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Great I bet at the match even revolver shooters get something. Even if they shoot like me.

Jerry was shooting a 5" 625. He always or at least everytime i have seen him shoot USPSA he uses a 5" gun. Which is why it was so strange for Smith to make the JM model a 4".

Happy Birthday to all more especially to my friend RknOpnChik. 18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my word if you guys hear about some wild party getting out of hand in Georgia tonight this may be the reason.

Hear is a picture of a hammer mounted firing pin hammer. the Mike cut. I have done 3 like this or dang close.

For some stupid reason Smith thinks there is some use to those damn long wide target hammers. And they put them in everything. You are not going to hurt anything you can cut the hammer up just like Carmoney and others of us have done. One my hunting revos I leave some spur but trim it up a good bit. My match guns I really chop them up.

See there thats what I am saying.

Hey guys, I am in pretty tight with the ICORE match director in Augusta, If I moved the match to November 15 would that help. I sure would like to have you guys in attendance,but then again my chances would be better to win if I shot it without ya! Seriously , would Nov 15 be a better date for this? That would be MUCH better for me. I would put that on the calender now and make plans to be there. I am going out of town the weekend of the 26,27,28 then the ICORE Cup in Miss for Oct.

I have got it in my head that a 6" single stack 9mm with the slide chopped, cut, drilled to within an once of it life would be the perfect limited set up for steel challenge. OK I know this is a bit of a thread drift but.

Just ain't in the cards Mike, I am going to be out of town the whole next weekend.

I am going to Mississippi in Oct. for the ICORE CUP. I don't think I will be able to make Augusta. You never know I will try.

This was only the first day right? There is a LOOONNNNNG way to go

Yeah but did you see where I feel off 14 seconds with my revolver? I crashed Accelerator so badly with my revo. Due in part to what I am talking abou there. On my first run I hit the satnd on the stop plate. I couldn't hear anything, I saw the plate move so I didn't shoot it again. I reloaded and reholstered and the RO ask me if I was going to shoot the stop plate. At this point it was to late to make it up so I took 30 seconds on that one. Then my next run, on the small plates I called both shots as hits and the said I missed both of them. So I had to take 2 misses with the 30 second on the first run. Cost me the match right there. Last month I shot an 88 this time I dropped back to 102

I love .22's. I don't have that many but the ones I have are pretty nice. I have a 10/22 with all the Tac/Sol stuff on it and a Leupold Custom shop 3-9. I have a 10/22 I had built back in the early 90's before all the bolt on stuff came out. This one has a fitted Lothar Walther SS barrel in a Fajen stock all bedded and tuned with a SUPER hand done trigger. It will shoot any ammo into a 1/4" at 50yards and the match grade stuff well I have shot several groups int he 0's. The best being .022. With Eley match Xtra ammo. I have a Smith K22 that taught me more about shooting a handgun than any thing I have ever owned. I have a Winchester 72 that is very sweet. It was totally refinished with a high polish blue and the stock hand rubbed oil finish. A John Linebaugh built Ruger Bearcat convertible 22/22mag. A Charter Arms Pathfiner that is scarey accurate. And a bone stock SS 22/45 that I have been shooting SC with. I Just picked it up in July so the only thing I have done to it is put 3000 rounds though it. It will get some new sights soon and maybe some trigger work.

It is just I have this tendancy to even though i call the shot good if i don't hear it go back and make it up. I cannot tell you ho wmanyt times I did that yesterday. They started fussing at me jokingly about shooting the stop plate more than once then they had to back up the timer. But I did it on several other plates and went back and made up shots I had already hit.

I know you are supposed to see the sights press the trigger and let the force be with you and call my shots. However. :-) With 22 and smaller plates I am going back and making up shots that I hit the first time because I can't hear the bullet strike. And with 22's sometimes there is not much of a spot for the bullet strike. And sometimes even with my 38 special revolver loads with lead bullets there is not much. My load is the same load as my ICORE load a 125gr lead roundnose bullet at 1025fps. I am thinking maybe I should work up a steel load with this bullet at about 850 to 900. Something where the sound of the shot don't drowned out the report of the bullet strike. I am also thinking about electronic earmuffs. Today with my 22 about half way through the match I stopped using anything. My ears are about shot anyway which doesn't help It was also suggested going to a jacketed bullet for matches. They do seem to have a different sound than lead. They seem to have a sharp crack where as lead bullets seem to have a soft thud. Any suggestions or feed back about these idea?

Unless you can do the work yourself and have extra cylinders to play with, what Doug said.

FREE BEER AND ENCHILADAS????????? Save me some I'll be on a plane in an our.+ I fly free so its all good.

I have used the standard hogues for so long nothing else feels right. I am thinking about try some wood hogues on my n frames. I like them on my k frames

I bought the revolver holster because well I shoot revolver mostly. Mine however has been converted to 1911 to Glock and back to revolver.

My entry fee and app hits the mail tomorrow. Looking forward to doing this

The bobbed hammers are mostly done at home. I milled mine because I am a machinist and have access to a milling machine then ground and polished them with whatever tools I thought would work. A dremel tool was used. I also do my own triggr jobs. For the new frame mounted firing pin guns you can get the apex hammer from apextactical google it. I have Millett rears sights on 4 of my guns with and front blades from SDM,EGW, and Williams. Grips are Hogue, either wood or rubber. Can't tell you a thing about a scope mount cause I don;t have optics on any of my revolvers. I do have a mount that came on one of my guns but I took it off as soon as I go it and don't know who made it.

Yeah you might better back up and regroup. Heck that load looks a might steep for 357 cases. I have used like 4.5gr of Unique behind my cast 158's for years for plinking and such. And for Steel Challenge with my 4" k frames. That is a little low to make power floor but it is also very light and can be bumped up a little to make power.

Round nose bullets are the only way to fly. Lead, plated or FMJ's. The load may or may not be safe you didn't tell us the powder charge. Even if it is safe why would you? Develope a load for 38 special cases that makes power with a little to spare and go with it. Why put up with more recoil than you have to? You are playing a game. Thats all any of this is a game.

Oh heck they are just guns. Shoot them, thats what they are made for.

I cast just about all of my bullets, thats the only way I can afford to shoot. The 4 cavity and 6 cavity molds are a God send. AND I STILL can't keep up. Like HSMITH I use a big dutch oven I have never counted how many bullets I can cast per hour, I just cast until I get tired. Or here in Georgia where it is 95 degrees and 95% humidity I cast until I stop sweating.