Bill Schwab

Sorry folks, but as his "little" brother I have first dibs on the springs.....

George, I use 4.0 grains of WST pushing a 230 LRN bullet seated to 1.180" for a mid-170's PF. It's a sweet load.

It was posted to confuse the shooters. And yeah, I don't like surprise stages much either, for the same reason. Just sounds like poor stage design to me. I have seen people design stages to try and "get" the top shooters. It doesn't work. They just "get" the average or beginner shooters. I don't know Bill, it got me pretty good, LOL. I had the stage description committed to memory. I went through the stage and was unloading when the RO asked "Are you done?", I located the extra target, loaded back up, shot the target, started unloading, and was asked the same question again, so I loaded back up for yet another target that was cleverly hidden. To make matters worse, before you entered the shoot house you were seated at a table and had to engage three targets. The CoF description said to engage these three targets each with one to the body and then go back and punch them in the head. I did so, but others went body/head, body/head, body/head and were not penalized. Kinda makes me not trust ANY of the posted course desciptions. I just wanted to know if I was, at the time, out of line for being slightly peeved by this course design. I shouldn't complain though, we have a small club and I don't help out setting up & breaking down like I used to. I don't think any of this constituted a safety issue.

I'll echo rishii, the 230's, for me, were much more controllable; the same muzzle rise as a 200, but the gun was back on target faster. I know, sounds counter-intuitive, but that's the results I got. I never noticed much difference in the noise (but I wasn't looking for a difference there), but the 200's have a much sharper recoil. rishii, try WST, it's so much softer than 231. I made the switch from 231 to WST about a year or so ago.

Thanks a bunch for your advice Alan!

Quote: from 2alpha on 10:25 pm on Jan. 3, 2003 Bill, chill out man, how much time is this costing you? It's not only the old people who don't answer on the first ring, you might be interupting my meditation You're right, I DO need to chill. I'm just kinda hyper sometimes, okay, lotsa times....I need to calm down when I'm driving too.

Was this supposed to be a surprise stage? If so, I think he can do what he wants to throw the competitor off. Did you not get an IDPA style "walk through"? I guess it was supposed to be a surprise...it sure was to me, LOL. No walk through was given on this stage.

Quote: from Eric Schwab on 7:51 pm on Jan. 2, 2003 Bill, maybe they believe everyone will think they were actually doing something when you called. Er, I can always count on you to interject humor into just about any situation

Okay here's the scenario: shoot house, CoF posted does not match the actual CoF because the RO is trying to throw shooters off. Is this within IDPA rules or was the RO out of bounds? P.S. I feel like a similar question was asked recently but I can't locate the thread I'm thinking of, so I'm sorry in advance if I'm regurgitating something.

Harry, I think is the kind of info you're looking for: http://www.loadyourown.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000012.html Good luck!

Anyone have any recommendations on what type or brand of glove to use on my left hand while shooting the barricade portion of the Bianchi Cup (I will be shooting a revolver)?

Bill!!! I was JUST thinking about that story a while back. ( I was sure which book it was in.) Yeah, I always try to keep that story in mind so that I give people the benefit of the doubt. I know I've had real bad days, and later have hoped that people didn't judge me by it. I believe the story was in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, which is a great book.

Quote: from Erik Warren on 6:35 pm on Dec. 30, 2002 It was in the Match Announcements & Discussion forum. Yeah! Where've you been dirtypool????

I try to always be courteous, but you can't worry about how discourteous others are, or have gotten. And besides, people have bad days/weeks/years, reminds me of a story I heard from Steven Covey...he was on a subway, and there was a man there with two little kids who were running around, causing a lot of commotion and annoying others. Steven leaned over to the guy and politely asked him to take care of his kids because they were bothering people. The guy said something to the effect that "You're right, I should discipline them. It doesn't matter that their mother died an hour ago at the hospital." We should all do good deads, but don't stop just because you didn't get recognition, the rewards are still yours.

I bought an inner/outer Safariland belt from them and they were very hard to deal with....terrible communication and they copped an attitude with me because of an error they made! I swore I would never deal with them again.

Duane, Yow! Nice pic, keep 'em coming...

I need a Big Butt huh? LOL This recommendation led me to some research and it seems that Nill Grips have a very similar grip that was designed for PPC and Bianchi. It costs about $10 more than the Hogue, but the Nills are custom made for your hand (I think?). Anyone here have any experience with Nill Grips? I'm leaning towards the Nills, but have never handled a set.

I just purchased a S&W 10 that's been all done up for Bianchi. It's ready to rock & roll except for the aweful Pachmayr rubber grips on it. Does anyone make a decent grip for Bianchi or are they mostly custom made grips?

Faith Hill is magically babe-licious....the imagination is working overtime.... (Edited by Bill Schwab at 3:51 pm on Dec. 22, 2002)

BDH, My Primer Tube Filler (the RF100) loves Winchester primers and can digest them continuously without any problems. But if you feed in Federal primers it constantly chokes on them; what happens is they hang up right before they drop into the tube thus requiring me to shut the machine off and clear the jam. I have yet to "tune" this machine though, and ya know, that may be a great winter activity since things are so slow. One more thing, don't waste the time to tear down a round of ammo to recover the components.

Chuck, Some good reading... http://www.gun-tests.com/newspics/pdfs/1-2...handloading.pdf http://www.gun-tests.com/performance/oct96trickedout.html

Current damage to front of work SUV. Not in order of occurance but all in the last 2 weeks. Ouch, makes me want to rethink buying that new TrailBlazer....

In J Michael Plaxco's book he says "Get your body in position, come up in a natural gun mount with your cheekbone on the gun, and verify alignment on the target. At that point, rotate the stock down off your face while leaving the muzzle in position-the front sight stays superimposed on the target. When the gun comes back up on the start signal, the end of the gun barrel stays fixed in position rather than coming down and back up. The sensation is that you're pivoting the gun on the front sight." This seems to work okay for me when the front sight is on the end of the barrel, but what do you do for open sighted AR's and scoped guns?

Okay, I admit, I'm a bit hyper, but it drives me nuts!! Is there some logical reason why the older folks among us wait until the 2nd ring to pick up the phone? My mother-in-law does it, my Dad does it, and this gentelman who sits next to me at work does it all day. I keep wondering if maybe, years ago, the connection didn't go through if you picked the phone up right away. Anyone? Maybe I'm just anal.....

Thanks Johnny, I need to check that gun out some more as you described!