About the USA / Olympic Shooting Event
USA/Olympic Pistol is precision target shooting using .22 caliber single shot pistols with iron sights at 50 yards.
- It is shot standing, offhand, with no supports.
- There are no shooting coats or gloves used.
- No scopes or dot sights are allowed.
- It is one of the Olympic shooting sports.
- It is sometimes referred to as free pistol.
- Shooters typically use .22 caliber single shot pistols of European or Russian manufacture.
- These are specialized pistols with individualized fitted grips and set triggers.
- Shooters may use other .22 caliber pistols, but they must be loaded one shot at a time.
- The course of fire is 60 shots, fired in three 20 shot strings each lasting 35 minutes.
- Targets are scored after each 20 shot string.
- There is an 18 minute sighting-in period prior to competition where shooters can fire an unlimited number of sighter shots.
- These are club matches and not nationally sanctioned matches.
