TargetTalk

I checked my new Hammerli frame tonight for signs of cracking and noticed that there does indeed seem to be a modification to the new frame. Where the crack occurred in the original frame there is a thin triple band in the new frame, barely visible in the ejection port cutout, that I had not noticed...

My original thought was that there are two components at play when I break the shot. One is strictly physical: you are applying a certain amount of pressure on the trigger when it breaks, and that pressure causes the trigger finger to travel rapidly through the overtravel to the stop. The greater th...

While not all three guns used exactly the same ammunition, I know for certain two use Eley Practice in .22 and I think the third one as well. In terms of .32, it was a mix of Fiocchi followed by reloads of about 1.7-1.9 gr of W231 so far as I know. I believe that in all three guns (two for sure agai...

My perception is that my subconscious mind is actually able to do quite a lot of damage to the shot after the sear releases but before the shot has left the barrel. It senses the release of the sear and reacts by a rapid muscle twitch; in a poor shot, of course -- in a good shot everything is focuse...

I'm a decent but not great shot (505-520 in .22/.32 ISSF 600) and trying to get better. Recently I've become intrigued by overtravel and plan to experiment with it, but wanted to pick some brains here, too. I'm trying to figure out how much overtravel is desirable. My theory is that the shot is ofte...

Hmm. I find the comments from PaulT vaguely disturbing. The manual with the gun makes no mention of any specific torque setting for the three screws that hold the barrel to the frame, whether .22 or .32, only cautioning to "Absolutely use all 3 screws!". No kidding. Given that I swap barre...

I'll speak of my gun; one of the others in question here is comparable in terms of use and the other considerably less. The gun has fired about 75% .22LR and 25% .32 S&W Long. The screw for the recoil buffer split in two pieces after about 1,000 rounds. The frame cracked somewhere between 5-10,0...

In all 3 cases, the guns are used to shoot both .22 and .32, with the conversion kit and swapping out of parts on the same frame. Hammerli has just this week replaced the frames, which is great, but the design has not changed so far as I can tell, hence my concern that it's just going to happen agai...

Three of us at the club where I shoot have had the frames crack on our SP20's; one of them an RRS and the other two regular SP20's. All cracked at the same spot, at the bottom front of the ejection port where the frame thins to about a millimeter or two as the cutouts for the recoil spring guides en...