Show Me Your Bullseye Pistols

First topic message reminder :

Now that we can share our photos, let's see your bullseye guns.

Here is my Keefer Custom, Aimpoint dot scope, with one of my better very best targets.



Best Regards,
Slo cat

Finally upgraded the .22. Went from a Buckmark Camper with a creepy trigger and an unserrated, soft-edged front sight to a Marvel Unit 1 heavy rib on a Kimber frame that’s been sprung to run .22 and had small parts switched out to match the feel of my .45.



It’s a huge upgrade. Cleaned the first B8 I shot after getting it sighted in, and shot a 98 on the next one. Massive, massive change from the Buckmark.

I rebarreled my Clark 38Special (slide is 38 AMU on kit frame from circa 1960).
I wasn't real happy with the 38Special WC for bullseye, especially at 50 yards; bullets seem to have a tendency to tip slightly, and feeding could be a bit sketchy.  I trimmed 357 Magnum cases, reamed them, and seated 124-135 grain RN, conical, and RNFP bullets to fit the magazines. Barsto barrel. UltraDot. Krieger Accu-Rails. Polished and blued.

This is the best I could do with photos. I would prefer thumbs.



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I had this high standard Olympic (22short) that I wanted to use for bullseye but it needed to be lr so I just got a lr barrel and slide. I made the mount for the red dot in a way that it can all be put back to stock  I need to zero the dot yet  

[url=https://servimg.com/view/20486002/8][/url]Also just picked up this Pardini and my Les Baer bullseye 1911

I'm just getting started. This is all I have so far. It gets me through Service Pistol and M&P. Now I need an M41 for rimfire.

Bammann45 wrote:

Those Rugers are already very accurate out of the box, I can't imagine how much better your rig is !! Nice.

I own two bull barrel Mk I from around 1981 and they are very accurate unmodified !!

My Smith&Wesson 52-1 and Tanfoglio P19 Limited

Giles, Dinan, Shockey and Clark Sr

Home built in 1991-2. Broke it out for a 2700 after a 20 year hiatus and this is what she gives me.  I love this gun!
Shot a 2572!

Finally finished the “retro service pistol” project:





Just sent off my Range Officer’s slide to KC for a rib install and ordered a second Marvel upper (a scope rib model)… It should all be back and ready to rumble later this month.

4” Model 15, Weaver 307 Mount, a Japanese Tasco PDP3, and a set of large Pachmayr Presentation grips.

Thought you might all like to see this pistol, it is a 38 special built on a 38 super frame, the barrel is a Colt Kit Gun barrel.  The gunsmith was Stan Huey, Stan learned to build pistols from Bob Chow and Cary Chin in the Bay Area.  Sadly Stan passed away last August.

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hey Rick you might post this question in the Ammunition section, probably get a faster response

Full wadcutters in 44mag is the ultimate oxymoron.

LenV wrote:Full wadcutters in 44mag is the ultimate oxymoron.

https://www.mattsbullets.com/215-Grain-Hollow-Base-Wadcutter-430_p_171.html

Jon Eulette build on my old man’s Gold Cup .45. Medium roll trigger, Eulette rail (original sights remain - front underneath and rear in slots that Jon cuts in the rail) and barrel is KKM 1:13.  Now wears wood grips with skate board tape.  Per Jon, now I have a REAL bullseye gun! 

Thanks Jon!!  

My fathers gun Built at the RIA by an armorer there, 1918 colt frame locks up like a bank vault

1970 Colt Series 70 turned in to a 6 inch by Jim Clark SR. in 1974, wadgun 6 inch AMU barrel.

FCW with Marvel conversion

I have heard about the model 52 since I was a kid, but have never seen one. I remedied that failure yesterday. I paid more than I wanted, but that is my normal method. In exchange for a thorough cleaning of the 5 factory mags, I received 100% function using the reloads in the picture. (nobody told me why the metal follower mags were better than the plastic follower mags, but my 2 metal models came apart easily. The plastic models were just as well-made and all functioned perfectly, but whoever pinched the floor plates with a metal press, I hope he has met his reward). A little break-free and a brass drift got the stubborn floor plates off. The remainder of parts were then easily cleaned.
Owners in this forum had prepared me for various ails and failures, but only one bit me. I got to feeling like the groups would just keep getting smaller, but I let my grip soften up after shooting the pictured group, and the next round failed to eject, with the empty preventing the next live round from feeding. Anybody like Stovepipes?
Since we can’t get our fancy equipment to make it to the moon, much less land there, I have little hope that we have the ability to duplicate a 52-2. Not the polish, not the blue. Definitely not the hand-fit feel and the accuracy that such attention to detail provides. 
I figure NASA has a few spare Saturn V rockets, and a Lunar Module stashed for emergency use. Since One is None, and Two are One, I think I best be on the hunt for a spare 52-2 with a few original magazines. 
I can’t believe I never had the good fortune to be bitten by the Target Master bug till now.
Try one. You might cuss it, but you will at least like looking at it, and dry firing is cheap

Amanda that 52-2 looks like it shoots well, what distance is it?

troystaten wrote:Amanda that 52-2 looks like it shoots well, what distance is it?

Troy, target is just 25 yards. When the wind and rain quit, I'll try 50 yards.
I haven't done any load tests yet, just stuck to the old Bullseye standard load. I want to try other bullets and WST, but I've hit my ability limit already. You just looked at it