Awesome S & W 41....
For the last few years I've been shooting my Woodsmen pistols, but on my 64th birthday yesterday, I took out my 7" S&W 41 Ser. A603XXX and shooting Federal Gold Medal ammo I shot several 3" groups at 40 yards from a rest . I'd sort of forgotten what a smooth shooter the 41 is!
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The old 41's I have shot were nice. 0 -
And the question is? [;)] 0 -
the question is...why the HECK did I let mine go ?????
DOH !!!!!!!!0 -
"Shooting it from a rest", says it all to me. They are wonderful guns! But way to heavy, for off hand shooting. Unless you have Arnolds muscles, and do a lot of practicing. I even had one with a original, S & W light "Sport" barrel on mine. Still got rid of it. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by rufe-snow
"Shooting it from a rest", says it all to me. They are wonderful guns! But way to heavy, for off hand shooting. Unless you have Arnolds muscles, and do a lot of practicing. I even had one with a original, S & W light "Sport" barrel on mine. Still got rid of it.
Its *supposed* to be heavy!
I like the Smith 41, but honestly, like my High Standard better.
Trigger and sights are just as good (if not actually better) and I just like the overall balance and ergonomics better. These kinds of things are pretty subjective, obviously. Some people prefer the Smith over the High Standard, and I wouldn't fault anyone for that.
If you're putting it in a rest, pretty much ANY .22 is capable of shooting better than 99% of shooters, so I think things like "feel" and ergonomics are disproportionately important when you're looking at match pistols. Most of the Olympic type pistol shooters use European match guns like Walther and Pardini.
Not incidentally, diameter of the 50 yard NRA bullseye slow fire X ring is 1.685"; the 10 ring is 3.36".
A 3" group at only 40 yards with match ammo off a rest? I won't say that's not good shooting (because its still quite good), but I'd hope the **GUN** at least, is capable of better!
Standard rule of thumb in bullseye is that the GUN be capable of holding them all in the X ring at 50 (not 40) yards.0
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