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A hot prod would only be necessary if it was horse drawn.

If they were both ducks, I would get it and laugh. But I'm gonna need this one explained. Yes, joke ruined, but I don't get it. On edit: I'm not blond either, so legit not getting it.

I have seen many white hearses. And flames which would send a mixed message indeed.

A picture would be great.

Considered buying a bottle of APP from a local gun shop and loading with it. There is a long list of merchants in NY that stock APP. It won't rust your original and will make a satisfying cloud of white smoke when fired. The Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook has smokeless load for trapdoors if you choose to load with smokeless. You are unlikely to see Unique for sale anytime soon based on recent info from Vista Outdoors.

For shame @Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062

I posted this thread's initial question while I was working on the video attached below. We don't collapse categories, but I could easily model what the impact would have been had we done so using our registration data. In the video below I describe what I learned from this exercise. I'm giving this group an early opportunity to view it before making it available to a wider audience. Right now, this video is categorized as "unlisted" on YouTube which means people must have a direct link to find it. Suffice it to say I found little upside for us to collapse categories and will continue to offer a hybrid model where we offer all Protected and a select number of Unprotected Categories, and then sticking with them.

Up for sale is 1 Howell Arms Ruger Old Army 45 Colt, 6 round Conversion Cylinder. This cylinder came with a stainless ROA that I purchased recently and I think I’d prefer a stainless cylinder, so if you’ve got one of those let’s TRADE! If not, $225 gets it shipped right to ya!

The .405 JES was/is a wildcat based on the .444 case, but used a .411 bullet. I remember reading about an Australian a decade back who was experimenting with necking the .444 down to .40 and calling it the .40-.444, of course.

DON'T LOAD SMOKELESS POWDER in that rifle!

It’s your gun. But….. I would never run smokeless in a gun that wasn’t proofed for it. The pressure spike with smokeless is much faster than BP. a guy likened it to pulling a car out of a ditch. Put a chain on the bumper, ease into the load and pull it out verses put a chain on the bumper, leave 20’ of slack. Hit it hard with the pulling vehicle. You will likely snatch the bumper off the stuck car.

How come what? If someone is joining SASS, they need a unique alias. If Joe Blow shows up and he is allowed to shoot, his alias can be about anything as long as it's unique to the match. Or anyone that sometimes shoots at that club. Usually the guy well stand there and fill out his paperwork. If he doesn't come up with an alias, the sign in person will suggest one. It well may be taken by someone somewhere sometime. But it's a trivial infraction to get the guy going. Most will have one if they come back. Some even keep the one given to them. One guy came in with awful feet. Could hardly get around. Explained he'd had an operation on this feet for a bone spur. He became Bone Spur and never changed.

It is an original. The guy I got it from gave me a box he loaded with 12 gr of unique. I ran through thise and was looking to get a new load to try.

Thanks, I am just getting into reloading. I have a friend reloading for me now and we load my 45 colt with trail boss. He did suggest 5744 buy just looking for ideas to get started on my own.

I assume this is a repro trapdoor and not an original? I have an original that I only shoot BP with. My H&R cadet model shoots well with a 305 cast bullet with 14.2 grains Unique.

it all depends on what powder ya got made some with Trail Boss , before it became unobtanium , run out of gas a bit too fast went to 5744 , now that seems to have gone the way of the dodo CB

I was reading about old threads and archives, this article came to mind. It is a letter to the Chronicle editor from 2010. Try not to get too worked up This is for fun, not fighting. Just highlighting what 13 years will do. If this post offends the moderators have my blessing to delete it. YMMV Castalia. SASS Chronicle December 2010 Page 14 Real Cowboys Shoot Duelist! By J. P. Lower, SASS #18563 Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, the souped up single action spoke as the target clanged its answer. The onlookers admired the speed with which the shooter thumbed back the hammer and fired accurately at each plate. Then his shotgun swung into action, accurate but festooned with slick tricks to give an advantage. The rifle wasn’t any different either. Why, I never saw so much flash coming off the gun instead of from the muzzle! Sure could have used these during the Ute wars, that’s sure, but we didn’t have ‘em like that in old Colorado, did we? I don’t recollect anyone ever coming to me and asking for a slicked up action or short stroke conversions. And that two handed hold … what limp wrist New York greenhorn brought this to the West? I took his Colt and was shocked by the sissy light hammer pull. Hickok would have thrown it into Cherry Creek! Last I checked, this started as a man’s sport, with the women and children welcome if they could handle the equipment. Oh, I know their springs and things had to be lightened, but you’d expect this with women and children, not men. Good gosh, some of these guns have been so afflicted they border on being unsafe to use! I see no excuse for a man to dress like a tough hombre and shoot a sissified firearm. I’ve said in the past, the gun manufacturers used heavy springs for a reason, principally safety and surety of fire. Yes, I know the coil springs that these new fangeled gunsmiths are using are strong and reliable, but chop[1]ping up a good Colt or Winchester to use ‘em just don’t make a heck of a lot of sense! Everybody says they need an edge in this here Cowboy Action Shooting™, but what’s wrong with using the guns with stock parts and learning to use them “as is” to build an edge? Strengthen your thumbs, your wrists and arms with practice, by gum, instead of tricks. I will wager those who have these slick sissy guns can’t hold a candle to the cowboy shooters who shoot as we did in old Denver. Duelist I think you call it today. That’s where you use one hand to shoot your Colt, if I’m not mistaken, and your lever action rifle goes CHUNK-CHUNK instead of KISS-KISS when you lever a round. Say, that reminds me of my first cowboy shoot ever some 15 years back. Lassiter was in attendance, and we all know and respect this man for his ability and style, and advocacy of the Cowboy Action hobby. A friendlier, more helpful gentleman would be hard to find. I had never seen him shoot, and I followed his stages all day. I saw that, at the time, he was using a Colt with a lightened action and a two handed hold, gunfighter I think you call it. He also had a shotgun that he loaded from the side while it was still at his shoulder, quite a sight to see indeed. I was using a side-by[1]side hammer gun. We both had our share of misses that day, but when the tally was read off that afternoon, he had only outshot me by seven seconds! I knew those seconds had been eaten up by my double shot[1]gun fumbling, but my point here is that I had never done this before, and I was using stock, original antique guns with factory springs, and I still nearly matched him. All my previous shooting for years had been with unaltered Colts and Winchesters. I feel this illustrates clearly all the light springs and overpolished parts in the world still can’t help if you don’t know your firearms and how to shoot them. And, I also feel I am not the only person who has seen the sport degenerate into, what’s that called again, oh yes, Cowboy IPSIC. Furthermore, we issue a challenge to those sissy gun shooters: Meet us anytime, anywhere, using stock firearms, and we’ll see who has the “edge.

I like the story posted at the cemetery’s Potter’s Field. This is where indigents and people of ill repute were buried. Mr. Holliday certainly had a mixed reputation among civilized town folk, and after three months in a hotel while dying of tuberculosis, he was supposedly penniless. He’d be a likely candidate for a pauper’s funeral. I love history! Now time to watch Tombstone again.

Capt BB, If time away from the Bunkhouse Boss were more convenient, Georgia State would be one of my priority matches. If for nothing else, great friends and folks all around down there. Plus, I think Georgia is a beautiful place to be. For now, the TN State and Regional seem to be about the only places I can 'break away' too, although I'm trying to squeeze in Black Gold. As for TW, well....... truth be known, I think his 'Knitting Group' is having their annual tea party this weekend and he's hosting it at his house. ..........Widder