RevoWood123

Bamboo hit the nail on the head. The match primers are just "more consistent" by those employees who can get the priming liquid more uniform in the cup. I shoot them in my revos (GM100Ms) mainly because I buy them in bulk and can usually find them near me. I have used the No. 100s plenty of times as well and can tell no discernible difference in my loads. I can still make them miss targets even with better components.

pskys2, I agree with you, a bad primer will be a bad primer, and everybody makes a couple. I do exactly what you said, use the primer tray flip them, inspect, load the primer tubes. I have seen, and have had happen to me, when missing something very simple (boogered primer, failure to drop powder, lube ring missing from the bullet) what can happen during a match. One of our guys still gets called Squib even though he hasn't had an occurrence in years. Anymore, all brass, primers, and bullets are inspected before they make it to the press, and powder checker dies are very helpful.

I use my wife's clear nail polish on all my screws, keeps them from backing out, and I can use nail polish remover to clean them up and reapply if something needs to come apart.

Our club in southern IN has had lots of requests for ICORE. We used to have it regularly but the match director had other things come up that prohibited him from having the time to do them. Since then I and another guy at our club are going to be co-directing ICORE matches at our club. At last nights meeting alone I had 24 people give me their names and emails who were interested in shooting ICORE. Some were USPSA and IDPA folks that feel that revos in those two organizations aren't quite as welcomed as they once were.

I did notice that. I had already been acquainted with the ScorIt from the WheelBurners guys, and was probably going to use it. I would love to run Practiscore at our club, the problem is WiFi availability there and number of devices available. Our club did invest in getting some Kindles I believe, in fact our USPSA and IDPA crowd has used them, but they also had some hiccups with them resulting in lost scores for one squad. I appreciate you mentioning it, any help is welcomed as I am a rookie Match Director. Sidebar: I also noticed in your tag that you are a Chairman for ICORE. I must say, the people I have contacted in regards to getting things set back up have been wonderful to work with. Melanie helped set me up with quite a bit of stuff and pointed towards some other match directors for advice and networking. I also got in contact with the guy who wrote the Cylinder's Turn article about being a rookie match director and he gave me lots of helpful advice. Thanks again. -Stu

Through my years of shooting revos, I can honestly say PatJones hit the nail on the head. I have used every other primer out there, and nothing beats a Federal for a revolver. I used to buy cases of the AE38B 158gr LRN loaded ammo for ICORE prior to reloading, always worked. I started loading, and started having issues, until I went back to Federal primers. I bought some RWS match 158gr LRN, my J-frame 640, model 64, and 686 couldn't fire those things. I think their primers are made of tungsten...

Hey man that was a pretty solid match for first time with a wheel gun. And only dropping one on a star is never something to complain about. I know plenty of guys who shoot revolvers that still expend to cylinders on a star.

Hey guys, looks like we may be starting ICORE matches back at Silver Creek Conservation Club in SO Indiana. Myself and another member are co-directing the matches and are looking for interested participants. We do not have any tentative dates scheduled yet, but if you are interested you can PM me your name and email address and I will keep you informed as to when we will resume matches and future match dates. I am also setting up our scoring template that way I can just select who attended and input scores so that I can get participants results from matches more quickly. -Stu

Hey guys, revolver shooter from SO IN. Shoot some pistol also, but I love the real guns; sorry wheel guns. Quick FYI, I am also going to be codirecting some ICORE matches at our local club here in SO IN, if anybody is interested they can PM me with their name and email and I'll let you know about upcoming matches.