Jim Watson

Square ranges are going to electronic targets. Having pulled targets in the pits, I can appreciate the improvement. Can't see how it could be made to work for run n gun shooting, though.

I found: There are 3 checks one can do when trying to determine whether or not a .455 Webley has been altered to accept .45ACP cartridges. 1. Open the action and look at the rear cylinder face. There are usually factory markings on the cylinder face of an unaltered Webley that will be missing on an altered gun. A magnifying glass is helpful here. 2. Examine the serial number on the cylinder. Usually an altered gun will have about 1/3 to 1/2 of each number eaten away at the bottom of each digit. 3. Close the action and try to insert a nickel between the cylinder and recoil shield. The maximum headspace, or gap, between the cylinder & recoil shield is a bit less than .050" in an unaltered gun and a nickel is thicker than this, so a nickel should NOT insert into an unaltered gun. Think of the nickel as a go/no-go gage. For Webleys converted to .45 Colt caliber (far less common than .45 ACP conversions), look to see if the cylinders have been counter-bored so that part of rim will sink down into the cylinder and approximately .030" will sit up above the cylinder face. Also, .45 Colt conversions will have the cylinder throats bored forward to accept the longer .45 Colt case. Unaltered Webleys have their cylinder throats start about halfway from the rear of the cylinder. On .45 Colt conversions the throats will be bored forward 3/4 of the way (or more) from the rear of the cylinder. This and more at http://www.surplusrifleforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=988 Here is one fix with a shim ring. It says Mk VI, I don't know if previous marks are near enough the same. http://www.partsforantiqueguns.com/webleymarkvI.html .45 Cowboy is the length of an ACP with the rim of a LC. Might work. You could probably scare up a .45 Colt and chop it off to see if it would fit.

OK That is what Gallant coated bullets is doing. Four 9mm, one .40, one .45, one .30 suppressor type. Of course the one .45 is not the 200 gr RN that I prefer.

The only shooting I have done with staff resetting was BPCR Metallic Silhouette. Teenagers hired to roar down the 500 meter range on 4 wheelers and reset steel critters. Got to going to a range where we had to reset our own, which got to feeling like work. A friend just got back from the IDPA Southern Belle ladies only match. She said the male SOs did all the resetting of mechanicals and part of the pasting, but she did some pasting.

That's not what the headline on the Berrys WWW says. "WE ARE STILL MAKING BULLETS". Then a lot of stuff about being so far behind as to not take backorders.

August 12 Bayou order arrived today, Oct. 27. Bullet is the older long nosed lube groove type 9mm, which I find to feed better in my Colt. Diameter is .357" like the last batch.

Know about the range? It's a range, here's where to eat. Love it.

I have seen that but not anywhere close to 14/400, not even 14/40000. Hard to imagine on preprocessed brass. Looks like the primers are started straight, then crunched. I'd check primer pockets, see if I could seat some primers with a hand tool.

If appearance matters, and from all the catalog and brag pictures on the www, it seems to matter to a lot of people, it might matter that holster material affects the type of holster wear. A kydex holster only touches the gun in a few places. Wear areas are sharp edged and get bright white in a hurry. (assuming conventional bluing, I don't know how nitrided steel wears.) A leather holster has a lot more contact and generates broader but more gradual wear with soft edged areas shading from bare metal through faded blue. When you hear a collector talk about "character" that is probably what his gun has. The suede lined Safarilaminate holsters I used to use burnished the gun the second way, the formed kydex I use now in the first manner. The holster should be kept clean. A clean dry bore brush acts like the suede brushes we used to have for our blue suede shoes and suede jackets. I just drag a rag through the kydex every once in a while. I don't know about the Garrett, I haven't seen a half dozen of them all told, and no chance to study the guns in those few.

No, I don't have a Ransom Rest any more and am no longer steady enough for it to matter offhand. I got notice today that my first August order is "ready to ship." I wonder what will come in.

I had the same experience, both ways. I was using and liked the lube groove type. Its pointy nose stretched the OAL for my old Colt and its slight shoulder kept that long nose out of the rifling. So when I got a batch of NLG that took a shorter OAL, I inquired. The proprietor said he needed new 124 gr moulds and the maker assured him that the NLGs were more accurate, which he confirmed in his own gun on a Ransom Rest. OK, I adjusted seating and powder. But the next order came in with lube grooves! Not only that, I noticed I was getting lots of Carbide Factory Crimp Die rub marks over the bullet, not just near the head where the sizing die didn't go. Got out the micrometer. Yup, .357" instead of the listed .356". I am at present waiting out orders placed when the turnaround time was given as 5-6 weeks. Now it is posted as 8-12 weeks and it will have been 8 weeks tomorrow. Been loading plated bullets in the meanwhile. Wish BBI made bullets in the styles I prefer.

I know I'm not, and me, too; the truncated cone (and 147 gr flat point) are just not compatible with my old Colt. I am at present loading Xtreme plated and waiting out an order from Bayou. When those are gone, I will consider BBI's 135 gr round nose, if I have any primers left.

Sad story A friend was dropping in stores on his return from a trip. One place was well stocked, everything but small pistol. He walked right by a shelf of small rifle and out the door. A serious rifle shooter but he was not aware that small rifle primers work quite well in 9mm.

Sad story A friend was dropping in stores on his return from a trip. One place was well stocked, everything but small pistol. He walked right by a shelf of small rifle and out the door. A serious rifle shooter but he was not aware that small rifle primers work quite well in 9mm.

Would a gallon of primers load five gallons of bullets?

I don't know about G-lo but if I can recruit a copilot, I will be along.

So you are Jonpaul? You were high man last time, I sure don't have anything to tell you, I am the oldest and about the second slowest of the regulars. There are a couple of ranges in Cullman one indoor, one outdoor, that might be as close as any. Don't know their range rules. Cullman Shooting Sports announced IDPA but never held any. There is Maple Ridge which I have heard more of as a rifle range.

My only visits to Last Resort are for the Wednesday night USPSA matches. The which I am signed up for tomorrow. Come on down, arrive shortly before 6:00 PM I have not been to Swan Creek and do not know their current setup. You might check Cavern Cove. The new ownership is kind of tight with the facility but with a "membership" you might could practice. Again, I have shot matches there, but it is too far for anything else, I am in Florence. Likewise Eagle Eye and Strategic Edge in Tennessee; both are about an hour and a half away, figuring from Larry's. I have shot matches at Eagle Eye but not Strategic Edge Are you on the Shootability board? It is regional to you and has members who will know more. http://s334465775.onlinehome.us/forums/index.php

I am not the Princess and the Pea and I find 19 lb mainsprings satisfactory in all 1911 pattern guns. My recoil springs for 9mm and .45 Minor are all over the place; I probably ought to pick a number and rationalize the whole urban arsenal.

Because bigger guns are easier to shoot. If can squeeze that one into The Box, he will have a competitive advantage. I saw this at a local rules match with little guidance on what comprised a "hideable handgun" other than barrel length." My first time there, I played it straight and shot my dinky LC9s and loaned my G43 to a friend. We were very lonely in a sea of "compact" pistols with 3.99" barrels. In regulation IDPA, I would have known where I stood and used my Plastic M&P which fits The Box with thin magazine base pads.

Do it like a horse race. Win, place, and show get tested. Who cares about the also-rans? The PPC Nationals have a neat event. Guns and ammo issued on the firing line.

A friend was stopping at dealers on his travels. He described one place that had all primers except small pistol. I asked if they had small rifle. He said they did, but he didn't need any of those and didn't think I did. Augh! Federal, Winchester, and CCI small rifle, also CCI small pistol magnum work quite well in my hammer fired pistol. I don't know about his Glock. The previous panic, I bought some Remington small pistol that were not reliable The panic before that, I tried Wolf brand small pistol; not reliable in my guns.

Just wait until after the national election. AWB II will make all discussion of magazine capacity moot. OK, might take until after the 2024 national election.

Years ago, I got to shoot a Sherman roller bearing Colt. It was very nice when the roller rolled, but every once in a while, it would bind and skid with a heavy pull, usually generating an out shot. A friend bought one of those C&S roller bearing S&W kits. It was good but no better than well honed conventional lockwork. Kind of like "drop in" parts for an automatic.

NOOOO! STOP! You are not handling the Lee VMD correctly or even doing the arithmetic right. 2.7x.0848 = 0.23 CC, the decimal point matters. A .5 CC dipper is listed to deliver 5.9 grains of Titegroup which is an overload for a 146 gr .38 Special.