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.
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.
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.
Cool.
Despite the old theories around the Weaver variants, what really matters is the grip on the gun. That is what controls both sight alignment and recoil control. About 70% of effectiveness of the position is grip. The further away you get from the grip (eg legs) the less important it is. A bit of forward lean is important, but the state of your knees is basically a red herring. Unless you are shooting 10M match, where it all matters. But if your grip is poor, you will not succeed.
Id go as high as possible to your budgets limit. The better the pistol will be.
Imo, the CP1 is far too cheap. Here you can buy it with a 100 budget iirc
Id look for a sechand Tau 7 or other matchpistol. You wont be disappointed
ATB,
yana