More Interesting Shooting Competitions from Norway
Our recent post about Norway’s annual Landsskytterstevnet (Rifle Country Fair) marksmanship competition was very popular. American sling-shooters noticed how Norway’s marksmen used a different sling set-up and how the Norwegians were using their middle finger or ring finger to pull the trigger. This allows faster cycling of the bolt in rapid-fire competition.
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Unfortunately, some of our readers with slower internet connections were not able to stream the video from the Norwegian server. Here are two YouTube videos posted by reader ICECOOL from Norway. The first shows John O. Ågotnes shooting rapidfire in the Stangskyting discipline (25-second time limit). The gun is a Sauer 200 STR (Scandinavian Target Rifle) chambered in 6.5×55.
The second video, below, shows competitors in a 3-position (standing, kneeling, prone) shooting competition at the 2008 Samlagsskyting Finals. This provides good closeups of the Norsk sling arrangement. Note also the electronic scoring technology which instantly plots the shots on the target. This makes it exciting to watch the match… tension builds until the final shot. American clubs could benefit from electronic scoring which allows the crowd to follow the action.
ICECOOL has posted more links to Norway shooting match videos on the Firing Line Forum. Many of these matches are actually broadcast live, in prime-time, by Norwegian Television.
One interesting fact about Norway’s shooting matches is that they are partly funded by the Norwegian government. On the Firing Line Forum, member UltimaThule noted that: “The National Rifle Assn. of Norway receives financial support from the Department of Defence — 1/10 of one per cent of the National defence budget. What would your anti-gun people say if the American NRA got $560 million dollars a year from the government?”
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I wonder if the Midway Norge sponsor signs are from an affiliate of Midway USA. The Norwegian site looks simialr, but I can’t read it.
MidwayNorge is the Norwegian affiliate of Midway USA.
Same item# on i.e. brass in the webshop.
Without gunpowder and live ammo, explosives can not be sent in regular mail here.
http://english.kme.no/ <– link to the electronic scoring system.
Another system used in Norway: http://www.megalink.no/defaultEN.htm
Interesting format and very entertaining to watch. I couldn’t help but notice that Engh had the tightest grouping for most of the match but just seemed unable to correct his windage. (Still far more than I could do).