Post by Rohn on Sept 3, 2013 16:32:52 GMT -5
Went shooting today with my little Davis “derringer” type handgun. It is a .22 Magnum with 2 ¾ “ barrel. That leaves only 1 ½ “ of barrel after the bullets are inserted.
I really wanted to see how it would shoot and record the success.
First I shot it at 10 feet from the target. The black on the target is 5.5” on this first target. The furthest distance between shots is 3.25”. I shot 10 shots off hand.
I moved back to 15 feet and shot this second target, again 10 shots off hand It did not turn out quite as good. Blame that on the shooter. The widest spread on this target was 4 inches. I was using up some targets I picked up at the NRA show a couple of years ago. They were giving them out as a promotion so I didn’t have the same size targets for this test. This one has a black center of three inches. It was actually the group sizes that I was interested in anyway.
I remember when I first got this little gun that the trigger pull was so heavy that I couldn’t shoot it without shaking. I took it home and began to work on it. I filled the hammer where the trigger mechanism meets it and the put it back together and tried it. It was better but still too heavy a pull. I took a sharpening stone and polished it a little bit. Then tried I it again, that did the trick, it was perfect. (I do not have a trigger pull gauge so I am not sure of the pull weight).
It was fun doing this gun test and I hope you find it as interesting as I did.
I really wanted to see how it would shoot and record the success.
First I shot it at 10 feet from the target. The black on the target is 5.5” on this first target. The furthest distance between shots is 3.25”. I shot 10 shots off hand.
I moved back to 15 feet and shot this second target, again 10 shots off hand It did not turn out quite as good. Blame that on the shooter. The widest spread on this target was 4 inches. I was using up some targets I picked up at the NRA show a couple of years ago. They were giving them out as a promotion so I didn’t have the same size targets for this test. This one has a black center of three inches. It was actually the group sizes that I was interested in anyway.
I remember when I first got this little gun that the trigger pull was so heavy that I couldn’t shoot it without shaking. I took it home and began to work on it. I filled the hammer where the trigger mechanism meets it and the put it back together and tried it. It was better but still too heavy a pull. I took a sharpening stone and polished it a little bit. Then tried I it again, that did the trick, it was perfect. (I do not have a trigger pull gauge so I am not sure of the pull weight).
It was fun doing this gun test and I hope you find it as interesting as I did.
