Sixgun Seamus

We open our 2025 Cowboy seaon at Brown this Saturday. Registration at 8:45 am with lead down range at 10am. Coffee and donuts in the morning and lunch will be available. Shooting six stages. Hope the weathers gods cooperate and hope to see you Saturday.

Wow! Hard to keep a dry eye at the end.

And they have proper length barrels.

Ditto to Rye. Thanks guys for giving us a place to shoot through the winter.

Only knew him for a couple years but in that time I was privileged to call him a friend. RIP and prayers for his family.

This is a great match put on by great folks. You won't be disappointed.

Headed south this morning. See you folks in a couple of days. Get out of this NE Ohio weather for a while.

It's at one of the best cowboy town venues that you will ever shoot.

If Vin Tanner can do it, so can I.

Watch me! No really, my grandson will be using these.

If these aren't sold yet, I'll take them. Sending you a PM.

The dog looks interested. Ask him to do it.

Great shoot today for inaugural match. Thanks, Custer, Howes and Pete for getting this going. Weather didn't cooperate on a couple stages. Unfortunately, we won't be back too often as we shoot the same weekend. We start next month.

22 birdshot in an old 3 screw single six is also quite fun and effective although more expensive.

The OP made a point in his opening statement. I probably inferred that in another thread when I said, “this is a World Championship and there should be some challenge”. I also prefaced that statement with, “you had to think on a couple”. I guess I didn’t communicate my thoughts completely or very well. I will stand by what I said in that post. I would like to add that a bit of challenge (challenge =“one you have to think on”) is appropriate at any match at any level. I was thinking of a particular stage when I wrote that statement that I cannot remember shooting that sequence previously in nearly 500 matches. Therefore, I had to “think about it”, and I saw it as a challenge. It wasn’t a hard sequence, just different. On my posse I had a new EOT shooter. He was one of the first, if not the first shooter on our first stage. I was TO and he turned to me on the firing line and said, “You have no idea how nervous I am right now”. I responded with something to the effect of, “relax, it’s just a monthly shoot with a whole lot more shooters”. He ended up being our only clean shooter. I basically say the same thing to any shooter thinking about attending a bigger match. I still say the stages were well written and easy to understand. I welcome a challenge at any level. It only makes me think and hopefully improve.

Lots of gasoline and light a match?

And this is the exact pool table where it happened. (In the movie, that is) This is at the Mescal Movie set in Arizona.

Are those the same ones that you wore on the ark?

If you have five minimum items, the rules say you are good to go. My personal opinion (and I've stated this in previous threads) that this is a costume category. It is based on your costuming. "GO ALL OUT OR GO HOME! There are 12 items that are worn in Classic. I wear 11 of them almost every time I shoot. If you don't want to wear the clothes, there are other categories to shoot in that use the same firearms and shooting style. As a member of the Mag7 of Classic Cowboys and a past recipient of "Classic Cowboy of the Year", my opinion is therefore slanted and biased. I personally don't own chinks because I don't feel they are the time period that I dress for. I own batwing and shotgun chaps and a pair of botas. I have a set of full buffalo woolies that I have worn at summer shoots. Yes, heat does affect me a lot and I sweat with the best of them. I drinks lots of water and use various methods to keep cool. YMMV

The stages were interesting but no "P" traps in my opinion. Yes, you had to think on a couple, but hey, this is a World Championship and there should be some challenge. You could write 12 stages of 3-4-3 sweeps and people would still have "P's". The P's that I observed as TO were on relatively common and easy stages but the shooter suffered "Brain Phart" as FJT would say. I urged the posse to read their book as I read the stages verbatim, then asked for questions. We still had P's.

My grandson is 9 yrs old and weighs 64 lbs. He is by no means oversize. I started him shooting Cimarron Model P Jr's in 32 H&R. He actually wants to shoot my Vaqueros in 38. He has fired my loaded down 45 Colt with not problems. Don't underestimate the younguns. Centerfire cartridges in 32 and 38 can be downloaded for minimal recoil. He is shooting a Marlin 38 carbine and a Stoeger 12 gauge with cut down stocks. He has shot my TTN with blackpowder loads "outlaw" style. Basic high school physics class will tell you a heavier gun will have less perceived recoil. Don't be afraid to start with centerfire rifles or a 12 gauge. If cost is a factor, think about this. You will buy a 22 then have to buy a centerfire at some point, so why not buy something he will keep for the long run. (Although buying more guns is not a bad thing either ) A 410 might be a lighter gun, but with factory loads, it will kick more than a 12 gauge loaded down. Buckaroos only have to hit a target, not bow it to smithereens.

We'll miss you at Brown.

Supposed to be clear in NE Ohio. Now just gotta set the alarm to see it.

I had seemingly a lot of cracked C45S cases early on. I was using a conglomeration of dies to load and was using a 45acp die to size. Till you bell the mouth slightly to seat bullet then crimp, I believe the brass was getting overworked. I switched to 45 Colt die to resize and the problem seemed solved with my newer brass.