El Spavo
Well-known member
Hah, bless you.You can have a 10k Krieghoff and still be mediocre. Speaking from personal experience here.
You shooting over 50-60%?... then that's good enough in my books sunshine.
Hah, bless you.You can have a 10k Krieghoff and still be mediocre. Speaking from personal experience here.
You’ve recently shot an 80 + with your current gun I think . That tells you all you need to know . Don’t muck about too much . If you want a bit more barrel weight , buy a couple of extended chokes , a bit of stock weight ? do what Will advised and stuff the bolt hole . Don’t do anything that can’t be changed .Hah, a big part of me wants to NOT buy another gun and be just as good with my cheap & cheerful as someone with a 10k Krieghoff (although having never tried one, I do like the teutonic efficiency and ultra precision of Blasers!), but I do get that at some point I may possibly need to change to summat else to progress. That is partly the reason for me starting this thread though: that and cast/comb adjustment to me seem the only things that make a difference to any bang stick.
One of my biggest regrets was getting suckered into changing my B525 after a year for a “better” gun. If I could go back in time I would have adjusted the stock weight, fitted a nice and slightly longer butt pad (the new 525 ones are good now I think) and stuck with it for at least a few years more. I would have saved a fortune and progressed faster.Hah, a big part of me wants to NOT buy another gun and be just as good with my cheap & cheerful as someone with a 10k Krieghoff (although having never tried one, I do like the teutonic efficiency and ultra precision of Blasers!), but I do get that at some point I may possibly need to change to summat else to progress. That is partly the reason for me starting this thread though: that and cast/comb adjustment to me seem the only things that make a difference to any bang stick.
Got to be honest the F16 is the hardest gun ive ever tried to open, would never buy one for this reason?For Kreighoff money, I'd want to sit in a deck chair with a remote and hit 95
I may very well be demonstrating my naivety here, but were it not for the action of the Blaser, I'd definitely go for a B525. No other gun has felt as comfortable or intuitive other than the F16 which feels equally as good in the shoulder feels better and less intrusive of thought when opening/closing. That little extra carries a hefty premium, one which I feel I can justify.
Other guns at the F16 price point to me don't offer anything that I feel would make a difference to me. The Fausti XF4, Zoli Kronos, CG Summit Ascent are all kinda meh to me.
The B525 is a great gun and a great price. It's very hard to not just go out and get one. The blaser is just a saucy little mistress with frilly knickers. Tempting it may be, a touch expensive to keep, perhaps. Worth the trouble?
As luck would have it I have Purdey at home
That's not normal. I've tried about 3 and none of them had that problem. The F16 is a pretty decent gun to shoot and fully competitive with anything else around it's price point.Got to be honest the F16 is the hardest gun ive ever tried to open, would never buy one for this reason?
In fairness, Blasers are heavier to open than some, it’s the way they are designed to **** the gun upon opening and close easily so as not to distract the shooter I gather.. I’m used to being firm with the lever. The upside is no gun closes more nicely. (Well, maybe a Browning). It’s a quirk that is soon forgotten. I ensure it’s all clean and greased so is as smooth as possible.That's not normal. I've tried about 3 and none of them had that problem. The F16 is a pretty decent gun to shoot and fully competitive with anything else around it's price point.
I have a feeling I'll always keep the 525 (it's my first gun love, if you will, and equally I won't sell my first guitar either, despite me now having a dozen or so better ones) and the wife kind of has this thing that she wants our boy to go shooting with me in years to come... bit long sighted as he's not quite 20 months old! :sarcastic: Albeit, I have a massive lack of experience, at least from my limited understanding it does appear to fit quite well, so It's fine and I reckon I'll have a little play about with that lead roll and the stock, just out of curiousity. You've briefly seen me shoot Will and were surprisingly complimentary in not thinking I was a complete biff so I reckon I'll carry on as I am for quite a while, and thank you. (and although some people don't like them, yes, the new Inflex II pads fitted to Brownings instead of the old, shiny hard ends absolutely work for me, especially as you can have almost infinite lengthening on them thanks to the different spacers that you can chuck in... I'm 6'3" and got a 15" or so stock, but a friend has about 3 big spacers to make his a monster of a B725 stock!)One of my biggest regrets was getting suckered into changing my B525 after a year for a “better” gun. If I could go back in time I would have adjusted the stock weight, fitted a nice and slightly longer butt pad (the new 525 ones are good now I think) and stuck with it for at least a few years more. I would have saved a fortune and progressed faster.
Yup, the 525 does this and it just makes the gun feel... smooth, so I know where you're coming from.The one thing I miss about shooting a Beretta. Push the lever over and it just drops open under the weight of the barrel.
Yes and it's a completely arbitrary (read pointless) "test" in any case since the hinge pin is not necessarily the centre of all guns in any case. It's how it feels and sits in the hands whilst held at the address position, preferably with only one or two pairs left to go because that's when you really begin to notice poor "balance".When I’ve seen people in a shop balancing a gun on a finger , usually with the finger under the hinge pin , I’ve never seen them do it with a loaded gun On the other hand I’ve never seen anyone shoot with an unloaded gun . Think about that .
Hard to do as literally a gnats wing width seperated falling one way or the other, but this is the equilibrium point (without me bottling it about dropping it when the other hand has my phone in!! :sarcastic: )...As mentioned before, quite arbitrary, but for what it's worth, whenever I have seen the "balance the gun hinge pin on yer finger" test, the gun has always been closed.
Agree with this but sure I saw in a Ben Husthwaite video that he gauges the balance point as halfway between the hands... which is kind of where the hinge pin is. Sort of makes sense, so is thispossibly where it came about or do people think it's still cobblers as a reference point? .it's a completely arbitrary (read pointless) "test" in any case since the hinge pin is not necessarily the centre of all guns in any case.
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