Abilene, SASS # 27489

I've always worn tall boots for CAS. Black ones from the beginning and added a brown pair several years back. I even have a separate pair of cathedral stitch black boots that are my "banquet boots", only worn to banquets or formal affairs to keep them looking new. And yeah, dressed up in a frock coat, fancy vest and tie, top hat etc. looks good with the pants tucked into tall shiny boots. But no, that's probably not what they did back in the day. Sure, a cowboy will put on his nicest shirt and scarf to go to the barn dance, but folks dressed up in fancy clothes were not cowboys, they were townies of one sort or another and would not be tucking pants into boots. Many people shoot in packer boots, and those would do for Townie foot wear, but I wanted something a little more dressy plus my usual criteria which means it had to be cheap inexpensive . So I looked for high top brogues. There were a variety of similar styles out there but almost every one of them had a zipper up the inside even though they were lace-up. Well I could not abide a zipper. I ended up with these from Arc Brothers (Chinese made) from Amazon for $69. Knowing I could return them if they didn't fit, I threw the dice and ordered them a full size larger to make room for a foam inner-sole, which turned out to be just right. It will be quite a while before the next banquet but I wore them to a match and they felt fine! The soles have rubber lugs which is not authentic but that doesn't show and makes them safer so I'm okay with that.

Sharps40, neat little package of power! It reminded me of a picture I saved about 15 years ago, built by Amin Ledbetter.

I bought a brick of Ginex small rifle primers (should be same as small pistol), didn't need them but just to try out. Loaded 100 and shot a match, they did okay although a little harder to set off than Federal and had to crank up the '73 strain screw a little. If they were harder to seat when loading, I didn't notice. Now I keep some empty brass primed with them that I use to test guns after working on springs. If the gun pops the Ginex, I know it will do fine with my usual Federals. I would assume that the 9mm Gatling of the OP does not have reduced hammer springs, so I should think it would have no problems popping any primers. How easy they may be to seat could be an issue, according to some others.

Uberti carbines are 19". Minor detail Good price

Agree on the Turret except I was always slower than that. Kind of like my shooting.

I think that from most companies there is no extra charge for consecutive s/n. Cimarron did not charge extra.

I guess he fixed it.

I have a few sets Ubertis that are consecutive. Most of the importers will pull consecutives for you if a pair are ordered together and they have it. When they first get orders from Italy, they are often a number of them so you are more likely to get a pair that way when inventory is high. At one time when I was stocking the shelves for Cimarron, we would put rubber bands around consecutive sets so they would stay together. I knew a guy who ordered an Evil Roy pistol and then a year or so later another from somewhere else, and it was consecutive. And I've heard of another person that pretty much the same thing happened to. Now that is a coincidence!

His vest style has what would be called a "shawl" collar. Most of the really low scoop front vests you see have no collar. Here are a couple inexpensive vests on ebay. The first is a shawl collar, not really low cut. It is similar to the Frontier Classics double breasted carried by WWM and TX Jacks but it is wool instead of canvas and a little lower front: https://www.ebay.com/itm/355913539293?itmmeta=01JYSQ3YMVC2VXKHG0TKYKZTVH&hash=item52de199edd:g:tCQAAOSwEXVmqeNC And here is a similar one with a different collar and flapped pockets: https://www.ebay.com/itm/354583066293?itmmeta=01JYSQ3YMVDAAGKTRHFF13NNRB&hash=item528ecc36b5:g:WH8AAOSwoy1j6lOf Those both come from China. I have ordered a couple of similar (not double breasted) tweed vests and have been very pleased. I do own a vest similar style to what you are seeking, that I found in a thrift store but it is blue satin - one of my banquet vests.

Wild West Mercantile only carries a few double breasted vests and they are nothing like Angel Eyes'. This one with scoop front is closer to the vest style but is corduroy and the wrong color. https://findercube.com/products/vintage-solid-color-corduroy-double-breasted-vest-1?variant=44174766932217

Regardless of what you are shooting, for the most effect always pull both triggers! Blanks don't hardly recoil

I almost never have ammo problems during a match (except 32-20 that I think I have solved). Never had a case "turtle" in the rifle. After dry tumbling, I always inspect every piece of brass for splits. When I load on a Turret I always do 50 or 100 round batches so I filled up MTM trays with the brass and then inspected them from 4 angles, turning the tray under good light. Now that I'm doing .38's in high volume on the 550, I check those in volume as well under a good light in the kitchen, spinning each case in my fingers before tossing in the "good" box. Never had a case "turtle" in the rifle. Over 20 years ago Half Hitch (R.I.P.), Chief of the Univ. of TX police dept, gave me well over 1000 rounds of nickeled .38 158gr semiwadcutter rounds that were old police practice ammo from before they went semi-auto. No telling how many times it was reloaded. I shot it all in matches (actually fed pretty well in my '73). And I've used that nickel brass ever since for my .38 BP pistol rounds. I do lose at least 10% per match to splits and it looks a little tired, so I just bought 750 twice-fired nickel .38's on the Classifieds to replace it.

Those look interesting. At $2 per shell, a bit pricey. Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to make shells with streamer confetti. The first noisemaker blanks I made years ago were about 60 or so grains of BP and then stuffed pieces of toilet paper on top until I got a decent crimp. Lots of shredded confetti! One local shooter uses toilet paper in his smokeless shells, as a filler. He does shoot out some confetti but never been a problem. Mostly we laugh at him, and tell him to make sure he uses new stuff.

That listing doesn't tell you much. If you register, do you get pics or more info?

Howdy Wylie, I know nothing about Practiscore but the Tejas Caballeros use it. In order to sign up online before the match, which only a few of us do, I have to enter my category twice in separate spots. Revenant Roy, our Practiscore guy, has been working on it but for now if he eliminates one of those two entries then the reports later, sorting by category, doesn't work right. Something like that. Plus people register with their real names when it asks for 1st and last name, so then Roy has to go edit the listings to have it show our alias.