TargetTalk

I'll stick my neck out - and maybe get it chopped off - and suggest as a place to start, purely in terms of equipment (not how to shoot), subject to what you are told locally of course (I am several thousand miles away): 1. an Anschutz 1800 series rifle, preferably one without the sloping fore end e...

Thank you very much Tim. It is not very common in Spain sotck customized. I´ve sent an email to Robert with my question. I hope you have better luck with his e-mail system than I did quite recently. I asked him a gunsmith question and never got a reply. Probably just a glitch. I have met him and he...

Well I never! I have just had another go with the bad rifle and amazingly it ejected almost faultlessly with a spent case. All I had done was to scratch briefly with a decent small screwdriver at the top of the groove for the ejector, more in annoyance than a serious attempt to remove any invisible ...

Tim, Thank you for your usual very knowledgeable and helpful reply. I don't know what posters on this forum would do without you. Right, so we can rule out head space but rule in the spring and the claw itself. Hope it isn't the latter as I think it runs to tens of pounds sterling, presumably becaus...

I wonder if anyone can help? One of my Anschutz 1800s has started to play up and intermittently refuses to eject a spent case. This is ruinous when shooting a match card as I have to fiddle around with a small screw driver to get the case out, losing my position, and getting all hot and bothered. Th...

There is some confirmation of the view that Eley are using a lot of ground glass in their patented primers (since the 1990s) at www.chuckhawks.com>quest_22_ammo, which I discovered under the same Google reference that I cited in my post of yesterday. If you read the article's sixth paragraph, I thin...

I wont disagree with whats been said... Eric was correct with ammo being abrasive. Its the powdered glass in the priming compound, It falls t the bottom of the barrel, you will notice a scratching with a bore scope at six o'clock after as few as a couple brinks of ammo.. Best to run one loose patch...

From one 73 year old to another, congratulations, Gunther, on those cards.

Just one question: why would 7Nm be advisable on what is, I take it, a wooden stock? I have not seen anything beyond 6 Nm recommended or practised even for aluminium stocks.

No one else has replied, so, out of courtesy, I will, even though I must admit that I have no direct experience of this rifle. The KK500 has attracted excellent reviews, to the extent that I have been tempted myself, despite knowing that at my age and level of skill it would probably not improve my ...

I have had one of these. It was better than one of the totally rigid Anschutz butt hooks that preceded it, but I thought that it still did not adapt fully to the shoulder. Also I believe that the armadillo bit is made of somewhat brittle metal. I much prefer my Gemini butt hook, which I think is pro...

First, I would like to offer every sympathy to you because I have been told that I have the beginnings of cataracts. The condition is only to be expected with age but it is still a dreadful affliction, especially for us target rifle shooters. Second, for what it may be worth, I would caution against...

You're lucky to have any instructions at all. I have never found any with the Centra and Gehmann products that I have bought. More seriously, there must be plenty of translation sites available, though it may be a slow business to type in those German compound nouns.

If you want help focusing on the front sight, the solution is to use a mild diopter of +0.50 diopters above any distance vision correction you need. Reading glasses are a similar concept, but much too strong. Thank you. Since I currently have a 0.5 eagle eye on the foresight, which I find very help...

I use a Centra Level II on a Centra Duo Glass foresight with the optional horizontal hairs removed. I also have a variable duplex on a Spy rear sight. I found the horizontal hairs added nothing at longer than 25 yds whilst the level works well at any distance. The internal level doesn't mess up the...

Mark (forgive me if I have your name wrong) Thank you again. Good points, I would say. 2mm bars are quite thick, I agree, and could indeed affect the accuracy of how one sees the light around the bull. I am experimenting also with a Duplex, if you know that device, in the rearsight. A level on top o...

I'm no expert, but my advice would be: try it and see what happens! Everyone is a little different, and although it seems like the concentric-circles of a more traditional sight would be better for round targets, you never know. marky-d Mark, Thank you. Perhaps I should have explained that the Gehm...

I'm thinking of trying a foresight with cross hairs, partly to get rid of the bubble level that I have long used, partly to improve my focus. Would anyone with experience of such a sight recommend it or advise against it? The one I have in mind is the Gehmann 528.

Tim,

Many thanks as usual. Very helpful.

I am now going to look out an extension tube I made some time ago.

Roger

Just a few things to consider, if you're thinking about adding a sight extension tube: Increasing your sight radius, will make your rear sight clicks finer - if you're shooting a 1/4 minute sight, you can go down to a 1/5 minute (or more). If you increase the length enough, you can also change your...

Shooterer: that's encouraging - thank you.

Tim: that is also encouraging information - thank you. Yes, good point about nerves!

Roger