N/A Why a pistol?
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I love my GK1! If I could do it all over, I'd never have bought any pcp rifles! I'm a pistol shooter thru and thru with over 20 years of IHMSA competition under my belt and I'm sure I've shot well over 100,000 rounds thru our powder burners. Why the GK1? Its as close to the T/C Contenders, Encores and G2's we shot in competition as I can get! I can shoot on my basement range, in my buddy's back yard, not legal to shoot in the city I live, although much easier to walk around the yard with the GK1 and not a rifle. 
Way cheaper to shoot than reloading for my powder burners and just fun, fun, fun!
Way cheaper to shoot than reloading for my powder burners and just fun, fun, fun! Upvote 0
Because they're the mostest coolestest and challengingest man toys I can afford to buy, feed and maintain. Oh... and they're also LEGAL.
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Skills practiced with an air pistol can be carried over to powder burners. Many air pistols mimic the weight of their powder burner counterparts and some even have slide recoil. Compare the cost of 50 rds of 9mm to 500 pellets. As mentioned before, you can practice in your basement or garage with an air pistol but you would need to go to a range to shoot a 9mm or .45.
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I will echo what others have said here - pistols present a unique challenge and I have always enjoyed keeping it simple. I have about 35 yards available to me at my home and at that range shooting off hand with a pistol can be either fun or challenging or both to whatever degree i want. Love the PP 700, been shooting that for years before getting the gk1. Greatly enjoy shooting both of those guns!
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Ahhhhh- You're the guy who made the cut off brocock into a pistol. Thought that thing looked cool.
Love the snakeskin grips on that other one ha ha
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I did not have exposure to pistols in my powderburner youth, so I am making up for that lack with tons of fun with my airgun pistolas now!
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Another reason is that with a pistol I practice both right-handed and left-handed shooting. That didn’t work when I tried with my rifle (I don’t switch dominant eyes), just too difficult ergonomically unless you can switch eyedness when switching hands.
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Actually, two Brococks into pistols-
And several other air rifles, too-
Snakeskin grips and bows, too-
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Why? Pistols in PBs, air, PC, BP revolver and inline. I can practice grip, trigger, and breathing indoors and out all season. But indoors mostly, in the winter. Then squirrels and varmints in season. AND JUST PLAIN FUN. Be Well My Pistoleros, 'dito.
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Nice work. The Brococks and especially the one with the non-laminate stock look like they came from the factory like that.
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This is a great thread!!
After the initial GK1-Wow! period, I had just to rethink WHAT FOR EXACTLY I wanted a GK1.
This thread is helping me think through things — and also about related questions like:
▪ scope choice (iron sights, dot sight, or pistol scope, or rifle scope).
▪ hold of the gun (one outstreched arm, or both, or best stability hold).
Here are a couple of reasons WHY a shooter might want a PISTOL instead of a rifle/ bullpup — even if he will not shoot the pistol the traditional firearm way with outstretched arm/s — but instead shoot the pistol field rested and with a rifle scope for longer ranges:
A shooter might want to shoot a gun that can be holster carried — to be ready to shoot at a moment's notice.
The gun would be carried in a chest holster or in a hip holster.
▪ The gun could be carried while hiking, golfing, biking, motorcycle riding, or while working outside or in barns and other locations where prey could be expected.
▪ Or the gun could be carried as coup de grace gun: to finish off wounded but not dead prey at close range.
Matthias
After the initial GK1-Wow! period, I had just to rethink WHAT FOR EXACTLY I wanted a GK1.
This thread is helping me think through things — and also about related questions like:
▪ scope choice (iron sights, dot sight, or pistol scope, or rifle scope).
▪ hold of the gun (one outstreched arm, or both, or best stability hold).
Here are a couple of reasons WHY a shooter might want a PISTOL instead of a rifle/ bullpup — even if he will not shoot the pistol the traditional firearm way with outstretched arm/s — but instead shoot the pistol field rested and with a rifle scope for longer ranges:
A shooter might want to shoot a gun that can be holster carried — to be ready to shoot at a moment's notice.The gun would be carried in a chest holster or in a hip holster.
▪ The gun could be carried while hiking, golfing, biking, motorcycle riding, or while working outside or in barns and other locations where prey could be expected.
▪ Or the gun could be carried as coup de grace gun: to finish off wounded but not dead prey at close range.
Matthias
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I recently picked up a new FX Ranchero pistol and love the feel, very similar to my Contenders. The semi-auto GK1 is very tempting. Pistols are more compact, lighter, and a better challenge.
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Pistols are a hoot to shoot. Hitting a can at 55 yards with a 3 fpe pistol makes me giggle like a little boy.
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