Pistol choice

[Inspector 71]

Look at the Lov 21. You'll have £200 change from your budget.
It's a single shot CO2 pistol that is accurate and powerful enough to punch clean holes
In targets at 10M. Very accurate too.

[Phil Kennett]

Look at the Lov 21. You'll have £200 change from your budget.
It's a single shot CO2 pistol that is accurate and powerful enough to punch clean holes
In targets at 10M. Very accurate too.

Thanks not heard of that, I'll take a look

[ptdunk]

Hi,
if you're going to be using a scope then the pp700sa is hard to beat for the price, extremely accurate and very powerful. Open sights are useless on it though, so no good for 10 meter target.

I do pistol hft with open sights, so if you can find a good PCP with open sights you can use it for both.

It needs to be relatively powerful to knock down hft targets, and a 45+ shot count to make it round the course.

I use a 1983 semi-recoiless spring powered Feinwerkbau 90 (electronic trigger) for HFT and the missus uses a scoped pp700sa and we do pretty well.

Cheers,
Matt.

[Phil Kennett]

Hi,
if you're going to be using a scope then the pp700sa is hard to beat for the price, extremely accurate and very powerful. Open sights are useless on it though, so no good for 10 meter target.

I do pistol hft with open sights, so if you can find a good PCP with open sights you can use it for both.

It needs to be relatively powerful to knock down hft targets, and a 45+ shot count to make it round the course.

I use a 1983 semi-recoiless spring powered Feinwerkbau 90 (electronic trigger) for HFT and the missus uses a scoped pp700sa and we do pretty well.

Cheers,
Matt.

Thanks Matt

May I ask what scope your other half uses on the PP700sa

[ptdunk]

Thanks Matt

May I ask what scope your other half uses on the PP700sa

It’s an AGS 2x20. Not expensive but perfectly adequate.
It’s one you have to hold at full arms length to get the sight picture, as she prefers this position when shooting two handed, but they do a variety.

A lot of people fit rifle scopes to pistols for hft, then rest the pistol in the crook of their supporting arm and bring the scope right up their eye. We prefer the ‘weaver’ stance as it seems like a more natural pistol shooting stance, but each to there own.

Cheers,
Matt.

[Phil Kennett]

It’s an AGS 2x20. Not expensive but perfectly adequate.
It’s one you have to hold at full arms length to get the sight picture, as she prefers this position when shooting two handed, but they do a variety.

A lot of people fit rifle scopes to pistols for hft, then rest the pistol in the crook of their supporting arm and bring the scope right up their eye. We prefer the ‘weaver’ stance as it seems like a more natural pistol shooting stance, but each to there own.

Cheers,
Matt.

Thanks Matt that is very useful

[Geezer]

It’s an AGS 2x20. Not expensive but perfectly adequate.
It’s one you have to hold at full arms length to get the sight picture, as she prefers this position when shooting two handed, but they do a variety.

A lot of people fit rifle scopes to pistols for hft, then rest the pistol in the crook of their supporting arm and bring the scope right up their eye. We prefer the ‘weaver’ stance as it seems like a more natural pistol shooting stance, but each to there own.

Cheers,
Matt.

Try “modern isosceles”. Basically Weaver (or “modified Weaver” - Cooper used to insist on locked straight legs, which turned out not to be a great idea) from the waist down, isosceles from the waist up. Slight forward lean for recoil control - not needed on air pistols.

[ptdunk]

Try “modern isosceles”. Basically Weaver (or “modified Weaver” - Cooper used to insist on locked straight legs, which turned out not to be a great idea) from the waist down, isosceles from the waist up. Slight forward lean for recoil control - not needed on air pistols.

That's interesting....never heard of that before.
Turns out I use an upright version of the modified isosceles: almost square on but not quite, supporting arm only slightly more bent than the shooting arm, and even leaning back slighty.

I used to use a full weaver stance but found it more stable to stand slightly squarer to the target, taking a queue from 10metre where we're taught not to 'muscle' the pistol onto the target. I suppose it's all about stability and balance through the shot cycle rather than managing recoil.

Must be a modified modified isosceles!


nice one,

Matt.