Abilene, SASS # 27489

Interesting. The price is certainly attractive.

Howdy Fireball, you didn't put a price on the bottom pair, the purple saddle pants. If they are $25 plus shipping, I will take them. Sending a PM.

Nothing wrong with that one. It used to be called the Evil Roy model, that's how mine is marked. Nice thing about it is that it fits almost any buttstock. The only thing I don't like is that metal buttplates can be slippery on the exposed top corner when staged vertically in a rack or against a wall, etc. But mine is on a shotgun with a rubber buttpad so it's nonslip anyway. Most of my butt covers are pretty plain, but I've added a beaded disk to the side of a couple of them.

I think you meant gunstockcover.com I've got his "Doc Holiday" cover on one of mine.

Cimarron calls it the Model P Jr, (or Lightning if it has that grip on it). Other Uberti importers call it the Stallion.

Flaco, if you have some old/tired/defective/etc 1911 magazines to trade, Ed Brown's exchange program is hard to beat: https://www.edbrown.com/magexchange/

Yes, so what's the procedure?

There is some method of using cold spray on the stuck case to make it contract and be easier to remove. @La Sombra gave me a can of the spray that I keep in my car but I forget the exact process. The only time I had a problem was with a .38 and various suggested methods and tools did not work until we drove a stack of .38 slugs down the bore with the bolt closed to they swelled up in the chamber to finally grab the piece of brass.

The Cimarron model 1878CG is the same gun as the TTN, made in China. Their "deluxe" 1878 with checkering is made in Pakistan. They have 1878CG in stock now.

Dang, Scout, it must cost you a fortune getting all those pics developed.

My 1971 NRA Centennial is 800 miles away at the moment , but I'm 99% sure it has the regular recoil plate.

My Cimarron Model P's are SAA's. Single Action Approximations.

Maybe you could dye this one: www.ebay.com/itm/186058744270 ??

Howdy Dave, well congratulations on your first clean one. Mine took 84 matches . I started with one Vaquero and a 44 Sp. Colt SAA. then a conversion, then another Colt. Got rid of the Ruger but have lotsa guns now, mostly Italian. I shoot conversions mostly, but my Uberti Model P's all feel the same as my Colts and work as well. Yes, you can buy an old-style hammer and trigger, Taylors has had the best price. But if you're happy with the feel and performance of your gun, maybe not a real need. There seems to have been some agreement that most problems were with shooters who did not follow through with their trigger finger. Apparently you do.

I think his shirt has 4 buttons, you can barely see the top button, then a space, then the two lower buttons. Finding any pullover shirt with an actual turn-down collar is harder now, most are banded collar.

Charlie, is it the thinness or the checkering? I put Arizona Custom Grips on two pair of '58's because my hands are smaller. Look about halfway down the first page of this topic: https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/378277-remington-58-timing-edit-shot-wbp/ They are thinner than stock except at the top. There is stippling between the scrolls - easier to see on the black grips. It is not aggressive at all, which is fine for me because I typically don't care for the feel of checkering, but they feel very secure and non-slip in the hands. If it is mainly checkering that you want, you could always send a pair of wood grips to be laser-checkered. edit to add: they also have some checkered grips without scrolls, I expect they are thinner than stock as well but I don't know: https://azcustomgrips.com/collections/uberti-1858-remington

no need for all that. Just put a bugcatcher on the bumper of your truck and park on a hill-top.

@South Pass Kid I'm back . I know buckles are the biggest expense for a lot of annual matches, and smaller matches makes it even harder to get something custom made. So I will ask, do they have to be buckles? Here are some pins that were given at Green Mountain Regulators Revenges and Tejas Caballeros Whoopin'. Notice that one of the GMR pins has no date on it, that way they could order more for a better discount and re-use them. I don't know where these came from but could find out.

When I pick thumbnails for videos, I've noticed that some of the brass is on its way up and some is on its way down, which can make it look like they are coming out of the rifle faster, so pictures can be a little deceiving. But yeah, when I'm brass picking and a really fast guy finishes I tell him I'm still waiting for some of it to fall.

This isn't very big, only fits a 1.5" belt, but it's inexpensive. https://www.amazon.com/Long-Horn-Bull-Western-Buckle/dp/B01F2ZQB7I Plenty of other options on Amazon that are a little higher.

Yeah, those were the guys, I do remember sonme of those South Texas guys, especially Ken, Bill, and Beto. I hadn't quite gotten back into radio back when all the "pick your callsign" thing started, but I was happy to just keep Willy Dilly Five Nilly. Trey, WN4KKN, was Knickerbocker Knickerbocker Nicaragua. When Trey was living in Thrall and still working at the University of Texas, I was helping him install a tower when he fainted while we were up in the air and I had to hold on to him until he came to! That was scary. I was actually scheduled to accompany Trey to HC8N for CQWW-CW in '93, not to operate because he was going to single-op, but for the experience plus some outside the contest operating. But just beforehand, a hurricane destroyed the station. He found a station in Ecuador to operate from, but I already had flights through Quito to Galapagos, so I went! They found me a local ham, Henri, who put me up at his place and I operated my TS690S from there to a low inverted vee, operating off his batteries at night when the power was cut, and slept on the couch. I was weak but it was fun. There was a total eclipse of the moon one night around 2am or so, and I went outside to check it out - just as the moon totally disappeared, all the roosters on the island started crowing! Weird! While there I did some touristy things like guided day-trips to some of the islands to check out the wildlife, and on one of those trips met JJ, vice-president of new programming at Turner Broadcasting, and Ted Turner's girlfriend until Jane Fonda came along. She was on a year long sabbatical sailing around the world on a 65' MacGregor. A few months later I took a month off from work and flew to Tahiti to join her on the boat for a month through French Polynesia and on to South Cook, which led to my FO0HAR and ZK1NAR operations. Lot's of memories there! That whole story is on my website but this is the extremely condensed version. K5TR's mega-contest station is very near the previous location of the Tejas Caballeros and I used to drive by his QTH every month on the way to the match. I could foresee helping out there at a multi-op in the future. I am a member of CTDXCC, Central Texas DX and Contest Club, and though inactive I have remained subscribed to their email reflector just to sort of keep one toe in the water and have some idea of what's going on. My friend Gary, W5QG is the guy who got me interested in hamming in Junior High when he brought an ARRL license manual to class. Novice only lasted 1 year back then, so when we were 13 we took a Greyhound by ourselves 180 miles from Abilene to Dallas to take the General exam. Can you imagine any kids doing that these days? Fortunately the FCC office was within walking distance of the bus station. There was one kid there who brought his own Vibroplex bug for the CW test. I was impressed - but he didn't get to use it because he failed the copying test! Gary is now a retired MD in Abilene with a single 200 foot tower with some huge monobanders. He's not a contester, just likes working SSB DX. I have sort of an open-ended invitation to operate there, so someday... Will, you said you are currently inactive but do you still have a station? Sorry for being so long-winded, but nobody made y'all read it.

Have you actually found any IMR-Red? Per this discussion 4 years ago it was discontinued. If you run across any New-Old-Stock, get it.

Howdy Henly, gotta get his attention: @Mr Malco

Yes, I actually got to meet Dave when he came down here for a regional BP championship last fall and found out he is a ham. We're everywhere!

The HOA rules here that I've read don't seem to prohibit antennas, just say that they can only be mounted from the midpoint (front to back) of the roof or further back, and something like 8 feet maximum higher than the roof. I think my butternut verticals might actually exceed that but in the back yard not too visible.