Carmoney

In his later years, Jack lived in Morro Bay, CA, which is also home of the Hogue range and the International Revolver Championship. I remember meeting him in a restaurant a few years ago, and he was a very nice guy who made a point of coming over and talking to us at our table. Jack referred to Cliff and Dean G. and I as "sex gods," proving that his eyesight was excellent even well into his 90s. Must have been the carrot juice!

Wear your kevlar vest if you go out there.....just sayin'.....

Polish a forcing cone???

Sorry, but I'm not impressed. All you need is a good screwdriver with interchangeable hollow-ground bits that correctly fit the screws. The rebound slide can be easily removed and replaced using a standard screwdriver, no special tool is needed. The extractor rod can be removed with a standard drill chuck, which most of us already have. More importantly, there is no reason for the average revo shooter to take apart the extractor assembly. Believe me when I tell you, more problems are created by people taking their extractors apart than you could imagine. Leave them alone.

I think I'd need a gas-operated 2-cycle die grinder for that spur!

The Allison Speed Brush is the legacy of Mark Allison, a great revolver shooter and good friend to many of us. Unfortunately, he passed away a couple years back.

Cliff is exactly correct in his memory of the event. It was Jerry who called for the target to be pulled, and under the crazy circumstances he was perfectly correct to do so. Nobody else on the squad got involved, other than the typical behind-the-lines discussion amongst ourselves. Everyone on the squad remained calm and cordial, including Jerry and Dave. If you weren't right there in the middle of the situation, it would be hard to know exactly what happened. I do want to publicly thank Robin Taylor for the very nice coverage of the Revolver Nationals. It's great to see a full piece on our match. From talking to Robin, I know he has competed with a revolver himself in the past, so he knows the drill. Julie G.'s article was great as well!

.....and, if I remember correctly from my last trip to California, they sometimes do ask to see proof of insurance at the rental car counter. Even if you're clean-cut like me! So it's a good idea to know exactly what insurance you already have, and be able to document it.

Most individual automotive insurance policies do cover damage to rental cars. Thus, for most of us, it's not necessary to pay for those obscenely expensive damage waivers offered by the rental car companies. The only way to know for sure, though, is to read the fine print of your auto policy.

I wouldn't say this was a typical USPSA match for us--eight revolvers is a lot!--but we do have a pretty solid contingent of wheelgunners here in central Iowa. If the Tappe boys had shown up, we coulda just as easily broken into double digits--pretty good for a Tuesday night club match! Local Match Result September 21, 2010 ANKENY PRACTICAL SHOOTERS Final results for Revolver Place Name No. USPSA Class Division PF Lady Mil Law For Age Match Pts Match % 1 Sam C. 8 A51792 A Revolver Major No No No No 198.2053 100.00% 2 Mike C. 9 A23819 M Revolver Major No No No No 197.9654 99.88% 3 Matt D. 1 Pen U Revolver Major No No No No 159.4325 80.44% 4 Mike W. 12 U Revolver Major No No No No 129.9066 65.54% 5 Robert L. 4 A16841 C Revolver Major No No No No 126.0373 63.59% 6 Stacy N. 6 A68875 U Revolver Major No No No No 124.8268 62.98% 7 Brad W. 2 TY31876 C Revolver Major No No No No 109.4751 55.23% 8 Scott A. 13 A54718 C Revolver Major No No No No 107.2760 54.12% P.S. Sam got lucky that night....

Here's the discussion that Bill N. refers to above: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=98825

Eric, your gun would be great for the steel matches held at the Ankeny Ikes in the summer, and the Big Dawgs steel match held each July at Lowell, Iowa. The past couple years, the Ames Ikes has also held weekly steel matches on Wednesday late afternoons--hopefully they will continue with those. We don't have any ICORE shooting opportunities around this area. You can shoot USPSA matches at Ankeny and Osceola, and some other clubs if you're willing to travel. (Things are pretty much shut down for the winter right now, though.) For USPSA shooting, you really need a 6-shot revolver that can comfortably make major power factor, like a 625 or 610. Feel free to contact me at carmoney@aol.com for more details.

$100 less than I would pay for any other generation of 5" 625. Dash twos are trouble.

They chamfer fine. No problemo.

Just had a terrible thought.....that brass didn't come from Cliff, did it?

That looks like the minimal factory chamfer job on Jerry's 627. Can't think of any reason not to put more chamfer on it. Jerry always did have some "interesting" ideas about equipment....serrated triggers....smooth wood grips that hurt your hand....heck, for years he shot with full spring tensions, but I heard him say he "out-grew" that habit.

I thought I saw a glow in the eastern sky this morning. I thought it was the sun coming up, but now I know it was all those candles on Bob's birthday cake. Many happy trigger returns, Bob!

I agree that the rounded edges still visible on the primers indicate they are not being seated fully. They need to look completely flat. Also, notice how a couple of the primers in the second photo show sort of a half-moon indentation? It appears the rounds are not getting fully inserted into the hand-seating tool....or the half-moons are being caused by your press and you're not squeezing hard enough to really reseat them.

I agree fully with Doug C.'s response above.

I'll take that question: I generally do not chamfer the extractor itself. I do a fairly aggressive chamfer on the chamber mouths, but I really think it's best to leave the extractor alone. On a moonclip gun like a 625 or 610 you can chamfer the star also, but on something like a 686, you need to be sure the cartridge rim must be supported, to ensure proper headspacing and reliable ignition. Also, on the newer guns that don't have locating pins, but rely on the star "points" to locate the extractor, it's important to maintain the integrity of the extractor to make sure the cylinder will carry up correctly. Thanks everybody for the kind words! I really appreciate your confidence in me.

I give up.

Forget it. No longer funny.

I might take $200 for the grips, maybe.

I'm slowly trying to acquire the guns used in the Call of Duty games!

Chris, didn't Ayoob publish a piece a few years ago that featured photos of our buddy Scott ("Where's my backup bucket?") Hattrup walking the city streets wearing a 4" 629 openly in a hip holster? Where was those pics taken? KC? For some reason, I have it in my head it was in Phoenix...... Then again, maybe the whole thing was a crazy dream, like that commercial where the guy is sitting at the kitchen table with Abe Lincoln and a talking beaver.