New shooter's question.... practicing with a 22LR

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strikeraj

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I want to shoot in ipsc but currently as a student I cannot afford the cost of it (ammo, travelling, etc)
so I would like to start practicing with a 22LR
I am just wondering how I can practice with a 22LR pistol to prepare for ipsc shooting in the coming years when I graduate?
Thanks very much
 
Dry firing is something all good shooters do. If you get a centerfire gun that has a 22 conversion kit (Glock, 1911s) you can dryfire with the regualr barrel and then use the conversion kit for the range.

Practise your mag changes until you can do them blindfolded. Learn how to do the wall drill until your front sight remains still all the time. The best thing to do would be to attend some of the local club nights and talk to the people there.

Hope this little bit helps. I am sure others will pipe in with more advice.
 
4string said:
Dry firing is something all good shooters do. If you get a centerfire gun that has a 22 conversion kit (Glock, 1911s) you can dryfire with the regualr barrel and then use the conversion kit for the range.

Practise your mag changes until you can do them blindfolded. Learn how to do the wall drill until your front sight remains still all the time. The best thing to do would be to attend some of the local club nights and talk to the people there.

Hope this little bit helps. I am sure others will pipe in with more advice.
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Hi
Thx for ur reply.
So you would suggest me to get an IPSC handgun with a 22LR conversion kit instead of a rimfire pistol like ruger markIII or browning buckmark?
If I can only afford a rimfire pistol now, what practices can I do?
Cause generally the rimfire pistols are quite different from the IPSC pistols in terms of grip and point and reload. Please tell me if I am wrong about this.
and sorry for a noob question, what is a wall drill?
 
strikeraj said:
Hi
Thx for ur reply.
So you would suggest me to get an IPSC handgun with a 22LR conversion kit instead of a rimfire pistol like ruger markIII or browning buckmark?
If I can only afford a rimfire pistol now, what practices can I do?
Cause generally the rimfire pistols are quite different from the IPSC pistols in terms of grip and point and reload. Please tell me if I am wrong about this.
and sorry for a noob question, what is a wall drill?
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If you can swing it...look for a used G17. Do dry fire excercises (free ;) ) and get to the range once in a while for a very focused practice session (100 rounds or less)

The Ruger or Browning are good to learn to shoot in general...but will be of very little help with IPSC excercises. You can buy a .22 top end for your Glock if you really want one...they even come up for sale used once in a while.
 
Isn't there a Ruger with a 1911 style grip. That said, I would agree with getting almost any kind of centrefire that is usable for IPSC rather than a 22. A Norc 1911 in 9mm would be usable, cheap to buy and cheap to shoot. Oh yes, learn to reload too, no one can afford to be serious about IPSC without reloading!
 
ian_in_vic said:
Isn't there a Ruger with a 1911 style grip. That said, I would agree with getting almost any kind of centrefire that is usable for IPSC rather than a 22. A Norc 1911 in 9mm would be usable, cheap to buy and cheap to shoot. Oh yes, learn to reload too, no one can afford to be serious about IPSC without reloading!
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The Ruger would be a good choice for a .22, but you can get a inexpensive centerfire used for the same money.

As for reloading, if you are shooting 38 super, I'll agree with you, but if you are shooting 9mm or 40 you can get ammo from Kurt at Combat Masters that is almost as cheap and is more than match winning capable.
 
Good trigger control is universal, regardless of what kind of grip angle you have. Gun handling/trigger control you learn on a browning or ruger .22 will translate to any other handgun when you switch over to IPSC.
 
Look at the air pistol replicas sold by Umarex. They are licenced by S&W, Beretta, etc. http://www.umarex.com/index.php?id=products&L=en&displaymode=0&no_cache=1&haupt_id=1&unter_id=1

I use a Umarex Beretta .17 CO2 pistol to practice in my basement. Ammo is very very cheap, altogether about a cheap as, maybe cheaper than .22LR when you factor in the pellets and the cartridges.

The pistols have just about the same dimensions, weight and balance of the real handguns.

And, in case readers missed this: You can practice at home. Be careful not to shoot the drywall in the master bedroom. Don't ask how I know that.
 
v65magnafan said:
Oh yeah, and also, confine your basement competition practice to times when your wife isn't ironing.
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Words to live by. :D

Also in a pinch (ie. no time to run out for putty, wife is on the way home) White flour can fill an otherwise conspicuous pellet hole in your wall. :rolleyes:
 
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Crossman makes(or used to make) a .177 caliber CO2 conversion for 1911 pistols. I bought one a bunch of years ago and it was the single most important tool I owned for teaching me trigger control. The pellet takes longer to traverse the barrel than a pistol round does...quite a bit longer...so you have to focus big-time on follow-through.

So any servicable 1911 pistol for real shooting when time and funds permit and the pellet gun top end conversion for at home practice and you have the best of both worlds.
 
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