Effects of rifle weight and handling length on shooting performance

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-127

  Yuan, Cheng Kang ^a   Lee, Yung Hui ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aiming stability; Rifle designs; Shooting performance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; EXERCISE; FIREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT;

EID: 0031128493     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-6870(96)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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