Longest range for Pistols?

[Biker_Bob]

What's the longest range you shoot your pistol?
I go out to 25 or 30yds for 1" spinners - hard but very satisfying.
Has anyone tried long range pistol shooting off a bean bag?

[radiofan]

50 yards, big targets though.

[peteswright]

What's the longest range you shoot your pistol?
I go out to 25 or 30yds for 1" spinners - hard but very satisfying.
Has anyone tried long range pistol shooting off a bean bag?

I wouldn't be able to see the 1" target at those ranges!!! At 20ft my smallest spinner (3/4") is pretty much blocked out by my front post if held over it, so I use that as my distance. After that I might as well just go to the bin and pour the tin of pellets in and save myself a lot of trouble! This is one handed pistol. I don't use two hands much. ATB. Pete.

[Biker_Bob]

Ahh well, I allow myself two hands at long ranges.
I find the fibre optic sights on the HW40 really help, I use a bent elbow stance to deliberately blur the front and rear sights and the glowing front bead sort of hovers below the target.

[Bjacobs571]

The pistol I just bought was designed to be shot one handed at 50M. The bull is about 50mm and the 9 ring is about 100 mm. Not even top shooters will hold the 10 ring and I have seen them drop to as low as a 8 in some finals.

I wouldn't put my self in that class but I managed a 89 last night with about 4 10's on a scaled target at 20 yards

[ZaksGod]

with my hw 45 i would shoot 50y and hit a bell target that was about the size of a clenched fist 3-4 times out of ten shots,never really practised enough with that gun though.soon replaced it with a diana lp8 magnum that was more accurate

[tinbum]

We were shooting at a lasered 157 yards today with the 45!

Ok, so the target was a branch sticking out of a pond and it required us to pick an aim point on a tree halfway up a distant hill to get close, but it provided a good afternoons fun and we hit it quite a few times...

[TonyL]

We were shooting at a lasered 157 yards today with the 45!
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Don't let Mick see this, Tinny. Otherwise he'll be placing the Quigley for the pistols at the same 75 yards as he did for rifles last year!!!

Good shooting boy!!!!!

[Hangtight]

Alecto, red dot sight, bottom of tin cans at about 60 metres I need two hands and a post to lean against, but on a good day I can manage about 7 or 8 out of 10. Good fun!