[Parents Of Junior Shooters]

I'm going to be starting my 11 year old son in some the run and gun shoots by the fall/winter. Right now he is shooting Steel Challange stages at our club slosa.org, and has been since late last year. He is using a SigArms Trailside to shoot with so far starting at the "Low Ready" Position. As his toughest critic, I can say that he is very safety conscience and loves to shoot. He has been watching the grownups do their shooting and would like to do the draw and fire thing along with them. Here lies the problem though.... What gun??

My thoughts and some suggestions have been either a 686 7 shot in 38 spec. or a XD-9 4 inch.

Parents, What are your juniors shooting? What would you suggest for a blaster for a small hand sized junior??

Regards,

Dave Wilson

[How Do I Stipple Wood?]

I know this may sound easy, but I am seeing some wood grips with great stippling patterns. Aside from the tool from Brownells, what is your prefered method for stippling wood grips?

[US revolver shooting team]

I was told the team will be Patrick Sweeney, Cliff Walsh, Jerry Miculek, and Lisa Farrell.

Quite the mix!

regards,

Dave Wilson

Pat,

I remember you asking for another shooter with a world shoot slot, Who backed out? and who is taking their spot?

In other words, who's on the team now ?

SAM

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[IRC - Morro Bay]

I just finished my first IRC and first match with a (borrowed) wheel gun (Thanks to Lisa Farrell for that!) . I think there were probably darn few that finished lower than I did, and even fewer with a bigger smile than I after all was said and done. All the staff put on one heck of a great shoot. Now if I can just quit trying to rack the slide and stuff moonclips in the mag well....

I think I will be getting a long term loan of the 627 I borrowed, and will be shooting as many of these ICORE events as I can. I've been shooting just club events starting this past January on our local Steel Challange, this moving around and loading on the run was great. The caliber (to abuse a pun) of people I've met both at the club level and the national level has been top notch and they have all gone out of their way to make a newbie feel part of the club. I managed somehow to end up as a C class shooter in the classifiers on thursday but I have doubts that my match times will show that. Yes I already plan to be at next years!

Dave Wilson