Carmoney

The status thing is a-workin'.

Yep. At least the same thing is happening to all of us....I'm guessing the "verify" feature hasn't been activated yet for whatever reason.

I'm an Eagle. Earned it in '83 (Troop 513, Johnny Appleseed Area Council, Ohio) when I was a senior in high school, just barely got my project approved and completed before I turned 18. I consider it one of the highest achievements I will ever reach, and wouldn't trade my badge for the nicest open gun in the gallery! My late grandfather, Sam Carmoney, got his Eagle back in the late '20s. I value his Eagle badge even more highly than my own. His great-grandson, Sam Carmoney, is presently a Second Class Scout (Troop 83, Mid-Iowa Council). Mike

Iggy: Cool! You're going to enjoy that gun. Perfect for USPSA! Mike

Cool. I've been running "dry-mouse" drills for several days now to get ready....

Hmmmm.....I sure don't see the link anywhere. Is it enabled yet?

I agree you don't want them too wobbly, but if the brass fits too tightly in the moonclips, the moons will tend to get really sticky, going in and going out of the cylinder, as the gun gets dirty during the match. It's not a "technique" thing..... Trust me, it's no fun putting a hole through the skin of your thumb (or palm) trying to extract one of those sticky bastards. Fed. and R-P brass in the 8-shot clips, problem solved. (Seen this in several guns now....)

Sounds normal to me. I wouldn't worry about it.

You'll want to use Fed. or Rem. brass for the 8-shot moons for the 627. W-W brass fits too tight, which is even worse than fitting too loose. If you have to use pliers to get the rounds in place, you will have problems trying to extract and reload when you're shooting--I found this out the hard way at a steel match last summer....

Sam and I have already sent through our entry forms for the revolver division! Looking forward to it! Mike

I think I heard that Jerry Moran sorta dropped off the radar a number of years ago. Anybody else know?

Brothers from Kansas.....hmmmm......might've been the Schottlers....no, no, I'll bet it was the Hauserman boys! (the people we'd see.....)

I think maybe the PEE event was the one event I never tried during my years at Second Chance! I was always more of a front-range guy, and typically I would do better on the main events than the side matches (although I could generally put myself in the money on 8-pin and sometimes Subway, and ran a pump gun on some decent 3-man teams). Finally won a gun on BCBC the last year I went, never did worth a crap on LRPF or HG-LRPF. Remember the year(s) when they had the event where they threw clay aerial targets from a trap machine, and you had to try to hit them going away with handgun bullets? That was kinda fun. We had a local blow-hard shooter that always claimed he could shoot pheasants with his .45 comp-gun--after we all realized it was actually possible to hit aerial targets with a little practice, we decided maybe we almost believed him after all! The man-on-man shootoffs were great too. I got lucky and won the very first Second Chance shootoff I ever entered (now I'm braggin' a little, I guess). The prize money was great (although Richard threw the cash all over me from his perch and I had to grovel around gathering it all up)--only problem was, he threw a Master Blaster patch down at me along with the money. So I never got a chance to milk the system! I was never there for the true glory years of Second Chance prize tables....they were before my time. By the end things were getting a little chintzy, with more used junkers in the prize cases and fewer HK91s, Benellis and M29s....(although, he gave away a motorcycle one year as a prize, I can't remember who won that). Even so, SC was a true experience I'll never forget! Mike

Gil, I know that D.Carden and I are signed up to shoot Revo at Osceola. I know from a previous thread that COF, pskys2, and Tom Mainus are hoping to be there as well. I'm fairly certain we'll see Badshot there with his 625, and I can think of two other Osceola local regulars who shoot mostly revolver and have recently upgraded to moonguns. So I'm guessing we'll have no fewer than 5, and possibly 8-10 wheelgunners at the match. I'm certain it will not be real "revolver-friendly," but most of us who shoot USPSA with wheelguns enjoy the challenge of managing high-rount-count stages and so forth. It will be a fun one! I've learned that classes don't matter too much in Revo--we generally shoot heads-up against everyone in the division who shows up, right? We're going to have every class from A to D (unless D.Carden hits Master by then!) represented at this match, with the majority being Bs and Cs. (I'm a B.) We have one bona fide Revo Master in Iowa, but from what I can tell, he's big into sporting clays these days, so I don't expect him to be there. So check the Revo box on your entry form, Gil! It would be great to have you shoot a roundgun with us! Mike

Cool stuff--nice to know there is someone out there appying a little creative thought to improving the state of the art in wheelgun technology! Mike

I never liked the way the Colt DA stacks up. I've heard Reeves Jungkind figured out how to take out the stack, but I've never handled one of his guns personally. I have an old Trooper (same action as the Python, but different barrel) that I bought at a gun show for $175 maybe 10 years ago--I use it for a "car gun." Mike

I think it's really cool that this great thread has now been viewed well over seven thousand times! Thanks, Patrick!

Flex, you got that in just before I could. Note that fundamental truth was penned by Robert Heinlein, an American writer. Mike

Randy, if anybody--anybody--else said there's such a thing as a sub-3-pound DA revolver pull that's reliable enough to shoot a major match like the Steel Challenge, I'd call bullshit. But I know better in this case. Let me ask you this (if it's not digging into your secrets too terribly much)....by any chance does this new super-light pull involve changing the stock geometry to give the hammer a longer arc of travel? Years ago I noticed you could get a Python DA noticeably lighter than a Smith and still get reliable ignition, and I always attributed the longer hammer throw as part of the reason. Mike

I just bought one of the red 012s, and my Para P14-45 Limited works perfectly in it. Go for it!

Hey Dan, I was just checking the point series standings the other day, and saw that you had hit A class in Revo. Good job! I look forward to shooting with you at the Iowa sectional in May. I emailed Chad and I'm pretty sure he'll be able to put us on the same squad. Mike

Here's one way of doing it:

I handled one of Randy's N-frame hammers at the Steel Challenge last summer. He had none left for sale, so I took the idea home with me and began modifying my own S&W hammers (old- and new-style) with various sorts of radical skeletonizing to lighten them. Although I didn't exactly steal Randy's intellectual property (I have a 25-year-old article from a DBI publication that shows the same sort of thing being employed on high-end custom K-frames for PPC competition, so I guess by now it's in the public domain), his work certainly reminded me that you can get away with a lighter DA pull if you take weight off the hammer itself. The lightened hammers do not completely explain the quality Randy's action work, however. My own efforts are pretty dang good, I think, but they are definitely not to the level of what Randy can do to a S&W. I suspect that (among other things) he is extremely proficient at making sure everything in the gun is set up, adjusted, and aligned exactly perfectly, to allow the gun to function 100% (with proper ammo) at very, very light DA pull weights. The time and effort he invests into his work is well worth the money, I'd say. As I've noted before, his Glock and 1911 trigger work also appeared to be pretty impressive. Mike

Hey Clockman II: Did they send you a 1099 along with that check?

Mav: Pheasant hunting is definitely a part of the Iowa lifestyle. They even hold the annual "governor's hunt" on opening weekend each year, and the news cameras follow him around. (Our current governor doesn't like guns very much, but he knows he has to carry a shotgun around at least that one day, for political reasons.) You've all probably seen the hat (available in pretty much every Iowa truckstop and convenience store during the fall) with the rooster pheasant embroidered on it, along with the words "IOWA...Big Cock County." Here's one more good pic: pheasant3 Mike