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Finally read the FAQs

Finally read the FAQs (3/11)

  1. So I shot a match last year in Nevada called the World Revolver Championship Series. It had a Heavy Metal division. They used NRA D1 targets but according to the rules, you can use ay target type the MD chooses. Rules were simple. 165pf, iron sights, six shot cylinders and 165pf. 610s, 625's, 629's all had a home. The match was shot together with other ICORE similar ruleset. HM division was shot using the same time as others with a scoring advantage. ABCM targets were scored with AB (8"&10") ring +0sec, C+2sec and M+5sec. Worked well. Was told USPSA targets can be used as well. Just define the scoring zone times in the stage description. No one complained. Was a huge hit. I look forward to shooting it again in Morro Bay this summer. If you are on facebook check out World Revolver Championship Series.
  2. Very excited to learn about a series of matches. Wendy and I hope to make a few of them.
  3. I have stone brushes both med and fine. Very little goes a long way.
  4. Mark is right. This is a well known..... not problem .... a well known sensitivity with Ti cylinders. The surface of titanium is like lava rock. many nooks and crannies for your brass to get locked into once the case expands when fired. I honed mine using some gun oil and wiped dry. I dry brush the chambers and keep degreasers away from the chambers when cleaning. Eventually you will have a mirror like shine within each chamber and with the correct load, no more stickiness.
  5. Is there an option or work around to add a bracket style match using practiscore? What I wish to do is host a shootoff style man on man event after the match using the overall finish for the brackets. Any help is appriciated. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk
  6. I have been wondering what could be done on a club or region level to increase ICORE numbers. I do not believe bringing pistol shooters from USPSA, IDPA, or MG would ever be more successful than as happens naturally. Clubs host events, but what they are really doing is selling entertainment on an afternoon. Entertainment and camaraderie with fellow like minded individuals. So why is USPSA, IDPA, MG, and plain old outlaw matches doing better than ICORE in your area? Does the word "revolver" put off people? Is it the fact that triggers are easier to operate on most pistols than on a revolver push people away? Is it the game or the equipment that makes one discipline more entertaining than the other. Is it just the people? I ask all of this because I know of a couple members at my local club that shoot other disciplines faithfully. They own revolvers but do not compete with them. They tell me "one day I will shoot your match", but yet they never do even with offering gun, belt and ammo to these and other shooters. Any ideas for better success at selling ICORE to shooting enthusiasts. TIA
  7. Not for sale. Plus, They are hacked up. with action work and trigger jobs, even Ti cylinders. Tools for USPSA and ICORE. Not safe queens.
  8. Or just buy a factory 27 in an 8 shot version. I own 2 of these. Smith and Wesson 27-7. A brand new one just sold on GB last month for $1500. I bought one of mine off Gun broker for $1200 and a second one off Smith and Wesson forum for $1500 so they are out there.
  9. Thank you for your input. The intent of adding 100 seconds to a pistols time is to move their score to the bottom. (I know you get that) If Revolver HOA did not matter to our members then you are right there would be no point. However since it is a revolver match and our top shooters from classic to open always want to duke it out for HOA bragging rights I oblige by enabling a pistol handicap. Also the pistol and PCC guys do not complain, They are happy to get trigger time. Time deduction simple math does not seem to challenge pistol shooters as much as seeing an unusual time at the top of the order does for the old timers, I guess. Everyone is happy. YMMV.
  10. Update:..... almost 3 years later. I have been allowing pistol shooters to shoot pistols just to get the numbers up to help the club with setup, tear down, and overall costs. Over the years we have tried several different iterations of "pistol" rules. At first we proposed 8 rounds at the beep and 8 rounds in each magazine. The IDPA guys came along and asked for IDPA practice, and since all of the pistol shooters were in agreement I obliged. We made it then 10+1 and tried that for a few months, then the ICORE guys started to complain as the IDPA guys figured out the scoring and began to beat them. So then I added a 30 second penalty button for pistols. This did not work well as many would forget to award the pistol penalty to some random scores. I would get pistol guys emailing me after the match complaining that shooter X did not get a penalty on stage X. Then I removed the penalty and just told the pistol people to enter 100 additional seconds to their time each stage. Since this was called out verbally after the range is clear command it allowed others to remind the scorekeeper to enter 1xx.xx vs just the raw time. This made me happy as their times did not contaminate us revolver guys and it was an easy round number for pistol guys to subtract in order to determine their finish against a revolver if they wished. Then after several months of this we decided to just get rid of all of the pistol penalties. This let the pistols shooters beat the revolvers if they can since they are still shooting 10+1. Recently I shot another club with the "all mags to 8 rounds rule". This works better than a 10+1 round game. Although many of our pistol shooters are just looking for production or IDPA practice. If I was asked how to best implement pistols at an ICORE match I would suggest Pistols to 8 rounds at the beep and 7 rounds in each magazine there after. While ICORE does not have a capacity rule, shooting 9 rounds in a pistol (one left in chamber with a new 8 round magazine inserted.) is distracting to the typical limited division shooter. I know there are a couple 10 round .32H&R revolvers floating around but this is an anomaly. Many ICORE stages setup to 9 rounds are to keep it 6 and 8 round friendly even though this is not required. I guess if the goal is get as many $$ as possible then discuss it as a group. Let the ones paying decide what to do with these autos. But if you really want pistols to mimic revolvers as close as possible then 8 round start with 7 round magazines force the revolvers to shoot a more 6 round friendly game with a little limited division shooting thrown in if they get creative. Lastly we all need to wonder if HQ approves of this or is just remaining silent for now. Other disciplines would never approve of non-approved equipment at their events. So we have to assume ICORE would not approve either. Would official rules for non-official equipment help ICORE? I am not sure??
  11. I have some other SW/IRC iterations of it also if interested.
  12. Ask and ye shall have. Far and Near Standards.pdf
  13. Have your MD check this clarification out. http://www.idpa.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Ruling-on-Fault-lines.pdf
  14. Bottom of the sear. See illustration
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