As a newbie to the air pistol world what are you guys using for this application and any EASY mods that help. Working some with a P-rod Talon-P and 1720T now.
N/A Long-Range Air Pistols?
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Stock always helps. Although, not sure if you want to steer clear of that. Adding weights to the gun can help. Bipod or shooting sticks can help. Making sure the tune is appropriate, along with overall balance of the gun. Excellent trigger is a must. Both those guns have a VERY GOOD trigger and can be tuned quite extensively.
Top one is a 1322 with the same trigger as both of yours. And a Tom west stock.
Top one is a 1322 with the same trigger as both of yours. And a Tom west stock.
Nice thanks sir. I'm a specialty pistol PB guy so I love the challenge of getting SPs to shoot accurately afield.
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While Pistol FT has been a thing for quite a few years now ... Some are exploring what is deemed as "Extreme Pistol FT" and some taking it further yet !!
Recently just finished this Extreme pistol build based off a JTS Airacuda Max ... Pretty exotic from where started to where at.
Recently just finished this Extreme pistol build based off a JTS Airacuda Max ... Pretty exotic from where started to where at.
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Long range .... might also help in what you are relating too as what is "Long Range" ? And at what sort of power / caliber is this inquire ?
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Then I guess I have a collection of trasitioners/de-transitioners. I consider them pistols because that is what they started life as. Technically they would be carbines. A 1322 is a pistol. A brocock grand prix is a pistol. But now they have stocks. My pp800 even has a quick detach stock. 
they are pistols, yet they are not pistols. And all of them on any given month may have a pistol or rifle stock attached. Either way, adding a stock to a pistol is a great way of making it more stable for off-hand shots.
they are pistols, yet they are not pistols. And all of them on any given month may have a pistol or rifle stock attached. Either way, adding a stock to a pistol is a great way of making it more stable for off-hand shots.Upvote 0
Long range .... might also help in what you are relating too as what is "Long Range" ? And at what sort of power / caliber is this inquire ?
Motorhead, Long-Range for me as far as I can define that (no doubt different for everyone) would be beyond point blank range for whatever target size/trajectory I'm using.
Motorhead, Long-Range for me as far as I can define that (no doubt different for everyone) would be beyond point blank range for whatever target size/trajectory I'm using.
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A unpopular alternative will be to just lighten the pistol.
An air weapon don't need to contain as much metal as a firearm, plus the ammo is pretty light. You don't need those bulky barrels and heavy elements, you can pretty much go with aluminium alloys, a thin barrel plus some poopty plastic and there you go, even on pcp we have light tanks like on the PP800/700 that I think are treathed thin steel. I'm pretty sure that you can go as low as 1lb on a pistol, is not that you need any weight to compensate any major recoil or have great structural resistance, I always think that the tendency of airguns to imitate firearms is unnecesary.
Will that aid on the aim?... if the alternative are those +15inch +6lb monstruosityes that they told us they are ''pistols'', yes, definitelly.
A thing you can also do, is use a tree as a suport point on your shoulder, or any thing on the enviorment to rest your forearms, will that aid your accuracy past the normal pistol ranges?... if you don't know much about shooting, yes, if you have a correct training, with a stance like crouch or weaver, you know how to use apnea and to press the trigger without any minor deviator on the gun itself, you probably don't need those tricks.
A rifle is more forgiving cause you got your shoulder to rest and align the thing, but a pistol need to be mastered and also you must know well your weapon, the break point of the trigger, it's resistence, an adapt your own grip.
If you don't master those, any red dot, scope, or even stupid laser, won't make any diference. As long as the barrel is straigh and your iron sights are well adjusted, you can have good results even with co2 crappy action plinkers.
If you want to shoot in ranges beyond the normal pistol distance, then go with a scope and put a detachable or foldable stock and transform you pistol to a micro-carbine.
An air weapon don't need to contain as much metal as a firearm, plus the ammo is pretty light. You don't need those bulky barrels and heavy elements, you can pretty much go with aluminium alloys, a thin barrel plus some poopty plastic and there you go, even on pcp we have light tanks like on the PP800/700 that I think are treathed thin steel. I'm pretty sure that you can go as low as 1lb on a pistol, is not that you need any weight to compensate any major recoil or have great structural resistance, I always think that the tendency of airguns to imitate firearms is unnecesary.
Will that aid on the aim?... if the alternative are those +15inch +6lb monstruosityes that they told us they are ''pistols'', yes, definitelly.
A thing you can also do, is use a tree as a suport point on your shoulder, or any thing on the enviorment to rest your forearms, will that aid your accuracy past the normal pistol ranges?... if you don't know much about shooting, yes, if you have a correct training, with a stance like crouch or weaver, you know how to use apnea and to press the trigger without any minor deviator on the gun itself, you probably don't need those tricks.
A rifle is more forgiving cause you got your shoulder to rest and align the thing, but a pistol need to be mastered and also you must know well your weapon, the break point of the trigger, it's resistence, an adapt your own grip.
If you don't master those, any red dot, scope, or even stupid laser, won't make any diference. As long as the barrel is straigh and your iron sights are well adjusted, you can have good results even with co2 crappy action plinkers.
If you want to shoot in ranges beyond the normal pistol distance, then go with a scope and put a detachable or foldable stock and transform you pistol to a micro-carbine.
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Long range is a relative term, but I'm taking air pistol shooting to 80 yards now. Successfully.
Ten shots from field target position (stool-and-bipod), 2.25" center-to-center group with my .22 Brocock Sniper rifle converted into a pistol/carbine convertible producing 28 foot pounds of muzzle energy. This group was shot with the pistol.
The convertible in carbine form-
As pistol-
Ten shots from field target position (stool-and-bipod), 2.25" center-to-center group with my .22 Brocock Sniper rifle converted into a pistol/carbine convertible producing 28 foot pounds of muzzle energy. This group was shot with the pistol.
The convertible in carbine form-
As pistol-
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