Carmoney

Nice move, Brian! Jon and Tyler are a great addition to any match--glad this worked out for everybody involved.

It doesn't hurt anything to dry-fire a gun with the frame-mounted stock Ti firing pin. The stock pins might not be unbreakable.....but they're close.

Do a search and you will find a whole ream of information on this topic. I had repeated problems with the C&S pins in my own personal guns and accordingly I do not use them. I have been assured these problems have been corrected, but I have not attempted to confirm that. I have tried every firing pin under the sun, and I have found nothing that works better than the second generation .495" +/- factory Ti pin with round tip. These pins are getting tougher to find all the time, and everything recently has been shipping out with the crappy "California drop test compliant" shorter firing pin with the pointed tip. When I can no longer find the "good" factory pins anywhere, I will probably switch to the steel firing pin that Randy Lee sells.

I wasn't worried, I only had 15 beers. Hell, that's nothing......I've seen you win national championships with more than that in your system.

It was fun shooting with you B.J. You shot a great match, and some of those stages you shot were pretty amazing. I note you have been the top minor caliber shooter the past two matches. I'm pretty sure you based your strategy on my inspired performance in 2008, when I reigned as the top minor shooter at the Single Stack Nationals. (I'm still waiting to receive my trophy and prize gun.) Seriously though, it was a fun match. I enjoy breaking out the hi-cap once in awhile......

Thats all you have to hear! my thoughts exactly If everybody is standing around brushing out their mags religiously (whether they truly need it or not), who is doing the work to reset the stage???

My bad.....good reminder that there are other games out there beyond those we talk about most around here.

NICE!!

I wouldn't bother with a 6-shot N-frame .357 for any competition application now that the 8-shot guns are available. You'll want the 8 shots for steel or ICORE, and if your intention is to shoot USPSA with it, you're much better off with a 625, 25-2, or 610.

Just a thought.... Jerry said one time he will sometimes change his front sight right before an important match. He said it helps him re-establish the visual focus where it's supposed to be, because there's something a little unfamiliar out there to look at. So I'm wondering if there is some little thing you can do to the front sight that would have the same effect. A thin line of liquid white-out across one of the serrations....I don't khow....maybe even a tiny piece of lint or fuzz stuck to the corner of the blade. Anwyay, you get the idea. Good luck, Bro!--knock out those Xs for the home team!

Holy crap, I would never try to shoot that ammo from a 25-5. That's really aggressive loading you're talking about. You ever look at how thin the cylinder wall is at the cylinder stop notch on a .45 N-frame? Those loads should be reserved for Rugers and Contenders, if you ask me.

I recently did a 686SSR for a guy that required eight (8) of the Ron Power shims to take the slop out of the trigger. I don't think the factory has anybody left that remembers how to fit a revolver. If the CNC stuff gets off track, they have no idea what to do. You guys wouldn't believe some of the stuff I see.

Matt, I would enjoy doing that. However, I am planning to drive over Saturday morning, so I need to stick with the same time slot. In any event, I look forward to seeing you guys there.

That was back when Ronnie "Random" Casper was running the show. The match is now under new management.

I'm not the favorite to win this one......there's a GM wheelgunner signed up......right Houngan?

OK guys, time to fire up this thread again! The Match Directors have committed to award a custom handgun to the winner of Revolver Division if we have 10 shooters registered. Right now we have 9 wheels signed up. Looks like some good competition at several class levels, the entry fee is reasonable, and the stages look great. Let's get some more revolver shooters to this one!

Big revolver, small hands? Should be no problem......

I got mine today also, Cliff. I'm fairly certain it was my phone call to Sedro that finally shook our slots loose--everybody else got theirs a month ago. But in any event, I'm glad USPSA was able to fix the situation.

A weeks worth of antibiotics should clear that right up. Tom Tell that to Han Solo...... Laugh it up, fuzzball.

In his video, Bubber is going slow in order to demonstrate the technique. At full match speed, his speed reloads are much too fast to be detectable by the human eye. Seriously, he has the fastest speedloader reload in the game.

Yes, the Power hammer pivot bearings are the solution. I don't use them very often, but every now and then I run across a gun that definitely needs a little help in this area. I agree that a hammer that rubs is wasting precious energy on something other than busting the cap. I also agree that it's unlikely the IL system is causing the problem. It's probably just a fitting issue.

Mas Ayoob is an old shooting friend of mine from when I first started competing in New England back in the '80s. His "Stressfire" revolver reload is a very valid defensive technique, but I would not recommend it for serious competition revolver shooters who are looking for the fastest possible reloads. There are methods of recharging the wheelgun that are still solid and significantly faster. Or so it seems to me.

Looks like nice work, but frankly I'm not a big fan of retaining single-action capability on a carry/defensive gun with a bobbed hammer. There is no defensive scenario I can envision in which I would ever want to cock a double-action revolver. Even with the checkering along the top of the hammer, I see safety issues with attempting to cock--or more likely, de-cock--one of those guns in a high-stress situation. I always recommend to people that if they really think they need to retain the gun's single-action cocking capability, they should just leave the hammer alone. On a Colt D-frame, the bolt-on shroud would be a much better alternative, in my opinion.

The video depicts a fully Carmonized hammer, which goes way beyond simply bobbing off the spur. In order to get the full benefit of a lightened hammer, you need to remove roughly half of its mass. There are several ways to do this--the video (and my avatar to the left) shows my particular version.

They're pets, of course......not entirely domesticated......