Carmoney

Pat, the Pro Series 627 does use moonclips. The clips are the same as any other 8-shot .38/.357 moons available anywhere (but I would strongly recommend the Hearthcos for any 8-shot revo). There is another "regular" 8-shot 627 with a plain 4" barrel available now that does not use moons--it would need to have the cylinder cut for moonclips.

Good advice from Glockopop. Get a beater 4" .38/.357 S&W to start out, maybe a 686, shoot it in both games, and start saving right away for a 5" 625 and associated gear for USPSA shooting. Fortunately, you can outfit yourself with a complete set of state-of-the-art USPSA Revo gear relatively inexpensively (less than a grand for everything if you shop carefully). The .38/.357 will be fine for SSR in IDPA, and/or make a fine defense gun for the house or car.

Yeah, I would use a hand priming tool rather than a press. Squeeze gently to reseat the primers and you'll be just fine.

American Eagle (from Federal) will be the closest. Keep in mind that even Federal factory ammo will not be as sensitive in terms of ignition as handloads that have the primers seated below flush.

Exactly correct. If the guy is actually shooting sub-minor stuff, he's just an idiot, that's all.

Glockopop and Needknees: Sounds like we might have a whole van-load of wheelgunners rolling down to the USPSA Nationals from central Iowa in '09! Sweet!

Hey Matt-- Looks cool! (Do you have your own bluing stuff?) Mike

Best line of the week!

I have always been an advocate of income re-distribution. Your money to MY pocket. Besides Mike, your a lawyer, you can afford it. I'm more of a community organizer.

Many prominent USA shooters did not attend the World Shoot this time around, mostly for the reasons I mentioned. (Plenty of discussion on this topic elsewhere on BE....) I don't know why JM did not attend. Keep in mind that USPSA Revolver division shooters attending World Shoot matches get absolutely no financial help from USPSA headquarters. They help pay for juniors and women to go, not to mention the top shooters in every other IPSC-recognized division, etc., but they won't help the Revolver guys. It's shameful, if you ask me. And it needs to change by 2011.

Go to the IRC and you'll see guys who are fat and old and way out of shape drop to prone very quickly!

I am pleased to report that I now own enough 8-shot Hearthco moonclips to get through an entire match without remooning. It cost me less than $10,000 and is well worth it.

You don't have to go prone on Far and Near. You can shoot the whole thing standing on your hind legs. I don't particularly like shooting from prone, so I just shoot the 25- and 50-yards strings standing up. No biggie.

Too far, too expensive, and too dangerous a locale given the anti-American sentiment in Indonesia. The 2011 World Shoot in Greece sounds much more interesting!

Accurate Plating and Weaponry supports competition shooting. At my first USPSA Nationals I snagged a AP&W certificate off the prize table which Bob had donated. I had them plate an aluminum-framed 1911 and it came out great. I have personally had customer service and quality control issues with Fords, and will not be using them again. I recently saw a gun plated with Ion Bond that had a very noticeable area where the Ion Bond plating had already flaked off. That certainly should not be happening.

Congratulations Ricardo, my friend!! Let's all work to get the largest possible group of wheelgunners together for the next IPSC World Shoot in 2011 in Greece.

Except when it comes to billing. I do know it took me .1 hours to post this reply.

I agree wholeheartedly with Brother Walter.

Yeah, I don't know what the number is, but I'm pretty sure it's greater than than 6. (I didn't go to law school because I'm good at math, y'know.)

Sounds like one of them is wrong, doesn't it? Seriously, the proof is in the pudding. Over the last 20 years I've done countless action jobs on revolvers with both MIM and case-hardened parts (these days the vast majority are MIM parts), and I'm here to tell you they slick up just fine with ceramic stones. My own main competition revolver, with which I've won lots of matches and made my way to Top-3 finishes at the USPSA Revolver Nationals in 2006, 2007, and 2008, is a plain old 625 with its original MIM guts, which of course I stoned nice and smooth when I put it into competition service in late 2004.

Stoning the engagement surfaces inside the action is perfectly fine--the white ceramic stones work really well. Stay away from the single-action cocking notch and bevel if you intend to maintain the single-action capability. Otherwise you should be fine.

It's always hard to tell from a video exactly where the 180 line falls, but I do think Elliot's reload in particular looks awfully close. That is one of the problems with the Jerry-style reload, it creates a tendency for the muzzle to drift to the left as the gun is being tipped up and emptied, which is not a problem when you're facing forward, but can become an issue when traversing to the left. One of the regulars on here got DQ'd at the Summer Blast a few years ago for this exact situation.

Looks like they all reload "Jerry-style" down there in Looziana.

Well, ordinarily a trigger reset problem is caused by a sear that is slightly too long. If this is the problem, a very small amount of material taken off the sear nose will correct the problem. To diagnose it, remove the sideplate and carefully cycle the action, and watch to see if the sear is hanging up. You can correct this problem with a stone or even a folded piece of wet/dry paper--try to maintain all the same angles.

It's probably because the rolling action of the wheelgun gives more of a surprise break. I have to really concentrate on my trigger pull with a single-action auto, or I'll start yanking it.