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I do not know if Sandy still frequents this list so if you do please jump in here! Does anyone know why Sandy choose to turn the Walther OSP into a competitive Women's Sport Pistol in 22LR? What I am trying to find out is: 1. did he enjoy the challenge, 2. did he consider the pistol superior to other WSP choices at the time, 3. was money tight and he had to make do with what he already had? I enjoyed reading what he did but - even if you already own an OSP - it would be quite costly just to buy the GSP 32 cocking handles along with a barrel and trigger. Just curius what motivated him.

Not to mention the bolt, spring and magazines and modifying the trigger to 1360 at that time. He would also have had to move the rear or fore sight to shorten the sight radius to the regulation 220mm. A lot of work all told. Perhaps it was because of a better hand position WRT to the bore line?

BobGee wrote:Not to mention the bolt, spring and magazines and modifying the trigger to 1360 at that time.

As far as I'm aware, .22 Women's Sport Pistol has only ever been 1000g trigger.

He wouldn't have needed to change the bolt if he fitted the .32 cocking handles.

True. my mistakes. I don't know why but I was thinking of the requirements for C/F. Perhaps it was because I've been waiting to take delivery of a GSP-C from Germany since January. It's been on my mind a bit...

Sadly, Sandy passed away several years ago. Lauren AFAIK is no longer shooting competitively. However Sandy did post a good bit of information about his conversion on TT, which a patient search should be able to find.

Even though I talked with him at length about this topic and did my own conversion following his advice, I don't know exactly why he chose to do the original project. I did mine because I had a lot of the necessary parts already and I liked the concept of getting my hand higher in the grip and possibly getting more effective rake in the grip angle. However I didn't find my conversion shot significantly better for me than a standard GSP.

I'm pretty sure that Sandy's project was not about saving money. I believe he wanted the very best tool for Lauren to use as she was a very promising shooter. Many of the parts he used he had specially machined for him. For example, the stock .32 bolt weights are too heavy, so he had special weights machined to his specifications (I took a grinder to my stock parts - they don't look as good as Sandy's but they work fine). He had the front sight groove in the barrel machined a few mm further back to comply with the sight radius rule (I left mine alone, knowing I wasn't going to use it in high level competition).

Basically I believe it was a labor of love for Sandy, and Lauren shot very well indeed with the gun. For the rest of us, it's a fun conversion to do if you already have a lot of the parts, and the gun itself shoots with a soft and very slow recoil that is unique (definitely not suitable for RF).

FredB