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I know that cleaning from the breech is optimal method for bore cleaning, are the bristle brushes still used for bore scrubbing say after a few hundred rounds? I'm mainly speaking of the soft copper or brass twisted wire brushes from cleaning kits. .... Or does everyone stick with patches only for ...

That being said, the real magic of the IZH was the $400 price Some areas in the frame are super thin where they could easily add more metal, way too many machining operations. Slide and breechface peen the crap out of themselves. Trigger bar should be thicker, it wears a groove in the slide, and it...

This works very well - http://www.flat5.net/trashcansnapcap.html

Here are some other approaches (from Bullseye-L site)
http://groups.google.com/group/Bullseye ... 1+snap+cap#

I might translate the new rules into portuguese, depends on agreement with national organization. Is there a version in editable format? Working on a 7mb pdf is next to impossible. Tried to convert, became a word file of 150mb. And the free programs I found are bad, tables become text boxes. Thanks...

I did something similar for a sales meeting many years ago. I found that one on one competition with an elimination ladder worked great - especially for competitive salesmen :-) Following up on David's suggestion - two shooters each shooting at 4 or 5 silhouettes of appropriate size and material (yo...

Richard H wrote: Most of these things come about in small steps, it's way easier to take people's freedom away from them in small doses, just as they do in the US, using the phrase "these are reasonable".

You're right. And it is worse for us older folks, who can remember the way things 'used to be'.

Muffo wrote:In WA you have to have it bolted/chained to the car and i think you have to apply for a permit to enter the state with them

I do feel sorry for you folks. And I give you credit for persevering. If I lived in that situation, I would likely have found another hobby.

IZH, thanks Fred! I've read that the design of the firing pin is such that dry firing without a plug in place is OK. The shape is such that the impact is between the flat portion of the firing pin and the breech face above the chamber. However, I always use a plug with mine. I really like my IZH35 ...

dam8 wrote:can you dry fire the 35m with out a plug? I've herd people say that the do, but I feel the breech face would get peened? any thoughts?

Are you eferring t the the IZH or the TOZ?

Alexander wrote:Ah - thanks for setting me straight!

I withdraw my speculation, to recycle it at a more appropriate occasion ;-).

Alexander

It is always appropriate to engage one's mind before opening ones mouth :-)

Has anybody here experimented with a (plastic, nylon, rubber) buffer piece between the front of the frame and the (rather lightweight) slide, to dampen the impact when using faster ammunition (such as e.g. Federal's "American Eagle", which is quite accurate in my gun, but causes doubling)...

Larry, thanks for the update. I'm glad that you were able to get the problem repaired, and ended up with an even better pistol, to boot :-)
With 'only' 15000 rounds through the pistol (your count), I'm sure it has a lot of life in it still.

Regards
Fred

Hmmmm... As moisure is considerably denser than air, if the bleed value is opened only enough to let a tiny amount of air leave, how much moisture will escape? In theory, as the cylinder is upside down, any moisture should run down out of the tube into the adapter/pump - or is the idea to have the ...

Since you have the gun apart, why not just replace the seal? This will let you thoroughly clean out the old grease and clean the valve and start over with fresh seals. See http://www.pilkguns.com/tenp/izh46slideshow.exe for the procedure

Papa Bear wrote:Pardini mid to late 1980's model SPE in 22LR.

Any idea what the cost of this pistol is ?

A search for SPE on the For Sale forum shows an asking price range of $700 to $1000. The ones that I am aware of have sold for $800-900. I still have mine and with luck it will outlast me :-)

Fred

Or you could trade in your Steyr for a FWB with tray/probe loading lol

Protest Time If you cannot make up your mind about putting in a protest in 10 minutes, would an extra 10 minutes make a difference? Spencer I suspect that's it's more likely it will take you that long to find and see the results. I don't know but are provisional results posted up at a pre determine...

Mass Shooter wrote:Thank you for your comments, .. another question comes to mind;
When cleaning the bore can you perform cleaning from the breach or is at from the end of the barrel only?

You should always clean from the breach. If not a rod, then a Patchworm, Otis, VFG, or some other pull through.

I'm out of ideas. Suggest you talk to Buck Parson - the Pilkington gunsmith - and ask him. You may have to send it to a gunsmith for repair.

I've 6 months and maybe 1000 rounds thru my IZZY but have recently been experiencing intermittant velosity dropoffs due to a leak at the breach. With the breach open and the compression cylinder charged it holds air fine. Once I close and lock the breech, I hear a whisper comming from under the bre...