Anyone practice at home using a Co2 replica pistol

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Looking for feedback on anyone that practices their competition shooting stages at home using a Co2 replica pistol. I see you can even get ones that blowback and cycle the slide. CZ 75 variants available from ASG, KWC, KJWORKS.
 
i've done it with a p226 co2 pistol with blowback. Fun but didn't really do it for me. The trigger pull and reset weren't the same and just didn't feel right. I ended up just going to dry fire practice or swap in a 22lr slide and shoot targets with that.
 
I tried with some rather crappy Crosman pellet guns. Too light, wrong balance, weird trigger and just generally icky. Now I just use the real deal with snap caps.
 
Yes, I dry-fire practice in the home to. Very good practice.

Actually I have used a cheap spring powered BB gun and a Crossman .22 target trap. Fun is what you make it. Put up a paper target. Hit it. Fun. The wife had fun. This was not even a semi-automatic. One shot a time. The higher end replica ones I've just seen add slide blowback and semi-automatic SA fire. Cost about $200.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5d_oPYG5hg
 
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I have a Crossman that I do use for practicing my draw and first round. (my 9mm is a shadow due to the DA the first round is always the hardest to score well with.) The Crossman is a heavy pistol and comes closer to my 9mm for weight. It is a 1911 based format so fits my holster. The pellet pistol is probably not the most ideal practice tool but on a snowy Sunday afternoon beats doing nothing.
 
guppie1160 said:
I have a Crossman that I do use for practicing my draw and first round. (my 9mm is a shadow due to the DA the first round is always the hardest to score well with.) The Crossman is a heavy pistol and comes closer to my 9mm for weight. It is a 1911 based format so fits my holster. The pellet pistol is probably not the most ideal practice tool but on a snowy Sunday afternoon beats doing nothing.
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You might be interested in the ASG Shadow replica:

www.airgundepot.com/asg-cz-75-sp-01-shadow-co2-bb-pistol.html
 
I have a Daisy Powerline 777 that I use for trigger practice. It is a single shot side pump. It is not very fast (sue light weight pellets), but the trigger is good on it and it has adjustable sights with a Lothar Walther barrel. No, it is not the same as firing my centerfires, but it does give me a chance to get some actual feedback on my trigger control over the winter.

That being said, I am not trying out a Laserlyte target which is pretty cool. I got the laser that fits in the muzzle and works off sound so that I can swap it from gun to gun.
 
I have for OPen division. I have a tanfoglio 38 super,..so I use a Tanfoglio airsoft with the same mount and Cmore (Chinese knock off), and it mimicks the dot movement. I hardly shoot open, so it saves on projectiles and brass. It helps me get used to the dot, and indexing as well.
 
I practiced twice this weekend. Spent an hour in the garage. Cost maybe $5 in ammo. BUT, more importantly, the wife didn't even realize that I was not available for that hour, SO, saved me from the whole "you don't spend time with your kids and you don't love them!" lecture. LOL.
 
Horse96 said:
I practiced twice this weekend. Spent an hour in the garage. Cost maybe $5 in ammo. BUT, more importantly, the wife didn't even realize that I was not available for that hour, SO, saved me from the whole "you don't spend time with your kids and you don't love them!" lecture. LOL.
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I get that...even though i shoot maybe 10 matches a year. I have not been to the range in a while. My practice ladt summer was very limited as i was home with the kids on my days off.. good fun with my boys..but not so good to practice. Ahhh..to be rich and make my own indoor range
 
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