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We're having our once in a blue moon, revolver's only, ICORE club match April 25 at the Richmond Rod and Gun club. Just need a holster and some speed loaders or moon clips. Contact: Paul Hara phara442@yahoo.com for details.

I've tried #1 in my Revo. I thought I'd give it a try on my rebound slide. Didn't work out so well. As you would expect my trigger pull poundage went up, and went up significantly (even though as minnesota says it feels smooth). I see that Brian makes a lighter grade now and that may work better, but for now I'll stick with my combo of Tetra Gun Grease and Rem oil! What do you other shooters use? Paul

EricW"s "B" plate suggestion worked great. You just have to set the gap a little wider than you might expect. Now the RF100 will work with both Winchester primers and Federals also. Thanks EricW.

Dave, Yooo the man! See you at the IRC.

Thanks EricW, These are great ideas, I'll put them into play. Paul

Ouch dajarrel!!!!

I thought I'd post this here since most of us competition revo shooters use Federal Primers. I've been using Federal Small Pistol Primers in Dillon's auto primer loader for about a year now. Everythings been working great until I recently got a new batch of 5000 primers. So far I've loaded about 2000 of them and they seem to be constructed taller than before. I have to push up on the plastic tab that directs the primers to the filling tube, otherwise the primers get stuck and won't go into the tube. I've tried loosening the tab, but I have to loosen it so much that it won't stay put. Also I have tried cleaning the primer ramp and adjusting the tension on the vibration dampening colored nylon primer adapter with no luck My conclusion is that the Federal small pistol primers or at least this batch are now a tad taller. Anybody else have this problem? Thanks

Eric, Congratulations Mr. AMMU. When are you going to get your M in revo? Paul

When you buy the extended pins there is a little note that they send with them that tells you not to dry fire without snap caps. I would imagine the pins get weak when they don't get to hit something. I think bountyhunter (sorry if I got the author wrong) said he fills the dummy round primer pockets with silicone to give the extended pins something to hit and has had no problems As I mentioned in an earlier post I did an experiment with them and found no difference between factory and extended pins in terms of mainspring tension and primer ignition. But I have not changed my headspacing. I began backing the tension off my mainspring using a factory pin. When I began to get occasional misfires I put in the extended pin and still got occasional misfires. I did this on my 627 and my K frame with the same results. I can't remember for sure if I did it to my 625 but at some point I just gave up and put the factory pin back in my guns. The last straw was Jason Petit's broken firing pin at the IRC a couple of years ago (Although I believe he still uses them). Paul

Thanks all, I have a 627 and a Safariland holster that I had put a flame thrower to it and widened it. Also I had cut down the part of the holster that keeps the gun in place by putting pressure on the cylinder. Now I like the feel during the draw but it's a little bit spooky. I am worried about bumping it and dropping the gun. I just happened to have an old pair of Croakies (You know, the little straps that wrap around your head to hold your glasses in place.) Wrapping this around the holster seems to work pretty well. It adjusts easily and hangs out of the way when not in use. I guess I just answered my own question! Thanks for the tip on Bend, I hear it's mega dusty there. Bubber, Can you draw with the Powerspeed with your hand coming straight up and snatching the gun as your hand moves by? Or do you have to do the up and down motion of gripping the gun. It makes sense that straight up would be faster but this is difficult to do with a holster like the Safariland. Did you get a conversion kit for your Powerspeed or did you buy the whole holster. Thanks, Paul

Thanks Leroy, I just bought one and out of 33 bent moons I only had 1 that I couldn't straighten well enough to use. Has anyone tried them on Hearthco's stainless clips? I would imagine there would be a lot of interest by people that own those clips!

I have shot some where between 20- 30K Bear Creek in 38 special round nose and 45 cal 230's. I've tried a few other lead bullet manufactures and have come back to Bear Creek. In my guns the leading is very minimal. Less than the others I have tried. Paul

I just reduced the holding tension on my Safariland revo holster to the point where I have to worry about it falling out. Looking for some ideas to keep it in place till I step up to the line! Thanks, Paul

Thanks Doug, That's good enough for me. I have over 30 bent moons so that device should pay for itself. Not to mention all the one's I, or some match RO will step on in the future! Paul

Are they worth the investment of $60.00? I have a bunch of bent moons that I have been saving and will buy one of the straighteners if they really work. Anybody have any homegrown remedies for bent moonclips? thanks, Paul

Way to go Doug! And thanks for the info. I'm a strong handed reloader like you. It's good to know there are some others out there! I have also found that the narrower front sight gets me away from the claustophobic feeling I get with the stock front sights! Later, paul

Great reloading times Spook! I thought I'd add this interesting tidbit. My friend Dan Carden has started to hit sub 2 second reloads almost everytime using an interesting technique. He reloads the gun like you guys do, holding it in his right (strong hand) the whole time. He grips the gun like many of us revo people do, with his left thumb sitting on top of the right thumb. Where he gets his speed is that his left thumb pushes straight forward off his right thumb to hit the cylinder release, then his trigger finger (right forefinger) comes off the trigger and pushes open the cylinder. This happens in the blink of an eye! The other part of his speed comes from this: He ejects the clip as the gun is vertically moving down towards his belt, by the time the gun is rotated up to accept the new clip, he is already holding the new clip above the cylinder waiting to drop it in. He loses no time reaching to hit the ejector because it is done as the gun is moving down, which you have to do anyway. You weakhand reloading guys might want to play with this a little. Good shootin, Paul

DJ, Just checkin! Paul

When you say do you mean you're bench resting your gun to sight it in?Paul

BE's site got blocked at my place of employment last year. I did get a good clue as to why though. The message I received said access was denied because of the word "Weapons". Funny, I can access USPSA's site but not BE's or ICORE's. It may be that if gun related websites can cut down on the usage of the word "weapons" their sites might be less restricted. I have found a workaround however. I can go directly to the BE's forums but not BE's home page. You all might try bookmarking the forums page directly if your having problems with censors. Paul

Buffy should know, he's the one that figured out how to keep from scaring up my hands!

I had this same problem with my 625 45 cal. Turns out my sizing die wasn't quite set low enough so I had a very slight bulge at the bottom of the case. It was small enough that I couldn't see the bulge without measuring it. The live rounds loaded in just fine but they became buggers to eject after firing a few moons. I ended up with more than a few perfect circles punched into my palm from trying to get them out during matches Good luck, Paul

MerlinD, Your bench looks like a shrine or some place where you should pray!

Great topic! It's interesting to note that Ed McGivern (He and Jerry M are the acknowleged greatest speed revolver shooters of all time. Ed still holds one of the revolver speed records) wrote in his book "Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting" that the "push" technique was an important part of his shooting technique. In fact, he has a picture in his book with mulitple, superimposed illustrations to show how it should be done. The book was written before WWII and is still available so you can see for yourself! Paul

I wouldn't rule out a gun just because it can't use moonclips in IDPA. Speedloaders can be blazingly fast and Bill Nesbitt is proof of that! Also in IDPA you will (very rarely) have to use the live rounds you have ejected from your gun somewhere else in the stage, this is much easier to do with loose rounds than with a partially full moonclip! Paul