Russian Olympic 3P rifle pics
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It's a Walther KK500 in a French Esprit Carabine Universal Concept Stock. It's an update of the 20+ yo SERCS GE600 that MEC sold as the Project.
The blocks on the barrel are friction clamps, lined with rubber o-rings. The receiver is free-floated. The clamps can be moved along the fore-end. The idea isn't new; Raymond Debevec won the Gold at Sydney 2000 with a Unique X-Concept, which employed a very similar barrel clamp. Unique lined their clamps with a rubber sleeve, so it's not identical.
Kamenskiy was the only finalist with an EC stock, but he's not the only user. The EC Universal has been around for the few years; from memory Petra Zublasing and Marco De Nicolo both made finals at the 2016 Rio Games with ECs (with Bleiker actions). Unsurprisingly many of the French team use EC stocks.
Kamenskiy's rifle has a custom weighted tube.
Additional sight radius is not always an advantage for standing.....
That's not uncommon in standing. Women's Gold Medallist Nina Christen also brought her foresight right back for the last position. In theory one loses a little precision from the shorter sight radius, but the full length may make any wobble too visible. Olympic shooters are often very picky about the balance too. If Kamenskiy's coach thought having the tunnel at the front of the tube was better, and this was backed up by data from the SCATT trainer, you can bet that's where he'd put it.
A standard-length sight radius hasn't done so badly for Kamenskiy. He holds both the World and Olympic records for the 60-shot prone match, shooting a Bleiker with the short tube. That's roughly equivalent to a 1913 Anschutz.
Yeah, I put 'wasting' in quotes because I assumed there was some good reason.
Is it technically legal in international 3-position to use 3(or 2) entirely different rifles rather than doing the major changes they do?
I imagine at that level it would be hard to have equal confidence in 3 different barrelled actions.
Is it technically legal in international 3-position to use 3(or 2) entirely different rifles rather than doing the major changes they do?
I imagine at that level it would be hard to have equal confidence in 3 different barrelled actions.
Per rule 7.4.1.2 only one (1) rifle is allowed from qualification through the finals. The rifle is defined as the action, barrel and stock. Accessories that are mounted to the rifle, including the buttplate assembly can be changed out. Rifle can only be exchanged if its found "disabled" w/ approval of the competition Jury.
Not since 2012 I think. Before that a few shooters used more than one rifle in a Match, but I don't think it was common. At the 2008 Olympics, Vebjorn Berg (Norway) shot the Prone final with a Bleiker, and the 3-P (Standing only then), with an Anschutz 2313.
I know of a few World Cup level shooters who have mentioned multiple rifles/barrels. I don't know how many take a spare abroad, or just want to increase their chances when batch testing. Both Henri Junghaenel and Warren Potent have mentioned in interviews, that a new barrel didn't feel right or shoot as well as the old one. Then there is Malcolm Cooper; at Seoul, a BBC cameraman knocked over his Prone/Kneeling rifle cracking the stock. After a hasty repair by the Russian team's armourer, Malcoln found the ammo he had selected for prone wouldn't group, and had to send for more of another batch from the UK.
dc.fireman
Sling & Irons!
And then there's the story of Matt Emmons finding that his rifle's chamber had been 'tampered' with, and he borrowed a teammates rifle to win the gold in the 2016 Olympic Men's 3P rifle.
He won the Prone Gold at Athens 2004 with Amber Darland's 2013/Lilja (with his own stock and sights). Matt unfortunately cross shot onto Thomas Farnik's target in the 2004 3P final. He did win a bronze at London 2012, with his own 2013/Lilja.
The sabotage is a good example of having one rifle!
As mentioned, different rifle in the same competition is against the rules. Many shooters have a buttplate for each position so it's a matter of loosening a screw, swapping, and tightening a screw. Especially useful with short changeover times in the final.
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