Running disc
Running target is the name for a competitive discipline in shooting sports . Before 1992 this discipline was also called the running boar or running deer . Competitions are held at a distance of 10 m or 50 m.
Regulations
The " running target " has its origins in hunting with the small bore rifle (50 meters).
On the disc to the target distance of 50 m is a boar displayed (hence often referred to as "boar shooting"). A small caliber rifle with a telescopic sight is used as a weapon . The rifle scope has two spikes in the sighting area with which the stopping point is sighted. The right spike is used for counterclockwise rotation and the left spike for clockwise rotation. This means that the rifle is always held slightly up to the target.
In two parts of the competition 2 × 30 shots are fired. In the first part, the "slow run", the disc moves in five seconds over a width of 10 meters, this area is called the "lane" and only there is the disc visible. In the second part, the "high-speed run", the target is twice as fast, so it covers the distance in 2.5 seconds. If the shooter has not fired a shot within this time, a zero is scored. At the beginning the target is on the right side and then runs to the left, the so-called "left run", with the next shot the "right run" follows. At the beginning of the shooting, the shooter takes the weapon in the hip stop. It may only be lifted into the shoulder when the disc becomes visible.
In addition to the normal program, there is also the "mix program", two rounds are shot here too, but the shooter does not know before the shot whether the target can be seen for 5 or 2.5 seconds and must react individually.
Later one went over to shooting with the air rifle "running target". The advantage lies in the smaller space requirement and stands can be set up quickly. The distance is only 10 meters and the aisle is two meters wide. Instead of the wild boar disk, two ring mirrors lying next to each other are placed on a cardboard disk. The "Running target air rifle" discipline is also the only one in which a target aid in the form of a telescopic sight is permitted on the air rifle .
There are the following disciplines:
- 2 × 30 air rifle 10 m
- 2 × 20 air rifle 10 m, mix
- 2 × 30 small bore 50 m
- 2 × 20 small bore 50 m, mix
- Falling Target ( very popular in Finland )
Olympic history
Compared to the 1968 Summer Olympics , the 1972 Summer Olympics program was expanded to include the “Running Disc” discipline, which replaced the “Running Deer” discipline last held in 1956. The resumption of this competition was decided in 1968 and was temporarily called "Laufender Keiler". This was the form used until the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . At the protest of animal rights activists, however, the discipline was renamed "Running Target" and since the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 only shot at 10 m with the air rifle without the wild boar silhouette.
Up to and including the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, the "running target" discipline was an Olympic competitive discipline . For the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, it was removed from the program , as was the " Double Trap Women " discipline . The last Olympic champion in the running target was Manfred Kurzer .