Looking for a nice .22 Target Pistol

[Team Sergeant]

OK, I’m in search of a nice target pistol .22 I'd like to hear everyones ideas!

TS

[Adam White]

Now we're talking about something where I actually have some expertise and experience.

How much are you wanting to spend?

The Smith and Wesson Model 41 has a great reputation for accuracy and features for its price.

Moving cheaper, you can get a Ruger Mk II target pistol. There's not much to them, and many gripe about their ergonomics, but they will put the holes where you want them. Heck, I set the IL Junior free pistol record (which I doubt still stands this many years later) with a Mk II back in 1992 - against people shooting guns costing 3 times as much.

High end, I've always been partial to Hammerli and Pardini - both shoot like a dream and have been used by others to embarass me on many occasions. I am not aware of any American gun manufacturers in that category. There are also some good guns out of Russia. The differences in the models at this point are based on specific international pistol events, with features designed specifically with them in mind.

If you can find an old high standard target pistol - buy it. All of the old farts talk about them as a great cheap, accurate target pistol - kind of the benchmark for entry level guns in the sport.

I have never put it through its paces in a match - or seen it used in one - but I also own a Browning Buck Mark target pistol that is one helluva little gun, too.

-edited "back mark" to "buck mark" -

[geronimo]

I'll second both the browning buck mark or the ruger mark ll. Both are affordable, available and as accurate as you want them to be. They are also just plain fun to shoot!

[Smokin Joe]

TS,

I have this one, I love it, it shoots great! I highly recommend it, the Buck Mark, or the Ruger MKII

[Team Sergeant]

I forgot to mention I already own a Ruger Mk II, with a 6 7/8 heavy barrel. I consider this a little front heavy for beginners.

The Hammerli and the Smith & Wesson Model 41 look like they might fill the bill.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

TS

[NousDefionsDoc]

I believe in starting them out young as well, but TS, your girls are still babies.








You'll need two guns so they don't fight over them.

[Ambush Master]

Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
I believe in starting them out young as well, but TS, your girls are still babies.

When my kids were old enough to tell me when they needed to go to the bathroom, they got to go out into the mountains camping and deer hunting for 2 weeks. There they learned how to shoot pistols and learned what a gun would do when something got shot with it. I had Air.177 shooting Speed Plates when he was about 7 !!

My Colt New Frontier .22 is about the most favorite gun for the kids, with the Colt one bullet at a time unload and reload, I get more mileage out of the ammo.

[NousDefionsDoc]

I didn't mean they are too young to shoot, I meant they are probably too young to share one gun.

[Adam White]

I was surfing the web, curiously investigating Hammerli's current line-up, and came across this article: http://www.galleryofguns.com/shootin...les.asp?ID=297 - just thought it might be of interest.

[Roguish Lawyer]

Yeah, I want one for Catwoman. Recommendations for a .22 for a novice female shooter, please.

[Adam White]

Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
Yeah, I want one for Catwoman. Recommendations for a .22 for a novice female shooter, please.

Chicks dig the Browning Buck Mark - its the only gun I own that I can honestly say has gotten me laid. Maybe that's why I'm so partial to it?

[pulque]

Can marksmanship with higher caliber pistols be improved from practice with a .22?

[NousDefionsDoc]

TS have you considered just getting a .22 conversion kit for your master blaster?

[Guy]

Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
TS have you considered just getting a .22 conversion kit for your master blaster?

Glock 17 though.

[Ambush Master]

My kids also like my Beretta 21.

http://www.berettausa.com/product/pr...stols_main.htm