{"id":1122,"date":"2024-10-28T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T00:36:13","slug":"target-shooting-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Target Shooting discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Exsight introduced the sport of acoustic target shooting to the Illawarra in 2015. For several years, Exsight developed the sport and negotiated the rules with the NSW Firearms Registry. In 2023 we had to abandon this work as we ran out of resources to run it.&nbsp; However it has been a blessing to numerous vision impaired shooters who have continued on with other clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acoustic target shooting uses cameras and sound to replace vision to allow a vision impaired shooter to aim a rifle.&nbsp; The system uses a special scope that provides a variable pitch sound through headphones to guide the shooters\u2019 aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-912\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Rhonda shooting Bench Rest at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Cecil Park NSW using Electronic targets. A VIASS Pro Acoustic Scope is mounted on her personal indoor target shooting air rifle.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-913\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot2-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot2-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot2.png 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Terry using the Kedok Acoustic Scope and Exsight club Weihrauch air rifle, with down range lighting system and Spring Stand, using Paper targets at the Schuetzenklub, Albion Park NSW<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Exsight VI shooters competed annually in the Home Range Cup (HRC),&nbsp; an international postal target shooting competition involving European and USA blind or vision impaired target shooters.&nbsp; Seven of Exsight\u2019s VI shooters competed regularly in the HRC and their results were impressive.&nbsp; Rhonda won her division in 2020 and Steven, Peter, Rhonda and Sarah were well placed&nbsp; in the 2021 competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-914\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot3-255x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot3-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot3-871x1024.png 871w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot3-768x903.png 768w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shoot3.png 941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 85vw, 255px\" \/><figcaption>60 practise shots by Steven using the VIASS Pro Acoustic Scope mounted on a 177 cal. BSA Gold Star SE air rifle shooting at International Shooting Sport Federation approved paper rifle targets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vision Impaired acoustic target shooting is now a World Shooting Para Sport and a Paralympic sanctioned event and is likely to be included in the 1928 Paralympic Games with World Championships held annually at various cities throughout the world including Sydney, Australia in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exsight introduced the sport of acoustic target shooting to the Illawarra in 2015. For several years, Exsight developed the sport and negotiated the rules with the NSW Firearms Registry. In 2023 we had to abandon this work as we ran out of resources to run it.&nbsp; However it has been a blessing to numerous vision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/?p=1122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Target Shooting discontinued&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}