Idaho Gunslinger

As a 36 year old in this sport, I have friends my age I have brought shooting. But I can't get any of them into the sport because the cost to join is so high when these people are neither reloaders nor own any of the right guns either. I am just fortunate enough to have a high income as an engineer and other than my gun addiction I am very fiscally responsible, as is my wife. Time is another factor. I have a Dillon XL650 that is all setup to rock n roll out 45 colt and I struggle to have the time to keep my guns fed most months. It's just hard to find time in the garage with young kids that I have to keep a close eye on (my 2 boys are hell on wheels!). As Dog Meat Dad pointed out, 22LR rounds can be bought for under 10 cents each right now. In my area the only primers in stock are also 10 cents each so it's significantly cheaper to shoot 22LR than to reload anything. So with 22LR not being an official category I think that makes it hard to hang on to new shooters who know they can't shoot at bigger matches otherwise if they so choose to in the future.

I've sometimes used an 11 round to push the 10th one in.

Yeah that would be handy. Again this is probably where I got lucky with my 97. It will hold 6 with the right shells. Though just barely. My backup 97 will not hold 6 though.

I've read this on here many times but so far in the 3 years I've been doing this I've only seen one 97 fail but a few SxS's have failed. Though to be fair I think there are a lot more SxS running around compared to 97's. To my surprise the majority of the fast shooters around here are running 97's in Cowboy. So far my 97 has been running great but I picked up a Sharptail for Cowboy and only use my 97 for WB and occasionally in Cowboy. My wife uses the 97 for Cowboy. I'm just a sample size of 1 though and my 97 seems to run really smooth and good. I've been reading about this a lot on here lately. The 6 spring kits are causing last round feeding issues lately. I don't know if something changed with the quality of the kits or what.

Most of the WB shooters in my area are running 97's. There are a few M12's here and there but they don't seem to have any advantage over a 97. If my 97 gets a little sticky I just spray the rails and bolt with some One Shot and it runs like butter again. As for your issue with feeding the last round, it sounds like your magazine spring is weak. It would be pretty easy to replace it. I would absolutely avoid an 1887 if you want reliability. Not that I have been around a lot of them, but I've never seen one make it through a 5 stage match without a few hiccups.

El Patron

Same thing happened to me last year. I bought my replacements from Shotgun Boogie.

I spoke with Griner about this and he said the safety cannot be deleted on these. It's integral to the single trigger function. He did send me a stiffer spring to make it harder to activate. These guns are incredibly stiff when new and I believe they have an auto safety so they are not ideal for SASS out of the box. Ken could probably tell you more but I believe most of these gunsmiths gut a lot of the factory parts out and build a new cocking mechanism that is much lighter and smoother than factory. Each smith seems to have their own slight variations to the rebuild. I bought mine straight from Ken ready to go. I couldn't get one for less than he could so it would cheaper to buy through him.

I put up 10 sticky notes on the wall opposite the doorway in a room in the basement. 5 up high for rifle shots and 5 down low for pistol shots. I set up a light outdoor folding table in the doorway and dry fire through the doorway. I put all my belts on (most of the time) and run through scenarios (ideally the ones for my next match if I have them available). This let's me practice shooting and transitions all together. As a gunfighter if I just practice with one firearm over and over I feel like I'm getting arthritis 🤣 and I'm too young for that!

I've shot at 4 different clubs now, all in Idaho and they have all used "at the ready" but only for rifle and it has always meant rifle shouldered and pointed at target, but you can't load that first round in the chamber until after the beep. In Cowboy I have never had that said for shotgun or pistols that I recall. I have had both read to be "in hands" which means shotgun shouldered and ready to be loaded but cannot be touching ammo until the beep. For pistol it has been very rare and usually they will give you "Texas Surrender" which is hands on the grips of your holstered pistol(s). In Wild Bunch I have started with Shotgun "at the ready" but in WB the pump shotgun is pre-loaded just like the rifle is. So for me it would be C. PS I don't think I have ever even gotten 100 pages out of an ink jet printer cartridge!

I've tried a few of the cheap ones that had good reviews and they were awful. Had no consistency. I'd weigh the same thing 3 times and get 3 different results. I bought one of those RCBS chargemaster lites when they came out and it has been very consistent for me. I was double checking everything against a balance beam and they always match. After a year or so of doing that I no longer use the beam scale anymore.

I use it here and there for my AR. The auto trigger reset is awesome! You have a real trigger pull every time.

In my rifle I'm shooting a 180gr flat point from Cheycast with 5.0gr of Red Dot. I was getting inconsistent ignition in the cold winter months when I tried going below 5.0gr.

Does that club still exist? That's even further than local clubs put targets out and most people on here seem appalled at putting targets at those distances.

In my experience if a load is so hot it is blowing the primer out, it is because it stretched out the primer pockets and the primers just fall out now. For reference I was testing some new cartridge for Underwood Ammo in an AR10. I was shooting for groups and chrono'ing the shots. It was a 95 degree day and I would shoot the round. Check the impact with a spotting scope and write down the velocity. Meanwhile the next round was auto fed into the chamber and heating up in there. First few rounds were fine but the last few started blowing out primers. Being a semi-auto I didn't notice it until the 9th or 10th round because the primer fell into the action and locked up the bolt. The last few cases would no longer hold primers. You could push them in with your fingers and they would just fall back out if you shook the case.

Until reading this thread just now I thought 1200fps was Standard Velocity for 22LR. I'm guessing @El Sobrante Kid post here is why I have always thought this.

That's all I have seen as well but I wondered if maybe it's a supply and demand issue. There are a lot more shooters that are 60+ compared to those 36 to 59.

That's 238 categories if I did my math right. On that note do Wrangler and Forty-Niner Costume/Style categories actually exist? ie Wrangler Gunfigher or Lady Forty-Niner Frontier Cartridge Duelist.

Thanks! I'm seeing the same 2 places on that site and those are quite a jaunt from Munich unfortunately. Same thing as above Frankfurt is too far away from Munich for a day trip.

I'm going to be in Europe the last week of June. Are there any clubs around Munich or Salzburg that will shoot on Saturday the 28th? I didn't see any official clubs in that area on the SASS website but wondered if there some unofficial clubs possibly.

Eyesa has the answer right here. Shotguns are generally allowed to be made up, but once the clay hits the ground it can't exactly be made up so added a static make up target is a safe way to allow shooters to make up the shot.

I've never wanted to try slamming the lever on a stuck round just because I know how easy those levers bend! And that creates a whole new mess trying to get the rifle to work right again.

The problem with a check is that if you send a check to a scammer they still got your money... the foreign scammers likely won't ask for checks though I guess. In this day and age, lord knows what they can do with all of the information they can get off of your checks. My Grandma still mails checks here and there to my kids for their bdays/christmas/etc. They are wrote for like $10-$30. I've told her many times to just go get the cash and mail them cash. At least if someone steals that they only got the cash. Checks have your name, billing address, phone number, account number, and routing number on them. With that much information God forbid they manage to get their hands on your SSN or credit card numbers etc. I think about the best thing you can do is just vet the buyer/seller as well as you possibly can. Ask other members on here, check their post count, make sure the account isn't new etc.

I am assuming this is why they routinely use 6 shells in Wild Bunch, but I've never handled a model 12 so I don't know. My 1899 only holds 5. My 1911 holds 6 with the right brand of shells.

Wildbunch also allows the Model 12 shotgun. Do these hold 6 in stock condition? One of my model 97s will barely hold 6 but only with certain brands of shells. I've found not all factory 2-3/4" shells are the same length.