Gold Canyon Kid #43974

I have never cleaned primer pockets. Brass goes in cleaner with old primers still in place. After cleaning they get mixed with One Shot then go in 650 to be deprimed, sized, reprimed and loaded. I do not know anyone that cleans primer pockets for SASS shooting. I have brass that has been reloaded way more than 25 times with no issues.

Can you quote a rule?

Anyone else having difficulties seeing posted ACES scores in 2017? I just see a server error.

On the period correct scale, where do Wranglers and other non decorated today's off the shelf jeans fit? Well that should keep this thread running a few more days.

I remember a long time ago a long Wire discussion on whether a very light, about 10 inch leather hunting boot with a soft rubber sole was legal. It had about a dozen pages of "is" and "is not" legal posts. The leather was very light, maybe kangaroo. A few weeks later wearing that boot a US fellow won EOT. I am certain that boot was much more responsible for the win than the thousands of hours of practice. From the earlier discussion, one could have drawn that conclusion, but to my knowledge the boot issue never came up during or after EOT. Maybe no one ever looked down.

At one of the early Conventions in Vegas, Tex pushed for a rule eliminating lugged sole footwear. It failed by a wide margin as many clubs believed them necessary as a safety issue.

That does not make all hiking boots with lug soles illegal. If the hiking boost are made from leather I have no issue with them. Byu the way lug soles are legal in all categories but 2. Many many shooters use them to keep from falling on their butts. Many folks wear clothing, shoes, etc, to give them an edge running a stage. Some folks do the opposite slowing them selves down with a ton of unused ammo on their belt, wear winter clothing in the summer, extremely large hats, wear tall boots with spurs and high heels, when not needed for their category, etc.

But rubber soled lugged hiking boots are legal in all but two categories unless they are made from some exotic material. Read the rules.

Period Correct and all the others are a waste of time. A shooter showing up in jeans, a plaid flannel shirt, and some form of non baseball hat is legal in our sport except maybe in two categories. There are only things excluded our attire in the rules, ie combat boots, athletic shoes, etc.

With all the flat pointed ammo for sale, why buy round nose bullets for your rifle. If you already have some round pointed ammo, shoot them in your pistols. You likely would not be injured too badly if a round goes off in your mag while shooting, but it is your arm, hand, fingers and face, not mine.

There are two campgrounds at Ben Avery with hookups and some non hook up sites. They are the East campground by the public shooting range and the other at the West end Clay Target Center. Winter Range has identified overload spots folks can camp with no hookups of any kind. The East end hookups are water and electricity only with a camgroud dump station. There are also bathrooms with showers at the East campground. I am sure if you are shooting Winter Range and did not get into the East or West campgrounds and are in the no hookup overflow areas I am sure you can use the East campground dump station, bathrooms and showers.

I clean my cowboy guns once a year whether needed or not.

lugged soles are legal in all but 2 categories

An extra little notch put in a lug to hold gun open better while handling and staging. Not enough to notice while shooting tho.

Same reason some shooters shoot second gen colts instead of clones or Rugers. They like em.

I think the Royal ones have a lug such that you can not do the hold open mod several folks like me have gotten used to. Keeps the gun open when handling or for vertical staging.

Blackhawks are not all created equal. Some front sights are removable. Solid brass replacements can be purchased or made. Others can not be easily removed, so thin brass can be shaped to cover the front sight including the rear edge. Once made they can be affixed via adhesive. Once this is done you will likely want to widen the rear sight a touch. That is not easy on a Blackhawk as it seems the inserts are like spring steel. Order some extras from Ruger.

For our sport many folks point their shotgun with their eyes without using the front bead. If gun fits your build, cheek, etc, you never even notice the front bead. I found the Stoeger, the Browning and even some SKBs did not fit my body. The SKBs with English style flat grip nor full pistol grip stock did not fit. The SKB 100 flat grip stock with small pistol grip fits me perfect. Bottom line you have to consider how the gun fits your shoulder, cheek, etc. A few years ago I took lessons from a top Sporting Clays lady instructor. She had snap caps with built in lasers. My shotgun had a fully adjustable stock. I thought my stock was adjusted properly. To start my lessons, we were in a room about 20 yards long. She put a dot on the wall and had me mount the shotgun rapidly and fire both barrels at the dot. I missed by 1-2 feet each time. We adjusted the stock so that I could mount the shotgun quickly and hit the dot on the wall within in a couple inches each time. In my mind there are several items of importance in picking a shotgun. First is fit. Second is the shape of the area at the chamber entrance. Is it designed to easily get 2 rounds into the chambers? Some shotguns have a large spade sticking up between the barrels part of the locking mechanism, and that is bad. Both the Stoeger and SKB have an hour glassed shaped extractor/ejector. A good gunsmith can remove the sides of the top of the hour glassed extractor to make it more like an upside down T. Gunsmith shaping can give this area a mild knife like edge right in the middle between the barrels facing the shooter to ease separation of the rounds into each chamber. Lastly is how easy is the shotgun to handle and move arouond. In my mind lighter is better, so the SKB wins easily. Between my son and myself we have around 7 SKBs.

Kinda like the difference between Corvair versus Corvette. Both will get you down the road. One in style and a bit quicker. One has more built in flaws. If you are just starting a Stoeger is adequate and a lot cheaper. The SKB was the best Japan could make a few years ago. Both need gunsmithing to compete with.

How much belling and crimping of the mouth you do can negatively effect the life of brass.

IMHO at least half of match attendees should be awarded in some fashion. New shooters, say first year or so should have an opportunity to be rewarded even special awards for a new shooter category or whatever you want to call it.

Contact Johnny Meadows.

We always stayed at Caravan Oasis, on the Fortuna exit.

Most popular loads in 38 are likely 125 and 105 g truncated cone. In 45 likely 200 and 185 g.

With no TG conventions occurring (except mini ones at EOT) the number of rule changes has been throttled down to an acceptable level.