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I'm getting ready for my first ever race weekend in three weeks where I'll be trail running a loop x five and with four shooting stages. Around 6 k total distance.

I have been training with CCI SV rounds (the "cheapest" that my biathlon friend said to use in training) and have shoot close to 700 rounds in my new rifle over the past two months and I get decent groupings.

I have a brick of RWS Target ammo, which is supposedly a step up from the CCI, and he said to use it for competetions.

I sighted my rifle in with the CCI and can group with rounds grouping within an inch when shooting on a block.

I am curious as to how much you often have to re-zero with a different type of ammo.

Is it usually just a few clicks up/down and right/left or is it really large changes, all things being equal on an indoor range with climate control (I know that wind, humidity, heat/cold can make changes in between days even with the same ammo).

Thanks in advance for any helpful information from your experience.

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Yle (Finnish Public Broadcasting Service) reports about the IBU statement to the Reuters from Thursday. Below is a rough translation of the Yle article.

>The International Biathlon Union has noted the new IOC (International Olympic Committee) recommendations according the Russian participation in sports, but is not going to change its own policy. The head of the Union, Olle Dahlin, told to Yle already in June that the Union is not going to change its mind about the ban of the Russians and Belarussians. The next IBU Congress, in which matters like participation rights are decided, takes place in September, but the decision makers of the IBU have repeatedly stated that the Russians will only return to international biathlon when the war ends.

>The head of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, denied that different sports would have different participation policies. However, the IBU will now follow the example of the World Athletics and will continue to exclude the Russian athletes from its' events.

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As a side note: as mentioned in the linked article, Yle inteviewed Olle Dahlin in June when he travelled to Ukraine to hand the silver medals of the 2011 WCH men's relay to the Ukrainian team. Back then, the IOC had not yet made the official decision regarding the Russian participation, but Dahlin was already sure what was going to happen. In that interview he stated:

>We have a congress decision about the ban from 2022. Since then nothing has changed, and therefore I do not see a reason to change our stance.

He also does not rule out the possibility that the IBU might protest somehow if the IOC does not respect the IBU's decision to exclude the Russians and Belarussians in case the war continues during the 2030 Winter Olympics. Dahlin did not specify, however, what the protest would mean in practice. Olle Dahlin:

>The IOC has thus far respected the independent decisions of the international federations. We are allowed to disagree on matters. We are anyway going to act as an independent federation, so it [potential protest of some sort] is possible.

The latter article can be found (in Finnish) from here: https://yle.fi/a/74-20233636

Galina Kukleva, the 1998 Olympic biathlon champion, has died at the age of 53. The press service of the Russian Biathlon Union announced the news on Tuesday, July 14. The cause of the athlete's death was not disclosed. Kukleva passed away overnight between July 13 and 14. The organization acknowledged her contribution to the development of the sport, not only in the Tyumen region but across the entire country.

source: reddit won't let me post the link but it's all over russian media

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