Who here shoots an Olympic style free pistol

caperaway said:
Confidence in your trigger control? I was at the Canadian Nationals a few years ago shooting in the next bay to a gentleman from AB who had been the Canadian Free Pistol Champ for many years. He has been attending the Nationals since the late seventies and represented Canada around the world.Many will know of whom I speak. As I was shooting next to him I was watching as he TAPS his trigger finger on his free pistol trigger while sighting on the target. I watched him tap the trigger about 10 times before firing the shot. Tapping a trigger that is measured in ounces says a lot about your confidence in your trigger control. That man is a shooter.
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Possible with a lot of overtravel in the trigger adjustment. Would be disastrous if pistol has a short overtravel setup, as shooter would more likely jerk sights off the aimpoint.
 
delta1 said:
Anyone know of a Toz-35 that might be available by person or dealer. Been looking and reading for some time. I like the idea of accuracy from work, rather than dial in the load set the scope and go. Thanks for the input so far.
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The TOZ 35 and other free pistols are hard to find in Canada. I sourced mine privately. I think it would be worth buying one from the US. They seem to be available on the US market, thru auction houses, the TargetTalk buy and sell forum, and online retailers, eg Bud's Gun Shop. A number seem to have been imported recently with the uncarved grips. These go for around US$500 or so, plus another $250 or whatever it costs to get it into Canada. The uncarved factory grip is not shootable so you have to either carve it yourself, or buy an aftermarket grip (eg Rink, or Precision Target Grips). I have also shot a Drulov 75 which also has a very light, set trigger and would be more than adequate altho not quite at the level of the TOZ. I could not be more pleased with my TOZ. It's highly accurate, but very unforgiving, with that long barrel. I found I had to practice trigger control in order to be able to touch the trigger without the pistol firing.
 
My only complaint with Hammerli 150 is the cocking lever. Feels like your at the brink of shearing that lever every time you #### it.
Sometimes you misfire if you are not paying attention to ensure a full #### of the firing mechanism.

That's a double edged sword too because it gives you a safe dry fire mechanism and an empty chamber.
 
I shot a lot of Bullseye pistol years ago when I was younger - was pretty competitive, won my share of matches in standard pistol, centerfire, rapid fire.
Bought a Toz 35 free pistol and tried it for awhile - neat piece of machinery, great accuracy potential - but I really struggled with it, long sight radius, extremely light trigger, they magnify any tiny mistake you make. A few times, I actually scored higher with my standard pistol (on the 50M free pistol target). Nothing wrong with the pistol though, just my technique.
 
Could be , has been yrs, but a 70 I had was standard trigger and the set trigger was 75 (78?) You pushed up on the set , the one in the picture above looks like you push down to set.
BTW That little Bushnell 3/4" pistol scope with the little clamp base would clamp right on the barrel rib, great gopher sniper.
caperaway said:
I have a 78 with a set trigger.
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Brutus you can dry fire the Toz by leaving the falling block open slightly and pulling the trigger to unload the spring. Once the main spring is unloaded close the action and dry fire with the set trigger till your hearts content.
The Morini is an electric trigger so you can dry fire it as well.
I have never had my hands on a Pardini free pistol to comment it.
 
I just read on wiki that they had drop Free Pistol in the Olympic , this would probably mean a slow death for the event.
It seem the Olympic has caught the liberal bug and is softly killing all the shooting event, the need for a special setup range for Standard Pistol / Rapid Pistol probably did not help.
Over the years, the Olympic has wanted the make the shooting events more entertaining, so I guess event like 50 pistol is too slow and "boring" as far as they are concern.
 
I have a Drulov 75 with a blade trigger that I took on trade thinking 'why not' and it is one of my favorite to shoot for sure!

I can shoot it at about 1/2 the distance that the true Olympians shoot LOL, but shooting groups it far out shoots my Ruger mark 2 target or S&W A22.
 
wai762 said:
I just read on wiki that they had drop Free Pistol in the Olympic , this would probably mean a slow death for the event.
It seem the Olympic has caught the liberal bug and is softly killing all the shooting event, the need for a special setup range for Standard Pistol / Rapid Pistol probably did not help.
Over the years, the Olympic has wanted the make the shooting events more entertaining, so I guess event like 50 pistol is too slow and "boring" as far as they are concern.
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This is disgraceful news but sadly not a surprise.
Just before the Olympics in the UK, English officials desired to drop pentathlon air pistol event for some kind of ghey light emitting toy pistol.

It was defeated thankfully.

But we just lost another REAL shooting event.
I got to send a parcel to those @$$&+/ I.O.C. (liberal bedwetters)
in protest!
 
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