The Rainmaker, SASS #11631

Make sure you get the hardened screws and ALWAYS use the correct tip for the slot. The Italians are known for the "gorilla" in the back that installs the screws but what most folks don't know is that the Italian screws are 50% wet oatmeal! 😁

If you could get your hands on some Trail Boss, IMR has provided instructions for light load development: Listed below we show a few examples of rifle loads throughout the Reloading Data Center, but the fun doesn't stop there. If you don't see Trail Boss data for your favorite cartridge we have a formula for developing loads for all cartridges and it's simple to follow. This formula may be used in both rifle and pistol applications: 1) Find where the base of the bullet to be loaded is located in the case and make a mark on the outside of the case at this location. Then fill the case to that mark with Trail Boss, pour into the scale pan and weigh. This is your maximum load. Pressures will be below the maximum allowed for this cartridge and perfectly safe to use! 2) Take 70% of this powder charge weight (multiply the maximum load from step 1 by .7), and that is your starting load. 3) Start with this beginning load and work up to your maximum charge, all the while searching for the most accurate reduced load. Once found, the fun begins! 1) Find where the base of the bullet to be loaded is located in the case and make a mark on the outside of the case at this location. Then fill the case to that mark with Trail Boss, pour into the scale pan and weigh. This is your maximum load. Pressures will be below the maximum allowed for this cartridge and perfectly safe to use! 2) Take 70% of this powder charge weight (multiply the maximum load from step 1 by .7), and that is your starting load. 3) Start with this beginning load and work up to your maximum charge, all the while searching for the most accurate reduced load. Once found, the fun begins

Yes, the Republik of Massachewsetts. Good luck there. And the sale is two days

Click the link; they're complete 1873 Colt clones. Steel frame, 4.75' barrel. .357 or .45 Colt. I received their sale email.

If you were in a mind to get started in Cowboy Action Shooting and didn't want to mortgage the homestead, Taylors has a sale right now where you could get a couple of pistols (Piettas) for less than $1000! https://taylorsfirearms.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c71986d6e1e80da4d9b6217f2&id=a5e7886354&e=ed31fdec47

Having not had cataract surgery, but working in an optometry clinic in a prior life, if you have a distance prescription, they can correct that when the surgery is performed; I would think the near correction as well. If you're unfamiliar with the surgery (or condition), your biological lens inside your eye gets clouded from proteins and they remove it completely and replace it with a synthetic lens(s) and these lenses can contain a prescription correcting your distance vision. I say distance, as your age-related "short-arm-syndrome" can not be corrected through this surgery. A lot of people who wear glasses for distance report not having to wear them any more and only need readers, if necessary. You will definitely have a healing period where I would rest them eyes from shootin' for a (short) bit. Like Blackwater says, you can opt for distance lenses in both eyes, or (especially if you had glasses that way) get one distance lens and one near lens. My mom did that since wearing contacts that way and loves it. Good luck.

I, also, have a good amount of Starline brass, some of them I bought shiny new. I find that since I started wet tumbling (hot water, car wash and wax, a scoop of Strat-O-Sheen and a small squirt of Lemishine), I'm getting more splits than I ever have. Its frustrating to punch out brass from my pistols, that I know can't have more than two or three loadings on, and find a big ol split in the side. I do like how the brass comes out using wet tumbling but the splits are garbage. On a side note, my daughter had a squib with one of her .38s in her Marlin and when she inspected the brass, it was full of "tumbling mud". Take the extra second to look down into the case; you don't want to have to drive that slug out of yer barrel! PITA!

Found this in the Wire archives from Bingo Montana. I'm editing a little for our use next month. Josey Wales Category The Josey Wales category is not a SASS approved shooting category. The primary difference in Josey Wales is the use of 2 additional revolvers in place of the rifle. The rules described below are written with safety and smooth quick stage flow in mind. 1. All revolvers are loaded with 5 rounds each per SASS rules. 2. The revolvers being used for rifle targets (in place of the rifle) will be staged in the same manner as the rifle per stage instructions. The revolvers may be carried in a 4 holster rig to and from the firing line. Shooters may not draw revolvers from holsters to shoot the rifle targets. 3. If a shooter does not have a holster for each extra revolver, the extra revolvers will be carried with the muzzles up at least head high to the staging area for the rifle so as to not sweep anyone. The RO or other posse member may assist in carrying the shotgun to be staged. 4. The revolvers are shot duelist or gunfighter style only. No two handed shooting. 5. When the rounds required for the rifle targets is less than 10, the remaining rounds will be shot safely into the berm. Do not shoot at targets, target stands or props. Misses cannot be made up. The rounds shot into the berm are not counted as misses. 6. In the event that a stage description calls for loading rounds in the rifle on the clock; the Jose Wales Shooter must comply with the stage requirement to load, on the clock, as many rounds as the stage description requires. Engaging any targets as required and discharging all excess rounds into the berm safely, satisfying the "load on the clock" stage requirement. 7. The shotgun targets are not to be shot with a revolver unless otherwise directed by stage instructions. 8. All other SASS Rules Apply.

Working in a (govt) technical career field and in Quality for a good part of the time, when we found a non-conformity (let's call it a procedural), we had to have a reference that said you either had to do (or not do) something. If our reference (SHB OR THE STAGE INSTRUCTIONS) are not explicit in telling the shooter they have to say something specific to start the stage and that it will be a procedural if they do not... then it is not a P. IMHO, if a stage writer did stipulate a starting line will be said or a procedural would be assessed, folks would stop attending. I use start lines and I print them and post them at the starting positions (as well as the starting position and gun order). If you use the line or not is up to you, but as a timer operator, if I don't get a verbal signal you are ready, I won't start you.

Evil... just pure evil. 👺

How about the "tab" at the bottom of the bolt face? I had the failure-to-extract and jam fresh round against the empty in the chamber this past weekend. My extractor is "banana'd" the wrong direction, so the hook is not staying down on the rim AND the tab at the bottom of the bolt face is bent down at an angle so the empty casing is not held up against the extractor hook. Complete new bolt assembly installed now.

Hahahahaha... Dry fire, he says... Ah hahahahahahahahaha. You mean practice, right? 🤣

And I was upset about all the dumb sticks (limbs) I had to pick up after the storms. So glad you and Kay are alright. Hope all of the aftermath goes smoothly. All my best.

This girl sure knows how to make her daddy proud. Clean match, Georgia State Cowgirl champ AND she graduated from Mercer University last week with a BS in Mechanical Engineering! That's my girl!

Most clubs restrict shot size; ours is 7 1/2 or smaller.

I can tell you this; if you tape and file on the frame... you WILL cut through the tape and get the frame. It will happen.

Says I.M. Crossdraw. 😆

Yep, it's how I learned to shoot cowboy and even though I have strong side holsters, I prefer cross-draw.

They have some very nice Dillon accessories as well.

All my best, LH. You're a great asset to the game and we appreciate you.

Oh, I'm thinkin Lumpy's gonna edjucait ya...

I write either "makeups from where first engaged" or "makeups from where staged" or something similar. The "engage until down" doesn't say WHERE to engage them from but does give you the idea that you have no option (to take a miss) and you must continue to reengage or it will be a procedural.

OP gives us an example of superfluous stage instructions. Stage conventions in SHB say "may be reengaged until down" and "All KD targets... must go down to count" That would be for it not to be a miss. The stage writer has the option to tell shooters how many rounds must be fired (as a minimum) for KD, as in SG: 4+. The 4 being the minimum and the + being any more you require for the "must go down to count". We think (and sometimes write) too much into stages. You already know that KD must go down to count, so your choice to continue or take a miss. We (at our club) stipulate a round count for the stage i.e. Rifle: 10; Pistols: 10; SG: 4+ and in the procedure "engage SG targets in any order" (most folks hate SG orders). So, as was mentioned above, if you fire one SG round and it takes down 2 targets, you will still have to fire the "4" rounds for SG. I think that's simple enough without have to stipulate that you must continue to engage until down.

In my experience with Remington primers, 5-10 of 100 were bad; as in they were fired at least two, three, five times and no bang. Junk!

As I see this, we are reading too much into it. As soon as the shooter realized the action was closed, they took immediate action to make it safe for movement. The action WAS open and unless it was stoked (which I highly doubt) there was no empty left in the chamber or no live round loaded into the chamber. We had a thread a while back about what to do when you are going to the loading table and an action closes... take immediate action to remedy the situation. This shooter did exactly that. They are not required to open the action for safe movement, as a hammer down on an empty chamber will suffice and that's what they did; place the hammer down on an empty chamber. If this was a rifle (or SG) and there were rounds in it that could be loaded into the chamber, then yes, I see a problem. No call.