Anyone in canada shoot ISSF free pistol?

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Like the title says, anyone?

It's the closest thing to precision shooting in the handgun world. As an ex-smallbore competitive shooter, I've always been interested, but near as I can tell, few folks in Canada shoot international style events, except maybe in air rifle or pistol.

No old school shooters?
 
I just purchased a Walther Free Pistol and looking to get back into the sport. I have found a couple places in my area, but travel to Calgary is out of reach. Prince Albert Saskatchewan and Lloydminster SK. is the closest to me.

Good luck finding a club in your area.
 
I doubt that I'll find any club organized events.

Best I was hoping for was an informal postal league or something.

I don't find the "action" events particularly interesting.
 
There are still a few of us around that shoot free pistol (or 50 metre pistol in ISSF jargon). There were 15 competitors at the Canadian Nationals this year so unfortunately the sport is slowly dying.

I shoot with "reduced" 20 yard targets here in Regina but Prince Albert is the closest facility with full 50 metre facilities.

BTW I have a Toz 35.
 
HammerliSP20 said:
There are still a few of us around that shoot free pistol (or 50 metre pistol in ISSF jargon). There were 15 competitors at the Canadian Nationals this year so unfortunately the sport is slowly dying.

I shoot with "reduced" 20 yard targets here in Regina but Prince Albert is the closest facility with full 50 metre facilities.

BTW I have a Toz 35.
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Thanks for the update.

It's kinda sad that international style shooting events are in decline in North America.

I'm half heartedly looking at free pistols. I can get a brand new Drulov 75 as a gun to mess about with, for a very small investment.

I haven't seen any smoking deals on anything else, and am reluctant to pay big bucks for a gun long out of production, for a sport that's a bit of a dead end. It would be fun to try and develop some accuracy with something as inherently accurate as a free pistol, though.

I'm trying to find a shooting game that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, can be shot all year, can be done with my mild physical disability, and is precision oriented. This is the best I can come up with so far.
 
Ya, and silhouette shooting, both full bore and pistol are about to die!

Use to love knocking over the pigs off hand with a sporting rifle. What's that, 300 yds?

How did this happen?

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We tried to get some black powder silhouette going at a club years ago. Lots of enthusiasm when discussed on the shooting line, but when we had a meeting, 3 guys showed up, and no one responded to a request for shooters to come out.

I guess the accuracy game isn't as exciting as large volumes of inaccurate fire, lol.

Guess I'll just bang away on my own.

I am looking at joining a new club, there may be some interest there.
 
Contact the Shooting Federation of Canada in Ottawa. They are the national sport governing body for competitive shooting. They will be able to put you in contact with the provincial association, and other precision shooters.
 
I know at my club last March (I think) we had a small free pistol 'tournament' which was more a fun shoot to try out free pistol with .22 Handguns. We didn't actually use free pistols (except for the guy who organised it) and I used the clubs .22 revolver for it but it was still a fair bit of fun. Definitely a different type of experience. I am pretty sure the intent is to do another free pistol shoot next year with hopefully more people trying it (we had 4 or 5 of us try it out) and maybe actually having it become a semi-regular thing.
 
Got to get my Hammerli in good working order again.

This kind of bullseye pistol match is very relaxing IMO.

You'll find just like myself that you often use the same ammo as the target rifle competitors because of the locked breech & manually operated action.
 
coldestcanuck said:
How about trying PPC? The guns and ammo aren't too expensive, and the 150 round course of fire includes 48 rounds at 50 yds/meters
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A dodgy knee and back make that kind of shooting possibly difficult, plus neither my old or new clubs have guys shooting it. One has IDPA, the other has ORSA.

Sigh.

One club does have silhouette pistol though ....
 
PM a CGN on here with a username like SEE EDIT, or similar. He was a dedicated precision pistol shooter when he was active in our club.

EDIT: I believe it's aakoksal.
 
Ol' Smokey said:
Thanks for the update.

It's kinda sad that international style shooting events are in decline in North America.

I'm half heartedly looking at free pistols. I can get a brand new Drulov 75 as a gun to mess about with, for a very small investment.

I haven't seen any smoking deals on anything else, and am reluctant to pay big bucks for a gun long out of production, for a sport that's a bit of a dead end. It would be fun to try and develop some accuracy with something as inherently accurate as a free pistol, though.

I'm trying to find a shooting game that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, can be shot all year, can be done with my mild physical disability, and is precision oriented. This is the best I can come up with so far.
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The other alternative is precision air pistol. If you don't want to spent alot there are CO2 and springer pistols available that are just as accurate as the high end ones. You won't find them on this forum but if you do a google search I'm sure you'll find a bunch for sale in Canada.

I have a 10 metre range with a pellet trap set up in my basement. I shoot occasionally at provincial meets and participate in a postal match.
 
While 50 metre pistol is still alive, and the calgary club holds two or three a year, PPC in Alberta is deader than dead. The provincial organization went down in the early 00' s, I tried to get things going again around 08, but we had a total of 6 shooters, two of whom were mandated referees from the national organization. Only match that the club lost money on, never tried it again. In Alberta PPC is definitely dead, guns and gear sold down the road, fun while it lasted.

Dr Jim
 
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