• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

    Even without a gun, that is an expression that says, “you will really regret it if you ever try to fuck with me.”

      • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I’m not saying it’s good practice, but you can fire .22 LR without getting ringing in your ears. I’d never do it all day, but I’ve definitely done it a couple times just to get an idea how loud it is. The dude can probably hear fine. I’m not saying it won’t catch up to him though.

        Edit I hear he shoots air pistol? I don’t know if that’s correct, but it’s definitely even quieter.

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Shooting .22lr without earpro isn’t great, but yeah… doing it occasionally shouldn’t be an issue.

          I use 22 on invasive nutria around the property, and when I see one of the giant rats I’ll just grab the rifle and go shoot them. It’s not like firing a .308 or .223 where it’s loud enough to permanently damage your hearing from 1 shot.

          But if I’m going target shooting a 22 I’m gonna put on eyes and ears. Especially for a pistol. For those who haven’t shot, pistols are generally way louder than rifles of the same caliber. Not only is it closer to the shooter, but more of the gas expansion and powder burning occurs outside the barrel.

          Air guns can also be just as loud as a 22 BTW. It’s actually fairly common to have a integrated into an air rifle in the US since the legal definition of a silencer specifically involves being designed for use on a firearm (air rifles aren’t legally firearms).

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Yep! He competes in (at least) 10m mixed team. They use PCP pistols for that, so you really don’t really need more than a pair of earplugs. 25m and 25m rapid both use .22LR though, and many competitors compete in both events and only bring the one pair of PPE, so that’s where the images of competitors wearing full ears vs. earplugs only in one side come from (and/or some people’s ears are stupidly designed so they can’t wear normal earplugs / earbuds and have to have the uncomfortable and bulky over-the-ear protection. Not that I’m bitter or anything. Stupid ears.).

          Also, his shooting stance is 100% standard, here’s him & his partner Sevval Tarhan in identical stances. It’s really more for comfort than anything else, since rounds go for 1hr 15min. Ergonomic stance means you can keep up the consistent shots for that long a period

          The meme format with him vs. the south korean shooter Kim Yeji looks so different because they are competing in totally different events, even though they’re both shooting PCP target guns.

        • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          I heard someone say that he was wearing regular earplugs and that these are compressed air guns so not nearly as loud as regular guns. I have no idea on either of those loudnesses

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    So with the addition of some better equipment, like an eye shield, maybe he could have taken home the gold? Is there a GoFundMe?

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        On the one hand, I was just making a joke. You’re probably right.

        On the other hand, there are Olympians working part time jobs to pay for their training and equipment. Not every country sponsors their athletes, and this shit ain’t cheap. Few things highlight global economic disparity like the Olympics.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          If the caption is right this guy is Turkish military. They will absolutely give him all the range time and equipment he asks for.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    His name is Yusuf Dikeç, he was in the 10m air pistol men and mixed team events. The silver was in the mixed team event, won alongside teammate Şevval İlayda Tarhan. Despite what appears to be an exceptionally successful sport shooting career otherwise, he seems to have struggled in prior Olympic games (“struggled” relative to “qualified for the goddamn Olympics” of course) but apparently he was just on the ball this time

  • voldage@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    He looks like he commented to someone doing this sport professionally that it look easy and now, with a bit of disdain and irritation, he had to show them what he meant by that

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I heard the US lost. They should have sent cops. Then just paint a black man as the target 🎯. 19 shots hit, and only needed one for gold.

        • Juice@midwest.social
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          3 months ago

          Tbf there were people in the audience holding water bottles which could be thrown as a deadly weapon – how do you know those bottles aren’t full of kerosene – and also filming the officer which can lead to the officer’s family being threatened by doxxing. The only people allowed to threaten the officer’s family with violence is the officer

          • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            I didn’t think about this possibility. The ratings are dropping and we need more viewership. How about next year Simmons Viles? Is that the correct spelling? How about she trains all the shooters to do a few cart wheels and such before actually shooting. Basically like an Xman event level demonstration of agility and dexterity. But let’s hope none of them are cops of this might end badly.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Unless they arrive a little late save, upon hearing the sound of gunfire coming from within the stadium, barricade themselves outside and wait for the shooters to run out of bullets or targets.

  • Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Both eyes open can be better for your aim if you can resolve both images of the sights and place the target exactly between the images. Takes practice but seems to have a higher skill ceiling

        • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Oh, do you need the “!” in front of the link? I tried something like that at first and it showed nothing

          • Codex@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            That’s standard Markdown syntax for embedded links: instead of linking, just show the content. Usually only for images but I think some sites will allow audio (and video?!) embeds as well.

            • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Yes, video too, but support by clients is inconsistent (some don’t show playback controls and loop it like a gif, some just display a link). By default, the media hosting server allows for up to 900 frames (up to 30-37 seconds of smooth video) and 2160p; the audio track is removed; the filesize limit is 40 MiB (most instance owners set it way lower, perhaps 5 or 10). There is a caveat: all media must be encoded to a single codec of the instance owner’s choice: VP9 (default), H264, H265, AV1, VP8. Uploading in one of the others is possible but beware: it is going to be reencoded by the server, and if the process doesn’t finish within the timeout of 30 seconds, you get the error ffmpeg timed out. In 30 seconds, a server without HW acceleration will typically only process a very short video (for feddit.org, it’s about 1 MiB’s worth of H265) so anything longer than a few seconds will fail! To take advantage of the full upload limit, you must reencode the video yourself to VP9 or whatever other codec is set (you can tell by uploading a tiny file in any codec and inspecting the output).

              You can use the following command to reencode the video to VP9:

              ffmpeg -i input.mkv \
  -r 899/<duration> `only use this for longer videos where you need to reduce frames to 900` \
  -c:a libopus -b:a 48k `audio will probably be removed anyway` \
  -c:v vp9 \
  -crf 32 `constant quality mode, lower is better quality, try finding lowest value satisfying filesize limit` \
  output.webm

              Alternatively, just use a more lenient hoster like GitHub or catbox.moe and embed the file from there.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Next time you can just upload the image and it will embed it in your comment.

        FWIW your link worked just fine. Also disallowing hotlinking is the decision of the web server hosting the image, not Lemmy.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is the type of character you see in an anime and you scoff as unrealistic. I stand corrected

      • barsquid@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Someone starts getting close to his score, “interesting! I haven’t had a match like this in a long time,” and he switches gun hands.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Japan experiences a high number of earthquakes because of all the athletes removing their extremely weighted training equipment when facing tough competition and needing to get serious. Undo the bindings and casually allow it to drop to the ground and the only reason Tokyo is still standing is because they designed their buildings to account for this.

          And then a character known for watching bullets travel from the gun to the target is shocked to realize he can’t follow the movement of the gun anymore.