Pistoleros,
As I’ve been threatening for a while now, looks like I’m fathering another Field Target bastard. Weather permitting, MAGNUM Pistol Field Target will be born March 1.
Because the necessary, but missing puzzle piece has now been found to make the previous gleam in my eye become reality (no, not Viagra), MagPFT is growing from conception to delivery. Translation- it’s happening!
Said missing puzzle piece was a production air pistol capable of power and accuracy enough to stretch pistol field target not only beyond all previous bounds, but beyond the bounds of the imagination. Correction- any imagination but mine.
Power limit for Magnum PFT is 40 foot pounds; DOUBLE that of EXTREME Pistol FT, and 333% that of AAFTA PFT! Maximum target distances will be 80 yards; no elaboration or enlivenment required.
But in deference to the extreme pistol distances, scope magnification limit rises to 16X, rather than 12X. Otherwise MPFT rules are the same as Extreme PFT rules.
My next TEXtreme Airgun Sports Extreme Field Target weekend being the first weekend of March, a Magnum Pistol class will be recognized in the Saturday, March 1 Extreme PFT match; shot on the EPFT course, incorporating Extreme pistol and rifle targets. If at least three shooters enter the Magnum pistol class, there will be awards.
The missing puzzle piece making my lively imagination possible-reality came from the most unlikely of places… CHINA! However, strange bedfellows produce ‘unique’ offspring, that might otherwise never live.
Contrary to (ALL) Chinese products of the not-too-distant past, the Huben GK1 semi-automatic PCP pistol is neither cheap, nor toy. Nay, it is fine quality, accurate, powerful with a capital P, and expensive with a capital E! And although it doesn’t go where no others have gone before (Crosman produced excellent quality .22 semi-automatic Co2 pistols in the 1960s), the GK1 takes its combination of quality, power, accuracy and performance to a reasonable-size place none others have gone before. And also an exhilarating-FUN place none others have gone, or experienced before. But rather than elaborate on that previous sentence, I’ll leave such elaborations to countless GK1 posts on this forum (and elsewhere, like YouTube).
Believe it or not, the 40 foot pound Magnum PFT power limit is a perfect example of a perfect rule; that being an equipment rule that not only recognizes a particular piece of equipment endowing substantial advantage(s), but imposes a restriction not just minimizing, but negating said advantage(s). Hence, forty foot pounds was decided on to counteract the ballistic advantage a 50+ foot pound .25 GK1 would have over a less powerful .22 GK1. And although there are other reasons, that reason is genius enough.
The power-limit rule will have the same effect on other, as-powerful pistols that might come available when and if other manufacturers recognize financial opportunity. In fact, word in the airgun grapevine is there is one manufacturer possibly doing so; purportedly soon. I won’t bother to expound on rumor or speculation, other than to say it sounds feasible. It would be nice to have an American-made
option.
Happy Handgunning, Y’all!
P.S.- Although I realize there is no size reference for this 19 shot, full-magazine group shot last night at 50 yards in light winds with my .22 GK1 firing 18.1 grain JSBs at 863 FPS/30 foot-pounds, the group measures 1.20" center-to-center.
P.P.S.- Where else ya'll gonna get this kinda cutting-edge reporting?
.
As I’ve been threatening for a while now, looks like I’m fathering another Field Target bastard. Weather permitting, MAGNUM Pistol Field Target will be born March 1.
Because the necessary, but missing puzzle piece has now been found to make the previous gleam in my eye become reality (no, not Viagra), MagPFT is growing from conception to delivery. Translation- it’s happening!
Said missing puzzle piece was a production air pistol capable of power and accuracy enough to stretch pistol field target not only beyond all previous bounds, but beyond the bounds of the imagination. Correction- any imagination but mine.
Power limit for Magnum PFT is 40 foot pounds; DOUBLE that of EXTREME Pistol FT, and 333% that of AAFTA PFT! Maximum target distances will be 80 yards; no elaboration or enlivenment required.
But in deference to the extreme pistol distances, scope magnification limit rises to 16X, rather than 12X. Otherwise MPFT rules are the same as Extreme PFT rules.My next TEXtreme Airgun Sports Extreme Field Target weekend being the first weekend of March, a Magnum Pistol class will be recognized in the Saturday, March 1 Extreme PFT match; shot on the EPFT course, incorporating Extreme pistol and rifle targets. If at least three shooters enter the Magnum pistol class, there will be awards.
The missing puzzle piece making my lively imagination possible-reality came from the most unlikely of places… CHINA! However, strange bedfellows produce ‘unique’ offspring, that might otherwise never live.
Contrary to (ALL) Chinese products of the not-too-distant past, the Huben GK1 semi-automatic PCP pistol is neither cheap, nor toy. Nay, it is fine quality, accurate, powerful with a capital P, and expensive with a capital E! And although it doesn’t go where no others have gone before (Crosman produced excellent quality .22 semi-automatic Co2 pistols in the 1960s), the GK1 takes its combination of quality, power, accuracy and performance to a reasonable-size place none others have gone before. And also an exhilarating-FUN place none others have gone, or experienced before. But rather than elaborate on that previous sentence, I’ll leave such elaborations to countless GK1 posts on this forum (and elsewhere, like YouTube).
Believe it or not, the 40 foot pound Magnum PFT power limit is a perfect example of a perfect rule; that being an equipment rule that not only recognizes a particular piece of equipment endowing substantial advantage(s), but imposes a restriction not just minimizing, but negating said advantage(s). Hence, forty foot pounds was decided on to counteract the ballistic advantage a 50+ foot pound .25 GK1 would have over a less powerful .22 GK1. And although there are other reasons, that reason is genius enough.
The power-limit rule will have the same effect on other, as-powerful pistols that might come available when and if other manufacturers recognize financial opportunity. In fact, word in the airgun grapevine is there is one manufacturer possibly doing so; purportedly soon. I won’t bother to expound on rumor or speculation, other than to say it sounds feasible. It would be nice to have an American-made
option.Happy Handgunning, Y’all!
P.S.- Although I realize there is no size reference for this 19 shot, full-magazine group shot last night at 50 yards in light winds with my .22 GK1 firing 18.1 grain JSBs at 863 FPS/30 foot-pounds, the group measures 1.20" center-to-center.
P.P.S.- Where else ya'll gonna get this kinda cutting-edge reporting?
.
