Dred Bob

On sale now at Graf & Sons. SPP's were $250 / 5000 and LPP's were $225 / 5000. Free shipping and no Hazmat fee when I ordered.

my single trigger Stoeger isn't a 3000, or at least it doesn't say 3000. It's mechanical. I had an issue with a hammer cocking but that was because of some wear on the fore-end where the hammer cocking pins hit the fore-end plate. Aside from that it has been a great running single trigger. I don't have an SKB or CZ or anything to compare it to but I love running it. They have a reputation but I have no complaints.

hopefully this isn't blasphemy but how does it run for Wild Bunch? Is it setup to hold 6 shells? I need a good WB 97 that can be run hard.

Anybody seen the Wild Bunch results?

first time signed up for Ambush in Paradise Indiana state matches both Wild Bunch and Cowboy. I can't find any emails, links, or information at all with event scheduling or instructions or anything at all. Anybody have anything? Priority now is for the Wild Bunch shoot tomorrow (Thurs 6/12)

40 SW/10mm conversion kit

now I need to find that song It has a new spring from a 6 shell conversion kit I got from LH but I've already replaced that with a new "heavy" spring which is only trimmed down enough to barely let 6 shots in the tube. I'll keep fussing with it if I can't find something else. I like the idea of the 97 but I'm getting a little worn out on the reality of a 97.

It runs pretty hard and sometimes it's very hard to get to rack a round but the real killer is that it frequently doesn't want to feed the last shell in the tube. I basically end up spending a few attempts at trying to get it to feed before manually feeding a new shell to finish the stage and then declaring a broken gun and doing the walk of shame with a live round still in the tube. Very annoying especially when it happens more than once a match.

I haven't really found anybody that does the 97 for a living or side hustle and I don't want to put a ton of money into it. I don't need a race gun, just a reliable one. I did go through entire receiver over the winter with a guy that has a lot of experience tearing them down and putting them back together which is no minor accomplishment. We cleaned and went through it in detail and didn't find any obvious broken or overly worn parts but it's not like we have a lot of parts to swap around to try a fix.

I'm trying to stick with the 97 (or Model 12) since that's the shotgun originally included in WB and the one that stages are written for. I could just switch to my Stoeger Coach as an alternative and I know how to run that one but I really enjoy the differences between WB and CAS. I just think I'd enjoy those differences more if my shotgun was a little more cooperative. I thought I could find a reliable Model 12 easier and maybe cheaper than rolling the dice on buying another 97.

CAS reference was a brain fart. I only shoot Coach guns in CAS (so far) anyways. I just need a more dependable solution than my current 97 for WB.

4 rounds is a deal breaker! Out of curiosity why isn't it legal in WB? I thought Model 12's were okay although a 4 round tube isn't going to cut it.

looking to possibly upgrade from a 97 to a M12 mostly to shoot in WB. I found a Model 12 Featherweight. Are they okay for SASS CAS & WB? Any reason NOT to?

mine stopped cocking one side as a result of wear on the forend hinge/cocking plate (not sure what it is called). There's a thread here somewhere that I started not long ago. Replaced the forend metal piece and working great. I was able to manually cock the hammer so if you can't manually reset it then might not be related.

tried wet tumbling last year after reading all the positive threads on it here and other places. Never going back to dry. Water, a quick squirt of Dawn and.a dash of Lemi Shine. I bought pins but have never needed them everything comes out cleaner / shinier inside and out with just water in an hour or so. Get a cheap food dehydrator if you don't feel like waiting a day for it to dry. You can process a lot more brass a lot faster Wet than Dry not that that was a reason for me to switch. Just much better results without stocking all the media and trying to separate it out after. Plus doing the dryer sheets and stuff to try and keep the media dust free and clean.