Posted: 11/3/2011 11:55:50 AM EDT
| I am thinking of getting a Springfield Range Officer as my first 1911, for Bull's Eye shooting. Any comments or concerns with that, or any thoughts on a different gun? I would appreciate any feedback. |
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I am thinking of getting a Springfield Range Officer as my first 1911, for Bull's Eye shooting. Any comments or concerns with that, or any thoughts on a different gun? I would appreciate any feedback. I am sure it's a fine gun. However it is a factory gun, conventional pistol is shot to 50 yard. You are going to need something that shoots into 3" at 50 yard. If you spend some time googling you'll read why this is so - basically because if the gun shoots into 6" or so you'll never know if you missed because trigger control was bad or because the gun threw a shot. Again nothing wrong with the Springfield but if you are actually serious about BE then you will need a more accurate gun in the $1600 range maybe (Clark custom, Baer, etc). ETA: Yeah again, if by bullseye shooting you mean shooting at bullseye paper targets at some random range, sure it's fine. If you mean actual NRA Outdoor Conventional Pistol or CMP then you will need a more accurate gun. Also a better plan would be to just stick with a .22 for right now and only shoot the .22 portions of the match (Ruger MkII with a better trigger is fine) and then save up for a better 1911. |
| for bulleye you would possibly need two diffeent 45's-one for cmp harball distingushed matches,which has it's own set of rules and one for conventional nra bullseye. you can use a cmp hardball gun for both but not the other way around. CMP distinguished matches require what is called a hardball gun- it has to with the exception of sights be similar in external configuration to a GI gun- no beavertail round hammer etc.these limitations don't exist for regular NRA bullseye matches. |