[Recoil Rob]

Anything I should stay away from? Hi Velocity OK?

 

[photoracer]

Anything I should stay away from? Hi Velocity OK?

Target guns from those days were normally setup for SV ammo so CCI-SV is likely the easiest to get that completely cycle the action.

 

[bn12gg]

Federal 550 bulk works fine.

.02 David

 

[IPSC]

These guns are good with just about anything. It's just that HV will beat the mechanism up a bit more.

Ironically....all the cheap/"Bulk" stuff available today...is HV, therefore a conundrum...

 

[lowbudget]

install a buffer made for a BUCKMARK - white in color - fitting required :bthumb:

 

[M2HB]

It will shoot anything reasonable. I would stay away from Hyper Velocity ammo, even though I have shot a lot of it in mine. I'm trying to wear it out.
I suggest that you trim down a white BuckMark buffer and put it in front of the recoil lug. The recoil feels better with the buffer and the dampening from the buffer is easier on the pistol.

 

[M2HB]

I have shot about 150,000 rounds through one of my Challengers and most of that ammo was Federal bulk ammo.

 

[Recoil Rob]

Re; a Buckmark buffer, is that a Browning OEM part made specifically for the Buckmark pistol or aftermarket?

 

[lowbudget]

i saw one listed at midway.com

 

[M2HB]

Re; a Buckmark buffer, is that a Browning OEM part made specifically for the Buckmark pistol or aftermarket?

The white buffer is made by Browning for the BuckMark. You need to trim the sides and radius the back, bottom for it to fit right.

 

[M2HB]

Here is a picture of it in front of the recoil lug.

 

[Recoil Rob]

Midway shows the white one as being for the Buckmark Rifle and a black one for the Buckmark Pistol.

Just to confirm, I want the white one for my Challenger pistol?

http://www.midwayusa.com/find?userSearchQuery=buckmark+buffer

 

[remnar]

My Challenger runs well with everything that I've tried, but CCI subsonic seems to be the most accurate.

-remnar

 

[chim]

Midway shows the white one as being for the Buckmark Rifle and a black one for the Buckmark Pistol.

Just to confirm, I want the white one for my Challenger pistol?

http://www.midwayusa.com/find?userSearchQuery=buckmark+buffer

The white one is what you want. It is indeed for the rifle - as well as post-2000 Buck Marks. The buffer change happened when Browning changed the firing pin block.

The black one has a slightly different shape that makes it less suitable for the Belgian pistols.

 

[Recoil Rob]

Thank you Gentlemen.

 

[Quiet 1]

I don't want to hijack this thread, just hitchhike on it.

But, Chim, M2HB, bn12gg, ISPC, photoracer, remnar and all you other hard core Belgium guys, (you know who you are). Do all of you use the trimmed, white Buckmark buffers in all your Belgium's?

I may have missed the boat on this mod and I put a LOT of rounds through my Belgium's. (To the OP: I use exclusively, in all my rimfire pistols and revolvers, CCI SV and I find it to be 100% reliable and trouble free.)

Thanks in advance for your replies and allowing me to hitchhike on the thread.

 

[M2HB]

I don't want to hijack this thread, just hitchhike on it.

But, Chim, M2HB, bn12gg, ISPC, photoracer, remnar and all you other hard core Belgium guys, (you know who you are). Do all of you use the trimmed, white Buckmark buffers in all your Belgium's?

I may have missed the boat on this mod and I put a LOT of rounds through my Belgium's. (To the OP: I use exclusively, in all my rimfire pistols and revolvers, CCI SV and I find it to be 100% reliable and trouble free.)

Thanks in advance for your replies and allowing me to hitchhike on the thread.

Chim came up with the idea when we were discussing what BuckMark parts could be used in the Belgium pistols. I had already used the BuckMark disconnector spring, and at the time I didn't own any BuckMarks. Chim trimmed down the sides of a white buffer. I tried it and liked it. The only thing different that I did was to give it a radius in the back bottom to comform to the shape of my pistols recoil lug. I won't run a Belgium pistol without it anymore, and I've been using it since I had about 80,000 rounds through my Challenger. I now have over 150,000 rounds. The recoil feels much better and you don't have a metal to metal hammering contact.
You don't need it with the steel framed Belgium pistols, but it can't hurt. I wouldn't run an alloy framed Nomad without it.

 

[chim]

I use one on the pistol I shoot the most.

 

[remnar]

I haven't used one but I don't shoot my Challenger a lot, and I'm thinking about adding one to my Nomad (eventhough it has a steel frame).

-remnar