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® Preface Page 2 News 1 / 2008 Dear Readers, It has now been roughly six months since I took over as Chief of Engineering for all the engineering work done at WALTHER. As a former ordnance engineering officer and enthusiastic sports shooter I am not new to the firearms industry. Moreover, I can draw on several years of career experience in various executive functions in serial manufacturing at a major automotive supplier. Even if our weapons in terms of quantities do not really compare with the serial production figures of the automotive industry, there are still a number of things worth transferring. And the goal of all this is to make our firearms just that little bit better and by means of innovations -such as the Anatomic stock- to help shooters improve their performance. We are working intensively on new products, but also on new production processes and have planned a number of surprises, both big and small, for the near future. Perhaps reading the NEWS will shorten somewhat the waiting time until the next big surprise. I wish you an enjoyable read, Jörg Schmid Chief of Engineering Sergy Rikhter - Israel More successful than ever Mathew Emmons had no doubt expected it, but believing in it was not quite so appropriate. He was a participant at this year‘s International Air Gun Competition in Munich which for many years has been organized by the Bavarian Association of Sports Shooters (BSSB) and over the years has become the pre-season indicator of the international sports shooting scene. For this event gives shooters the opportunity to show what sort of performance levels are possible in air gun disciplines. Emmons, the winner at the Olympics in Athens who failed to achieve the double Olympic victory due to a mishap, shot a score of 597 points here in the men‘s qualifying round with an air rifle. Super! But not enough to reach the final of the best 8. He could only watch how the others with the same number of points moved on to the finals and thus to the chance of stepping up onto one of the podium‘s levels. Among the women, 11 starters suffered the same fate although they scored an impressive 397 points. They also lost the chance to catch up by another point or two in the finals to the leaders who also nearly shot perfect scores at the event. There is no other competition in the world at this level of performance. No World Cup or International Championship is anywhere near like it. They may have good individual scores, but never this many of them. These extreme results were only made possible under the conditions of aboveaverage skills developed by the hard work of the shooters and the perfect materials provided by the outfitters. That is why we as manufacturers see such events not only as interesting sports competitions but also as yardsticks. We analyze these competitions Henry Junghänel - Germany from this second perspective by asking questions such as: “What is possible?”, “Where do we stand?”, or “What must be improved?”. Our conclusion afterwards: “WALTHER shooters” not only keep up with the level of performance, they determine to a large extent the course of the finals. It is difficult to briefly summarize the events at the 2008 competition in Munich but we will have a go at it: The young Sergy Rikhter from Israel made his first international appearance with his WALTHER LG300XT in the air rifle competition for junior men and won the first competition (of 2) with a score of 595. In the final, this outcome was nearly too close to believe. Because with 100.6 points in the final Rikhter was just able to hold onto his two point lead ahead of the competition. The “hunters” down to fifth place were all within 0.9 points of his top score. Among them Henry Junghänel, who took third place with 593 and 102.3 points. But the German wanted to stand on the top level of the podium and was able to do that after the second match with 596 points. Great performances by the juniors! Both shot an LG300XT Alutec. Sergy Rikhter has only used it for a couple of months, Henry for a couple of years. What’s more, the chance that a junior would win both matches with a WALTHER air rifle was fairly good in both stages. After the first match, four LG300s were in the final and, in the second, there were altogether five. A reminder: The final round only includes the eight best shooters emerging from the qualification round. But among the women Juniors as well one shooter from Finland showed that she did not become European Champion in Granada last year by accident. Tiia Törmälä repeated her 399 points she already scored in early January at the IWC Sweden and easily won the junior women’s competition. Her score of 500.9 at the end of the final would have good enough for a third place ranking Tiia Törmälä - Finland in the women’s event, and not because they had shot so poorly. Tiia switched to the LG300XT Carbontec just three months ago! Here too, there were three WALTHER shooters in each final, a good percentage from our perspective as well. The final rounds for the men revealed a similar situation. After the first match, four WALTHER shooters entered the final round. The Russian Denis Sokolov, overall world cup winner in 2006, also won against the Indian Gagan Narang. For the second round, three shooters managed the difficult task of qualifying for the final round with our weapons. The Austrian Mario Knögler, once again Denis Sokolov and also Peter Sidi from Hungary, who with 597 and 599 points handled his Carbontec in both starts extremely well. No shooter at the event displayed similar self-assurance. By comparison, among the women, our participants in the finals, each making up 25% of the field, was not so outstanding. But, honestly, four or five years ago we would have been very happy with that. But we believe that we will also see more women qualifying for finals in the future as well. It was great for us to note: A few also appeared with the latest variant of the LG300XT, the Anatomic. And although these shooters were not in the final round in Munich, they praised the weapon to us during face-to-fact discussions at the service stand. The general tenor of the shooters’ feedback: The Anatomic stock combines the advantages of the system’s wood frame with the advantages of an adjustable aluminum or carbon stock. Besides, it Denis Sokolov - Russia Gagan Narang - India Mario Knögler - Austria Peter Sidi - Hungary
was kept very short, when extremely set shorter than our current junior stock. This is something pros appreciate, especially women and many of the top men’s shooters ordered the new innovation immediately on site. So we seem to have hit a nerve once again as we did two years ago with the carbon stock. Many wood stock shooters who to date have hesitated to try out new weapons since most of them were not very innovative in relation to the wood stock, are now thinking about giving it a go after having seen the Anatomic. So they still have a wood stock, with all the advantages they expect from it and the additional options of the many possible adjustments. And the 300erXT system in it is certainly well established and well above any doubts. So we left the International World Cup in Munich with generally positive results. But we also recognize potential for improvements which we also want to exploit. Despite the results achieved in Munich and the status of our top air rifles among shooters, what counts is not to lose ground. There is no reason that should happen. For the moment, at least, we were still pleased. Besides, anyone who buys an LG300XT, no matter what the stock, purchases the same “machine”. The LG300XT differs in its many variations LG300XT Protouch only in the stock and in the complete sight system which is always included in the package. For example, the gun club shooter shoots with the LG300XT Universal the identically designed system (trigger, absorber, pressure reducer, breech, etc.), such as for example Mr. Sidi. Not a slimmed down version! That all LG300s are supplied with a solid gun case has been accepted standard for us now for at least a decade. The accessories which are supplied with the gun are so complete that when the package is opened on the target range nothing is missing. You only have to fill and you are ready to shoot. Some people will even be surprised by what is already included to try out (weights, sights, etc.) beyond what involves normal shooting. Have a look into the big WALTHER gun case! Besides the development of the LG300XT Carbontec Anatomic we have also redesigned our Alutec. For example, the cheek-adjuster comes from the Carbontec, the stock’s back-end was also shortened, and the fore-end was modified and completely re-styled. This produced the LG300XT Protouch with its anti-slip coating, a LG300XT Universal centra „Block Club“ included at Protouch and Anatomic LG300XT Anatomic real eye-catcher. Both new air rifle variants are also fitted as a standard with an included centra sight elevation. With the “Block Club” you can not only elevate the line of sight to various levels, you can also adjust it laterally for windage. Thus, we now offer 7 variants of the LG300XT for standing, free-hand shooting in our catalog. These do not include the nonstandard models which are repeatedly offered and the special models for bench shooting. This ought to provide something to meet any requirements. But we will no doubt come up with something else as well. Anatomic-Shooters at IWK Munich Regina Time - Austria Marica Masina - Italy Sybille Bregenzer - Italy Christian Planer - Austria Dick Boschman - Netherland Marco de Nicolo - Italy Meelis Kiisk - Estonia ® News 1 / 2008 A bit of recent history... In sports shooting something has become possible which has been around in professional soccer for some time: a sports facility has been given a company name, the WALTHER Arena. Since November 24th, 2007, that is the new name of what used to be called the „Sports Shooting Center“ in Berlin-Altglienicke. The current arena is the home of the five-time national league champions, the Adlerhofer Füchsen, whose members include the famous shooters Uwe Potteck and Gernot Eder. About six months prior to this, PSV Olympia Berlin gun club and the Berlin City Council started talks about the name of the newly constructed complex. Since PSV Olympia Berlin in its club history was always able to rely on the support of WALTHER’s top management the club’s members wasted little time wondering what the name should be. The club approached the Carl WALTHER company’s management in Ulm with the suggestion that the new modern shooting range be called the “WALTHER Arena”. For the upcoming German Championship in Munich in August 2007, the continued co-operation, raised to a new level, was agreed was a hand-shake. Then the preparation began for a day celebrating the new name. Those present quickly agreed to hold the event at the same time as the national league home match of the Adlershofer Füchse. So the celebration on November 24th, 2007 was a complete success. Not only did the LP team win the home match, the subsequent unveiling of the impressive new lettering on the building, designed by Mike Hecker, deeply impressed all those present. Sponsored by the municipal committee responsible for sports in the district of Treptow-Köpenick, Mr. Simdorn, and many other guests, this new chapter in the still short history of this shooting sports facility was opened accompanied by sparkling wine. As indicated above, WALTHER has cultivated good contacts with PSV Olympia Berlin for many years now. A great deal of support was provided by the Ulm based company in terms of material and service, especially for attracting younger shooters to the sport, which is one focus of the club’s activity. This is the club’s way of returning the favor. That we continue to assure PSV Olympia of our support is clear and that we are very pleased about this gesture certainly needs no special emphasis on our part. ® Arena Page 3
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