TargetTalk

My daughter moved to ISSF events from shooting BR. Fortunately the knobs on German smallbore sights move in the same direction as most scopes. Even so although she could cope with a scope the move to positional shooting really got to her. In the end I did as several others have suggested and made a ...

Nice pistols the Uniques, I started pistol shooting using a club owned DES69 back in 1984 at No1 Radio School RAF Locking. The willingness to help others as shown in this thread seems very common in the world of shooting. Much more so than other sports it seems to me.

Alan

Of the three scopes you listed the second is the ONLY one I would consider. Personally I think the fine ret is perfectly OK when shooting on all black targets if you have the 1/8 MOA dot. If the lighting on a range is really that poor that you cannot see the reticle then I think you need to find a b...

By the way, even the most securely clamped barrel is likely to perform better in the shoulder than on the test rig, so a group of 13mm or even 14mm is really excellent, even though a group of 13-14mm on an actual card would put you comfortably into the 9 ring. What sort of card? The 10-ring of a 50...

The real issue that I have not seen addressed is what happens if a Stop order is given while a shooter has an AP/AR laying on the bench with the breech open but with a pellet in the chamber. You raise your arm, wait for the judge/referee to come to you, explain the situation to him/her, and do what...

I would first suggest trying to find a club that shoots AR. You might struggle to find a club with many chair bound shooters, but most clubs should be able to get you going. A club is really useful as they will be able to get you started so that you can both conform to the rules, and shoot without c...

The real issue that I have not seen addressed is what happens if a Stop order is given while a shooter has an AP/AR laying on the bench with the breech open but with a pellet in the chamber. It is virtually impossible to remove a pellet without the use of a rod, the strimmer cord is certainly not go...

Yes a Scuba type tank is a much better proposition. I did not notice a location for you, but here in the UK we can get 7 lt 300 Bar cylinders, with surface use only valve with integral gauge (so only need a five year test), for about £20 more than a pump. The dealer that I occasionally work for hard...

Sounds like you might need to have it re-sealed. If the pump is much over three or four years old, and has been used regularly, then I would consider it end of life and just replace it. The metal components of the pump wear as well as the seals, this wear basically causes the seals to very quickly f...

How about a sieve as a "go-no go" gauge. A friend came up with hat idea, but then if one was too small is would go through the go side and you'd never know, and it would be a flyer. Two sieves, one to weed out the oversize so it goes through that one. The second to weed out the undersized...

If it's anything like most of my clubs someone probably picked it up, put it somewhere safe for you and then forgot all about it. I'd just ask around.

Alan

Thanks for the information, David and robf. It's clear that I was wrong regarding removable cylinders on Euro non-10M PCPs. My experience with non-10M PCPs has been with guns that have fixed pressure containers - not removable cylinders - all manufactured more than 2 years ago. I wonder if the curr...

Bryan in the absence of a Scatt/Noptel shooting using a high magnification target scope can also help show you your hold pattern. I was loosing shots at 4 O'clock for years and years, then I tried out a target scope with 40× magnification at 100 yards. I could clearly see the hold pattern and also w...

Vince's failures sound much more like seal failure. Although annoying that is not really a big issue, very easy to get a new set of seals fitted. Many of the sporting rifles, especially the ones made in the UK, where we don't seem to have a problem with manufactures incorporating the cylinder in the...

Pippa does really well of us in the UK, and I know of a one of US junior shooters, who came over for the NSRA Junior International were considering coming back for a "holiday" to have one of Pippa's jackets done. It surprises me that there is no one in the USA offering a similar service. I...

Personally I would go for something in either 3-9× 3-12× or even 4-16× magnification range. The important thing to remember is that you need the parralax to be adjustable and for it to come down to idealy 10 yards. Most of the scopes that are used in FT/HFT shooting would be ideal as they will norma...

As far as import/export goes it might be worth checking up on policy on shipping items made from timber. From watching some of those border security type programs on TV they seem to get upset about all sorts of stuff that may otherwise be OK to ship. Australia and NZ seem to spring to mind mostly th...

David you asked about bedding the rifle. For smallbore it can make much less difference that it does with a TR rifle. The system that Anschutz uses, at least with round actions (19 series in current production) in wooden stocks works very well if you store the rifle with the torque backed off and us...

As I said in the last line of my last post, you need to check with who ever you are planning on using for shipping, in the originating country. If items are being shipped from the EU then it should really be up to the person doing the shipping to check with the available companies in their country. ...

Put them in a cardboard box and ship them. I wouldn't disassemble them at all. But unfortunately thanks to recently introduced rules on what is and is not allowed to be carried by air freight, compressed gas cylinders are prohibited items. When detected (all mail items in Europe are x rayed) your c...