when the gun goes click

[Vail Vigilante]

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

 

 

[Itchy Trigger]

No

[Cholla]

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.

[JackSlade]

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.

[Dantankerous]

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.

[Nutmeg Ryder, SASS # 74966]

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!! 

[Vail Vigilante]

Ok, Thank You for the good information.

[Three Foot Johnson]

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!