Carmoney

I have an extra brand new 8-shot S&W 27-7 with a 6.5" barrel that I would sell......but I know you, Dave, and you would not like the price!! (They only made 100 of them, and they are pretty much a collector's item today.)

In Arizona, I will be running my M27-7 with .38 Short Colts in the revolver match, and a .40 1911 for the SS match. Since I'm going to be planning stages for 8 rounds between reloads, that will keep things consistent. I actually finished in the Top 20 of the Western States SS match years ago, before they started the whole revolver thing. That is one of my prouder accomplishments, as the level of competition in the SS match is pretty fierce, and they get hundreds of shooters. The USPSA magazine was in my mailbox today. I can feel the bile rising in my throat just thinking about it. Frickin' Jess.....

The Western States matches (both SS and revolver) are great matches! I have shot several and always had a great time--although the weather a couple times has been downright terrible! I have never perceived any issues with the rules whatsoever. Traditionally, they have used USPSA rules and scoring (except for allowing some "outlaw" divisions like the open revolvers). I assume that is what they will do this year again. I am signed up for the upcoming WSRC and WSSSC matches in February. Really looking forward to both!

Only my revolver friends could take a post about grip pressure and drift it into a discussion about mangos and caffeine.

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This right here, people! Hang on high and hard. (When I shot pins, people used to comment about how I was gripping so hard that it caused the gun to tremor during my sight pictures.)

Back when I was Carmonizing revolvers, I noticed a strong connection between the peening/skipping problem, and the heavy-handed shooters who slap their cylinders closed with lots of gusto. The peening problem is usually only an issue with the stainless guns--very rare with the blue models. Glad to see the OP got his gun fixed--I suspected the hundred-year-old cylinder stop spring might be culprit.

My once-a-year pin match is a casual private event for a group of friends who used to shoot all the major pin matches (Second Chance, Texarkana, Garden City, Kansas City, Waterloo) together, about 30 years ago. We run a main event, a revolver (8 pin) event, a rimfire event (with mini-pins), and a shotgun match. Plenty of shooting, and even more nostalgia.

When you were shooting Production with your simple kydex holster, did you ever feel like your holster was actually slowing you down? Did you notice that at least half the Open and Limited shooters with the high-tech "race" holsters were ridiculously slow at drawing the gun? Let your answers to these questions guide your decision.

At Daryl's Gun Shop in State Center, Iowa, we used to shoot pins and then light them on fire and cook hotdogs over them. (This could possibly explain some of my behavior issues that have manifested over the years.)

You're fortunate to receive guidance from pskys2. He's a top shooter with a ton of experience, and a super good guy to be around. On the other hand, his upcoming USPSA magazine article which he plans to entitle "The King is Dead...." is going to be filled with filthy, dirty, communist lies.

Can I use your videos as an example of what happens to people who don't adjust their mainspring tension properly and then tighten the strain screw all the way down good and hard?

Hey, I know! How about a special strain screw that extends out through the grips and between the shooter's fingers, with a big knurled knob on the end? Then when the shooter experiences a misfire, he can simply give the knob a quarter turn while running to the next array. A really skilled multi-tasker might be able to develop the ability to instantly dial the screw in and out with the fingers of the support hand while actually shooting, without even so much as lowering the revolver! We could call it the "Clicks-B-Gone" rotary tension adjustment device. Warren! Get on this right away. (Note to O.P. Tampa-XD45: Please understand I am just having a little fun with your thread. You actually came up with a pretty clever solution to the problem you were trying to solve. Personally, I'm a proponent of setting the tension correctly and then locking the screw down tightly. But I understand with the current primer supply situation a guy might feel the need to adjust tension without modifying the springs and/or strain screw length.)

Dave, I will agree that anything can break, but I have handled a lot of S&W revolvers over the years, and I have never--never once--seen a factory Ti pin break. You should be able to dry-fire a centerfire S&W revolver pretty much indefinitely and not ever break a firing pin. I never use snap caps or empties or anything like that. I have broken pretty much every aftermarket "extended" firing pin I have tried, but I have never broken a factory pin. If you had one of those break, I believe that was an extraordinarily rare anomaly.

That would work, and then some! I ran .44 and .45 revolvers for years at pin matches, until I acquired a custom 7-shot Model 27 from none other than our host, Brian Enos. Having that extra round made a big difference. (That was before the factory was making any of the 8-shooters, of course.) I only shoot one pin match a year anymore (the 2022 event is coming up next Saturday), but that Baumannize 27 is the gun I always use.

FYI, the original 230-gr. pin bullet was made from the H&G #127 mold, which dates clear back to the 1940s. Miculek usually shot 200s on pins, but ran 230s for a couple years. I think his brother Donnie was casting them for him. I always found the 230s, with their sharp WC-like edges, created better pin action. OAL for those 230s in .38 Special brass was around 1.52". If you use the newer style like the bullets from Badman, I would recommend seating them to that same length and just ignore the crimp groove.

Understood. I also have a mold for the "Lincoln Logs" but I haven't cast bullets in many years. Just be cautious if you go too far off-label. Blue Dot seems to be the wonder powder for the 230-gr. pin loads. That one year at Second Chance when the pins were left outside and got all soggy and heavy, my 230s going 1050 fps (from an 8-3/8" barrel) were one of the few loads that took them off the tables clean. That kind of power is overkill most of the time, but I was glad to have them that year. I would not try to replicate that load with any powder other than Blue Dot.

Jesus Christ. I had to look at the calendar to make sure it's not April 1 already.

Dude, you ordered a bullet mold for an exotic bullet that has no use other than pin-shooting, but you won't buy a pound of a new powder?

The extended firing pins all suck. A competition gun should not have a part installed that is known to break suddenly. If it happens during a match, you're screwed. Find a factory Ti pin (won't stick to a magnet) with the rounded (not pointy) tip, ideally one that measures as close as possible to .495" and look for action improvements elsewhere.

Yeah......are you worried about them coming apart? There can be issues with plated bullets not responding well to heavy crimp, but coated bullets should be no problem.

Obviously the answer is no. Needs much more crimp.

You guys are stilling passing along the old wives' tale of super-light Bullseye loads supposedly causing "detonations" and blowing up guns? Come on. That story was debunked in the testing laboratory back in the '70s.

Well, Dave, I hope you're happy. Your devious voodoo tricks obviously worked. Water does not taste nearly as good when you're drinking it from a "Second Place Revolver" mug. (Might have to switch to whisky.)

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