TargetTalk

I chatted with an employee at my local gunshop/range after my Bullseye practice session yesterday. The topic of discussion centered around the lack of .22 ammo on the store's shelf. It looked like quite a bit of .38 Special, 9MM, .40S&W and .45ACP was available, however. I absolutely HATE to sta...

Isabel1130, I do agree with you; one should always keep the muzzle of their pistol pointed down range at all times. I think what that pistolsmith meant by "safety reasons" was the avoidance of an accidental discharge at an unexpected time. One of those can certainly be disconcerting to eve...

With my High Standard .22 Pistol, I always hold the trigger all the way back while using the "sling-shot" method to chamber the top round in the magazine. I was told to do this by an old time pistolsmith for safety reasons. Some will suggest that you should keep your finger off of the trig...

I also prefer to keep the bore in my pistols "wet" when I am not shooting them. Doing this really softens the accumulated shooting residue. I find that a brass brush is never needed to clean out the chamber or the bore. Simply running a dry patch down the barrel prior to shooting just real...

TShark, You have my sympathy with your obvious frustration in trying to acquire a pistol from these folks! PardiniUSA states here that, "Our aim is to ease communication between us all......" Well, perhaps something has finally happened to them for this statement to be made at this time. N...

For a new shooter, holding a pistol 1-handed at arm's length can be rather tiring in a very short amount of time. I'd like to give some advice to a new club member, but I am not sure what would be best. Does anyone have any suggestions on a training program that would be specifically helpful with re...

If an Ultradot-equipped pistol is not going to be used for an indefinite

period of time, is it safe to leave the battery in it? If not removed, is one

risking trouble (damage to the sight from a leaking battery?). Please

comment, thanks.

My Standard Model Pistol has always been very reliable until recently. For every 30 rounds fired, I get a stovepipe/smokestack. I have tried using different standard velocity ammo besides the usual CCI I normally use. This did not help. I number my magazines and the problem occurs with all of them. ...

I recently saw a Walther/Hammerli SP-20 RRS .22 caliber pistol on Larry's Guns website. I could not find any discussion about it on this forum. Does anyone have any comments, good or bad, about this pistol? And why is it called a "Walther/Hammerli"? I was always under the impression that t...

I would like to start shooting a .45 ACP in our local league with an UltraDot. I have seen some pistols with mounts that attach to the frame, while others are located on the slide. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each type? Are there any particular makes or models of each kind that you'...

I just broke my second cheap plastic staple gun.

Does anybody know where I can get a more durable one that will last longer than the two staplers I've gone through this year?

Included with my sight was an item referred to as an "Extension Tube". It is designed to thread onto the front tube of the UltraDot. Is this a sunshade for use when shooting outdoors in very bright light? It's wall thickness is really very thin. If installed, are you able to clamp a ring o...

Thank you all for your advice; some good solutions for my problem. The reason I chose to use the vertically-split rings that came with my sight? They are only 0.600" wide. Being this narrow, it is easy to avoid placing them on the sight tubes where a glass lens may also be located on the inside...

A while ago, I decided to mount a dot sight on my Ruger Mark II pistol. I attached a Weaver base to the receiver and mounted an UltraDot to it using the vertically-split, aluminum rings that came with the sight. The sight has a round front tube and a round rear tube (each 1" in diameter) that a...