Carolina Gunslinger

...Where people are highly ignorant about single action revolvers? To give you an idea of the obstacles I'm up against: •Holsters must fully cover the trigger. How do I talk around this? Most if not all of my single action holsters have some if not all of the trigger exposed. I have tried to emphasize tension on the cylinder as a safety feature in the holster. •Lack of firearms knowledge: When I said I shot a competition firing a gun in each hand (gun fighter)...a gentleman while looking at me dead serious and asked, "How do you cock them?" I was floored. I did the motions in the air and he got the picture. The details of his background would shock you in light of this question. I am beginning to believe that the term "firearms instructor" is not the mantle of expertise so many see it as. It would appear even more true when "law enforcement" is paired up with this deceptive term. They recently opposed the idea to allow fully automatic fire, yet okayed bump stocks and binary triggers at fully cyclic rate. At a bare minimum I am trying to get a waiver from the board of directors to draw from western style holsters so I can at least practice somewhat and which can open the door to development of interest in SASS-like shooting at the club. Steel shooting is a sensitive topic due to the many "experts" that are quite certain that rounds get out of the range due to pepper poppers being double and triple tapped...because everyone can and does this all the time. Please help me figure a way to sell this. Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.

There'll be no livin' with her now...

Screen across railings and boards tight enough not to allow brass to escape. A thorough leaf blowing or raking prior to any shooting to make finding brass easier.

I'm going to write a stage with a "litigious" sweep. That's where you have to pick someone else to represent you and pay them five bucks to use unnecessary words to confuse you and everyone else while you try and shoot the stage. There must be at least five objections to any misses, one motion to dismiss with prejudice if there is a procedural, and one defense rests at the last shot. All other confusion is subject to the imagination of the participants.

Just to be punny, "Spank you very much!"

So what's the call on calling a call before PWB gets here and closes the thread? Great to see you Widder. Still working on rifles?

Oooh that block is super cool! That's definitely something to have in your bag. As well as a few extractors and an ejector spring for a '97.

I'm changing back from Long Hunter spring kits to the 20# mainspring and keeping the the 30oz trigger springs. I pulled my guns and ammunition out after a long hiatus and found quite a lot of light strikes. Stock hammers and SBH both failed to ignite reliably on CCI primers. The 20# spring set off the light strikes first try every time. The lighter springs would not set off the light struck rounds even after multiple tries. The older I get the more I favor reliability over a softer feel. Those light hammers are great and fast right up until the light strike.

I have two of them in .45 Colt. I have not had any issues with them over the years. I spoke with Cody (Don Jones) at length about the difference between the cut and weld and the short stroke kits. The takeaway I had was that his modification was smoother than the kit was. I run mine with the Colt carriers as modified and lightened by Cody and also the Smith Shop .45 Cowboy Special carriers that I lightened to match the Cody matic carriers. No issues at all. Bill English does/did good work.

Noted. I'm quoting what the box says. I have neither measured bullet nor bore.

It's a .452 160. I should've stated that.

Great advice. There was a great explanation by Tupelo Flash on one of his shows about this process. I got some really great advice from a guy once about bullet weights and sight heights. He liked a heavier bullet to roll the gun in his hand a bit to facilitate cocking the next shot in Gun fumbler. He also had some great points about heavier bullets having better accuracy than lighter bullets. My 160's tend to keyhole at about thirty yards. I suppose I could either push them harder or just use a bullet with more bearing surface. He also liked a little bit more of the front sight showing for his sight picture as opposed to flush with the top of the receiver. It all made sense as he was fairly proficient.

That's all well and good as long as your machine is prepared and more importantly that you know to look for it. Roger that sir. HSM. I was thinking that the SPP would be great for .45 CS brass. I'm tempted to cut my .454 Casull down and try it.

I'm unfamiliar with the SS case head. Who makes these?