CP88 competition adjustable open sights

[Indiana cajones]

Am I wasting money by spending £30-40 in a set of fully adjustable sights for a 6" CP88, enjoyed plinking with it at 10 yards but recently found out it could knock down a beer can at 25 yards just aiming 1/4" above the can. started to ponder getting a fully adjustable rear sight and blade, laser is pointless at that range (D.T's) but love the open sights shooting. Adapt gun? or buy better? advice please!!

[eredel]

Am I wasting money by spending £30-40 in a set of fully adjustable sights for a 6" CP88, enjoyed plinking with it at 10 yards but recently found out it could knock down a beer can at 25 yards just aiming 1/4" above the can. started to ponder getting a fully adjustable rear sight and blade, laser is pointless at that range (D.T's) but love the open sights shooting. Adapt gun? or buy better? advice please!!

Hi...I graduated up to the target pistols as I enjoyed shooting open sights so much...get along to a pistol club, the members will usually let you try theirs out...
Eric.

[derekm]

Learn to shoot at various ranges with the fixed sights and save the money towards a gun more suited to accuracy. The Umarex CO2 stable are good plinkers and good fun, but to refer to them as target models is a bit rich.

[cookie]

The Cp88 with adjustable sights will improve your shooting (I have them on mine) but it's still only a plinker, the next step up without spend too much money would be something along the lines of a Gamo Compact, HW40/Beeman P3 all are Single Stroke Pneumatic's and you should be able to source one on here for around £75-£100, or as suggested above carry on mastering the open sights with your CP88 and put some money away for a target pistol at a later date.

Jason

[Korium]

At 10metres my CP88 Comp would single-hole with a red-dot sight fitted, and I could hit a can up to 30 yards away if it was a still day, although the can would barely move.

If you enjoy the pistol it's worth improving the sights. The Umarex range has a reputation for poor accuracy of which poor standard sights are to blame IMO.

[Phantom Sniper]

The Umarex range has a reputation for poor accuracy of which poor standard sights are to blame IMO.

Dunno about that. I entered the UBC Co2 pistol comp with my CP99 and got a Bronze.
Given the reputation of having a bad trigger and poor sights, I found that it more than surpassed my expectations.
Now I have not been back into shooting for long and the Umarex I found handled nicely. Maybe its got poor sights and a bad trigger, but I guess I must be used to it and can shoot well with it.
Tony
Wassat old saying now? Oh yeah!"!Its a poor workman that blames his tools"
Learn to shoot with what you have, I did

[Phil G]

The Cp88 with adjustable sights will improve your shooting (I have them on mine) but it's still only a plinker, the next step up without spend too much money would be something along the lines of a Gamo Compact, HW40/Beeman P3 all are Single Stroke Pneumatic's and you should be able to source one on here for around £75-£100, or as suggested above carry on mastering the open sights with your CP88 and put some money away for a target pistol at a later date.

Jason

Wise words. Save up for something better. Grow into your pistols, seems you might have outgrown your CP88

[BigDuncs]

Intersting points made above but I see it differently. If you KNOW that pistol shooting in a serious way is for you, fair enough. However, the adjustable sights allow me to have good fun with my CP88, which I certainly don't see as a plinker although that depends on your definition of plinker.
Aiming off due to misaligned sights is no fun and my CP88 is accurate enough to make the investment in open sights worthwhile.
I also have a HW 75, probably one of the better "target" type ones and I use the CP88 a lot more. It is good fun to have a reasonably accurate pistol that can fire multiple shots as opposed to a target type single shot. As ever, depends on how you see your shooting developing. I guess a CP88 with decent sights will suit the majority of people - but not everyone.

As I said, I have both, but love my nickel and wood CP88 with silencer!!!

It's the only pistol I have that I will never sell.