Handgun-based "What If?"

[snayperskaya]

Hmmm....

GSG-5PK, Excel X-22, IWI Uzi Pistol....

Mark

Imagine the looks you'd get dual-wielding a pair of IWI Uzi pistols at your local club!!!

[Chapuis]

Well for competition I really liked my Britarms but if I could only have one I think I would have the old Browning Medallist.

When I recently picked up a Buckmaster it immediately felt familiar, same grip angle, same magazine but such poor quality.

That's not a picture of the meddalist 1066, that's a picture of the Browning Match the most reliable and accurate .22 pistol I have ever owned. They also produced the Match 150 which was UIT compliant, the match wasn't. Both these pistols and the later International was based on the basic meddalist which itself was based on the Colt Woodsman I believe.

Like you point out the quality on modern Browning pistols just isn't the same. They have cheapened it for mass production at minimal cost of production.

Just the same as yourself if I could only own one .22 target pistol it would have to be a Browning Match, a genuine classic.

[CDM5]

Ruger Mk3

[froggy]

+1 Ruger MkI or MkII if I am allowed only one "do it all".

For competing (at my very crappy level) in 25 meters Olympic or standard I'd go for a Unique DES69.

[Chapuis]

+1 Ruger MkI or MkII if I am allowed only one "do it all".

For competing (at my very crappy level) in 25 meters Olympic or standard I'd go for a Unique DES69.

I was never overly fond of the DES69 myself but they shot well and were a very good club pistol. Our club purchased a number of bull barrel Ruger pistols and they served us well but I hated taking them apart to clean as by the time they were due for cleaning I had always forgotten the knack of doing it (which way to tilt it). LOL
Another good club pistol was the High Standard Victor but the Browning was still the one to beat for a club gun. Obviously for serious UIT competitions these guns couldn't really hold their own against the GSP's, Morinis, FAS, Triaces etc. but they were fun to shoot.
Very sadly an excellant sport that has been long denied us. Those that have never shot pistol will never know just how enjoyable and testing the sport was. You can keep your LBRs and LBPs as far as I am concerned they are not a patch on true pistols.

P.S. Why do people these days refer to pistols as handguns. Handguns are any firearm that can be carried and fired in the arms as opposed to from carriages and stands. Handguns include rifles, muskets, shotguns etc.

[froggy]

The fact it was for many a favourite "club" gun is a testimony to its robustest.
The fact it was the pistol used for many years at Olympic level is a testimony of its accuracy.
Mine was my 1st pistol, an abused second-hand, bought from the club when they "up-graded".
I still shoot it without having ever experienced a single problem . The same can not be said of the "fancy" & very expensive Swiss & Italian replacements...

[CDM5]

If it was ever an option I think anybody who brought in the Ruger Mark III would sell a boatload of them.

I'd love a Volquartsen one but the Price is far too high at around £1800-£2.5k

[Chapuis]

The fact it was for many a favourite "club" gun is a testimony to its robustest.
The fact it was the pistol used for many years at Olympic level is a testimony of its accuracy.
Mine was my 1st pistol, an abused second-hand, bought from the club when they "up-graded".
I still shoot it without having ever experienced a single problem . The same can not be said of the "fancy" & very expensive Swiss & Italian replacements...

Too true. You needed to carry quite a few spare parts with you with the FAS.

[25Pdr]

I owned two 22 Rimfire pistols.

A S&W Mod 17 lovely, and a Vostock MU.



The Vostock was great value at £55 in 1977, sold to me as a new gun by Glasgow Dealer Bruce Waugh, but turned out to be secondhand, the previous owner was the infamous Thomas Hamilton, revealed to me when the Police visited me after Dunblane, somehow their records indicated that the Vostock was still on his ticket as well as mine.

For anybody interested here are the (long) details of his purchase of the Vostock and his many subsequent contraventions of the firearms act, any of which should have resulted in his FAC being revoked.

http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/inde ... 58323.html

[froggy]

Please tell me you joined a continental club, did not surrender your Margolin & that you go to Switzerland, Belgium, France or where ever to shoot it from time to time ...