TargetTalk

I've been ruminating on my 22 target gun. I have a High Standard that shoots about 5/8" 10 shot groups out of a rest at 25yd, and I am just breaking into expert scores with it. My slowfire targets today were mediocre, around 80/100. The gun has the thumb rest on the left grip, and I'm wondering...

I've become a big fan of eezox and it's very thin. It's a do everything oil and solvent. Smells funny. I'm trying the MPro7 line now and I like it. Does a better job cleaning, because there is a separate cleaner and lube/protectant. I avoid non gun products on guns, but not for any good reason. Supe...

I just moved away from PHX. I belonged at Rio Salado. They have a bullseye league monday night, and they were working on getting turning targets. This was shot at 25yds with reduced slowfire targets. They could run out to 50yds, but the lights weren't great at that range. Very friendly group of shoo...

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I blew the back off of a round of t22 before tonight's bullseye match. Shot in a high standard. Got a face full of powder, the round hit the 8 ring at 3:00 (25yd target). The base was stuck between bolt and barrel and the case ejected and the next round fed without a problem. Somehow I found the blo...

It has always been too waxy for my gun. I use 711b instead.

J.

So, I avoided the black Friday mess at the mall by driving out to my local gunsmith and dropping off the Springfield. Actually he's no longer local because I moved out of state, but that's neither here nor there. He looked at the pistol, and we went over what it needs and what it doesn't. We'll have...

So, it's finally time for me to be done with my horribly unreliable and frustrating Springfield MilSpec and get it turned into a proper bullseye gun. I prefer to shoot irons, and so I'm really liking the Clark hardball package, but they quote a 12 month turnaround. I have a local smith (actually loc...

There's feeding reliability and priming reliability. I have a supermatic citation. Mine doesn't like really waxy bullet lubes, maybe the springs are getting soft. These feed well, but have lots of duds (3-5%): Remington target, Federal auto match These feed OK and have fewer duds (1-2%): Win T22 (th...

I generally shoot sharpshooter lately but my classification card is still marksman. The problem is that the league I shoot in doesn't submit scores to the NRA, so until I shoot a sanctioned match or three AND make the higher class with my average scores, I'm stuck with a marksman card. If these guys...

I dropped the mag from my high standard today and the base plate shattered. It's a Hamden vintage mad with a hybrid base...the bottom of the mag is a steel plate and the red plastic piece sticks into it with two posts. Any idea where I could get one of these? Anybody have a broken mag with one of th...

Here's some general info: www.highstandard.org I have a Hamden supermatic citation 7.5" that I shoot every week at bullseye league. I really like it. I probably wouldn't like it as much if it wasn't reliable. From what I have heard, they either work well or they don't, and the older ones work r...

Ended up with a Smith and Wesson Combat Magnum on a sort of long-term loan (don't worry, everything is on the level). As long as its owner lives in places where he isn't allowed to have it, I have a (the) classic .357 magnum. I may have found a down-side to the Heller decision. It's somwhere in the ...

I was thinking that my original post might seem too off-topic, so I wanted to clarify.

I'm wondering what would currently approximate an old-school bullseye revolver, although I don't feel like spending a ton on making it competetive against a modern wad gun.

Thanks.

-J.

This might be a little tangential, but in my newly acquired pile of reloading gear, I have 2 cigar boxes full of nickel plated .38 spl brass, about 1000 lubed semi-wadcutters, and 1000 small pistol primers. I have no gun to use any of these in. Basically I can shoot .38 for a year or two for the pri...

Funny that this thread should bubble back up to the top. We got everything set up this week and I reloaded my first batch of .45 ACP. I'll have to head to the range and see if they all go bang, since we used some 10-15 year old primers. The only new stuff we needed to buy was a .45 die set (my broth...

I think the way the math works for why 2" + 6" = not 8" is that to get 8" right of center you'd have to simultaneously have the shooter holding all the way right in his wobble on a shot that the gun was going to throw all the way to the right as well, and that this isn't likely t...

Oh, and I get the sense that when we talk about "bullseye accuracy" we're talking as much about how easy the round is to shoot accurately as we are about how straight it flies.

I think it's starting to make sense.

-J.

I'm still confused. Tell me if I'm getting this right... The .38 special and 9mm are usually loaded to a lower velocity than the .38 super. Therefore it's easier to make an even lighter target load for them that will still cycle the action. Is that the idea? Even though the .38 super case is halfway...

I'm new to the sport, and I've seen .45, .38 special, and maybe a .32 being shot bullseye. It looks like several 1911 manufacturers have .38 super models that would be as easy to set up for bullseye as any other 1911. So, does anybody shoot .38 Super? Is there a reason for not shooting it, or is it ...