Shooting .45 yesterday at the
Longview Range. We were shooting a bullseye pistol practice. Alan brought out his R
ansom rest to check a pistol or two. A Ransom Rest is a big table top pistol holder/vice/recoil mechanism. You take off the grips and clamp your pistol in the rest. One of the very reliable shooters has been in a bad slump. The ransom rest showed his .45 shooting all over the place at 50 yards. One of the guys spotted a cracked front bushing. Never seen or imagined a cracked front bushing. I'd hate to have to figure out HOW to crack one, but there it was.
The bushing had been broken for a regional match at the
Dallas Pistol club last week. It had scratched the outside of the barrel.
My
Les Baer service pistol shot 3 inch groups at 50 yards. Happy to see that. Everyone wanted a turn. Some
interesting pistols, came out.
I don't think Alan got to shoot his own pistols.
4 comments:
I saw a broken bushing of the old spring fingered Series 70 sort once back shooting IPSC at the South West Pistol League back in the '80's. But never a broken solid bushing.
This was gun built to shoot service pistol. I thought a bushing might WEAR eventually....but split?
That IS a weird malf... Agree with Robert.
I myself split a bushing not too long ago. That explains why it was tighter in the slide! A fitted Micro brand, it was cracked lengthwise all the way through after (cough)many years of service. But functioning was not detectably impaired.
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