Pardini GPR16 - Official Field Target model

[AdminMASTER]

...scoop for 2017 - Pardini will be offering their FT model...to be viewed / released at IWA 2017...

tech details & more pics to follow

NB: this is - am told - a prototype and not final production model..

[NeilM]

Looks like a meaty beast.

Also looks like the stock is heavily influenced by ISP, either that or they had Shaun machine it for them.

[richardhurst]

Looks good. Will follow this one with interest

[Jon]

Lovely rub marks inside stock where cylinders rubbed, machined off centre.
Couple of improvements in two years, not hard to achieve but still a real sloppy bolt and disgusting workmanship.

[BenGun]

Take it from Jon , he's doing my second one, what he says is true.
It's long as well, wish I'd never sold the first one Jon converted for me , the first one in the world.
No2 Should be finished soon, I'll post some photos when I get it.
I love them , but I don't rate the factory FT one much at all , get a 6Ft/lbs and get a conversion done.
As for suspected influence of ISP design , I doubt that very much they probably have never heard of or come across an ISP , they have bean building the target version for years which this particular FT model above in the photo is based on.
The new target rifle does look somewhat different again to the model above, so my new one will look different from the above .
Jon loves em really , but not as much as me.
The new owner of No1 has done some stunning cosmetic work on it now , it looks great.

[AdminMASTER]

..unfortunately the "GPR16" was not on display at IWA

Instead I got a USB stick with all the marketing stuff...

If you look closely at the zoomed up pictured, it seems like the GPR16 text on the stock was photoshoped on... and the block action simply has "GPR1"

..and why are there 10m diopters ? and where's the butt hook ? - seems like they rushed out the marketing material...

Sounds like they have no idea what the Field Target set up must be like...

Anyway -

[NeilM]

A manufacturer turning out an FT rifle without checking the requirements with FT shooters? Surely not.

I'm sure they will have done extensive R&D, and passed preproduction rifles to experienced FT shooters to critique.

Mind, if Air Arms can't be bothered with such nonsense, why should Pardini worry.

[BenGun]

who are you ????
If you know so much , you would know that Pardini have given some FT shooters some of the rifles for trials, and that those rifles are pre production models .

[AdminMASTER]

..well...advertised with same pic from their marketing USB key here: https://www.gunsweek.com/en/pistols/sho ... ducts-2017

Am having a quiet chuckle at the expense of that picture with the caption "Pardini's new GPR16 high-powered rifle"

Anyway, have contacted Pardini requesting Kosher genuine pics when they've sorted it out..

In meantime, BenGun's rifle is the ONLY existing UNIQUE real McCoy ... done by the Guru

[BenGun]

Yep, and still the first one ever done , the guy I sold it to was over the moon with it .
The Guru is doing No2 for me as we speak .
I have to agree with you , it's a 10meter rifle with a couple of extra stickers on it .
I'll post photos of Pardini GPR1 TOP No2 12/ft Lbs conversion when I get it .
Have you noticed , still,engraved on the side "by NICCO" , really , he's the 10 meter guy who helped put the GPR1 together , as far as I'm aware he has nothing to do with `FT.