Rattlesnake Slim

I'll take both. Same PayPal address as for the hammers? I'll PM my shipping address. Thanks

I've loaded HS wads in the occasional non-HS hull that I find lying around (only another .410 shooter understands the joy of a found .410 hull). They seem to work ok. On the other hand, non-HS wads will not work well in HS hulls, they don't seal well enough and you get a large percentage of weak loads. I would just use your regular load in the old style hulls.

Clean Shot. I believe Bullets By Scarlett can get it for you and she has lots of good cowboy loading data for it too.

The ACSA annual match will be February 7-9. My fault, I gave Texas Maverick the wrong dates based on an educated guess.

You'll love it, especially the way it meters through a powder measure.

It might just be my imagination, but I think that the plastic shrinks as it gets burnt making them a little easier to shuck, although a little harder to reload.

Not necessarily, I load them until they won't stay crimped anymore.

You better sleep with one eye open my friend.

There is NOTHING that Larsen has only one of. I'm sure by now he has broken out one of his backups.

The easiest way is to use 30-35 grains by weight of APP, one ounce of lead, and then experiment with wads to give you the proper stack height. I find that the 1 1/8 or 1 1/4 oz wads work best because they have the shortest cushion. Any excess wad petal just gets folded over when you crimp. Also I use either Fiocchi or Federal hulls. Being straight walled they have a little more room for the bulkier powder.

At EOT, the next year's theme is the first thing discussed, often at the current year's Saturday night banquet. It seems that it is easier when everybody is in the moment, enjoying the event, and already excited about the next year. Honestly it seems like it gets harder to come up with good ideas the longer we put it off. Plus, we can't put it off too long because planning for stages, shooter's book layout, and numerous other things start almost immediately. Sponsors and vendors also appreciate knowing the theme as soon as possible for things like give-aways, tshirts, etc. Also, don't wait for "a better idea". You don't have to take the first suggestion offered, but once you have something workable concentrate your efforts on developing it. Creeker has given some excellent ideas on how to flesh out the basic theme, the longer you give yourself to work on it the better it will turn out.

To answer your original question about the Walker's, I had an earlier version of these and there were two problems. First, they don't (or didn't) make replacement foam tips. So when the original tips get hard due to age, ear wax, etc, they get uncomfortable with no way to fix. Second, in any wind, you need to just turn them off and use them as plugs. The wind noise is bad even on the lowest setting. I went back to molded plugs.

Whew, thought I was in trouble again.

At home: Wash, dry in the AZ sun, reload. Haven't used my tumbler (vibratory) in years, the wife stole it to polish jewelry.

That's right. The age limits on P.6 of the Shooter's Handbook list the ages as "and up". Anyone, either voluntarily or by category collapsing, may shoot in a younger category, except as a Junior or Buckaroo(ette).