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Indoor CAS in Niles, Ohio! Thursday April 25, 2024. Thank you! Howdy, friends. It was a fine day for Cowboy Action shooting at the Western Reserve Fish and Game Protection Association in Niles, Ohio. Thank you for joining the Lake Park Raiders posse as we finished our last indoor match of the season. Congratulations to Lefty Leadshot! He was the first-place winner of our Thursday Work Shirker Open Class CAS match with the high score of 133.32 seconds. Congratulations, Lefty! Yippy Yiyo Ki-Yay finished strong in second place and Slow Mo Dern was the third-place winner! Ain’t that a wonderment?! Here are the match results: 1 Lefty Leadshot …………...133.32 2 Yippy Yiyo Ki-Yay ……….156.71 3 Slow Mo Dern …………... 189.31 4 Hagen …………………….... 209.58 5 Corporal Silverado ……..220.54 6 Flat Iron Mike …………... 234.29 7 Jocko ……………………….....243.27 8 Duelin’ Diehl ……………... 250.28 9 Sam Winterbuck ………. 278.98 10 Ridgerunner …………….. 282.37 11 Coy Dolittle ……………….. 376.04 There were no clean shooters today and no “almost clean shooters.” Aww shucks! There were also no Top Lady Shooters but a good time was had by all! Our next match will be at the Brookfield Conservation Club in Masury, Ohio on May 11, 2024, so come join the Shenango River Rats for another outdoor season of merriment and jollification down at the Yankee Flats cowboy range! You’ll be glad you did. Thank you for your support and thank you for attending. All the best, Slow Mo Dern and the Lake Park Raiders

I certainly learned a good lesson about not getting cases dry a few years back at Winter Range. I use the Sun in the summer and the oven the rest of the time. Wife shoots too, so I don't get any flak from her about using the oven.

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Recently installed two of Shotgun Boogies 66 style loading gates. They make a huge improvement in slipping cartridges into an Uberti 73 rifle.

I had a similar thing happen with a '73 hammer leaf spring. I stored the rifle for a couple months in a pull-on cloth gun sock, inside a safe. When sliding it into the sock, I evidently pulled the hammer back to the full cock position and stored it that way. When I next took it to the range, the hammer fall was visibly slow and the FP would not break about 20% of the primers.

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Looking for one empty case and one jacketed bullet. Making a black lacquered swagger stick like I had when I was a 2LT in 1965. My kid sister gave to me when I was commissioned and it just vanished about 35 years ago. No one seems to make them any more, but I met this guy with a lathe, the skills, and the dimensions.

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Just so I am clear, if I wet tumble it takes roughly the same tumbler time as dry cleaning, I have to deprime separately to facilitate quicker drying time, or p!$$ off SWMBO by using her oven or buy a dehydrator to help out, and if I miss the sun because I don't start till later in the day (or its a cool cloudy day) I have to bring it inside under a fan to continue the drying process, and I have to dispose of nasty looking water/detergent/shining agent everytime somewhere (not sure I like the idea of dumping it into the sink and then into the city system), and the next time add more of those cleaning agents, (plus worry that I didn't let my cases dry enough and have rounds that don't go boom with no way to check until I pull the trigger) and I have to collect some kind of metal pins or ceramic media for the next use, all to have pretty new looking outsides of the case. Plus when I get around to reload, depending how I deprimed, I sometimes have to run the case through the sizer again or deal with potential neck dings or media left inside the case. OR-------- I can use dry media (sometimes with rouge to polish), vibrate things for a couple hours then dump shells into a separator outside, (sometimes I wear a mask sometimes not) spin it a minute or two and put cases away till I need them? And maybe change the media once every year or so. Then reload as usual. Let me think on this...... BTW the ONLY time you will see the clean inside of the case is when you reload them, and I doubt that the minute amount of residue in there will affect a cowboy load, as far as cleaning primer pockets (for cowboy loads) I have cases that have been shot four or five times a year, some going back to 2008 and generally you can feel if there is a problem with the primer pockets being dirty enough to cause a problem, at which point I toss them in any case. Much more likely to encounter a split long before a bad or dirty primer pocket IMO. Except for hunting/long range ammo I have never actually cleaned a primer pocket. BTW I use a slightly different procedure when doing precision long range or hunting ammo but that is a subject not asked. Regards Gateway Kid

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I’m shooting titewad in AA HS hulls, 209 Cheddites, claybuster wads. For 7/8 oz loads, I’ve experimented with loads between 13 up to 15.3 grns with no appreciable difference in patterns at 30’.

All stamping on the gun states it made in Italy.