[Jeff Higgins]

A friend of mine that runs a shooting supply company in Idaho has won the NRA long range championship with a Borchardt. So, let me clarify - it's legal for long range, just not silhouette.

Borchardts have weird triggers, a function of the early striker fired action. There is nothing you can do to remove all of the slop, creep, and over travel. It's worth getting used to that, though, as the other advantages outweigh that shortcoming. The lack of all that swinging hammer mass, and the offset blow when it lands, can be seen when dry firing one. A '74 really jumps around when the hammer falls, where a Borchardt doesn't even move.