Famicom Light Gun defective?

[nerdynebraskan]

I recently picked up an original Famicom Light Gun untested and as-is from a Nintendo Age member. It does seem to fire, but I couldn't seem to hit anything with it. Even with the gun right up against the screen, I only got one stray hit (against about 200 misses) in a round of Mad City. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

[SukkoPera]

You are using a CRT TV, aren't you?

[number47]

And your CRT needs to have refreshrate lower than 100Hz

[jpx72]

And your CRT needs to have refreshrate lower than 100Hz

Really? Man, I have to test that bigass CRT that I brought to my room recently!

[nerdynebraskan]

Yeah, I'm still using a CRT TV. I should've mentioned that in the first post. As for its exact specs, I'm not sure. But I'm fairly sure it's not a TV issue, as all of my other light guns work fine. (NES Zapper, FC Hyper Shot, SMS Light Phaser, SNES Super Scope, Genesis Justifier... I love light guns!)

[number47]

I was a bit dissapointed when realized that my bigass LG CRT was too newschool to handle the zapper. So if I feel like hunting ducks I use an old 14' TV for this.

[P]

Maybe you could post the TVs model number, nerdy.

Mad City works on my PAL TV (all in black and white though) but not Duck Hunt for some reason.