Captain Bill Burt

I’ve found a few hours in a cardboard box sitting in the sun works fine. I have never used any tumbling media, just Lemi Shine and Armor All wash and wax.

I use several very competent gunsmiths. I recently lost a front sight (my fault). My go to gunsmith said it was easier to replace the barrel than the sight, particularly with stainless. He replaced it for me. A couple of days later it came off again. I JB welded it back and so far it's OK. My point? Putting those sights back on is not as easy as you think.

It's only $7 grand. I'm sure Brisket won't mind.

Hateful Eight?

I'm sorry to hear that Billy. I chatted with Goody here on the Wire over the years and really enjoyed the conversations.

Why not? All you have to do is get seven State matches that have their matches scheduled pretty close together. It helps if they're geographically close as well. Living in Georgia I can get to four of the seven matches and never have to drive farther than about 3 hours one way. It might be a bit tougher since things are more spread out in your area. I'm guessing your best bets would be TX, NM, CO, AZ NV UT and CA. Or maybe drop one of those out and add OK? I just checked with all the match directors to make sure that not only did they not mind, but they were willing to chip in enough to cover a buckle. Then start asking vendors and try to get some sponsors. I'm happy to help if you have any questions.

Looks like some JM Ross leather from when he lived in Texas. He does quality work.

I use Hodgdon’s load site to work up a load. https://hodgdonreloading.com I buy hulls from Ballistic Products, wads from Recobs reloading, primers via ammoseek, powder straight from Hodgdons and shot from Shootin Fox here on the Wire.

I started with a Stoeger. They are a good starter shotgun and pretty durable. Once I started getting more competitive I switched to SKB’s which in my opinion are a superior gun for our game.

Sure! In fact, there are seven state matches coming up in the southeast. I’ll donate these primers to any Seniors competing in one of those matches. But wait, there’s more! I’ll even give your guns a free cleaning just prior to the match!! Don’t wait! This is a limited time offer!

Fast Eddie SKB. I gave some to a friend to try and he had the same problem. I’ve used LNLR, STS, and Gun Club new shot shells with no issues. I’ve also reloaded extensively with Federal and Cheddite with no issues. But with Fiocchi’s I had failure to fire once out of every 4-5 rounds. LOL, I have several thousand I’ll part with at a very reasonable price!

I’ll add that I had about 25% ftf reloading with Fiocchi primers, so if they use their own primers I would avoid them.

I went to the Hodgdon reloading center input the powder, bullet weight and type and got a starting load of 5.2 grains with a muzzle velocity of 1,044 (too high) and a max load of 6.2 with a muzzle velocity of 1,201. I haven’t used CFE myself, but given those numbers I would load a few rounds at 5.0 grains and work down from there. If I could get a load generating 650-800 fps with consistent ignition and no unburnt powder I would call it good. Having said that, powder is still relatively cheap. I would set the CFE on the back shelf and buy Titegroup, loading 3.0. Edited to reflect that Tex beat me to it.

I would love to see the Outlaws rejoin us in 2024!

We're up to 36. The signup deadline is the Ides of March. I'll be ordering buckles and locking in categories in about two weeks! Thank you again to our sponsors: The state matches of course and also Buffalo's Wild West, Page Custom Knives, Outlaw Bullets and the lovely - Bullets by Scarlett! We also have an anonymous sponsor who is providing two buckles! BTW, you read that right. We're sponsored by Outlaw Bullets. The cowboy everyone loves, Waimea, has stepped back from making bullets, but Pops Corbin, T-Bone Johnson, and Lady J. are taking over and should be up any running by mid February. Buffalo's Wild West is donating the 2nd place badges. Page Custom Knives are donating a screw knife, Outlaw Bullets is donating 7,000 (love that number) 125 grain TCFP bullets, and Bullets by Scarlett is donating a Ryder Shotshell Sizer!

Ouch!

The idea behind the rule, as I understand it, is that it’s unfair for one shooter to avoid a penalty because he has a quick thinking TO, while another shooter might get the penalty. I’m not in favor of that rule for a few reasons. One reason being that it’s the TO’s duty to safely assist and this rule discourages that by locking in a penalty if the TO intervenes. Another is that it isn’t applied to other actions TO’s take that aid the shooter, like telling him what target to shoot.

That depends upon whether the gun ‘slipped and fell’ or was dropped. OP said it was teetering the whole time. Therefore it never came to rest and didn’t slip and fall, it was dropped, so SDQ.

From my perspective there’s no difference, but the rules say one is a SDQ and the other is a no call.

SDQ.

I try to keep a year’s worth loaded and two years of supplies.

Respectfully, if I were the TO I would not consider the shooter to have made up the rifle misses.

It's a simple question, do misses on the dump target count as misses? If so, then once the shooter finished with the rifle there were no remaining targets to be shot other than the dump, which the shooter 'missed' five times. Shoot where it was applies to prop failures, which this wasn't. No, shooting the wrong target with the wrong gun is a miss.

Do misses on the dump target count? If so I would call 5 misses.

Wow! That’s a nice rig for a great price. If it were a bit smaller I would be all over that.