German Performance Center Target Champion's

FT1837 said:

Unfortunately I don't have any reliable sources for this, but I would estimate the number to be around 100.

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FT1837 said:

These weapons are purchased by private individuals on the German market and exported to the USA. It's an expensive undertaking, as customs duties and export permits are required for each weapon, but it's worth it since prices in the USA are ridiculously high. A pistol that sold for $2,000 in Germany is offered on gunbroker for $3,500-4,500.

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olds350rocket said:

Thank you for the responses. This is the most information we have received from "across the pond" to date. It's why I post these guns from time to time (they get shot regularly ) . You never know who might see the thread and respond.

It would be cool to get some more history on them, chat with the original owners, maybe get copies of the import/export paperwork, see if they had been used in competition ect ect. There's really not much information on them. I wonder what Kurt did with the original 5inch numbers matching barrels from all the 6inch conversions he did.

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bigggbbruce said:

I ran across an ad the other day, private seller, 5906 Target Champion. Asking $3000.

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FT1837 said:

Oschatz manufactured new six-inch barrels for his models. The barrel blank is by Lothar Walther with a polygonal barrel profile. They were then specially surface-hardened; how and with what is his trade secret.
As always, there are few official explanations for this, but it is said that around the year 2000, S&W USA asked him to buy his patents, and he refused. As a result, he was no longer allowed to supply him with new weapons that he could modify. Whether this is true, only he knows.

The original 5-inch barrels were not included with the purchase of the 6-inch pistol; they were probably sold as spare parts on the secondary market.

I shoot my Target Champions at the competitions shown above; they are very good and absolutely capable of winning the title of German Champion, but there are better ones in their classes. The SIG 210-5 Heavy Frame (also modified by Oschatz) fires 5 shots with an outer bore diameter of 17mm at 25m. Not from the ransom rest, but from the hand! In .45, the Strayer Voigt Infinity is a bit better, in my opinion. But these are nuances, and who can do that in person at a competition?

The Longslide originals from Smith Wesson are beautiful, but neither in terms of precision nor trigger mechanism do they come close to the Oschatz modifications.

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joedegs said:

Would you happen to know if the original 5” barrel would still fit after Oschatz’s modifications?

I didn’t know that trigger work was done as well. Most people here in the US would never have their S&W PC semi-auto worked on or modified because of the quality that’s already there. And they would not want to remove original parts due to the collectibility of these pieces. But to think, someone actually made these pistols better as if it was a custom 1911.

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joedegs said:

Here’s a place that has a lot of used S&Ws in stock. Searched 5906 to find these. Click top left corner, search at the bottom.

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joedegs said:

Here’s a place that has a lot of used S&Ws in stock. Searched 5906 to find these. Click top left corner, search at the bottom.

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olds350rocket said:

Also here's the Oschatz muzzle weight disassembled . Very simple design when you see it apart.

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4T5GUY said:

It’s nice to see another way for attaching other than epoxy.

J

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