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All the talk about the under 25 rifle team and the guys at Camp Perry yet nobody has mentioned the British Guys shooting pistols in the World 1500 Pistol Championships in Sweden.

I hear plenty people on forums bleat on about the "good old days" and how many pistols they had, how much they all cost blah blah blah yet so many people simply through in the towel after the ban.

You have NI, IOM, Jersey, Belgium and other European countries right on your doorstep yet you'd all rather bitch on about barrel extensions and coathangers. Sounds like excuses to me.



Anyway, hunt down the link, watch the web cams and cry into your slippers.

Mike,

In essence I agree with you -- but not everyone can afford the cost (and time) of travelling abroad to shoot "proper" pistols. I do, now and then, but without a competitive element (often the case), it isn't the same. And given that the ban was totally unfair, moaning about it is a perfectly legitimate activity!

However, I admire the British shooters who are competing in Sweden this w/e, and would like to be able to join them someday. First I have to learn the 1500 though -- with my Taurus, complete with coathanger...

To end on a cheerful note -- we are now starting to see several LBPs coming to the mainland UK which have the "feel" and balance of proper pistols -- GrandPower, SIG, Glock, etc. These can serve as an excellent training gun for those that aspire to shoot abroad at a competitive level. Though not perfect, they are not too bad either. I'm really pleased with my own GrandPower K22 -- it is delivering groups (and scores) I do not recall achieving with my late, lamented Walther GSP. So pistol shooting in the mainland UK is not dead -- just inconvenienced -- which is a far better situation than 17 years ago...