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Results from this weekends NYS Championship. Congratulations to the NYS champs, The Outlaw Duelin’ Dawn and @Montague Kid Top overall Prickly Pear and James Samuel Pike 2026 Muster at Fort Misery .pdf

I don't know how Ruger shop "repaired" the ejector retaining pin without just putting a new one in. Straightening one or filing off burrs on one at the repair shop would be more expensive than a new pin that costs Ruger almost nothing. Just about the same story with the ejector itself. They must have replaced barrel due to a manufacturing defect. If they found damage from reloads, I expect you would have been charged. Their shooter-unfriendly "No Reloads" policy has been around for several decades, and routinely ignored. good luck, GJ

Glad you got things to work, and I see you ended up with a fairly conventional powder and a proper crimp diameter. In the long run you might want another tenth of a grain of powder just to make sure in all weather you exceed power factor. Clean gun every match and practice session - it's the key to keeping a good load and a good gun running. The OAL that works for a bullet design is highly dependent upon the nose shape. For example, my 200 grain truncated cone nose loads feed perfectly at 1.180" OAL. Nothing beats testing - except practice and shooting matches. So, sounds like you are ready to do both!! good luck, GJ

The requirement is "magazines must be standard length" and other references to a "baseplate." Magazines that use slide on basepads are longer than normal magazines. Magazines that use screw on basepads are welded baseplate magazines and would be WBAS without the pads. The magazines I'm talking about, which are commonplace in ALL other types of shooting that use 1911s, do not have any kind of baseplate. If there was any rational reading of portion of the rules that let me use my Tripps with Dawson basepads, this whole thread wouldn't need to exist.

I don't shoot WB any longer. Not because of any dispute with the rules, but because matches are not convenient to me. So I shoot Historic 3 Gun. But, shoot consistent with SASS rules, as nothing in H3G sez I can't. Although I do happen to like starting a stage in condition one. All of my magazines have welded flat baseplates, except one, a stainless Kim-Pro which has a flat removeable baseplate. But, then again, I learned to manipulate a 1911 during VN, using issue guns and GI magazines. Frankly, if you need to rely on a baseplate pad, whether it's leather, plastic, aluminum, steel, rubber or banana peels, you're relying on a crutch. Learn to seat a flat plate magazine. Tune your magazines to seat properly in your 1911 and your need for a extended pad goes away. Sloppy magazine control demands the use of a pad. By demanding pads, you're admitting to being a sloppy magazine handler. Much like the Frontiersman category in SASS cowboy matches... WB was never intended to be as "easy" as shooting a 1911 in other sports. Why should it be? What would be the draw for truly dedicated 1911 fans. If you enjoy shooting other gun games with a 1911 where the use of a basepad is allowed, mastering magazine control without one will not hurt your performance in those other games. Frankly, I don't recall any of you relatively new folks here when the fight was to end the "cowboy w/a 1911" era of 5 round maximums in magazines. Using what is legal in another shooting sport to justify your stance on what you think should be legal in SASS WB is disingenuous at best, at worst, whiney, cry-baby bull spit. Go ahead, take the high road, being disengenuos. Wild Bunch is based on a movie released in 1969, depicting events in 1913... Dig up a still of a 1911 with a base pad in that movie, then maybe your request has some merit... but be advised, it has the same chance as getting Broomhandle approved. But, maybe I overstep?

Now on second look at the packing slip that came back with my SR1911 and a call to Ruger’s CS, they actually replaced the barrel as well as repairing the ejector and ejector retaining pin. They could not tell me why the bbl was replaced so maybe it had nothing to do with my reloads?

Well, I got my SR1911 back from Ruger Today after stripping two of the grip panel screws because they were too tight from the factory. They also replaced the ejector and ejector pin, presumably bent from my early jamming issues. I took it to the range today and put all 58 of my most recent reloads through it without a hitch. What changed? 1) met a guy at our club shooting a Taurus PT1911 like mine and when we compared loads I noticed that he had way less crimp than mine. When I backed off the crimp, my next set of reloads shot thru my Taurus w/out a hitch. 2) I switched to a 200 grain LNRFP from Slippery bullets with a longer ogive. 3) today as I was case checking my rounds, in my 100 round checker. They all fit just fine but when I flipped the checker over I noticed that about 1/2 didn’t fall out. Same thing when I plunk tested then in the bbl. They dropped in but not out without shaking them out. Soooo…I reduced the amount of crimp a bit further to get the diameter to 0.470” and shortened the OAL to 1.210”. The rounds then gave me that metallic plunk noise when dropped in the bbl and fell right out when the bbl was turned over. The load that appears to be working? S&B brass W/ S&B LPP’s, 4.4 grains of WST powder under a Slippery 200gr LRNFP set at 1.210” OAL. Avg FPS 773 with a 159.9 power factor and a std dev of 34.0 now I’ll go load up several hundred and see if my luck holds! 🤪

Thanks Pard, Think these are the ones I've seen.

Possibly the mags you are referring to is the Kimber Kim Pro magazines. They come with standard flat base pads that are legal in WB. I've been using them for years. Easy peasy to take apart and clean There are optional thin and thick base pads that can be attached with provided screws. Marshal Stone

I did not know Tripp ever made a standard length, flush fit magazine, with a removable basepad. Can you show a picture of it? Or provide the model number off the side of the magazine. Thanks. CC

Where did you get the idea that the mags had to have a welded baseplate? kR

You sure whine a lot about everything! Why do you shoot Wild Bunch if you dislike it so much?

You have to be on the firing line to determine "breaking the 170." Looking at a video is NOT the way to judge it. I'll trust the eye witnesses who were right there. good luck, GJ