FireInTheWire
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I would train with a .22 for one shot drills. Not with follow ups.
Range shooting with .22
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Is that an FWB 65? Such a classic! I've always wanted one of those.
Nowadays if I wanted a non-gun to practice pure marksmanship with, I'd choose something suitable for indoors that required no pellets/no cleanup, like a laser pistol.
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I have friends who are retired police officers. They tell me the same thing. One friend was in a shoot out at a South Oak Cliff liquor store robbery. He said the bad guy burst out of the front door with his pistol pointed at him. My friend turned and fired striking the bad guy in the chest. My friend said he focused on the guy's muzzle which seemed as large as a train tunnel to him at the moment.
I have been a pistol shooter for about 30 years. After all of those years I have become a pretty good shot.
For some reason I have a hard time with a 22 pistol. My technique is the same, the results are not as good.
To off set the cost of shooting I either reload or buy in bulk on line when I find good ammo prices.
zincwarrior
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Very much an aside, but both the wife and a friend had Bersas. They both moved on after multiple breakdowns. Have you put over 500 rounds through it?
SloppyShooter
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Probably pushing the barrel down. Low shots, right?
Thank y’all.
After reading everybody’s comments, I decided to get a .22 for aiming and first round shooting. I have narrowed down to Sig Sauer Mosquito, Steyr Arms RFP and Walther p22. As these are barrels with the length of my CCWs. I checked the A Ruger at my range. It was a nice shooter but the barrel was really long compare to my daily guns.
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After reading everybody’s comments, I decided to get a .22 for aiming and first round shooting. I have narrowed down to Sig Sauer Mosquito, Steyr Arms RFP and Walther p22. As these are barrels with the length of my CCWs. I checked the A Ruger at my range. It was a nice shooter but the barrel was really long compare to my daily guns.
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Yes, it is an old and well used FWB 65. I am so satisfied with it that I got another FWB 65 and a FWB 80 for my sons. I also have two FWB 300S after giving one to my oldest son. While the FWB 65/80/ 150/300 have traditional pistons, they are recoilless since the action is in a slide. The piston has a steel seal, much like an internal combustion engine.
About the turn of the century I took my little boys shooting a lot and they grew up shooting .22s. They handled the nice old S&W K-22 from 1952 a little too careless and I decided to find a cheap substitute, a S&W 22A. We put over 110,000 rounds through that gun and had multiple parts failures, including a broken frame. Nowadays there are many good choices but I still consider a rimfire handgun a good training tool, even though I have used a Haemmerli 208 and Walther GSP in serious UIT competitions.
Just an update. I got this GSG firefly finally for the following reasons.
1. 4 inch barrel which is close to the barrel length of my carry firearms.
2. Has rail so I can put a chap laser on to practice aiming.
3. Cheap. For around $220 it cannot be too bad.
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1. 4 inch barrel which is close to the barrel length of my carry firearms.
2. Has rail so I can put a chap laser on to practice aiming.
3. Cheap. For around $220 it cannot be too bad.
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Not the owners, are they? I mean those get killed
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