Abilene, SASS # 27489
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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.
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Uberti carbines are 19". Minor detail
Good price
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16 hours ago, Dantankerous said:
Look into the Lee Classic Turret Press. Quite affordable. Easy to use. I load 11 different calibers on mine. Bought this specifically for cowboy. It has been trouble-free since day one. I can load 250 to 300 rounds per hour but a more leisurely pace will yield 200. It is a great piece of equipment on which to learn reloading.
Agree on the Turret except I was always slower than that. Kind of like my shooting.
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12 minutes ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:
...Ordering a consecutive pair is a clever gimmick by the gun makers to squeeze a few extra bucks out of the purchase price that is really not justified...
I think that from most companies there is no extra charge for consecutive s/n. Cimarron did not charge extra.
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I guess he fixed it.
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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!
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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:
And here is a similar one with a different collar and flapped pockets:
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
...If you MUST HAVE Black Powder smoke, fire them out of one barrel of a double and your BP load out of the other!...
Regardless of what you are shooting, for the most effect always pull both triggers! Blanks don't hardly recoil
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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.
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1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:
Here is something you may not have come across https://www.firequest.com/G12-033.html
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.
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That listing doesn't tell you much. If you register, do you get pics or more info?
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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.
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4 minutes ago, Beartrap SASS#57175 said:
Want more smoke? Use more powder!
And 1Fg or Reenactor BP will make the most flame as well!
I agree with being very careful with additives. Many have gotten away with no problems, but...others have had problems!
To add; if this is just for a salute and not for targets, just fill up the whole hull with powder, no shot (a blank).
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Don't forget the 53. Same as 65 as far as I know but earlier. And of course the Browning versions of all those.
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2 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:
...Hey, whassamatta with brass grip frames?
Nuttin' atall !
Especially if you're a fan of Spaghetti Westerns. Those early Italian guns all had brass gripframes. It's just not authentic, which doesn't matter to many. The brass parts are cheaper to manufacture than steel, that's why the bargain guns often have brass, along with lesser finishes. BTW, the wood grips on brass grip frames are Navy and are slightly different than the regular Cattleman/Model P/GW-II etc shape, and not interchangeable. Same whether Uberti or Pietta.
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The Spencer Forum at CasCity.com will have lots of info.
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Yeah, that's what I said. I got their sales email but actually saw your post first.
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And they are fully finished with steel grip frames as well. Usually the budget SAA repros have brass grip frame and/or lesser finishes.
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First time I've seen that!
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I think you can solder those cracks back together.
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3 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:
There were a few failures to feed. A round did not come out of the magazine a few times. It never jammed, but once or twice it "felt" a little clunky. But not all the time.
I wonder if the well documented magazine liner would help.My Uberti 32-20 '73 never failed to feed from the magazine but the zig-zagging of the rounds in the tube made it hard to load. A liner in the tube did help with that. And I did often need to straighten up the first round on the carrier after loading. The needed bevel in the frame mortice for the carrier was there but it still would have a little hitch levering that first round if I didn't straighten it. Even if new, I'd do what Lumpy suggested and clean the tube and spring, ya never know.
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17 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:
...Stages 4, 5 and 6, back to the Uberti and .32-20.
This Uberti was "new to me." I gotta be honest and say I found it to be much more finnicky than my real Winchester 73, 92 and Colt Lightning in the same caliber. This surprised me as I did not expect any trouble. ...What was finicky about the 32-20 '66?
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I imagine the majority of CAS shooters have never patterned their shotguns. I guess as long as targets keep going down, no problem. That's really good that you now know about yours!
Additional thoughts: You didn't mention what wad you were using, at least not in this thread. Plastic or fiber? Might make some difference. Also, did the green hulls with the silver base shuck out of the shotgun okay?
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Working the 1858
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Sharps40, neat little package of power! It reminded me of a picture I saved about 15 years ago, built by Amin Ledbetter.