Posted: 12/2/2011 1:16:53 PM EDT
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Ran into one in a local shop, and boy it feels good, has two "tuned for it" mags and the original 50yd test target - $2K'ish
I'm in the market for a semi-custom (think TRP, or <$1500), but this Nowlin is in my head. Anybody have any experience with them? |
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A recoil spring change fixes that. And maybe a mainspring. I don't have any personal experience with it, but I have read that some of the older Bullseye guns had excessively tight bushings and, therefore, may be less reliable. Nothing a little time at the range or hand lapping shouldn't fix. I'd still go with the Nowlin, hands down. |
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I don't have any personal experience with it, but I have read that some of the older Bullseye guns had excessively tight bushings and, therefore, may be less reliable. Nothing a little time at the range or hand lapping shouldn't fix. I'm a BE shooter and my 'tight' barrel bushings have been 100% reliable over thousands of rounds. The bushing is tight against the slide, but is fitted to allow the barrel to move without binding. The myth of a 'too tight' gun was started by people who couldn't build them to spec, so they sold their customers on having to break in parts that weren't correctly fitted. Target shooters don't want malfunctioning guns that cost them points in a match, so we tend to buy ones that are correctly built. |
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I don't have any personal experience with it, but I have read that some of the older Bullseye guns had excessively tight bushings and, therefore, may be less reliable. Nothing a little time at the range or hand lapping shouldn't fix. I'm a BE shooter and my 'tight' barrel bushings have been 100% reliable over thousands of rounds. The bushing is tight against the slide, but is fitted to allow the barrel to move without binding. The myth of a 'too tight' gun was started by people who couldn't build them to spec, so they sold their customers on having to break in parts that weren't correctly fitted. Target shooters don't want malfunctioning guns that cost them points in a match, so we tend to buy ones that are correctly built. Good point. But will it bind when run hard and dirty. There is still some trade off of reliability vs accuracy, even in a properly fitted gun. |
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I don't have any personal experience with it, but I have read that some of the older Bullseye guns had excessively tight bushings and, therefore, may be less reliable. Nothing a little time at the range or hand lapping shouldn't fix. I'm a BE shooter and my 'tight' barrel bushings have been 100% reliable over thousands of rounds. The bushing is tight against the slide, but is fitted to allow the barrel to move without binding. The myth of a 'too tight' gun was started by people who couldn't build them to spec, so they sold their customers on having to break in parts that weren't correctly fitted. Target shooters don't want malfunctioning guns that cost them points in a match, so we tend to buy ones that are correctly built. Good point. But will it bind when run hard and dirty. There is still some trade off of reliability vs accuracy, even in a properly fitted gun. The stoppages I've personally seen or experienced have all been feedway related. I stopped cleaning my wad gun at one point and only oiled it when it started to short chamber. I finally had to break it down for a detailed cleaning and found the chamber, feedramp, and breech face so pack with crud that I couldn't believe it was still running. Two areas weren't very dirty, the rails and the inside of the bushing. The front of the slide gets filthy,but that dirt doesn't seem to get packed into the bushing. |