The guns used in the air rifle events at Tokyo2020 are the most precise implements at the Games, elaborately designed hardware firing wadcutter pellets within millimeters of a target 10 meters away.
“Really, what they are is just air rifles that are a regular 1.77-caliber that shoot lead pellets with compressed air,” USA Shooting national rifle coach Dan Durben said. “It's just that everything else around it looks a lot fancier.”
The rifles look like something a child slapped together while being left alone in his room for an hour, but each addition is designed to create a subtraction in the distance the pellets miss the center target.A millimeter in air rifle can mean the difference between gold and missing the podium. Rifle shooters can't conform grips to their hands like their pistol brethren, but they can move it back and forth or cant it in a certain direction for a better fit. The trigger also can be adjusted in multiple directions and even the blade angle can even be adjusted.
The back sight looks like something from “The Terminator,” though it is only slightly fancier than a hunting rifle. It's more peephole than telescope and the knobs are the same ones hunters use to set the direction they want to shoot.
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