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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Interpreting Targets — Rings of 9s
- Replies: 17
- Views: 660
Re: Interpreting Targets — Rings of 9s
If your rear sight is to narrow it can cause "hunting" and inability to get everything in alignment as you need that light coming through the sights to be able to work the relationship front to back try opening them up to give more light to see. The advice about grip pressure is spot on bu...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:48 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Laser Pistols?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 239
Re: Laser Pistols?
Yes they have but the target systems are like hens teeth at the moment if you want to try one out, funny you should bring this up as we have a Pentathlon athlete that has just joined our club to convert to shooting air on our electronic targets so there is some movement between the two. She is findi...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:29 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Electronic Target for home use?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1134
Re: Electronic Target for home use?
Or just buy the electronics and make the "box" yourself from offcuts of wood, the whole cost then comes down massively for you, and making the structure yourself is about at the practical skill level I would expect from my year 9 secondary school students (13-14 years old) using hand tools...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Pellet Weight for Steyr Velocity Adjustment?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 563
Re: Pellet Weight for Steyr Velocity Adjustment?
Set the velocity using 7.0gr pellets this is the std pellet used, use a nice one R10 or better, and set the stabiliser with this pellet too and heavier pellets will not make the stabiliser change as it is spring catch and spring powered unlike the K12 where you have to take account of the pellet wei...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:06 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Steyr Evo10e - Dry Fire training for 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
- Replies: 8
- Views: 490
Re: Steyr Evo10e - Dry Fire training for 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
My older Steyr LP10 electronic (before the evo) fires as fast as you can pull the trigger, my older morini Titanuim is also the same.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: STEYR LP10e circuit board
- Replies: 9
- Views: 876
Re: STEYR LP10e circuit board
The spring is to keep the excess connection wire out of the way when putting the grip back on so that it does not get trapped in the process and becomes crushed between the grip and the frame as you tighten the holding screw.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:03 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Electronic Target for home use?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1134
Re: Electronic Target for home use?
Sounds like you have the skills needed, read everything on the website, and analyse all of the different aspects and come up with your own plan, my first target morphed three times as I used it and found better ways of doing things - LED lighting, mounting on a speaker stand, pellet catcher, making ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Electronic Target for home use?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1134
Re: Electronic Target for home use?
+1 for freetarget, it is super for what you want, shot thousands of pellets at mine over the last three years, apart from the electronics I made mine myself but there are kits available.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Scoring Limits of a Cheap Gun
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1577
Re: Scoring Limits of a Cheap Gun
We picked up a snowpeak pp20 about a year ago s/h for the club, yes it is lookie likie LP10 but that is only skin deep as the innards are their own, trigger is single stage and was way under 500g but I sorted that with a different spring. Shoots well and not given us any grief and it is liked rather...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: AP groups at 25 yards
- Replies: 6
- Views: 830
Re: AP groups at 25 yards
We shoot 25m std pistol here using LP50's and in testing using a proper testing vice using unaltered velocity group sizes are almost one pellet hole size using wad cutters they are that consistent over 25m in still air, group size on a sand bag will be down to you I'm afraid.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: What's in your Range Bag ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 704
Re: What's in your Range Bag ?
Since you ask - my "lucky potato" crocheted for me by one of the lads I coach, along with trigger weight, pens, paper and mat for table.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Encouragement for new Shooters
- Replies: 9
- Views: 848
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:27 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Encouragement for new Shooters
- Replies: 9
- Views: 848
Re: Encouragement for new Shooters
To do that at intershoot is a big deal - Brilliant!
Now the work really begins.
Now the work really begins.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:15 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Are there particular exercises that can be practiced to reduce firearm wobble?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 727
Re: Are there particular exercises that can be practiced to reduce firearm wobble?
Wobble and sway are different, think you are concerned about sway, oh and well done in getting off the caffeine, it does help. To help your internal gyroscope your brain needs reference points so keep the non aiming eye open and use a blinder - a small one so the non aiming eye can use the rest of t...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Cheap pellets problem K12
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1389
Re: Cheap pellets problem K12
Thanks for your thoughts on the matter, pistols with mechanical / spring recoil absorber will not be affected by dirty pellets eg. LP10 but on the K12 the blast behind the pellet is used to work the absorber via a small port <0.1mm dia and behind that there is a adjustable needle valve to restrict t...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Cheap pellets problem K12
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1389
Cheap pellets problem K12
I shoot a K12 using R10 pellets and I have never in any of my target pistols ever used "budget" pellets, I'm serious about my shooting so why would I cheap out and use them but they do have a following. This week a club member asked if they could use my pistol for 60 shots to give it a goo...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:13 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Draft Notes on Working with O-rings for Air Guns
- Replies: 19
- Views: 122470
Re: Draft Notes on Working with O-rings for Air Guns
Very useful instructional primer and "how to" for those confident enough maintain their own sports equipment and of course anything else that has an O ring. Clear, well written and when a clear picture is needed to give an example or explain fully it is there.
Go to the top of the class!
Go to the top of the class!
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 4:38 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Morini 162EI won’t fire or dry fire
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21049
Re: Morini 162EI won’t fire or dry fire
What a splendid simple addition to make getting that board out without doing other damage, it's going on my backup pistol today.
Putting it in vinegar - well I must look that up!
Putting it in vinegar - well I must look that up!
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:45 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: Air Pistol Sighting Problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9557
Re: Air Pistol Sighting Problem
Yes it is a light problem, and your lens is incorrect for the indoor range it is all to do with your eye being pulled to the target with the bright illumination and the size of your pupil giving you a different depth of vision. The light on the range may not be bright enough although the target is b...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:57 am
- Forum: Olympic Pistol
- Topic: gip putty or bondo
- Replies: 17
- Views: 71532
Re: gip putty or bondo
Completely agree with keeping well clear of WD 40 for a barrier cream and to never use it as a lubricant as it polymerises over time forming a locking gum. My outline of how I do it is not very different to the others but here goes. Take off high spots and the V the area that goes into the web betwe...