Captain Bill Burt

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.

The stage winners are in and they are: B, I, "E!" M, and F. Stage writers were Buckshot Billy, Scarlett Darlin, Capt. Bill, Deuces, and Magnum T. Pedibus.

The resemblance is striking!

I think a cost benefit analysis should always be part of decision making. What's the benefit of adding more Ps, or some of the other solutions that have been put forth? The benefit is eliminating instances where someone deliberately tries to minimize the cost of a P by dumping on a target. First let's consider how much that really helps them. A really good shooter might save themselves what, a second? So now that P only cost them 9 seconds. A much slower shooter might be able to knock off a whole two or three seconds by dumping all rounds on one target. Eliminating that outcome would be part of the benefit of adding additional Ps as you proposed. We can't know the full benefit of this unless we know how often these infractions occur, which from my experience is not very often. Do we really need to change a fundamental part of our rules (1 P per stage) to 'fix' this? That seems a bit extreme to me. I'm not convinced we need to take any action at all, and if we do need to, I'm in favor of modifying how the SOG is enforced, or eliminating it all together rather than introduce rules that are going to impact other facets of the game. To my knowledge I've never been bumped a spot due to that occurring. I have been bumped many times due to spotters failing to call misses or Ps though. I've seen shooters win the overall at the State match level due to bad calls on misses and Ps. I've seen pretty bad behavior around those calls as well. That's a much bigger issue than SOG calls. No offense, but this concern seems like a tempest in a teacup to me.

Does this infraction occur often enough that we need to make sweeping rules changes to address it?

Exactly! I’m willing to get bumped a slot to establish beyond a doubt that someone is a cheater. It’s happened a time or three. Yeah, officially they ended up ahead of me, but I knew and they knew what really happened and that’s good enough for me.

That's a pretty good price point. I'm almost afraid to go to the LGS now, I'll end up walking out with one.

I have a set of Single Sixes in .32 that I’m shipping to Snake Oil George today for 5” octagons with brass sights!

Quick update. We're at 34 shooters so far. The current categories are locked in. Top Man, Top Lady, Cowboy, Cowgirl, Elder Statesman, Cattle Baron, Grande Dame, Gunfighter, Duelist, Frontier Cartridge, Lady Gunfighter, All Around Cowboy and Senior. We're at 13 buckles. I would love to add the following categories if we get more people signing up for them: Junior, Frontier Cartridge Gunfighter, Ladies Senior, and Outlaw.

You have the Old York Shootists right there in Blountsville with you. You have the Alabama Rangers not to far south of you and the North Alabama Regulators not to far north of you. You have AL state and the Regional in your backyard, TN State about 3-4 hours away, GA State about 3-4 hours away, MS State about 3-4 hours away. You're in a great spot to play Cowboy.

Extremely.

Surprises are good too!

That’s very close to what I estimate. Now add $15 match fee, multiply by three, and add $40 for gas.

Ammo. Shotgun brush, guns, screwdriver, more ammo, Allen wrench, more guns, shot shell checker, more ammo. With six guns in a four gun cart, 500 rounds of metallic cartridge and 4-5 boxes of shotgun shells there’s not room for much else. Unless you’re a BP shooter cleaning should be done at home. All of our Cowboy guns are cleaned and ready for 2024. In April they’ll get cleaned again, at home, then again in August or September, but not at a match.

Where are you finding that locally Bob? Do they have 8 lb jugs of Titewad?

Those are good lucking guns. Who did the engraving?

Last year I picked up a Single Six in 32. H&R Magnum with the large grip frame and a Jimmy Spurs action job in the Classifieds through a swap. I subsequently purchased a Single Six with the shorter grip frame on Gunbroker. I purchased a OMV grip frame and swapped them out this week. In two weeks both guns go to Snakeoil George for 5" octagon barrels and brass sights, then off to Jimmy to take out the transfer bar of the one he previously worked on and slick the other one up. It will be a while, but I'll post pics.

I encourage all of my competitors to shoot Henry Big Boys.

I haven't heard anyone on this thread mention an objection due to deception. The biggest hit against the HBB is that it can't be run at speed, which is what pretty much everyone here is saying. Fine rifle, looks decent and probably fine for plinking and hunting but not suited for CAS if the shooter wants to be competitive. The Henry .22 on the other hand works just fine for Buckaroos. I have one that my former Buckaroos, now Young Gun and Cowboy used to use.