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Impressive Brad. Your doing so many things right. Didn’t look at your hits but ICORE is about Alphas and if that’s what your shooting be happy. If not a little more visual patience to get this open Alphas and you’re there. reloads, timing, movement, follow through outstanding job well done! I hear ya Lima Charlie on getting old!

They know how to do an ICORE March in AZ. Lots of talented wheel gunners there! Wish I could shoot it but too close to CO Elk season.

Not sure how many rounds I can run through my Open pistol before it gets unreliable from dirt. I do know I’ve run 3 matches close to 600 rounds before it feels like there could be. Malfunction from dirt. Has nothing to do with coated bullets or specifically Blue Bullets as they are what I shoot in all my pistols. Many say HS6 is a dirty powder but I dont see it as being any more dirty than anything else. In todays times HS6 is still hard to get but its around. I’ve never found coatings in my comp just burnt powder residue. Find your load and get after it assuming you can find primers!

My open gun is an STI with 5” barrel. I switched from 124gr Montana Golds to the Blue Bullet. I was concerned with the comp getting clogged up with the blue coating. Rest easy it just never happens. Standard disclaimer and common sense work up to the load you’re targeting checking pressure indicators along the way. 125gr TC Blue Bullet 8.5gr HS6 1.175” OAL 1360fps 170PF Dillon 550 press CED Chrono

I don’t see USPSA making any changes to their revolver division. If there were more participation and demand it might catch their ear but sadly that’s not the case. Putting a red dot on a revolver only makes it competitive with red dot revolvers. You can enter Open Class and get smoked but still get trigger time and match experience. Or enter revolver division and DNF the last stage so your score doesn’t enter. Our local matches nobody really cares so just go shoot. A Level 2 or higher match would be a different story.

That spreadsheet is pretty cool.

Yep don’t need a 3 or 4 pound trigger. I miss Vic and “The Chicken”. Very cool guy. He kinda took me (and everyone else) under his wing when I was a newbie. I think most round gun shooters would agree with you on a solid rebound return, I sure do. Kind of funny but I’ve had this 627 setup stock with about 8lb trigger for decades. I never felt the need to bob the hammer or go in search of the holly grail of triggers. Just a revolver itch I guess. Maybe I have too much time on my hands in retirement!

Thanks thats what I have as well a V-Comp. Pretty sure this is the way I’m going to go. ‘’I I’m no gunsmith either but doing an action job on a Smith isn’t that difficult. The more complicated stuff I leave to the professionals.

Thanks interesting stuff. I will do that too see what I come up with. As mentioned I don’t remember what I did in terms of springs for this set up. Measuring the trigger the gauge read 8 to 8.2lbs but it doesn’t feel that heavy maybe due to what you mentioned. Edit: Holding the trigger back with the hammer back and measuring hammer spring tension or the break over point, I’m getting around 48-50ozs (apron 3lbs). Thinking these may even be the stock springs. Funny I remember the 5 other revolver set ups but not this one. Thinking its time to go with competition springs and a bobbed hammer. Just do’nt want to go down an endless rabbit hole. I think 6-7 pounds would be fine. I’ll need to get some range time in and do some work from there.

So will a bobbed hammer strike harder than a stock hammer if both were set at a 6 lb trigger pull? I set this 627 up over 20 years ago and don’t remember what springs I used. Too many revolvers and I’m beginning to suffer from CRS!

Did a search but didn’t find what I was looking for. Has anyone played around with what the lowest trigger weight is to reliably set off Federal primers (SPP)? The reason I ask is I decided to reduce the trigger weight from 8lbs to 6lbs and I was getting about 20-30% light strikes. All I did was back out the strain screw one turn. Half a turn equaled about 1 pound. I know thats not the best thing to do but I’m thinking of installing a Apex hammer kit and re-polishing up the internals. It’s been a long time since I’ve detailed stripped, cleaned and polished up the internals. Currently running the stock hammer. Since I was at a fun steel match I didn’t have time to play with it. Just curious if anybody has some experience. I will say something in the 6-6.5lb range might be worth doing. At 8lbs since its very smooth I don't really notice it in match conditions. Last night I felt my splits were faster at 6lbs but with light strikes it was hard to tell. Not to mention since I was late to the match I stepped to the line to find my red dot battery was dead. Kentucky windage was all I had time for, lol. I then changed batteries, re-set the strain screw and cleaned the C-More glass all was good again.

There’s always a guy!

I like the idea of putting a red dot on it. If that doesn’t work try shooting a tighter group freestyle at 10 yards then move the distance back and make sight adjustments. You may find a 15 or 20 yard zero better. If you can’t get tighter groups at shorter distances shoot off a pistol rest. If you still have a single stage notch use it. If none of that works but a red dot on it!

I have two 625s a 4” and 5”. And a Model 25 in 6 or 6.5”. I’ve shot major and minor in all these pistols and can’t really tell the difference in barrel length between the two power factors..625’s ruled the roost for awhile now its an 8 shot game, so I bought an 8 shot 627. I prefer shooting red dots. It’s a shame but most all revolver activity is gone in Southern CA. No steel challenge or ICORE to speak of. A few guys shoot USPSA regularly. Not sure what can be done to increase the popularity but what’s happened here can happen in your state. Lets keep revolver competitions alive! i just drove to AZ to compete in an ICORE match just to have fun with the round gun!