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We were asked to vend at eot 4 years ago. The cost we were told was North of $3000 before tent rental. Donation of product and cash. For us to pull a trailer 3200 miles round trip, on top of that made it a no brainer. We don't even vend at state or regional because there was only one match we made a profit on. By the time we pay for staff and everything the math doesn't add up. That is one of the reasons why we make a point to try to purchase something at every event we go to. If we don't personally need anything we give the items to new shooters or donate them to other matches as prizes. Being a small shop we understand how even $20 can make a difference if enough people do it.

All due respect, not taking anything from those shooters as some of those are great friends, as someone who has won speed gf at Nationals and eot, none of the fastest shooters double cock. Cumberland, Lefty, shalako, scrap, it's just slower.

Actually the biggest disadvantage is it's slower to double cock then to alternate because you are pausing action until the next pistol is fired. However each shooter needs to find what works best for them, what works for some, won't for others neither is right or wrong.

When an organization starts setting matches to favor elderly you will not interest youth plan and simple fact.

We don't have a table this year but I'll be bringing a couple skb's

I haven't seen the guns yet in guessing they won't release images until shot show and I'm sure some are already in the hands of guntubers already

Just got an email from Rob, skb will be re-releasing side by sides this year. Should be interesting to see how they are built

It's not a typo sass sent a notice to the board of gunsmoke already.

You won't see many from mn either, plus the fact that gunsmoke has a contract to host the regional this year as well, has a lot of people pissed to the point of talk about lawyers getting involved. I just hope it doesn't come to that. Too many good folk on both sides that I consider friends and no winner .

I'm in MN too. I've done new shooter classes and gunfighter classes. At both Morristown and Kimball. If you want I can help you out

Every time I read someone say that I have to laugh. It's been proven time and time again 2 triggers, 2 fingers is way faster than single trigger. And yes there were skbs with 2 triggers

I'll need it. Right now they are saying it will be a week before anyone can make it out to look at the damage.

Thursday sucked for us. We woke up to no power. It has been raining but nothing bad, after checking the breaker inside to if that tripped I headed outside to check the main line from power company. Only to see our livestock barn gone. Still smoldering. Lost the family dogs, as well as all livestock but one bull and two horses. Unfortunately it looks like we may have to put the horses down as well. The barn and livestock suck but what really hurts is the four dogs. Sometimes life knows how to kick you pretty good.

I mainly shoot gunfighter also. Do you plan on using one strong hand and transfer or shoot each have strong side with alternating hands chocking?. If your using one strong hand id go with x draw. Just remember to always have both hands moving. I'm not top tier, I don't practice or shoot cowboy that much anymore. When I did I was mid to low teens with the occasional single digit thrown in. This year I'm going to try to get back into the swing of things and see if I can shoot ok.

Here is a low wall made in 1889 that is a track driver. I play with it from time to time rabbit hunting

Your ignorance shows there.. sometimes it can take over an hour to get an answer... Big stores can pay someone to just sit there. Small shops it ties up the line. We only have two lines so it is an issue, plus that is time we do not have to just sit around

Too many c&r's just do not know what it means. We used to accept them but after about the tenth time I had a guy argue about what was allowed we just stopped accepting them. It's just not worth losing my FFL or the headache involved. Same with the guys that want to do trades, we get a bunch of people who want to do trades on our GunBroker items. in person is one thing and we glady do them, but dealing with booking/shipping and everything it's just not worth the hassle.

I run a h&r 12 from time to time. It's fun and I enjoy the challenge. We do get poppers and it isn't that hard to still get them.

Some hanging in the shop, the stuff we loan out is stored in 2, 40 gallon totes. Our match gear is stored in a duffel bag so we never forget anything. Just grab the bag.

I know of two made but no mass produced.

The parts are not interchangable. It's about a fourth Gen now so there is room to short stroke it more. When we get ours in I'll be doing some work on a few of them. Lightning the carrier and trying to short stroke it.

We have sold 4 in the last year, between $800 and $1200 depending on condition. I am a fan of them I have 2 18" . To make an auction you need two people who really want something. Fair price is what your willing to pay.

Mine started with a h001y my daughter weighed about 35 lbs when she started. When comparing apples to apples a 410 is way less recoil than a 12. Factory 410 to custom loaded 12, the 12 is less. Light loaded 410 barely moves the barrel. Kicks like a 22. Remember the young ones only have to hit the target. Not knock it over . 410 does have it's downsides. Smaller shells, smaller hole.

Ruger has had a large issue with qc for the last few years. We have sent numerous guns back that would not work out of the box. The good news is they know they have a problem and have been working hard to try to fix it. We had a bad run of guns and it ended up with the plant manager from New Hampshire actually come to our shop in MN. We were able to have a nice conversation about things and you could tell they really do want to get back to the quality they used to possess.

Been busy with the store, growing kids, the farm and my mother now needs 24 hr care so my free time has been pretty precious.We just came back from eot and it reminded me of how much I like to shoot. I only shot five matches last year. This year I'm going to try to get to more.