Mack Hacker, #60477

Sounds like your crew has about 46.23% of the 44SP guns used in SASS competition.

This was not really intended to be a legal, ethical, political or religious issue. Yeah, I know it is the SASS wire, so you get what you get Thought I would respond to Blackey since he and Grizzly Dave were the ones interested in addressing the original post. BG states that both "can" have the same number of steps in the reloading process which would be so if the answer to GD's question is "comparable". So, the original question becomes, if all that's being swapped is the labor involved and the number of operations performed are the same, why isn't X=1000? The number of rounds required to shoot a match would seem to be irrelevant.

Has anyone ever worked a reciprocal agreement with another shooter where one loads a given number of rifle/pistol ammo and the other reloads shotgun ammo? This question came over me this morning while cranking out some ammo for Winter Range. The real question is: If shooter A gives X number of brass and all the required components to shooter B and shooter B gives 1000 shotgun hulls and all the associated components to Shooter A; then they reload the hulls/brass and return. What would be the acceptable value of "X"? I just love algebra.

Is Winter Range a "lost brass" match? Just thought I would ask before loading.

Yes, but if any of the original arts are part of the problem, then if returned to original configuration, I will still have a non-functional gun.

If sent back to Ruger, they will not work on it without converting it to a transfer bar system

I don't think a new shopkeeper model would add anything to my collection of Alpha Cats, As a collector, however, I don't want anything in my collection that is not functional.

Recently purchased an alpha(1959) Bearcat with significant timing issues Who would you recommend? Self nominations welcome

Don't have time to read all of this but I did notice one comment that said something like. If you are not going to reload, you might want to reconsider the choice of .45 cal. I would come at that from a different viewpoint and say that if you do not intend to reload, you might want to reconsider that choice. Reloading equipment will pay for itself in one reloading session. Everything after that is just gravy. Starting on a budget without reloading will very quickly turn out to be a bad decision

Certainly no apology necessary. Never considered that you might think I was being serious

These days??????

I have always heard how well the 1878 is made, but when I opened mine up, it appeared that every part was made in a blacksmith shop. It was absolutely crude I may have just been the unlucky one. Wouldn't be the first time

The primary benefit to participation awards,as named in the OP, is that it provides one more way for shooters to associate a face with an alias; especially those thAt were on another possee

Middle Aged Crazy was kind if different

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Driftwood gives an excellent pair of definitions which match with common usage but beware. I have seen manufacturers exploded diagrams of the Stevens double that he posted with the extractors labeled "ejectors" 😳 YMMV

A couple years ago, I had a local gun store pull out one of the double cases that these things come in and offer to sell me the one he had left. He had already sold the other one.

Sawdust Joe stumbled into SASS on the Internet. He showed me the website and we goaded each other for three months until we were equipped and ready to shoot. We showed up at Buck Creek to shoot with CVV in Oct 2004. It was 31 degrees and 114 shooters showed up as I remember. Sawdust has passed on but I am still around

This approach works well if you are not cross dominant like I am. My eye doc focused my right eye at the front site distance and made my dominant left eye slightly blurred at the same distance. Nature did the rest

Can you put me and Lefty Lin down as well We missed the deadline last year and have really regretted it. I will get check in the mail tomorrow

I shot 24" for 9 years. I seemed to be able to pick up the front sight more easily. I now shoot 20" and don't really notice the difference. Guess it was all in my head. I am not going to read this whole thread to see if this has been mentioned but; It has been pointed out to me that a 24" barrel comes with a longer fore end. Some people prefer the balance and grip of a 24" rifle shortened to 20" over a natural born 20"

"The coach gun is Hopkins and Allen hammer gun - model 100 I think. What a tortured life it must have had. The forend is not really a forend. It's a chunk of wood pinned onto the forend lug, there is a chunk of wood missing from the wrist area. The buttplate is homemade out of plexiglass. The action latch spring is broken or missing. And obviously the barrels have been cut." I have a beautiful Parker 10ga with the forend replaced as you describe. I do not know how common this was, but I have had no luck with a replacement. Good luck to you.

Been shooting BSS since 72. Started CAS 11 yrs ago with Rossi. Went through two Stoegers. Went to a BSS and will probably never change