Americans actually do shoot quite well, but the rules around gun handling are incredibly strict for Olympic shooting.
Things like minor celebrations, emotion, or even the cadence of your walk while leaving the range can cause disqualification.
Since American shooters can't hit a bullseye without shotgunning a beer and magdumping into the sky as eagles carry exploding fireworks in celebration, they often do not place in Olympic shooting
The real reason
Not to take anything anyway from the Olympic athletes who are incredibly talented at their sport, but their sport doesn't resemble the practical shooting of real guns.
There are actual competitons for that, such as the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) world shoots. The U.S. is much better represented in these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPSC_Handgun_World_Shoots
American shooting is a lot more flash than precision.
Legitimately there's a category of shooting sports that's about the most efficient use of WWI trenchgun style slam firing, which is basically abusing the reload speed on that class of shotgun to convert it into a semi-auto.
We literally made a sport out of what the enemy tried to get classed as a war crime as an act of spite and you're wondering why we not so good at traditional marksmanship? It's a level of decorum that America was basically founded as a fuck you against.
Olympic shooting is just a different beast. Look at the differences in scores; it's fractions of a point, in most cases. Air guns simply aren't popular in the US, while they're one of the very few options open to most people outside of the US. And, TBH, there's not a lot of support for the Olympic shooting sports in the US, aside from possibly trap.
That’s why muricans need assault rifles.
Don't worry. They just wrapped up the Presidential Candidate leg of the competition. School is up next and we're expected to have a strong showing.
Olympic shooting has nothing to do with shooting of any other kind. The guns are custom made. Unless you are speficially training for the Olympics you'll likely never handle such a "weapon". I think using these guns is the equivalent to a running being able to use spring blades. I am not a gun owner but it feels like a pointless sport as done.
They need to pack the targets in bunches of 20-25 and house them at an elementary school if you want these mouthbreathers to show interest😉
I mean, they should add a version of this competition where you shoot two guns vaguely at the ceiling without looking at it, while dancing in a cow-boy outfit.
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The Olympics are happening? Oh neat.
Now that's childish
This shortened graphic doesn't even show that they got last place, smh my head
Ha that made me laugh
Im stick in a mental möbius thinking about the title of this post.
If we don’t suck enough at sucking means we don’t really suck. But at the same time not sucking enough at sucking means we suck more.
What do you expect? There are no political dissenters or uppity uyghurs in China. Not anymore.
Guess where the Olympians trained their shooting skills.
Well, you get a weapon without proving that you got the skills to use it... So, this does not surprise me.....
Hey we aim for quantity of bullets not accuracy, gotta hit as many schoolchildren as possible!
I het when they allow AR15s they will be top of the pile 😂
The difference between skillfully using a tool and using a tool as a proxy for personality
I am embarrassed.
