Tatsuya Sakai is a Japanese
sport shooter
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...
who won the 2004
Steel Challenge World Championship in
Piru, California
Piru () is a small unincorporated historic town located in eastern Ventura County, California, in the Santa Clara River Valley near the Santa Clara River and Highway 126, about east of Fillmore and about west of Interstate 5. Lake Piru, ...
. Since
handguns
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cannot be
legally
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obtained by civilians in Japan, he trained at home using an
airsoft
Airsoft, also known as survival game () in Japan where it was popular, is a team sport, team-based shooting sport, shooting game in which participants eliminate opposing players out of play by shooting them with airsoft pellets, spherical plast ...
pistol. A month before the championship he went to California to train with a real gun,
Effective pistol training alternatives. , Make Ready!
/ref> and placed first 0.59 seconds before KC Eusebio
KC Eusebio is an IPSC/ USPSA and Steel Challenge action shooting
Practical shooting, also known as dynamic shooting or action shooting, is a set of shooting sports in which the competitors try to unite the three principles of precision, power ...
.
References
Living people
IPSC shooters
Japanese male sport shooters
Year of birth missing (living people)
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