Yes, backyard paper target would be the main usage. Of course, it will be taken to a proper range from time to time when I take my firearms out. Some plinking in the desert, maybe. That sort of thing.

I find that I'm most attracted to the pistols that best resemble cartridge handguns. The Webley springers, the P3, and that Gamo. The Izzie 43 is awesome, but it is clearly a unique gun of the free-pistol persuasion.

I did have a chance to dry-fire the P3 the other evening. Someone had left it cocked, and the clerk merely put it back in the dislplay. I couldn't open the action, so I knew from reading on the net that it must be cocked. Soooo, I flipped the safety, played dumb, aimed against a suitable backstop(JUST in case), and PFFFFfft. NOW, I see what the nice comments on the trigger are all about.

DJP, would you say the Gamo is at least comparable to the P3/HW40? I'm guess-timating it was near a 1lb. release. Already, I could see a P3 in my future, but that Compact may also prove to be a worthy partner to it in the safe.