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by jacques b gros
Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:51 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Is 300 bar necessary in ISSF 10M equipment?
Replies: 21
Views: 7038

Filtered for particulates and water, ok. But you still have oxigen, who is in the bad habit of oxidating things.

GO NITRO!!! ;-))
by jacques b gros
Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:04 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Is 300 bar necessary in ISSF 10M equipment?
Replies: 21
Views: 7038

If someone wants to go against chemistry, ok, but air is more damaging, at the same conditions (pressure ant temperature) then Nitrogen. Remenber that oxidation is what screws up most of things. And compressed air is 80% nitro plus some 16% oxi plus whatever is mixed in the atmosphere, including pol...
by jacques b gros
Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:14 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: P240
Replies: 9
Views: 1920

An ex team-mate of mine was shooting one reasonably successfully in the early 1990s. Even he admitted that there were more forgiving guns, and things have moved on since then. If you shoot a good shot it will reward you with a good score. If you shoot a bad shot it will punish you more than other, ...
by jacques b gros
Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:57 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Is 300 bar necessary in ISSF 10M equipment?
Replies: 21
Views: 7038

Should not post anything when sleepy. Take Hydrogen out, put Nitrogen.

Sorry.
by jacques b gros
Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:44 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Is 300 bar necessary in ISSF 10M equipment?
Replies: 21
Views: 7038

Since it's easy to get Hydrogen tanks at 350 bar (actually available up to 700 bar), I've been using that. then I tape a light under the front diffuser and POP! It makes a great noise every time I shoot! Sounds like a real gun going off. Much more manly. Did you know you can get 8000 shots out of a...
by jacques b gros
Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:01 am
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Hammerli 230 short
Replies: 8
Views: 4659

Had one in the 70's. It was worked on by Terry Anderson, cutting the trigger guard and straitening and elongating the trigger blade, plus polishing sear. Never seen such a wonderfull trigger. Pistol was great for 8 and 6 seconds shooting, with centered tens. But 4 secs was a impossibility. Even with...
by jacques b gros
Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:57 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Possible to buy LP10E in Vienna, Austria?
Replies: 6
Views: 1728

From what we have seen from here, you'll spend more buying anything in Europa. The sales tax can reach 30%. My brother flies executive jets to Europe and US, and prices, even for European products, are usually lower in the US. A good example are pellets: with all the freight costs, it is cheaper to ...
by jacques b gros
Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:01 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: 2016 Rio
Replies: 12
Views: 2742

The Brazilian range by a...Brazilian

The range was turnned over to the shooting NGB days before the Pan American games. Seems it is very similar to the range in Sidney, Australia. Plenty of problems, since they forgot to talk to someone who shot something other then dice. Just a sample: in the 50m range, at the firing line floor, every...
by jacques b gros
Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:26 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Compressed Air refil tank
Replies: 7
Views: 1510

If you are a member of a shooting club, convince them to rent / buy a 50 liters nitrogen bottle at 200 bar. We did that in our club and the results are fine. The only problem we found was that a lot of gas was wasted when the pistol cylinder was removed, the adaptor was long and fat. After filling t...
by jacques b gros
Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:45 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Range Etiquette
Replies: 20
Views: 8213

ISSF rules say "leave equipment in shooting post" until officer declares match over. Then you pick up your's stuff. I really wish I could find that rule. The closest I can get is 6.2.2.3 "To ensure safety, all guns must be handled with maximum care at all times. The gun must not be r...
by jacques b gros
Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:38 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Range Etiquette
Replies: 20
Views: 8213

ISSF rules say "leave equipment in shooting post" until officer declares match over. Then you pick up your's stuff.

But bad manners is the consequence of the "politicaly correct" atittude: give the bloke a second chance and, for sure, he'll do it again...
by jacques b gros
Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:04 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: steyr gripsizes, 5.5=L?
Replies: 7
Views: 1582

Be warned: grip sizes vary with the wind. I have a 5 and a M that feel the same, had two larges (one in a FWB P44, one in the LP@). The FWB was a lot bigger than the LP's, the biggest grip I've ever seen, both new and made by Morini. The FWB was delivered wrong by the importer (Beeman's?), who had n...
by jacques b gros
Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:07 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Difference Between RWS Basic, Club, and Hobby 0.177 Pellets
Replies: 29
Views: 19345

Last week someone had a chronographer set up in my club, so I shot some Gamo Match: variations from 380 to 405 fps. Then some RWS R10. Higher speed, all the ten shots had the same speed (maybe 390 some, don't remember exactly.) will set up a vise and the chronograph (if the owner agrees, that is) an...
by jacques b gros
Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:07 am
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: pellet supplier
Replies: 4
Views: 1353

Thank you!

There is some ohter shop with more or less the same name, but is not in Ohio.

Anyway, you sent me in the correct direction. Order is placed.
by jacques b gros
Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:43 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: pellet supplier
Replies: 4
Views: 1353

pellet supplier

Sometime last year I bought pellets from a store in Ohio, but since Mr. Gates products are not infallible, had to re-install and lost a bunch of contacts and favorites. Anybody knows the name of the place? This shop was fast and fair priced, but any other that is near to Teterboro, NJ, would solve m...
by jacques b gros
Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:41 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: presecription drugs - who'da thought!
Replies: 17
Views: 3413

The car sickness was also keeping me from eating before I went to a match and I am sure that affected my shooting also. Isabel. When my father took me flying in his small plane, when I was 12 or so, the first mandament was "have a good breakfast". If you experience motion sickness under n...
by jacques b gros
Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:09 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Any proof that water in air cylinder is bad?
Replies: 20
Views: 3788

Rob, At least this part, " Also compressed air requires no treatment, other than drying, so is cheaper and far easier to get than N2." is not true everywhere. I live in a city some 300 mi from the nearest decent diving spot. The is one dive shop in town, plus a friend who is a professional...
by jacques b gros
Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:07 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Any proof that water in air cylinder is bad?
Replies: 20
Views: 3788

The compressed air is (more or less) 80% Nitro, 17.8 Ox and the rest is...the rest. Moisture included.

Doubt that this would make any appreciable difference, specially since N is an inert gas.

Might be better...
by jacques b gros
Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:24 pm
Forum: Olympic Pistol
Topic: Any proof that water in air cylinder is bad?
Replies: 20
Views: 3788

Solved the problem in our club: rented a bottle of 50 liters of Nitrogen at 200 bar. Cheapest gas (is the first that comes out of the air, since is ~80% of it), cheaper that breathable air, 99.9999% pure and moisture very near absolute zero. Besides, does not reacts with any substance. I'm no chemis...
by jacques b gros
Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:17 pm
Forum: Shooters Lounge
Topic: Scatt info for those that dont have one
Replies: 87
Views: 20246

David, Understand that they botched it, offering the soft free. They should have a limited access version, and upon payment they would supply a password to liberate full access. I really think that the development of the soft cost a lot more than the development and fabrication costs of the harware....