KatfishKid

My wife's belt and holsters were made by him. The plan was to let her use them her first season then upgrade if she stuck with it. But she's almost through her second season and still likes likes them. I wanted to get her a rig like mine from Murphy custom gunleather, but she says she still likes the Tomahawk leather holsters and belt. For the price, you can't beat em.

Hmm...didn't realize that. I use it on Cheddite hulls. But I have trimmed some AA hulls and it worked for what I needed. Regardless, the rubber sleeve that goes into the hull could probably be easily modified to work on anything. Probably could just use some sandpaper and put a taper on the insert. It's replaceable and made of a hard rubber.

I use a "Spin-N-Trim" and I love it. Works very well and is very fast once you get a rhythm going you can trim a hundred hulls in just a few minutes. https://www.ballisticproducts.com/Spin-N-Trim-Hull-Trimmer-12ga/productinfo/1172002/

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Yeah, I may have to go that route. I have one from them for the 12ga, but I feel like I get a nicer crimp with the old manual crimper.

I'm talking about I'd like to find an old roll crimper for 20ga, not an overshot card or wad punch.

Nice. I'm trying to find one for 20ga. I do a lot of hunting with the 20ga and want to start making some BP loads for small game.

Thanks! Those old hand crank roll crimpers do a fantastic job I think.

Overshot cards are usually pretty inexpensive, but I had a bunch of cardstock scrap left over from a project at work and punched out several hundred overshot cards using a 3/4" arch punch and a little arbor press. I think the cardstock is 30 point stock, might be 25...not really sure. Made probably 500 in 15 minutes or so. Took me longer to stamp the catfish on them then it did to actually punch out the cards 😂

The new AAs don't come out easily in any of my shotguns. I switched my wife to STS and she hasn't had any issues since the switch. I use pre-primed hulls for black powder. Because it's time effective, not cost effective. I really like the pre-primed Federal hulls from Ballistic Supply. I think 100 of them cost about $14 at the time when I bought them so I bought a few thousand. I also really like the HEVI magnum hulls with the Cheddite HOT primers. They're more expensive but they load and roll crimp nicely.

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I realized at TN state that I waste a lot of time putting down and picking up. You said something that stuck with me and I think it has helped me a lot "Take it with you". Taking my rifle or shotgun with me to the next window felt good, I didn't have to pause to drop the long gun, finish the string and move, while I'm moving start getting ready to draw the pistol and I can already be shooting while I'm laying the long gun down.

I feel like I'm right at this point too. I'm in my second season shooting Double Duelist. I've gone from averaging high 30 second stages to the low 20s, and now I feel like I've hit a plateau. My finger, thumb, and sight acquisition all seem to be pretty well synchronized. The issue is when I try to gain that last little bit of speed. I'll occasionally break the shot just before the sights are where they need to be, almost always with my left-hand revolver. I shoot frontier cartridge duelist, so the smoke also plays a factor in limiting my speed. Now I'm trying to decide what the best path forward is. Do I keep pushing the envelope during matches and accept a few misses until that faster pace becomes my new natural rhythm? Or do I back off to a speed where I'm clean? Part of me feels like if I back off, I'll never really get faster. Every time I've made a jump in speed, it came from pushing past what felt comfortable. I know dry fire is incredibly valuable, and I do it, but for me there's no substitute for live fire. Dry fire builds the mechanics, but live fire is where I really seem to learn timing, recoil management, and what my actual limits are. I'm curious how the experienced Duelists approached this stage. Did you intentionally push your speed and live with a few misses for a while, or did you stay clean and let the speed come on its own?

I've been shooting black powder all year and have yet to get a single cookie! I switched to BP for the cookies! I was scammed.

One minute I was sitting at home in Indiana minding my own business, and the next I woke up in a sketchy Tennessee motel wearing a pink shirt, smelling like Ballistol, and wondering where all my disposable income went. Let's make some smoke.