Bill Nesbitt

This is the way I used to do it back when I was shooting revolvers a lot. I had to make this video to see what I was doing because I couldn't explain it. I let the cylinder spin free so it can turn to line up with the rounds. I experimented with how to have the speed loader placed in the carrier to get the most consistence. You can see that it didn't line up exactly during the different times. Rounds have always ejected cleanly except that one time at The Carolina Cup.

I haven't shot IDPA for a while and let my membership lapse. I was a 5 gun M at one point. Got my first match bump in SSP at the 1999 (I think) Nationals and then got ESP, CDP, SSR and ESR shooting the old 90 round classifier. I might have gotten CCP but I don't remember for sure. Highest I got in USPSA was A Class in a couple divisions.

Glad you made it OK. I had a heart attack but it wasn't the widow maker, it was someplace else in my heart. They went in through my wrist and put some stents in. No scars.

I originally got this LCR for pocket carry, but I've gone another direction for that. These light hand loads are only so I can use this revolver for a range toy.

I have a 9mm Ruger LCR and it's painful to shoot with the arthritis in my hands. It looks like the case volume is close between the 2 cartridges. I wondered if anybody has down loaded any 9mm to 38 Short Colt levels for revolver use?

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I only knew Bubber from the internet, but he has helped me tremendously with my revolver journey. Notice the Bubberized speed loader in my avatar. He will be missed.

In the early days of IDPA, i seemed to get squaded at the Nationals several years with a guy who would not help reset at all. You could hand him some pasters and he would drop them to the ground. He always won the Division.

Par time standards stages were very common in the early days of IPSC because timers hadn't been invented yet. They used a stopwatch and a whistle. They lined up however many shooters they could get in a wide bay and everybody shot at the same time with SO's watching for overtime shots. This carried over into IDPA also for a time. Before par time was banned in IDPA, one local club used to run a 90 second par time house clearing stage each month. IIRC, if you shot down zero and under the par time, your score was 90 seconds. Points down added to your score along with whatever time over the par. It was always a fun stage.

I wondered where you were. I hope everything goes well for you in the future. If you're ever shooting a match back in this area, let me know ahead of time. Bill

Pat, I am so sorry. I am praying for you and your wife.

I have shooting magazines back to the mid 1970's. I pulled one out of the middle. Shooting Times Feb 1973. I have Guns and Ammo, Shooting Times, Front Sight, SOF, Guns, Police, AH and probably some others. You can have them if you come and get them. It would cost a fortune to ship.

Several of us did our re-shoots with BUG guns at a small local match recently. This is a small match with 10 to 20 shooters total. It isn't IDPA, so we can do whatever we want. A few had sort of planned ahead, but a couple of guys only had .380's with 1 spare mag. They scrounged around and had a box and a half of ammo between them. We decided to score 1 hit per target instead of 2, reloads from the pocket. Load 6 rounds only in mags. We started from low ready rather than have people drawing from pockets. We had a couple of 380's, a couple of G-26's, a J-Frame and a couple sharing a G-43. Learning occurred. We will probably do it often in the future. Back to your original question, I see quite a few people shooting their every day carry in IDPA. One guy shoots a Glock 27 from under his T-shirt and does very well.

Take the score you shot and figure where the 3 seconds needs to come from. Faster draw, faster reload, less points down, faster splits, etc. I think it is important to shoot the 5x5 with no points down or very close. It's pretty easy to double your score with points down. Don't ask me how I know this.

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