Charlie Whiskers
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13 hours ago, J Bar Binks, #47015 said:
I shot a match at Simms a few years back with 24 different guns, and not only 24 different guns, but 24 different dedicated cartridges/gauges, meaning I didn't shoot .44 mag in a revolver, then switch to .44 spl in the same gun the next stage, or shoot .45 Colt in a rifle, then again in a revolver. Nor did I shoot .38 spl in a gun chambered for .357 or .44 spl in a gun chambered for .44 mag, and so on. With the posse and MD's approval, I used .410 and 28g shotguns, in addition to 20g, 16g, 12g, and 10g. I know @Charlie Whiskers and @Crusty were there... maybe a couple others who frequent the Wire...
Dang near a clean match too, ONE daggum miss!
When I 1st started I was shooting a 5 1/2" OMV Ruger and a 1975 Remington 7 1/2" reproduction. I added a 7 1/2" OMV later all in 44-40. Plus a 1866 Yellowboy 24inch and a 1873 24inch rifles also 44-40. I just liked the 2 barrel length's when shooting revolvers. I ended up switching to 38/357 calibers (cheaper to shoot) and sold my OMV's to J Bar Binks along with a 66 rifle to help my switch over to 38's. I did the same when I went to the 38's. One 5 1/2" colt clone and One 7 1/2" 1875 Remington. Since then I've been shooting assorted length open top conversions. Shoot what you like and have fun with what you choose.
J Bar didn't mention him shooting an 18 inch Buntline; now that was a hoot to watch him draw that. He was yodeling the whole time trying to get it drawn.
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We hear the Huey's a lot here and several times a day. Malmstrom AFB is a Red Horse and Missile base. They were to suppose to be getting the Blackhawk, but apparently the Pentagon has better things to fund.
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Welcome to the mix. You'll have a ball and meet some of the best folks around any sport/game. I add game because it is, you'll never win a new Cadillac but you'll have a hoot doing it. CAS is only as serious a game as YOU want it to be.
There's really only 2 rules in CAS....1st be safe...2nd...have fun and meet the great people you'll be surrounded by.
Now for outfitting for the game. Others have said go to a few shoots before you buy. Try every make, model, and barrel lengths Pistol's , Rifle's and Shotgun's that they will let you try. Not all pistols feel and balance the same in YOUR hands; same for Rifle's and Shotgun's, barrel lengths and length of pull can make a difference in how they feel. ONLY then start buying the hardware and holsters.
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Before I run my hulls through my MEC9000 I check all of my empty hulls for splits or bulges at the business end. If those "seem" ok to be reloaded one more time ( I use mostly the AA's but others too ) I run all of them through the Super - Sizer. In the hundreds I've reloaded NONE have failed to chamber in any of my 3 S x S's.
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Just now, Phantom, SASS #54973 said:
Y'all are letting this whole issue take up too much of your life... Let it go.
Phantom
To those in "that other" forum. I'll gladly mark the spot on my anatomy for them to kiss. What they care about means nothing to me. SASS and the CAS shooters are genuine people no matter what we shoot or choose to wear.
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Gateway Kid,
We share our CAS range with a 3 gun club. (we have 10 bays and they use 2 normally, sometimes 3 (out to 200+ yards maybe 300...not sure). We've invited some of them to try CAS. At least one 3 gun shooters wife wants to go CAS shooting and let her hubby do 3 gun.
BTW...our CAS club President shoots 3 gun with them.
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What they've all said. DO NOT buy anything until you've had hands on and shot different brands and style of pistols. Ruger is a top contender in the hand gun category (built like tanks), I personally rather shoot anything else. Feel and balance between Ruger's and other makes Uberti and Pietta was why I chose the others.
The same thing goes for Rifles and Shotguns. Try everything you can get your hands on before you spend a dime and wish you'd tried more.
Welcome to the mix.
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2 hours ago, The Aggie Rifleman, SASS#55213 said:
Team,
Been following the following site and their discussion on CAS/CASS. Interested in seeing viewpoints here.
The popularity is still there for the over the diaper age crowd (depends don't count
). One reason it's waning is ...think about it ...AGE. I don't have the numbers, but I think the majority of US CAS shooters are getting older; late 50's -mid 60's and up. Younger people can't grasp that happening, but it does creep up on all us if we're lucky enough to live that long.
We'd rather be shooting and doing what we like above talk about what we like to do. We'd rather be shooting while we still can than sit in front of a computer like the other forums.
But that's my opinion. But I'm not a Black gun fan. Had one....shot it very little....sold it and bought another 1873.
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When a friends wife wanted to try CAS she didn't care for the OMV's I had. Not being able to afford Colt's, I bought a pair of the Gaucho's for her to shoot. She shot those for close to 5 years with zero troubles. When she moved to a different city I sold them to a Cowboy just starting in SASS and CAS along with her Stoeger. He used those for at least 3-5 years after he bought them.
Now the newer ones made after 2006 were iffy in the quality control field. They worked but needed some smoothing out to run like the Pietta's or Uberti's. If memory is correct (probably not) they changed the manufacturer name to the Berreta Stampede.
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32 minutes ago, JaketheSnake said:
Thank you for the welcome and no offense taken. Is there anyway to change my forum name? I have not registered with SASS yet.
Ask a moderator to change it for you once you've found a new Alias. You can search Alias's on the SASS Main Page for "Join SASS today". There's an Alias look up section. You just type what you want to see if it's vacant or already in use. You don't have to join SASS to look up an Alias, but if you don't, the Alias you pick could be taken by someone else. Once you find an Alias, you can have a moderator change it for you. Welcome to CAS and the Wire.
Charlie
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1 hour ago, JaketheSnake said:
This is my first post here, but I've been wanting to get into Cowboy action shooting for awhile. I recently purchased a Winchester 1897 and it functioned just fine. I got it home and loaded some snap caps and the action started to lock up in the open position with the bolt to the rear. The cartridge stop appeared to be blocking the carrier, but I was able to push it in and clear out all of the snap caps. Now the action is locked closed and I cannot figure out how to get it open, the slide release does not appear to do anything. I attempted to find a solution through google, but I have found nothing that can help.
Welcome to CAS. Please DO NOT take this the wrong way; but you're going to have to pick a different Alias IF you join SASS. There's already a Jake the Snake and has been since the mid 1980's. He's SASS number 44. SASS doesn't or didn't allow duplicate Alias's. I ran into the same problem when I went to join SASS. There already was A Charlie Whiskers, but SASS let me have it anyway since the original one had been inactive for more that 5 years.
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43 minutes ago, Tyrel Cody said:
But is the grip on a Colt clone bigger than a Ruger?
I've never heard of JP Sauer. I have owned Ruger's, OMV and shot the NMV: the OMV was better than the NMV. The space between the grip and the trigger guards were always biting my middle finger's knuckle. I don't have that on the clones. Ruger's are great for others....just not me.
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If I remember right the 06 took over being the caliber that's harvested more game than any other caliber. I think that's world wide. Before the 06 took over the top (around 1970ish) it was the 30-30 Winchester. The 06 gained favor from the number of the vets coming home from WW2 and Korea, and a surplus of rifles chambered in 06.
I had a Winchester Model 70 in 06 that I used for deer and elk. I used a 150 grain for deer and a 165 grain for Elk. When my knees said enough of this climbing mountains stuff, I sold the 06 and kept my Remington 700 in 270 (130 grain). All I hunted since then was deer and antelope in farm lands. A lot flatter terrain. The 270 will also do a good job on Elk. Shot placement is the key with any caliber. My uncle took quite a few Elk with his Remington 721 in 270. The 308 is a great round too, but I favor the 06 and 270 over that.
But it's what you prefer and are comfortable with the caliber you choose to hunt with that matters for each person. A 7mm-08 is another good round.
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51 minutes ago, Null N. Void said:
Magazine tubes need occasional cleaning also.
Get a "wrench" from Longhunter or another of the gun guru's. It's a flat bar with "tabs" that fit into the slot of the end of the Mag tube. Also get a stainless mag tube spring. Then trim the spring to about 2-4 max inches out of the mag tube when empty.
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The 73 is an easy to clean rifle. Usually a couple of passes with a bore snake and some Hoppes close in front of the built in brush and followed a few inches (3 or 4)back of the brush with some (I use Rem oil) on the snake will take care of it. I take the side plates off "maybe" twice a year and clean the pivot points and whatever else I can reach with Q tips and Hoppes then Rem oil.
Unless you're in a windy dusty place the 73's take little take down cleaning.
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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
I've had a 2000 Tundra, bought used in '06, and never had a lick of trouble.
My Dad bought a Toyota Hilux pickup (sp) new in 1970. He eventually sold it in 2003. A close friend of his bought it from him. The pickup was T-boned 2 years ago by a impatient driver and it was totaled with 487,000 miles on it. Original Engine and transmission. They don't built them like that anymore.
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On 11/8/2018 at 9:49 AM, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:
Thank you Charlie, I would very much like for that meeting to happen.
After re-reading the post-You have a very valid point.
My apologies
My remark did not need to be that 'sharp'. 
OLG
OLG...NO apologies needed. Sometime what I try to say comes across wrong. It isn't the 1st time and it won't be the last.
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9 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:
Not all folks from PRK have the mind set you're worried about.
My wife
and I don't have that mind set, and we are look'n hard at Forsyth.
Don't paint all us folks from Ca. with that wide brush you just used........
OLG
Lumpy...read it again please. What I said was "SOME Californian's are trying to make Montana (or their area of it) be like where they left, but won't move back to where they left". Those are the ones that need the highway strip electronic terminator.
I also said " Although there's quite a few Cal transplant's that moved here for the freedom of life we have here." I know quite a few former Californian's that moved here (Montana) years ago, and not that long ago, and I consider them close friends. So please re-read what I posted in the original post above.
I would really enjoy meeting you in person someday after you move here. Maybe even get a chance to shoot with you and yours.
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45 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said:
I've lived here nearly my entire life and all my family is here, so I can't leave. If everybody who is pro-gun flees then we're simply surrendering another state to the enemy. And the big city liberals are now moving to Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana so eventually those states will fall as well. People really need to stand their ground and fight this crap, or else we'll all be moving to Alaska.
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Don't count Montana on the surrendering list. Even the (jerk) Dem. governor and most of the rural Dem politicians are very Gun Friendly. Except for the Kalispell, Colombia Falls and Whitefish California transplants.
Montana is an open carry State and is pretty easy to get a concealed permit too. Like Arizona, Montanan's can strap on a side arm OR sling a rifle over your shoulder and walk down the streets. The only restrictions are Hospitals, Banks, Fed. Bldg's and Bars ( I think bars are included).
SOME Californian's are trying to make Montana (or their area of it) be like where they left, but won't move back to where they left. I suggested using electronic strips in the freeways and highways at the borders. Any Cal license plate would set off the strips and toast the electronics on their vehicle's; especially if they're moving vans heading into the state.
Although there's quite a few Cal transplant's that moved here for the freedom of life we have here. My Doctor WAS from Cal. Both he and his wife moved here several years ago. They both like guns, like to shoot and are against the Pelosi types hands down.
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2 hours ago, Lunger Dan said:
I've searched and cannot find info on this. The video shows the movement of the Baikal top lever moving "in and out"...other than that, everything functions fine , is tight, to the right of center at closed position, etc...no rattles in the gun..nice and tight. Except for this lever movement....is this normal or is it a problem?
Get hold of Johnny Meadows in Camp Verde, Arizona. Camp Verde Gun and Repair. Phone #928-300-6684. He's the best Baikal (in my opinion) and has worked dozen's of them for years. Tell him what's going on.
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The Home Depot has the same parking sign in their lot. Usually it's the Vets with the license plates are the ones using them here. Thanks to ALL who served and are still serving.
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9 hours ago, William Hendershot said:
BCGC-CG
WHAT is BCGC-CC ???
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When I was shooting Stoeger's I bought the lightened lever springs available from Longhunter's. I'm pretty sure others make them too, but his worked very well. Out of 3 that I had they also helped in the barrels opening more.
Some have said that has nothing to do with the barrels opening more; but they did on all 3 of the ones I had. Also if you do order those, buy the hardened firing pins and the tool to go with them.
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9 minutes ago, Lone Rider, SASS# 73063 said:
I had just ordered bullets from them and didn't know about any promo cade, my loss.
The promo pretty much pays for the shipping of 2000 bullets in the flat rate USPS box.
Winchester 44-40 Factory Lead Bullets
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Probably the same reason they quit allowing the Winchester Feather light powder to be sold across the Sporting goods counter. They make more money selling factory ammo (220 grain bullets) and AA featherlite shotgun shells.
I still have a small amount of that powder and it's marked Winchester AA with the feather on the label along with the weights and grains to duplicate the factory loads.