shred

Yeah.. I'm a lefty, but the principle is the same. My weak hand grips the forend of the shotgun, and I roll my wrist all the way around until the gun is upside down and I can see what I'm doing, then my strong hand stuffs shells in (2 at a time if possible, using the method Ayoob shows in his Stressfire II book). I find it fastest to grab them off the sidesaddle, then move to strong-side belt-mounted ammo after those run out. (Edited by shred at 1:52 pm on Jan. 29, 2002)

Actually, 1A, 1D. It's the same as a barely touching edge-hit. All it's gotta do is touch the scoring area. I just did it across the front instead of down the side.

I asked Benny Hill this question today at a match-- his take is that the bearing surfaces wear and the barrel throat wears such that you have to keep adding powder to make Major. He replaces barrels every 40k rounds or so on his personal open blasters, though I suspect that may be because he can. (Edited by shred at 5:14 pm on Jan. 12, 2002)

Here's one I did at Area 4 a few years ago: Target is steeply angled away from where I shot it. On scoring we find one hole in the A-zone and one hit that is nothing more than an indented black smear from the middle of the D-zone off the side of the paper. The paper was not punctured in any way, but it was clearly grazed by the bullet. Score?

Yeah, Get the One-Shot. I tried it after getting a recommendation from here about a month ago and it works so well I can no longer tell SuperComp cases by the extra resizing effort and have to pick them out by hand now . I can live with that.

I've been told that the proper way to disassemble any spring-bearing firearm is as follows: - Lay out a clean white bedsheet on the floor - Sit in the center of this sheet with the firearm in question - Cover the sheet, yourself and firearm completely with another white sheet. Begin disassembly (I end up listening for the rebound and attempting to guess the surface last-bounced-from from the sound) (Edited by shred at 3:35 pm on Jan. 2, 2002)

The most important thing I had to learn going to a hicap was not to punch the mag release every time I started moving... That took some training to un-learn.

Exercise is definately called for in some tendonitis cases. I'm lucky enough to have a good orthopedist that doesn't believe in 'slap in a cortisone shot and see if it helps', unlike 1/2 the docs out there. Many times building up the appropriate muscles will 'lift' the irritated tendons out of the bone track they've been rubbing on. When something hurts, we generally stop using it. In these cases, it's better to keep active with it or you get into a cycle of 'it hurts, stop using it, (time passes, muscles get smaller), it hurts.." I learned this rock climbing-- you can build up a cranking set of pull and gripping muscles, but if you don't do some push and reverse excercises, you're going to hurt.

Thanks. I'll try the Hornady 1-shot. My problem with tumbling is the corncob media I use ends up packed into in the JHP cavities, only to pop out later under recoil. Do you have some special corncob media size to fix that? (Edited by shred at 4:09 pm on Dec. 8, 2001)

NOTE from moderator: This thread was spun-off from benos' Which Dillon topic. Please forgive the "holes" in the discussion. One question (that probably doesn't belong in this thread)-- How do y'all get the case lube off the loaded rounds? I used to tumble them, but then I started using JHP's, and got cleaning media stuck in the hollowpoints, which would then extract itself on being loaded into a magazine or the chamber or somewhere equally irritating.

I've got bowling pin specs stashed <A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/austinpinshooters/files">here</a>

oops.. The Marvel .22 conversion top-end has a removable "sight rail" at the top of the slide. They have two interchangeable sight rails that go there: a weaver base version and an iron-sight version. I was wondering if the conversion works without either sight-rail installed

Is it possible to run a Marvel .22 conversion without either rail attached? I'm concerned that the weaver version might not clear my scope mount (bonus would be I would only have to buy the iron-sight version)

I like the CPMI single-sided mount (available at Brownells). You can remove the scope without pulling the mount off the gun and also it holds the scope further back than most.

Doesn't the 1050 also prime on the downstroke? That would save my elbows from shoving away at my 650.

Oehler for one can calibrate chronos. Years ago, living in the same town as them, we used to occasionally run the club 35P by them.. Ken: "Well, it's 3 fps off at 10,000 fps.." us: "we can live with that". I don't know what all equipment is required, but I bet it's expensive.

I hate it when the clubs don't bother to send in the classifiers for months at a time (or even ever). (82% and holding.. holding.. holding..)

For some reason, the only way I can find the 'Dot Drill 101' post is to use the search function. Clicking <a href=http://www.brianenos.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard//topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=1>Here</a> will also take you there. (Edited by shred at 8:29 am on Nov. 14, 2001)

I have no idea if it fits (anybody know? please?), but the 3" Sporting Clays model comes with two gas pistons-- one for light loads and one for heavy. Brownells carries the clays piston as a separate part, so if it fits onto the 3.5" model, you should be able to make it run with light loads.

Maybe people are put off by the bit in Layne Simpson's book "The Custom Government Model Pistol" where he says he got a basket of comps, did a bunch recoil measurements, then found out different shooters ranked them totally differently.

Yeah, the BS-factor is huge. Gun Shows seem to be these guys breeding grounds. At least it's easy to get rid of them at the one indoor range I get stuck in-- shoot a couple little groups and they flee to (I assume) cover themselves in 45 ACP and repeat "They all fall to hardball.. They all fall to hardball.." over and over until the scary shooter has gone away.

Somebody sent me a link to one of the message threads (might have been on the IPSC e-mail list or on Matt Burkett's site, now that I try and remember) and I started snooping around. I spent about 4 hours on the site that day.

My 2 cents: Seems to me a (somewhat) easy way out would be a 20-round capacity limit in Limited. I was at the TX State Ltd Championships a couple weeks ago and tons of people were rushing around trying to get just the right combination of basepads, springs, followers and tubes to get 20 or 22 rounds in a magazine (of course nobody brought out the calipers either..). Slap on a 20-round limit, let in the 9's. See what happens. (Way back when at an old Area 4, Andy Hollar told me they never should have created Limited class without capacity restrictions..)