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Again, not having a wheel gun, I believe having a rib sight allows for greater windage and elevation adjustments. Just about every PPC revolver will have this type of sight on it. For the last sight pictured, Bo-Mar says:

Isn't a Dremel a tool of the Devil? Or, as a friend put it, "The Dremel is the gunsmiths best friend, b/c it keeps them employed."

Keith, I know what you meant. I was just having a little fun. I too have seen people go waaay beyond stage interperting and starting to push into cheating. Finding other solutions to the problem given is part of this game. If you want to trade stories about bad experiences with attorneys, I have a few too. Fortuantely, most of them are decent and honest. With any profession, you get a few bad ones. I'm in NJ btw. -David

I was just having this conversation with my gunsmith (nationally known shop). His shop will build a Limited gun on your frame for around $1800 that has just about everything you could want on a gun, w/ an Open gun going for around $2,300 on your frame (less optic). It came up b/c I saw in a gun magazine some gunwriter singing the prasies of another gunsmith's (well known, good industry rep among other gunsmiths) 1911 that costs $3,200. Anywho, we were discussing why this guy was selling a 1911 for $3,200, when just about everyone else is selling a similarly outfltted one for under $2k. The reason I suggested is that there are people out there who think that if something costs a lot of $$$, it must be the best. Meaning, they look only a price to compare two products. The $3,200 1911 mentioned above is a heck of a nice gun and will run 100% of the time, day in, day out. But, it doesn't have anything extra on it (like fancy checkering, grips, finish, inlays, etc.) that make it worth the extra $1,200 or so. If someone wants to pay $3k+ for a single-stack 1911 that a lot of other equally talented gunsmiths will build for around $1,800, then be my guest. As long as your gunsmith is treating you right and your gun runs, then you found a good gunsmith. -David

Looks like the attorneys on the Iomega Zip drive suit made out like bandits, while the consumers got a $40 coupon. That leads me to believe that maybe there wasn't much merit to the class action. If the attorney's estimate is right of 28m affected drives, that works out to $1.12 billion in coupons. Kinda like what happened when the plaintiff attorney's filed suit against Toshiba a few years ago, saying that there was problems with their 1.2mb floppy drive software. I never had a problem w/ my laptop (and still don't), but was included in the class anyway. Toshiba settled by giving out coupons and the attorney's wound up with a boatload of $$$.

If you have problems with the brass sticking to a funnel, take some not-very-abrasive sandpaper and run it over the sides of powder funnel. IIRC, the Dillon Tech Support person suggested this while I was on the phone with them when I was setting up my 650 for the first time.

When I used to work in IT, I had good luck with the Western Digital and Quantum drives. The Maxtor is good too. I see that Iomega is making a 120gb external drive now. If its anything like their Zip drives, it would be another good choice. Now that I think of it, with 600+ desktops to look after, I don't recall ever having a drive fail, from any manufacture. We were using Norton's Ghost program to build the machines. -David

"Days of Thunder". It's your typical Bruckheimer/Simpson over the top, low plot film w/ bad dialogue. And I hate NASCAR. Yet every time it comes on TNT or TBS, it calls to me and I have to watch it.

Scharch Manufacturing sells once fired brass that has been roll-sized. The EGW U-die will take the GlockBuldge out of most cases. Be sure to chamber check everything after you're done.

A little update - I talked to another RO the other day about Waldo, and he said that the same thing has happened to him numerous times - that while he is RO'ing, Waldo (as a spectator) will be underfoot and in the way. And to make matters worse, Waldo is a certified RO. Thanks everyone for your suggestions. -David

Be nice, lawyers are people too. Not all of us are %@. Erik, I think your wording of the start position was a-ok. According to the Websters.com dictionary:

Susan (Sorry, I mean Vince) - Not that I have a wheelgun, but I believe these types of rib sights are quite popular on PPC and bowling pin guns. For the last sight I pictured, Bo-Mar suggests that they are ideal for the patrol policeman.

I agree that they do add weight to the gun, between 5oz - 7.5oz depending on which on you get, but to me it seems that they are a sight first, added weight second. The whole purpose of them is to give more elevation and windage adjustment to the user. The best person to ask would be John Amidon, as Wildman is in the US.

I don't know if he is doing them anymore. SV has them listed as an option on their guns, and Jim Shanahan of Advanced Performance Shooting will paint your grips any colour you want.

I'll be RO'ing Stage 20 - Get It Done. Be sure to stop by during your travels. -David

Aw, heck. I'm feeling generous. I'll write it off as pro bono. BTW - All the pictures that I posted were liberated from Bo-Mar's web site.

The FTDR penalty, by definition, is subjective, b/c everyone has a different idea of what the "correct" way is. Can you define what, "...a more convenient time" means objectively?

Very helpful. Thanks a bunch. -David

I believe he is talking about this or this or this You don't say where you are located, or if you are talking about Revolver Standard or Open. Let's look at the 14th Edition Rule Book for the IPSC rules first: Appendix E - Divisions (IPSC) Revolver - Standard (p. 89) The Bo-Mar rib sights for the revolvers pictures above are made and marketed to be sights, and not as a weight or a device to control recoil. going down the rule book, to page 93, the rules for the US Divisions are listed: Revolver Standard If you are shooting in Revolver Standard, I would say that it is a permissible replacement sight, not a weight or a device to control recoil. If Open, then anything goes, as long as it is safe. At $250/hr, that will be $62.50 Please be sure to tip your server.

King, The email you got is quite common. You deposit the cashiers check (usually sent to you via FedEx by someone purporting to be in the US) into your bank account and wire the "extra" $$$ to some address in Nigeria. No one shows up to pick up what you are selling, and a week or so later your bank notifies you that not only is the cashiers check a forgery, but you now have to make good on all that money that you wried to Nigeria and reimburse the bank. Some city councilman at a local town near here fell for the scam, and the local newspaper hammered him pretty good, and then the guy was whining that he didn't have $8k to pay back the bank. Here is one newspaper article on it, this time involving horses. Here is the Internet Scam Alert page, which lists most 'net scams, including this one.

Very quick turnaround - I mailed the check last week and got the binder today. I look forward to reading and learning from it. -David

Are you using case lube? If not, I highly recommend it. If you are, perhaps your dies are dirty and need cleaning. Are your cases clean, both inside and out?

This is the last week, 5 more stages left, including today. Last stage is on the 25th, around the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Lance was at least 4 minutes clear of his closest rival as of yesterday. Last year, he won by about 1 minute. OLN is showing the last 2.5hrs of each stage live at 9am EST, w/ the prerace at 8:30am with a repeat the same day starting at 9pm EST, with the prerace at 8:30pm EST.

Blueing is a process of oxidizing the metal. It does not offer great wear or rust resistance, but it looks good. Parkerizing offers great rust protection, but looks kinda not good. Hard chroming offers both wear and rust resistance, but it has to be applied properly, or the gun could malfunction. Some gunsmiths like hard chroming b/c they think that the slide/frame fit will hold together better than other finishes. Shooting your gun "in the white" means having no finish on it. Perfectly OK, just be sure to wipe it down occassionaly with oil. If you look at quite a few GM's guns, you'll see that they are in a constant state of repair - worn finishes, rust, etc., but they work 100%. It just boils down to personal preference.

Considering that he was told that he wouldn't survive the cancer, much less ever ride a bike again, and then to go on and win what is, arguably, the toughest athletic event conceived no less than 5 times in a row and on his way to win #6 is simply beyond words. Lance lives for the mountain stages.