TargetTalk

I had problems with floaters until I increased my water intake to near recommended levels. Problem solved. BTW, I am 71 years old.

OzzieM

From my own experience, you have the choice to change hand & eye dominance. I was a right hand shooter with right eye dominance. Advancing arthritis in my right hand required me to change to over to my left hand. Within four weeks of shooting five to six times per week I was back to my former sc...

I guess it depends on what you want, clean holes or accuracy. I disagree that you have to compromise accuracy for clean holes or vice versa. Using good quality paper targets you will get clean holes at muzzle velocities around 450 ft/s (air humidity plays a bit of a role here). Muzzle velocity on t...

The TAU 200 is very solid and dead accurate. Simple, effective mechanics, great adjustable trigger, good sights! Loading is easy, you just lay the pellet into the feeding channel, the bolt chambers the pellet when closing the bolt.

Go for the TAU 200, you will not be disappointed.

OzzieM

Air humidity also affects how clean a hole your pellets cut. Humid air demands higher muzzle velocity. Living in dry air prairie country I get clean holes with inexpensive practise targets from Cibles Canada Targets (Stock # 103T). I also think a minimum muzzle velocity of 420 ft/s is needed to achi...

I am an air pistol shooter and this is my experience: I am right handed and right eye dominant. Last year, at age 66, I had to switch to my left hand because of arthritis in my right. Within four weeks of shooting 20 to 40 shots most nights I was back to my normal score. Then an old injury in my rig...

If your pellets cut clean holes in good quality targets, then you have adequate pellet velocity for ISSF target shooting. Usually you get precise holes at about 450 ft/s.

OzzieM

Inserting a damaged pellet into the barrel possibly restores the shape of the pellet skirt if the skirt is dented outward, or make it worse if bent inward. If the damaged skirt of a pellet is bent inward the pressure of the propellent will be the same outside the rim and as inside. In this case I do...

Go to the Calgary Rifle and Pistol Club at the Steve Johnson Range - they are very welcoming, they have club pistols and they will be eager to help you with your quest. Have a look at their website: http://www.albertahandgun.ca/ By the way, I too started with pistol target shooting when I retired. G...

Radial compensator: I think it actually is a linear compensator (outlets are in line with the barrel axis). How nice of Steyr to honour TAU Brno as an industry leader - their TAU-7 target model has had this type of compensator for years, they even combined it with radial outlets. Anyway, it is good ...

We next measured my front sight distance. 1.4+ meters as I recall (long arms). Hmmm...either you are a knuckle dragger, or your recollection is faulty, or this is a typo, or this may be the explanation: Eye to front sight distance was more likely 1.04 m, rather than 1.40 m. I am 6'-4" tall wit...

Thank you, Steve. Practically all the causes of chicken finger enumerated in your post and the others definitely apply to me. While practice is not as much fun as doing the real thing, finding your real potential based on hard and smart work is in the end the most rewarding part of precision shootin...

I have my work cut out for me. Overcoming my hesitant trigger finger is important to me - it is the key to progressing further as a precision target shooter. This being my main hobby I certainly do not begrudge the time and effort involved. Your responses make me realize once more what a wonderful c...

Well into my retirement I started 10 m air pistol target shooting practice about 18 months back. I have done much reading and my monthly aggregate scores continue to improve, bit by bit. The one problem I have a hard time overcoming is my endless struggle with chicken finger. I have one pistol, a St...

Fred.Mannis wrote:
.... and p=80 psi. Don't have all psi to metric conversion handy, so won't bother with the calculation

I think this should be 80 bars/~1200 psi

OzzieM

+0.75, prescribed by an optometrist who is familiar with the needs of shooters, being one himself. He requested I bring in my pistol when I made my appointment.

Regarding my prescription I should add, distance from my aiming eye to the front sight is 1.08m/42.5" when in shooting stance.

OzzieM

Jipe[/quote] The process for Steyr cylinder is to fill the cylinder, then sligthly+shortly open the bleed screw (really a little) to let any moisture escape, by doing some air will be lost => the pressure will drop (a little because the bleed screw is only slightly+shortly opened) and then pump a co...

All my life I was right handed and right eye dominant. Over the years my right eye deteriorated to the point where vision can not be corrected, due to a 40 year old injury. To be able to continue shooting AP I changed earlier this year to aiming with my left eye by taping over my right eye lens. Wit...

Thumb pressure is the most serious problem I am trying to overcome. Any thumb pressure locks up my trigger finger!

OzzieM

I'm glad that you are a person of principle. However, you make a big assumption in implying that everyone has the same principles that you do. O, come on Fred, how do you jump to the conclusion that I imply everyone has the same principles I do? And you, Richard H - I have bought four guns online t...