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ENS and those IPSC days

#1 Post by EagerNoSkill »

Some pics from my days of shooting IPSC

in and around my years in police as well
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#2 Post by EagerNoSkill »

Part 2

When I got my provisional colours

By the way that Taurus PT92
3 barrel and 2 frames (had 3 falling blocks break/crack)
+- 250,000 9mmP through it
+- 70% were 146 grain lead roundnose
+- 20 124 gn lead conical
+10% 115 military ball / Self defence carry loads

I bought that very gun (my first) from Gerard Schultz of GS Custom fame!
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#3 Post by EagerNoSkill »

The Taurus PT92
This pistol is a licensed reproduction of the Beretta 92, and comes in a variety of finishes with a variety of grip styles.
Like the Beretta, the Taurus PT92 utilizes the open-slide design where the upper portion of the slide is cut away exposing much of the barrel itself. The original PT92 was exactly like the original Beretta 92, though it was also unusual for the time in that it featured a squared trigger guard for supporting the index finger of the opposite hand while firing, a feature which was subsequently introduced to the Beretta 92 with the 92SB-F (92F) model in 1985. The Taurus PT92 is less expensive than the Beretta 92 in most cases.

See my hand position in posts above - left hand index finger forward - very popular grip till mid 90's when full wrap around + isoscles stances became more "accepted"

Other versions of the PT92 include the PT99, which has an adjustable rear sight and a taller front sight, the compact PT92C version, and the PT100 and PT101, which are .40 S&W versions of the PT92 and PT99, respectively.
The Taurus PT92 has undergone many revisions in design since it was originally produced in the mid-1980s. Early PT92s and PT99s did not feature the third safety position decocker that is now standard; this feature was added to the second-generation models in the early-1990s, which also included the three-dot sights found on the Beretta 92F. A third revision in the late-90s changed the grip and slide design (which now has wider cocking serrations than PT92s manufactured before 1997).
More recently (as of 2005), Taurus has begun manufacturing the PT92 with built-in accessory rails on the frame, a feature found on the newer Beretta M9A1, a military upgrade of the Beretta 92F from which the PT92 is derived. While 15-round magazines were standard for the PT92 for many years, Taurus now manufactures 17-round magazines for the gun in order to give it comparable firepower to the Glock 17and aftermarket 30-round magazines are also available.
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#4 Post by ordnance »

Thankfully you can still shoot IPSC here. I bought the pistol below 5 years ago my favorite pistol the cz 75 is popular here. www.ipscni.org/
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#5 Post by Ovenpaa »

Crikey you look young Tim clapclap
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#6 Post by EagerNoSkill »

ovenpaa wrote:Crikey you look young Tim clapclap
what I haven't changed a single iota!!
I am still the baby faced, well groomed, trim fugly man I have always been!


well in me mind anyway! :55:
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#7 Post by toffe wrapper »

Tim
happy days cranking out loads of ammo on the press.
Weekends on the pi** at shield hardy shoot, stone lodge, harlow grader to name a few
used to shoot stock class with a 92f (drop hammer safety removed)then a glock 21.

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#8 Post by Enfield Enthusiast »

Wow, now this is a sight for my sore eyes, IPSC using real, centre-fire handguns. A far cry from the crap, the media has peddled about it, including the GCN.

Those pictures look as if they are from the late 80s or from the early to mid 1990s. By the way, they are nice pictures guys & this was something I missed out on. Also I like the pistol too.

Back in the pre-1996 days what handgun would have been a good starter for IPSC?
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#9 Post by johngarnett »

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Colt 1911, Colt1911 and Colt1911!

Just worked if you didn't try home gunsmithing
Looked pretty
Fed RNL like a dream
Big hole for scoring
Lots of stick on bits to make it go faster
You could sit in front of the TV caressing your piece. Try doing that now with a 30" TR rifle!
All the big boys in the US 'had the same gun as me'....not that that helped much!! (Wilson, Enos, Latham Chapman and, of course, Jeff Cooper!)
All shooting kit would fit into one range bag, not like today when I need a f**ging trolley to get to the line! (not age or alcohol related either!)
and that's just for starters..... clapclap

My, how I miss those days.

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#10 Post by Watcher »

That was always something I wanted to do but never had the time or money to go all the way. Had a 1911 and a Browning and the holsters etc. but never had the time to do the UKPSC training course (?) and so just dabbled at my clubs (Ham & Petersham then Blackburn). Maybe its a lesson to get off my a**e and to the gallery I keep thinking about!
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