Wim

Sorry, yep you are right. Rourke shoots a converted Ruger blackhawk if I recall.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?I...festyle&Topic=0 Check it out for yourself. The guy who plays so many of the roles that glorify a guy who carries a gun. I don't suppose you need to be honest to yourself anymore if you are paid enough money. I suspect there are quite a few actors out there who fall foul of my rules in this regard. Maybe I should be thankful that he is honest enough to say it - if not honest enough to take roles accordingly; but I'm not. I probably need to think this through, because I don't suppose I can say that every movie badguy must be a bad person and live up to that, or he isn't true to himself either. THey are only characters after all. But it still doens't sit well with me. I never was a Bond fan, so not watching his movie really won't bother me. Maybe we should have a list of pro / anti gun actors somewhere....

From Harley Davidson and The Malboro Man: Harley: You know, that gun costs about two dollars every time you fire it. That's two bucks a bullet. Malboro: Well how many'd I hit? Harley: You spent twelve dollars and didn't hit a goddamn thing. I nailed one and it cost about four and a quarter. I got this from some website, but can't remeber which was Harley and which Malboro: Where'd they go? Right there and they're spendin' a fortune. Harley: That one's for you. How'd it feel? Malboro: Best twelve bucks I ever spent.

Not a comment on relaibility. From Redding's website: "Nickel plated cases are often associated with die scratching problems. Small particles of the hard nickel plating may be present from trimming and/or deburring operations and can find their way inside the dies." OK, so we don't really trim or debur our pistol brass, but I avoid it where I can just in case and I have noticed that scratches can leave a really sharp edge on nickel cases (and I have seen nickel peel, but not recently).

Sorry - should have added that it's not near 1000 an hour, but you need to decide how fast you need to be. Once you get a feel for when you've stopped cutting and you get a rhythm going you get fairly quick (but like I said I don't think I will ever do 1000 per hour!)

I don't have experinece with all of the above, but picked up a LE Wilson a few days ago and have used it once on about 50 cases (http://lewilson.com/). It works with a case holder which holds the case sort of like your chamber. I bought it with a power driver. The lengths are very repeatable and with a cr@ppy power screwdriver with a bit of wobble lengths were within a range of one thou. I almost couldn't believe it. I picked mine up via mail order from Lock Stock and Barrel (lockstock.com). Great service, good price. I would check it out.

Brownell's product is probably little different from what Ed suggests. You can call them, or post a question in the tech section. They will reply. As I understood it the package contained various grits (I'm starting to think it was pads) and you would test e.g. under the grip or whatever to match the matte finish. I would contact them beofre trying something else.

Brownells used to sell something - I don't recall if it was like steelwool or like a brillopad (I think you call it a Choreboy?) but take a look there. You could basically match the matte finish on a stainless recvolver by using the appropriate "coarseness / grit" (or whatever you want to call it) and maintaing the direction of the original polishing. I've polished a stainless revolver before and going to the range with something that looks like a bathtap is not something I'll do again if I can avoid it!

Without wanting to bring bad luck on myself, I would like to congratulate you for ending your first session with your chrono free of bullet holes and in one piece....

Thanks for the replies. I should probably have started a poll, but anyhow, still getting the views that I would like to see - and more detailed than with a poll. anyone out there try the SSK designs?

I "RTFP" (read the fifth post" ) Are hunting related questions ok here anyway? Feel free to remove it if not. So questions for you handgun hunting nuts. Favourite .357 bullet for game say to 120lbs? - I've always figured something that expands is better in .357 because of the smaller diameter to start with. I use 180gr XTP's which can do 1300fps easy from my 6" FA, so my view may have been different if I could only get like 1100fps.... Favourite cast design for .44 Mag for game of say up to 400lbs? LBT WFN/WLN, what about the NEI SSK (JD Jones designs?), others?

I skateboard tape on the frame. I didn't know where to get the grip inserts in SA (to fill the gaps in the frame where the trigger bar runs), so I cut the top part off the grips - just enough to go just slightly below the gaps that the grips fill. I sanded the grips really, really thin and smoothed the corners where I cut the grips down to nothing. I also sanded off all of the checkering so that the tap[e would stick. These "grip inserts" work with just the top grip screw. It works great and the extra width is next to nothing - it's also less of an issue at the top of the grip with my thumb (now) on the safety and my trigger finder away from the frame anyway. The tape adheres easily and is wrinkle free and smooth.

What's in The Book (and The Forum) is the only way that I will be able to transition to shooting fast - from slow paper punching and plinking for 20 years! There is so much more to action shooting sports than I had ever realised before getting here - and reading The Book. and there's a much wider application of the contents than a cursory read suggests....

Hi Mike. Nice link. If BB is more your thing check out www.t-mag.com - there are quite a few of Charles Poliquin's principles / articles there worth a look. But a bit of "in your face" type of image for the site as a whole. There is also an article by Poliquin on achieving max bench press somewhere. It is under the search function. Anyone else out there paying the price now for a gym membership, a big ego and a small brain in their early 20's??

Thanks for all of the input and the suggestions / invitations. I'm certainly visiting with the "wrong guys" (good friends but probably not right to visit the US with a gun nut!). I'm getting so many ideas and suggestions that I'm not sure what to choose - and I'm goingto have to do that! firming up things next few days and will try to choose what and where... Thanks. Keep 'em coming.... Wim