The behavior and posture of a shooting athlete, whether in training, competition or in his life can lead him to success, if you know how to maintain balance and self-control in difficulties. But it can lead you to defeat if you don’t have ethics and sports etiquette.
Shooting is mental. It needs discipline, concentration, self-control and attention to safety.
Shooting clubs are family environments, with the presence of children, young people and adults of both sexes. Currently in the world the female presence is growing enough, to the point that the sniper “face” is a girl. So our behavior in a Shooting Club must be the same when we are with the family, between young people and children.
Here are some statistical data:
- You’re 100 times more expected to get injuries in a pool than with a gun.
- You’re 31 times more expected to have an accident in car than with a gun.
- You’re 1,900 times more expected to suffer an iatrogenic injury (iatrogenic is a medical error) than with a gun.
Weapons save lives!
Research done with academic rigor by the FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation together with several Universities reveals that in the USA, only firearms have been used positively 2.5 million times to avoid crimes!
Sports shooting teaches the effective and safe use of these instruments and their extra components such as AR 15 mag speed loader.
Nothing causes more apprehension in a Shooting Club than security breaches with weaponry. Practice and live the safety standards. Shooting clubs are extremely safe places, with very low incidents being our duty to ensure the maintenance of following high safety standards, which is essential within ethics and etiquette in shooting.
- Always when presenting a weapon, presenting it open and demoted, without that story of – “without the magazine, she doesn’t shoot”.
- Treat every weapon as if it were loaded. Don’t ask check.
- Remember that there is no turning back when a bullet is fired.
- Never point the gun at someone, an attitude of extreme bad taste. An old saying “The devil shot and killed with the boot of a boot”.
- Never point a gun at a person unless you intend to shoot them.
- Make sure you aim at your target and what’s behind it.
- Always practice discipline and safety standards.
- Gun shots and their use are at the firing line.
- Make sure your weapon meets the standards for equipment control done before each competition.
