Jim Watson

Once upon a time, load data would include seating depth which is inversely related to powder space, a strong actor on chamber pressure. But since that requires measuring the OAL, bullet length, and case length; then doing some arithmetic, it fell out of use. And now we have a daily Recipe Hunt on all the reloading areas of the gunboards.

I guess shotgunners are richer than pistoleers. Go to the Grand American Trapshoot and your entry fee covers your shells. Take your squad ticket to the shellhouse and pick up your shells for the event. All brands and all suitable loads are represented. No reloads allowed. Of course that is just one big event, the national championships, not done at every little club shoot.

Yup. About the same chance of a carry permit in NYC as in Montreal. Or less.

I use RT and directed a Lady to them for a DOH. I am sure there are others but that one works.

That is a practical joke and is not acceptable. That is not what I do, I merely let the "creeper's" movement betray him. I don't mess with somebody who stands still for the signal.

One factor is that everybody seems in too much of a hurry to use the delay built into the timer. "Why, it might wait 4 seconds to beep, I'll put it on instant and start him in a second or so." That might save two or three minutes over the course of a club shoot, more at a big match. You think that's bad, you ought to try pulling for trapshooters. They get real aggravated if they do not get the target immediately.

You don't need to be running a timer. Be professional or don't do it please. Professional? I get PAID for my professional duties. I COULD give him a PE like the hard nosed experts above, but I'd rather let him learn his mistake more cheaply. And if it amuses me, so much the better. I don't do much range clerking any more, too many entrants at the extremes; either ignoramuses or bedroll lawyers.

It has a full length dust cover, is heavy, and is SA so can't come in through the back door of SSP like some CZs. New gun or old game time.

I see somebody creeping on the gun, I just wait. It's fun to see them move into a gunfighter crouch and then fall over when they don't get Go when they expect it.

A point. The niche for FTDR between a PE and DQ for cheating is so narrow that it is seldom given and could be dropped. If we had some SOs and MDs brave enough to DQ the cheats. Of course that would have to be accompanied by deletion of the "round dumping" proviso.

On buzzer retrieve handgun from box and engage T1-T7 in Tactical Sequence with 3rd each, one head shot required. Missed heads =5pts down. Poor course of fire directions supporting bedroll lawyers. You could just as easily shoot the last target once in the head, the rest all in the body on the grounds that it didn't say "one head shot EACH required." Around here it would be stated something like "On buzzer retrieve handgun from box and engage T1-T6 in Tactical Sequence with 2 rounds each, reengage with one head shot each in any order. Scored Vickers Count, best two to the body, one to the head. Missed heads = FTN.

Beats me. There was a campaign to increase revolver attendance at this past weekend's IDPA Summer Sizzler and I had worked to get back into the sixgun for about two months. I hit the linear travelers and the pop-ups ok, but the swingers and a peculiar little target that slides straight out horizontally and snaps straight back horizontally pretty much beat me.

What is the Down Zero Forum? Bingsearch does not find anything.

3 grains of Bullseye, 148 wadcutter, .357 brass is peanuts. Go shooting. If you crimped those semiwadcutters so hard as to hurt their accuracy, pulling them will recover your brass and powder but leave you with scrap lead. I'd use them for something like 10 yard double action practice where any damage won't show up.

It is a puzzlement to me. I bought some of the first MF 10s and was stunned to find they had a rear spacer like an old Colt 9mm instead of the Springfield-Leatham "Front Ramp" design that worked so well. The tenshooters did ok for a while but then got finicky. A friend and I worked with them a while and ended up throwing the rear spacer away and putting in the nice Metalform convex .38 Super followers. Actually .45 followers with clearance ground for the flutes in the smallbore magazine, Metalform wouldn't sell me any proper Super followers. They work fine now, just like the 9 shot Super magazine which is a nice dual purpose 9mm/.38 device. I have another batch of Elite 10s and have not had to replace the followers... yet. My Tripps are fine and a few ETMs are functional but tough to cram the last round in. The only problem with the ETM was the one whose plastic rear spacer rode up until the slide caught it and generated a monumental jam. That one now has a metal follower and I am keeping an eye on the others for signs of a shift in the spacers.

Somebody - Ron Power? - once offered a set with strain screw and set screw to hold it where you left it. Of course that was an intersecting hole to drill and tap. Somebody else - Teddy Jacobson? - once offered a strain screw with the tip notched to key into the flute of a Wolff Power Rib spring. It gave click adjustments of 1/4 or 1/6 turn and tended to stay in place. I don't see either of them in a quick look at those sites. Maybe it was somebody else, maybe they quit carrying the screws. But it would not be hard to copy.

Yup, flaps are OK.

Speedloader carrier must: D. Either be of open top configuration that holds the speedloader in by tension and covers the full diameter and body of the speedloader or retain the speedloader with a snap or Velcro closure. That is one reason the 333 is not approved, it does not cover the speedloader at all. Also the factory version has three cups on one belt slide and you may only wear two speedloaders in front of the holster. I guess you could wear them behind the holster or on the off side like magazine pouches with some sort of sideboards to enclose the loaders. Your club might not follow the rules but a sanctioned match would not allow the 333 in stock form.

I loaded some 9mm P down to about 9mm Soviet (Makarov) to study the possibility of a 1911 Mak for cheap mild shooting. But gave up on the project when the supply of heavy ball 9mm Mak dried up. Probably only one shipment. But it could be done if you just wanted to. I don't see why you would want to, though. It would take a lot of work to accurize a .380 pistol and load good enough ammo to tell it. If you want to shoot targets and not get kicked, there are all manner of .22s available that will do it better than anything. If the ladies just must pop centerfire primers and get bigger holes in the target, there are several Euro automatics in .32 S&W Long wadcutter and a good supply of US made .38 Special wadcutter guns. My FLG said he liked to instruct new shooters with his Model 52. Good sights, great trigger, and no particular recoil, but still a big enough hole in the target to feel like a real accomplishment. I have done the same with powderpuff .45 ACP.

I wanted to exercise the Python so I got some SL Variant loaders and Ready Tac buckets. A friend uses the same carriers for Jetloaders and I am sure they will work with Comp IIIs. I had the original Safariland 333 as modified by The Bear for IDPA. The rig that Ken H. said was The Thing To Have for revolver shooters. But that was before the requirement to wrap the speedloader came in. I have not seen 333 cups with "sideboards" to meet that requirement and don't know how well that would work.

If you weren't going too fast, bypassing targets, and peering at the target, then you might be helped by something like a G34 with longer sight radius and longer grip. But as it is, you have plenty of work to do on your approach to the stage and techniques before better equipment will matter.

It is an interesting theory but Murphy's Law dictates that at any given time, the gun will be set up for the caliber you did NOT want to shoot today.

Heck, before gunsmithing, my CZ75 cammed the hammer back farther than my Plastic M&P moved the striker. That is not reason enough to call the PM&P "double action." That paper equivalency is the result of sharp promotion by a company with a lot of US government sales experience. Experience that the original importers of the SD-XD and even SA lack.

I am at present running a Python in IDPA SSR, but it is more a nostalgia trip and showing the youngsters a Colt in action than a serious effort. If I wanted better scores, I would shoot a Smith.

I have never minded loading Federal primers for limber spring target revolvers. The belly guns and bureau drawer specials get full strength springs for factory hollowpoints and reloads with assorted primers on hand.