# Pretty amazing shooting

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 7, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-amazing-shooting/727267 "2015-08-07T20:06:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-amazing-shooting/727267/1 "2015-08-07T20:06:16Z")

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The largest annual sports event in Norway, the [national rifle championship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsskytterstevnet) , was [arranged this week](https://tv.nrk.no/serie/landsskytterstevnet). There are three main disciplines: Target shooting (100, 200 and 300m, standing, kneeling and prone), [field rapid shooting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felthurtigskyting) (popularly called “the diver” due to the dive the shooters do when the order is given) and [col. Stang’s competition](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stangskyting) (similar to UK’s [mad minute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute)).

The broadcast from yesterday’s target shooring event: [Landsskytterstevnet – Kongelaget – NRK TV](https://tv.nrk.no/serie/landsskytterstevnet/MSPO30140415/06-08-2015)  
The broadcast from today’s events, field rapid and col. Stang’s competition: [Landsskytterstevnet – 7. august 2015 – NRK TV](https://tv.nrk.no/serie/landsskytterstevnet/MSPO30140515/07-08-2015)

As a hunter and shooter, I’m pretty darned amazed at the level demonstrated by pure amateurs. And as a European, I love that shooting can be shown as what it ought to be, a sport, not a killing activity.