it against your leg and watch it stop.
This is the stance in its entirety, it’s pure function.
Sweet, ty for the info. I would imagine some people might have a picture of a loved one or maybe a note of importance (a regular object would seem distracting from the purpose you described). But, that might be taboo since anything that takes your mind off focusing on the target could hamper performance.
I imagine a competitor would have something in their pocket on occasion. That sprinter recently had a blue eyes white dragon card in his pocket, when he set a record a few back.
If you have a hole in your pocket, you can grab your genitals.
The honeys back in those days must have been powerless to resist these guys.
They should move pistol shooting back outside.
'dem cheekbones are the real guns.
same guy
Give yer balls a tug, titfucker.
Old school cool
They let women compete by 1912?
In a few events, but not this one.
I think the "mens" was added later.
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