Three Foot Johnson
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Shiloh. That said, although the Shiloh is very accurate, my Pedersoli is consistently a bit more accurate, and is the one I use for long range side matches.
Buy decent sights. A bubble level front globe is mandatory if you expect to be competitive at the longer ranges. Setting up the sights can be quite time consuming - the tang sight mast needs to be perfectly perpendicular to the action and the bubble level front sight needs to be perfectly level in relation to the mast. If the mast isn't perfectly perpendicular to the action and at a perfect right angle to the bubble level, the point of impact can move substantially to the left or right as the eyepiece is moved up the mast for progressively longer shots.
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None of my 6 barrels puts their two shots anywhere close to 12" apart at "card table" distances. Perhaps as much as 8" or so at 25 yards, but not at 1 yard!
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Normally, we'll load anywhere between 350-700 rounds a week. If the weather is really nasty, we'll get a lot more done.
Holy crap, 36,400+ rounds per year on a single stage press! My personal record is 11,226, but I have a friend in Wyoming who CLAIMS to load 104,000+ per year for modern precision long-range... on a single stage press... and a balance beam scale... I have my doubts about that... 
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Fer shootin', Bond.
Fer looks, Cobra/Cimarron
I've got a Bond with barrels in .22lr, .38/.357, .44 spl. (spl only, NOT .44 mag), .44-40, .45acp, and .45 Colt (.45 only, NOT .410).
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Period correct is way too specific. I prefer "historically plausible".
I like that.
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Any clubs letting shooters use one 1911 instead of 2 single actions and otherwise shoot stage same as other shooters.
There's one club around here that allows it. However, like PaleWolf pointed out, once you step outside the rules, where do you stop?
"I'd shoot Cowboy Action if I could use my 1100 Remington, a Glock 17, a Ruger 10/22, and didn't have to wear the goofy clothes."
Probably get more WB shooters if went back to the old rules. Any semi or da pre 1917, any SASS legal lever.
I'd definitely shoot my Lugers or S&W M&P revolvers in Wild Bunch. :-)
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We have a pard here, a top local shooter, who doesn't clean his Marlin for literally YEARS. People have looked at it at the loading/unloading tables and asked, "How does this thing even work?"
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I took an extended vacation in 2005 - bought a new F350 Power Stroke and a new 32' trailer and hit the road. Got back a couple months later and found the power had been off due to a lightning strike on my end-of-the-line transformer for about 7 of those 8 weeks... there was no doubt at all that was too long! I ended up spending a few more nights in the trailer while the house was being cleaned and de-smelligated. How the hell do maggots get in a damn freezer anyway?
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I plan to take terminal vacation and quit working on May 12 this year, then file for my state retirement on/after my anniversary date of July 9. Seven months, three days later, I turn 62 and will file for social security.
My dad died at 59. His brother, my uncle, died at 58, and it's startin' to spook me a bit, so I'm bailing as soon as I can. I expect I'll work part-time/seasonal winter jobs until such time as the Reaper comes calling, because I just can't stay warm outside in the winter, so I don't do northern winter stuff like snowmobiling, skiing, snow shoeing, etc. Or maybe find somewhere cheap in the southwest to park my trailer and live over the winter months.
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Standard small pistol primers. Brand is up to you.
OLG
Whatever is available or least expensive. If I'm looking to buy a new or used gun and it says anywhere in the description, "action job" "tuned" "slicked up", I avoid it like the plague. I'm a middle of the pack shooter, so a "tuned" gun ain't gonna do me any good anyway.
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Congratulations!
I've got about 4 1/2 months left with the DOJ, then another few months after that to start collecting social security.
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OK, let's do it. Five boxes/5000 @ $50 ea = $250 + one large Flat Rate box @ $18.75 and one medium Flat Rate box @ $13.45 = $282.20, OR if you can save me $5.30 and distribute the contents of the fifth box into the other four and use two medium Flat Rate boxes for a bottom line of $276.90, it would be appreciated.
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Ya don't see too many original centerfire 1860's or Spencers in this game either.
Good grief, shoot what ya want, within the rules of course, and go have fun. Ya'll are going to go into meltdown when someone shows up shooting an 1895 Nagant with a .32acp conversion cylinder.
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Your PM box is full.
You should have 7000/7 boxes left - if you can distribute the contents of the 7th box among the other 6, I'd take what's left @ $50/1000 + $37.50 for two large Flat Rate boxes for a total of $387.53. Each box will be 62.5 lbs in lead alone, so wrap the inner package with a couple thicknesses of plastic tarp material, duct tape the crap out of it, put an address on the inner package too, and they should make it here just fine.
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FRONTIERSMANAny Main Match percussion revolver with non-adjustable sights(Note exceptions listed re:dovetailed sights)
. (Exception: The 1873 Uberti percussion revolver is not allowed.
THE PLAINSMANThis event requires two .36 caliber or larger Frontiersman Category style percussion revolvers,shot Duelist style.----------------------------------------------------------------------Seems pretty clear cut to me - not legal in Frontiersman or Plainsman, but not excluded in any other categories.Oh, and with a little work, they CAN be converted to centerfire. -
These bachelors have been hanging around below my house for a month now, pretty much ever since hunting season closed.
Picture was taken a couple hours ago and they haven't moved more than fifty yards.
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Doesn't look like a 4 3/4" .44 spl is on the list.
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I paid $375 for this P&R dash one, but that was 10 years ago.
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GB doesn't add 15 minutes for bids in the last 15 minutes, it RESETS the time to 15 minutes. If you bid at 10 minutes before the auction's end, it doesn't add 15 minutes and go to 25 minutes, it just resets it to 15 minutes.
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Kimber Solo. First Kimber I've ever owned, and damn sure the last. I don't think it's ever made it through an entire magazine without a jam of some sort or another, using Kimber's recommended ammo selection, as well as a host of others. I bought a new Kahr CM9 for just over half the price of the Kimber, and it feeds EVERYTHING. Same size, half the price, and shoots any 9mm I've tried in it.
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Wait a minute... what are the short versions of the .25-20, .218 Bee, .32-20, .38-40, and .44-40?
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Dang, dat's a good price! Good prices on muzzleloaders here lately.
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When the 7 1/2" barrel length was discontinued in 2010, some retailers were selling them for as little as $389. I should have bought a truck load.
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It ain't just newer vehicles -
A couple years ago, I changed the starter on my '82 Honda Civic. It's right there in the open, easy to see and get to, but one of the bolt heads isn't visible... because it comes in from the other side. It involves a tricky maneuver using a universal joint and two extensions - two because one long one is too long to fit. Ya gotta stick one up there with the socket and universal, get it on the head of the bolt, then stick the other one on without the socket falling off the bolt head. I invented some new words before I was done. #@**%!
What primers
in SASS Wire
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Some of these stacks are four bricks deep, and there are several thousand more down at the house. Also about 6,000 Remington #10 caps. If I had to guess, I'd say I have more Federal 100's than anything else, followed by CCI, then Winchester, then MagTech, then Remington. Something over 100,000 total, plus maybe 7,000 or so percussion caps.
Some of these are 7-8 years old, but I picked up a mixed lot last year (2016) with some CCI's that date to the 50's, and every one of them has worked so far.