mchapman

I am hoping that swordfish is coming and bringing a lot of friends to fill the squad.

I have been getting the stages finalized and coming up with a round count for 14 stages for the 2018 IRC in Mesquite, NV. The minimum round count is 345 for the match and if you are shooting the classifier match on Thursday add another 100 rounds. All registered shooters will be getting the stage diagrams sent out to them around the first week of September. Thanks Mark

Figure around 100 for the classifiers, and 345 minimum for the 14 stage match. On the sign up page on Practiscore it gives you a shipping address for your ammo if you want.

Most competition shooters with light triggers want or need to have the primers set below flush to prevent light primer strikes.

Ron Williamson is the membership person for Icore. Go to the ICORE main web page and hit the drop down menu for membership download it , fill it out and mail it in they no longer have online sign up, maybe in the future. You can have a USPSA RO help you set up ICORE classifiers and shoot them and send them in also to Ron Williamson, they have waived the fees for this year.

The OAL should not be that critical if you are shooting 38 spcl in a 357

I agree, it looks like you are seating the bullet a bit to deep. Increase your OAL a little. I use some Bayous in my short colt and I use a light roll crimp with mine.

http://icarusshirts.com/product/irc-2018/ HERE IS THE LINK TO ORDER SOME DIFFERENT IRC SHIRTS FOR 2018

So do I, so don't worry about it. We just need to figure a way out that all of these other shooters can pay us some money for helping make them look so good. LOL It could subsidize our shooting expenses.

You can get the 147 rn and the 125 rn, from Blue bullets sized to .357, just order from the .38 page. These work great in my 929 and my 627.

CCI has available to commercial reloaders a primer that is brass colored and comes in a white box instead of blue, these are not readily available to the public for use, it may be a bit more sensitive than the standard primers, but not much, I have tried a couple hundred of them that I got from a commercial reloader to shoot in my competition revolvers. I still had light strikes, about 5 in every 100, not acceptable to me for competition.

Just for the hell of it what is your OAL? If too long it will cause that also.

I am assuming that your 627 pro is a 4 inch, check speed beez for holsters, there are a lot of holsters out there. George at Revolver supply has holders and moonclips, and Joe L. at MOJO custom guns can do as much as you want on gun modifications or as little, [ action job for s&w 165 as per website]. These are less money than some of the others but they work well. Tom and Elli at TK custom do great work and have excellent products. What I'm trying to show you is that you can spend as little or as much as you can afford, and as you progress you will more than likely be trying a lot of these things out as you go down the road, but that's all good, it's part of the fun. Just like alecmc said do what you can afford, and upgrade as you go.

It is hard to beat the BMT for 38 spcl and short/long colt, Revolver Supply has a good moonclip loader as does TK Custom. The BMT for 9mm and 45 acp not quite as handy in my opinion. I have all of these and they all have their place depending which gun I am using and what moonclips.

My mistake I thought that it was apex sorry.

The one on the left is Apex the right is Cylinder and slide

Use a 627 with short colts as your main gun and use a 929 as backup, If the 627 malfunctions shoot the short colts in the 929. Same ammo just a bit higher PF in my case.

If you are going to shoot these in a wheelgun, and not a rifle, you probably don't have to worry about bullet setback, you may have issues with bullet creep. Which in that case I would use a roll crimp instead. You have different forces in action in a revolver than a semi-auto.

For the last 5 years I have almost exclusively shot a revolver at the matches I go to, and that is about 50 matches a year. 12 to 15 of them are Icore, at least 30 of them are USPSA, and the others are so type of steel matches along with a few outlaw [hosefest] type matches. At some of these I may be the only wheelgun there, some there may be 3-6 others, an yet others there may be 30. Now the higher amount of revo shooters are at the steel matches and of course the ICORE ones. But the thing I am trying to get at is I [me ] enjoy shooting my revolvers, I am not going to make a living at shooting and in fact most of you out there are better shooters than I am. I do this because it's fun, and I try to push myself to get better. Now some may say that I am not being very competitive with this approach, but I don't think that that is true. You beat me by 10 min. this time but next time if I try hard or practice more it may only be 9 min. As I look back at all of these matches that I have shot at I may not have been first but I have NEVER been last and that is a lot of bottom feeders that I have done better than. So is revolver dead, not for me, I have way too much fun with it.

You know it's not too late to get signed up for this match, there are still a few spots open, as of right now we have 126 wheelguns signed up, looking like it might be one of the biggest REVOLVER match's this year. Come on out and play, 8 stages plus chrono. About 220 rounds and a man on man shoot off on Sunday.

Just some of the sponsors for the SW REGIONAL REVOLVER CHAMPIONSHIP, I would like to thank all of them and would encourage everyone to support the companies that support us.

I am planning on around 220 to 250 min. then you have the man on man shoot off and I think that you are taking Michael's class aren't you?

New Icore rules say that I have to have chronograph at regionals and at the IRC. So your next one will probably be at the SW REGIONAL in Mesquite, April 28th