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Walther added a nice laminated grip, a slide hold-open button to the right side of the slide and improved the finish generally. I've seen one with an enormous 'bump' added to the trigger bar / disconnector, so it was displaced massively downwards when the slide was out of battery. It looked like a f...

Nice one!

Do you think peening of the bolt face or the breech face (or both) was the major contributor to the problem?

Dino, you do realise the KSP is a tarted-up IZH-35, don't you? Walther bought the basic pistol from the Russians and 'improved' it. Loads about the IZH in this forum. Apologies if you know this already.

96 is later. Magazine inserts from the top, like a FAS. Beautiful!

lightguy - I posted a URL for manuals earlier in this thread...

Haven't checked that it still works, though.

Search for other threads on this topic - it comes up regularly.

If you want peerless quality, buy it!

Pat McCoy wrote: Wrapping the barrel with carbon fiber will have a damping effect, however you will still have vibrational nodes. Barrel tuners, as well as handloading for highpower rifles, try to make bullet exit at one of the nodes. I thought the idea was to have the bullet exit with the muzzle at...

...perhaps I'm lucky with contacts. The soft, one-day ones I find extremely comfortable. I'm too lazy to use them for everyday use, finding it easier to whip different pairs of spectacles on and off (and losing the ones I really want! The joys of advanced years...). However, I find it no problem to ...

Hi Martin, Yes, all elements in the system should be aligned. On aim, the sights will be aligned with your eye's functioning optical centre, whether rifle or pistol. The correcting lens should be placed so that one looks through its centre. The centring device is effectively a narrow tube, projectin...

To 'visitor'... The alignment devices ensure that the optical centre of the lens is aligned with that of the eye, which is what is required. It achieves that by requiring you to adjust the lens until you can see down the narrow central 'tunnel'. It is very sensitive - much more so than what you sugg...

Knobloch supply a lens centring device. Essential.

Rover said: I have NEVER heard of a commercial HBWC in .355 diameter. They are out there: http://www.hn-sport.de/produkte/geschosse/kurzwaffen-geschosse/38357.html and, I would imagine, of peerless quality. However, the miserable folk at H&N didn't want to supply less than a pallet-load to NZ, s...

John, I can't get your links to work.

I think there's a lot of us...

Maybe it's something to do with an irresistible urge to 'rescue' obsolete stuff (cheap!) for which spares aren't available. So it's off to the workshop to make the parts.

C'mon, Spencer, surely YOU know the answer to my question!

Has the P240 barrel 'problem' been rather over-stated? I thought it was just one brand of factory HBWC ammo that suffered skirt separation, causing bulging. Is it worse than that, with several brands of projectiles giving problems? It is a ridiculously thin-walled barrel, isn't it?

Well, I wouldn't expect any sense from over the ditch! Actually, it's an overdose of laziness, rather than a lack of adventurous spirit that's to blame. Too many guns in bits, awaiting repair or modification...

Rob wrote: The depth of field has been done to death many times, suffice to say the only situation I could see it of any benfit is to someone who really cannot see a black blob that is the target. But you really need to be careful not to overdo the iris and make everything sharp. It looks 'very nice...

There's a lot of conflicting opinion out there about the purpose and use of the variable iris. So I'll just stir up the already-muddied waters... Everyone knows that your pupil diameter increases in low light, to let enough light into the eye for the photo-receptors in the retina to work well enough...

As long as it works for you, put it where you like. However, if you end up constricting your field of view too much (because you need a tiny aperture to produce the desired depth of focus), just be aware that the edges of the field of view will be fuzzy and distorted because of the diffraction effec...

The iris should be as close to the eye as practicable, otherwise the field of view would be too small.