Vail Vigilante Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Good Evening Cowboys and Cowgirls One shot reloads, short stroked 97s, miscounted rounds in the lever gun, all sorts of things could cause the hammer to drop on a dead chamber. Do you get penalized for this? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cholla Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 55 minutes ago, Vail Vigilante said: Good Evening Cowboys and Cowgirls One shot reloads, short stroked 97s, miscounted rounds in the lever gun, all sorts of things could cause the hammer to drop on a dead chamber. Do you get penalized for this? Thanks The penalty is the time you wasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackSlade Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 I once racked a lever round out before firing, so I continued the firing order and when I got to the last target I quickly reloaded another round to finish the stage. If you can reload faster than 5 seconds, it's worth it to not take the miss penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Ring around the Ruger can be cured by a half cock modification. That mod is a good one and really helps against the revolver going click when you inadvertently come off the hammer too quickly. Jacking a round out of a rifle happens to darn near everyone at some point. Practice your reload or move on and take the miss, unless a clean match is on the line. Sometimes that click you hear is a dead round. That will be a miss, unless you can get a reload in. I've seen folks reload a rifle and shotgun from a dead round but never a revolver, but I suppose it has occured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutmeg Ryder, SASS # 74966 Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 47 minutes ago, Dantankerous said: Ring around the Ruger can be cured by a half cock modification. That mod is a good one and really helps against the revolver going click when you inadvertently come off the hammer too quickly. Jacking a round out of a rifle happens to darn near everyone at some point. Practice your reload or move on and take the miss, unless a clean match is on the line. Sometimes that click you hear is a dead round. That will be a miss, unless you can get a reload in. I've seen folks reload a rifle and shotgun from a dead round but never a revolver, but I suppose it has occured. In 2021 I did a revolver single round reload for a dead round at the NY State match. The miss would have been 5 seconds of course, the reload and hit took 12 seconds. But I got my first major clean match and came in fifth overall, who knew being clean was such an advantage!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vail Vigilante Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 Ok, Thank You for the good information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 I once shot a stage where all 5 pistol rounds went bang on the first gun, then went click, click, click, click, click on the second gun. I had a clean match going and no spare ammo on my belt, so... I unloaded both pistols, put the live rounds from pistol 2 into pistol 1, and finished the match clean. Pretty sure it took more than 25 seconds, but... CLEAN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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