The Royal Artillery Barracks and Olympic Shooting Tickets

The Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich in South East London is the "home" of the Royal Artillery. It is famous for having the longest continuous building facade in the UK as well as for having the largest parade square of any UK barracks. The Barracks were built between 1776 and 1802 on a site overlooking Woolwich Common. Their use by the RA ended with the departure of 16 Regiment, Royal Artillery in July 2007.

Woolwich has extensive links with weaponry. Besides the Royal Artillery Barracks it was the location of the Royal Arsenal complex, which was the British Government's principal armaments manufacturing facility for over 200 years, and the Royal Military Academy which trained artillery officers and engineers from 1741 to 1939. There was also a military hospital based at Woolwich which closed in the mid 1990s. Woolwich Common is still a designated military training area although troops are not often seen nowadays. Woolwich Dockyard was one of the principal Royal Dockyards during the Tudor and Stuart periods, although it closed in the late 19th century for Royal Navy use as the Thames was by then too difficult to navigate for the naval vessels of the time.

It has often been a matter of debate as to whether the Ministry of Defense would dispose of the barracks as surplus to requirements. This is now not the case as the barracks has been designated one of the MoD's "core sites". At one time it was rumored that the only reason that the barracks was not being closed and sold was that the members of the Royal Artillery Mess who owned their officers' mess in the building would not consent to sell, and so the Mod were forced to recognize that they could not dispose of the building in its entirety. Now it is planned that, now the last RA unit has moved out, the public duties line infantry battalion and incremental companies of the Foot Guards will be moved from Chelsea Barracks and Cavalry Barracks, which will be closed. Also, the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery are scheduled to move from the St John's Wood barracks to new quarters and stables on the Woolwich site during 2011, bringing a complement of 75 or thereabouts horses, historic gun carriages and artillery pieces used for their displays.

The Olympic Shooting events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in London, Great Britain will be held at a temporary venue at the Barracks. The original venue for the Olympic Shooting was the National Olympic Shooting Centre at Bisley in Surrey, but the plan was changed after the International Olympic Committee expressed reservations about the number of sports which London proposed to stage outside the city. Purchase your OlympicShooting Tickets for the Olympic 2012 held in London. Global Ticket Market is selling Olympic Shooting Tickets at very cheap prices. Global Tickets Market sells all type of Olympic Tickets. You can buy any of Olympic Tickets including Olympic Shooting Tickets easily at very cheap prices.

Shotgun Rounds and Olympic Shooting Tickets

Shot shells are loaded with different sizes of shot depending on the target. For skeet shooting, a small shot such as # 8 or #9 would be used, because range is short and a high density pattern is desirable. Trap shooting requires longer shots, and so a larger shot, up to #7½ would be desired. For hunting game, the range and the penetration needed to assure a clean kill must both be considered. Shot loses its velocity very quickly due to its low sectional density and ballistic coefficients see external ballistics. Small shot, like that used for skeet and trap, will have lost all appreciable energy by 100 yards or meters, which is why trap and skeet ranges can be located in relatively close proximity to inhabited areas with negligible risk of injury to those outside the range.

Birdshot sizes are numbered similar to the shotgun gauges; the smaller the number, the larger the shot. Generally birdshot is just called "shot", such as "number 9 shot" or "BB shot". A useful method for remembering the diameter of numbered birdshot is simply to subtract the shot size from 17. The resulting answer is the diameter of the shot in hundredths of an inch. For example, number 2 shot gives 17-2 = 15, meaning that the diameter of number 2 shot is 15/100 or 0.15". B shot is .170 inches, and sizes go up in .01 increments for BB and BBB or Pellets.

Larger sizes of shot, large enough that they must be carefully packed into the shell rather than simply dumped or poured in, are called "buckshot" or just "buck". Buckshot is used for hunting larger game, such as deer hence derivation of the name, and also in riot shotguns and combat shotguns for defensive, police, and military use. Buckshot size is designated by number, with smaller numbers being larger shot; sizes larger than "0” are designated by multiple zeros. "00" is the most commonly used size.

   A standard 00 buck shell holds 7-9 pellets. Two types of 00 buckshot are commonly available from suppliers: regular 00 buckshot shells and reduced recoil shells favored in law enforcement or home defense use. Low recoil 00 buckshot allows the shooter to make fast follow-up shots, which may be needed in a combat situation, but are not typically required in hunting where the main goal is to cleanly take out the game with a single shot. It's also useful as a stepping stone for shooters who are not yet used to the recoil of full-power shells.

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Du Li and Shooting Tickets

China's Du Li and her fellow shooters will start off the Beijing Games in exciting fashion. The first event to award a medal both, at the Games and the test event, the women's 10m air rifle competition featured some welcome drama. The defending Olympic champion in the event, Du and 2004 bronze medalist Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic were tied at 399 after the qualifying round. Emmons then unleaded a bevy of 10-plus shots in the finals the final round is measured by tenths of a point, as Du succumbed with a 9.8 and 9.7 in the midst of her ten shots. Emmons would go on to tie Du's finals world record of 504.9. "It is normal to get nine points," Du Li told the Xinhua News Agency. "Maybe there are psychological reasons and I will make a good sum-up after the competitions.

But that wouldn't be the last heard of Du at the event. In the women's 3-positions rifle, while facing world-renown shooter Sonja Pfeilschifter of Germany and the event's defending Olympic champ, Lyoubov Galkina of Russia, Du rose to the challenge and won gold despite not even being in the top 100 in the world in the event. "I have never given up the small bore rifle event," Du Li told the Xinhua News Agency. "I've already got a gold medal for the air rifle, so I am more eager for one of the small bore. I want to prove that I can perform excellently in this event as well."

Because the air rifle event is the first Olympic medal being handed out, there is extra expectation on Du to succeed and start the host nation off on the right foot in winning medals. "Maybe this will be the only chance for me to compete in the Olympic Games hosted by my own country, and I enjoy pressure," she said to the Xinhua News Agency.

Like her opponent Katerina Emmons, who married American gold-medal winner Matthew Emmons, Du Li also looks to her sport for her love interest. She is dating Zhang Fu who used to shoot for the Chinese national shooting squad.

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10 meter Air Rifle and Shooting Tickets

10 meter air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 meters from a standing with a 4.5 mm caliber air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg. The use of specialized clothing is allowed to improve the stability of the shooting position and prevent chronic back injury which can be caused by the asymmetric offset load on the spine when the rifle is held in position. It is one of the ISSF governed shooting events included in the Olympic Games.

The course of fire is an unlimited number of slighter shots followed by 60 competition shots for men or 40 competition shots for women, all fired within 105 minutes for men or 75 minutes for women. During this initial or qualification phase a maximum of 10 points are awarded for each shot. The top eight shooters follow this with a final 10 shots each scored to a maximum of 10.9 with the cumulative score determining the winner. The maximum of 10.9 is derived from an additional set of 10 rings within the center 10 point circle, increasing in 0.1 point value as the rings approach the center of the target. The competition is won by the shooter who reaches the highest aggregate score qualification + final score.

For the 10 meter air rifle and air pistol disciplines match diabolic pellets are used. These pellets have wad cutter heads, meaning the front is flat, that leave clean round holes in paper targets for easy scoring. Match pellets are offered in tins and more elaborate packaging’s that avoid deformation and other damage that could impair their uniformity.

Match air rifle shooters are encouraged to perform shooting group tests with their gun clamped in a machine rest to establish which particular match pellet type performs best for their particular air gun. To facilitate maximum performance out of various air guns the leading match pellet manufacturers produce pellets with graduated "head sizes", which means the pellets are offered with front diameters from 4.48 mm up to 4.52 mm.

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Shotgun and Shooting Tickets

A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug. Shotguns come in a wide variety of sizes, ranging from 5.5 mm bore up to 5 cm bore, and in a range of firearm operating mechanisms, including breech loading, single barreled, double or combination gun, pump-action, bolt and lever-action, semi automatic, and even fully automatic variants.

A shotgun is generally a smoothbore firearm, which means that the inside of the barrel is not rifled. Preceding smoothbore firearms, such as the musket, were widely used by armies in the 18th century. The direct ancestor to the shotgun, the blunderbuss, was also used in a similar variety of roles from self defense to riot control. It was often used by cavalry troops due to its generally shorter length and ease of use, as well as by coachmen for its substantial power. However, in the 19th century, these weapons were largely replaced on the battlefield with breech loading rifled firearms, which were more accurate over longer ranges. The military value of shotguns was rediscovered in the First World War, when American forces used 12 gauge pump action shotguns in close-quarters trench fighting to great effect. Since then, it has been used in a variety of roles in civilian, law enforcement, and military applications.
Some of the most common uses of shotguns are the sports of skeet shooting, trap shooting, and sporting clays. These involve shooting clay discs, also known as clay pigeons, thrown in various ways. Both skeet and trap competitions are featured at the Olympic Games. Skeet shooting usually deals with 25 shots, while sporting clays can be a course up to 100 shots
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Kim Rhode and Shooting Tickets

Kim Rhode was born in July 16, 1979. She is an American double trap and skeet shooter. She lives in California; she is a two-time Olympic gold medal winner and six-time national champion in double trap. She was the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team at the1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Most recently she won a silver medal in skeet shooting at the 2008 Summer Games.

Born in Whittier, California, Rhode began sport hunting at an early age, traveling on African safaris by the age of 12. At 13, she won her first world championship title in women's double trap shooting. Rhode won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Games, making her the youngest female gold medalist in the history of Olympic shooting. She later won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Rhode also won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

After double trap shooting was eliminated from the Olympic Games, she has concentrated on skeet. At the 2007 world cup competitions in Santo Domingo, she set a new final world record in this event with 98 hit. She went on to win the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in women's skeet.

On September 11, 2008, Rhode's competition shotgun was stolen from her pickup; she had been using it in competition for eighteen years. The gun was returned to her in January 2009 after it was discovered during an unrelated search of a parolee's home; the parolee was charged with possession of stolen property.

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Richard Faulds and Olympic Shooting

Richard Bruce Faulds was born 15 May 1977 in Guildford, Surrey. He is an English sport shooter Richard competed for Great Britain in the2000 Summer Olympics and won the men's double trap.

Richard Faulds competed internationally for Britain at the age of 13, and was a world junior champion when he was 16. Three years later, Richard Faulds competed in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics finishing fifth, and became the 1997 European champion. After working at the West London Gun Club for three years as an instructor, Richard Faulds became a fulltime shooter, and qualified for the 2000 Sydney games after shooting a then double trap world record score at a World Cup meeting held again in Atlanta, Georgia. Richard Faulds shot a then Olympic record total of 143 in the preliminary round, and won his Olympic gold medal after a shoot-off at the Sydney International Shooting Centre, to become Britain’s first shooting gold medal-winner since Malcolm Cooper in 1988.
At the 2004 Olympics, Faulds came 13th in the double trap event, losing his title to Ahmed Al Maktoum from the United Arab Emirates.

Richard Faulds and his wife Tanya live in the Meon Valley along with their young son, Charlie.
In 2010 Richard and Tanya opened Owls Lodge Shooting School near Barton Stacey.
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