10m Air Pistol, anyone?

If my eyesight were better, I'd love to try 10-meter competition, but at 50-something, my eyes just aren't what they used to be... maybe we need an online league for, er, grown-ups?
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Check out the on-line matches at airgunarena. It's calling you...

http://www.airgunarena.com/index.php/Special:ViewMatches

Don't let middle age stop you, just get a pair of shooting glasses with a prescription that puts the front sight into perfect focus. I did that at 44...and should have done so five years earlier.

Try Dr. Alan Toler, at www.customsightpicture.com
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This is the next thing to explore. I've been fortunate that at 46, I'm just now to the point where glasses are helpful (but not necessary) for reading. I still don't shoot with prescription lenses, but I'm finding my eye begins to fatigue and has trouble keeping a good sight picture. I've looked at customsightpicture before and considered it. Maybe time to re-visit the sight.
 
Why buy real guns when you can buy air guns for the same price!!! They are more politically correct according to the democrats!!!
 
A less expensive alternative to the LP 5/50 or FWB's is the Drulov DU-10 (http://www.topgun-airguns.com/czpistolrifles1.html). These aren't as precise as a Steyr or FWB, and don't have the same build and finish quality, but they're still very accurate and much less expensive.

But one nice thing about the high-end APs is that they tend to hold their value. I've bought and sold a few used match AP's and have always been able to sell them for about what I'd paid for them. I'd actually made a small profit on the LP-5 I'd mentioned in my previous post.
 
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when you can buy air guns for the same price!!!
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Actually, a high end air pistol will cost you substantially more than most of the pistols discussed in these fora. For example, the Steyr LP50 is listed at $1995.00 at Champions Choice.
When I bought my FWB C10 years ago, it was (and remains) the most expensive stock pistol that I own.
Pete
 
True, but the cost of a top-end AP is very comparable to a top-end target pistol. And both are well worth the price of admission.
 
Casimer said:
But one nice thing about the high-end APs is that they tend to hold their value. I've bought and sold a few used match AP's and have always been able to sell them for about what I'd paid for them. I'd actually made a small profit on the LP-5 I'd mentioned in my previous post.
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Even the not-so-high-end ones... going by current prices, I could probably sell my IZH at a bit of a profit. But why on earth would I ever want to sell it??

FlyFish, that Lewis and Clark link is fascinating. I had NO idea the technology went back that far. I take it there's an air chamber in the stock, and some sort of external pump? It's not obvious from the diagram on that page -- at least not to me... :o

MrBorland said:
Check out the on-line matches at airgunarena. It's calling you...
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Thanks for the link. :)
 
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