TargetTalk

Thank you for all the advice and the enlightening discussion. So, basically I'm not necessarily doing anything wrong and may find my optimum grip at a little higher pressure than I always thought to be "The Expert Advice". Anyway, I'm nowhere near advanced enough that I could say I have fo...

Another possibility is that when you are tightening your hand, you are also stiffening your whole arm and your wrist. This is a natural tendency and gives you a more stable platform. The trick for most people is to learn to achieve the same effect by creating a solid hold from your shoulder down to...

I have noticed my performance (group size) improves significantly when holding a pistol (standard, rapid fire, CF) "too tight". The advice seems to be generally for at most "firm but not tight grip", and in some cases, even quite weak grip is advised for light recoil pistols. Wha...

About the gangsta stance - I think it's probably just good for the rest of us if the gangsters adopt such stupidities. The same often applies to full-auto fire. It's amazingly easy to empty even a big magazine with zero hits on the target. I have to admit having done that with a FAMAE submachine gun...

How do MG2 and MG4 owners do their "detail cleaning"? So far, I'm surprised how little gunk ends up in the mechanism, but at some point, I'm sure there will be more than I want to keep. The pins holding the parts together are really tight, and feel like they are not intended to be taken ap...

My problem with the front sight focus is related to RF and especially the 4 s string. Moving fast between the targets, I find it difficult to stop at the right place on the "fuzzy blob" and all too often end up focusing on the targets just to see where they are... And there is no time to f...

I'm not an AP shooter, but have been considering buying one for quite some time. I've been wondering why the AP's are so long, while everything else is much shorter. I know, the rules allow that for the AP's while not for the others, but for me the long form factor has been a turnoff for me. I haven...

Yes, but over here, that's as important a point as whether or not [insert z-list celebrity name here] is wearing [insert cheap fashion name #1 here] or [insert cheap fashion name #2 here] this season. And it shows. In most countries, shooters and gun owners are a minority. A democracy does not ensu...

Sticking to administrative once-off costs only: ...$180 Annual costs ...$250 Sorry, just doesn't look too bad to me. At least here in Finland, the administrative costs and bureaucracy are per gun. So every time you change your gun or get a new one, it's another hundred or so euros. Which most of th...

Apart from table tennis there aren't many sports where the entry cost is below $1,000, most are a lot higher. You won't get a half decent mountain bike and all the gear for under $1k, set of golf clubs, membership etc etc. Its a spurious argument. Please note that trevorw's calculation did not incl...

I gather that in Germany when you do get a firearms permit they ask you if you would use the gun in self-defense to save your life. The correct and only acceptable answer is "no." Because if you stored the gun properly it would take you so long to get to it and get it loaded that you had ...

I also want to point out to the non-US members that we are allowed to own guns for any legal purpose. We don't have to be competitors, hunters, or members of a gun club. An important point, which I only mentioned implicitly. In Finland, we are also allowed to own guns for any legal purpose, but the...

Finland had rather reasonable firearms laws until quite recently - but things are getting worse, and fast. Actually, the latest changes were last June, and more is to come. Currently, if you want a handgun, you are in practice (although not technically by the law) required to belong to a gun club an...

Don't take this as advice, but an observation. And bear in mind that I'm not an AP shooter, but more inclined towards RF. I could adjust my MG2E RF so that the first pad of my finger would sit perpendicular to the barrel right on the trigger. But at that point, when I exert pressure on the trigger, ...

Imagine this, In the course of the 20 seconds stage of SP, one empty case jammed at the ejector port. Do you think you have enough time to pull the slide and load again. If it weren't the last round and time almost up AND the gun were something like a service pistol, easily. You'd probably have eno...

Nuckin' futz. You don't like it, don't buy it. You want a not-so-expensive entry level pistol, there are more than enough used guns around. Nobody's earning a fortune building target pistols nowadays, just look at the production numbers - you've got to be lucky to sell more than a few hundred pisto...

None of the high end competition guns are mass produced. I guess many of the cheap guns wouldn't be cheap if their production runs were the sameas those of the high end pistols. The interesting point is thw huge price increase. I don't have quite as good guesses about that. And it's not just guns. I...

I did search on this forum and learned that Ruger Mark III has same precision as Pardini SP. It only costs $500 US. Now one may say Pardini has better trigger, ok if we add mechanical trigger it would only cost extra $300 also add Grip for $200. If we are talking about what it takes to make precisi...

Good argument Mika. But I do hold that most IPSC pistols would have some compromises in the real combat role - light triggers (often well below the ISSF limits) and the ability to function in mud, dust, and water etc. Dr Jim Depends on the Division. As mentioned, Production is for pretty much unalt...

ISSF is NOT training for combat as the action events purport to be, but then "action" pistols do not bear much resemblance to combat weaponry. It is marksmanship competition, guys! Dr Jim Well, "action" pistols in IPSC, IDPA and like often do resemble combat weaponry. It's just ...