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My thoughts exactly. Why are we changing things in the "hopes" of attracting new shooters. They will just find another reason to not shoot WB. What's next? 38's? 9mm? Finally! It won't be CAS w/a 1911! I've advocated for the 7 round per mag from the beginning. It won't affect how often I'll be shooting, the work schedule takes care of that. But it certainly gives me an incentive to get up early and make the 2 hour drive in bad weather after draggin' my carcass home @ 2am the nite before!

Also have to give a HOOYA! to both Cap'n Sam and Goatneck for their win in the team Shotgun Match!!! Way to go!

Congrats Sam! Fine job!

I certainly didn't do any extended testing... but from my Garand I fired two clips of lubed, GC'd 150 grains, then two clips of the same bullet, powder coated, both over the same charge of 4064, same lots of primers, cases and gaschecks. No discernable change in POI. Three different shooters using the same rifle: http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d197/sass93/IMG_0491.jpg (the four holes on the bottom target were the 2nd four of the 1st clip with just a change in POA. I used the bull of the upper target as POA). We took photos after each shooter shot four rounds from a clip, the four shots on the right were my son, who first insisted on shooting a different poa than us "old guys"! I just haven't marked which holes were whose. The backer was a cardboard silhouette, and we were aiming just about the shoulder line, or base of the neck... whichever you prefer. I still need to up the charge a little for proper operation... AND bring the poi up, before I get to shooting for accuracy.

Congrats J. Frank Norfleet.

I just powder coated some 150 grain GCFN... for the Garand... Noted that the same lubed GC bullet weighed in at 151.3, while the powder coated version with GC was 153.6! http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d197/sass93/DSCN0955.jpg Gonna test 'em out on Saturday!

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Front Sight? Are we to use a front sight? Maybe I didn't read all of the instructions. It's one of those "iffy" things... If I use it... I slow down; If I don't... I miss!

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I'm ready... after I load ammo, clean mags, and get the front sight on my 1911 restaked!!!

It was until you showed up! :P

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Have you tried looking at Ammo Depot? I haven't been in there in a while, but he used to have many surplus Nagants and Mausers of various sorts. Just down the road from you a half mile off 30, between Rockwall and Greenville. http://www.ammodepottx.com/firearms--optics.html#sthash.TQz0A1kJ.dpbs Really lookin' for an 03A3, and, yea, I stop in there from time to time... BTW, have missed seein' you the past few shoots.

Price ain't necessarily the issue, simply finding one. I'd buy a junker (at junker prices) & fix it, but seems the ones I see, they want "new, unfired" prices for junk.

You mean we're supposed to be going FAST? ;D

I'm a dedicated levergunner... and feel I'm at no disadvantage (or advantage) using a rifle caliber levergun. Been looking for a correct bolt gun to compete... hate borrowing other people's stuff... but, opening it up to period leverguns (no mods but sights... and I mean NONE), as well as military bolt guns WILL increase participation.

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Thanks for a great match yesterday. I especially liked the LAST stage! But, we should have included the 'Star' again... since no one accepted my apparent challenge to shoot it backwards on the stage before!!! :P ;D ;D

Happy w/the PACT 1XP $129 @ Midway.

Aye, both my '73s and 1860 feed from the top with my 1.575" 225gr TC bullets.

As Dusty said, no problem making PF with the C45S. My Marlin has a 17" barrel, cut back from the factory 20", but... being an octagon, it swings nice & smooth. The C45S Marlin conversion is easy, just build up the bottom of the carrier so it rises sooner... but, that timing is critical, I probably took the rifle apart and put it back together a few hundred times before it was "almost perfect"! Perfect would have been if I could get it to still feed 45Colts! I tend not to use the rifle much since the brass became so expensive... even tho' I currently have lots... it still dwindles pretty rapidly. Depending on where you're shooting, you might lose more or less, but I just shot a 6 stage match using one of my 45Colt rifles, and out of a possible 60 rounds, I think I came home with 52. No worries Dusty, because I came home with some extra 45ACPs!!! And, the opposite is true of those in the 45Colt shellplate... it pushes 'em up in the sizer just fine... but lacks some of the needed "grip" to pull them back out!!! ::) BTW, did you save me that piece of brass? ;)

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I load both my 45Colt & 45ACP with RedDot &, the SAME 200 LRNFP bullet. (IIRC, these are cast with a Magma Engineering mold # 45-200-BB, the bevel is VERY small). Seating depth may vary on different bullets, but mine are seated to a point where they just cover the crimp groove on the bullets I buy. OAL is 1.177" I don't crimp them beyond the start of the ogive, as then the crimp may be too great for them to headspace properly. USE a case gauge. I've had no trouble with them making power factor here locally. A different altitude may require a different formula. I find that I need to flare the mouth of the 45ACP a tad more than with the jacketed HPs I also load in that cartridge. In the ACP I use 4.0 grains and in the 45Colt I use 6.0 grains. In the 45Colt I crimp at the forward edge of the groove, in order to facilitate them feeding thru a variety of 45Colt rifles. OAL on these are 1.566" and feed thru an 1860, two different era 1873s and a Rossi 1892. To keep it really simple, I've also used the C45S brass for a rifle retimed for it... so I can keep my powder charge bullet and dies all the same, just change the shellplate on my Dillon. But, that brass has become rather expensive and now I keep it for cowboy loads in the pistol. But, boy, was that good while it lasted. Lyman's 49th Cast Bullet Handbook list 45Colt rifle loads using RedDot, at a minimum of 5.6 grains for 1002 and a max of 7.0 for 1176 fps. This is listed as out of a Winchester 94AE with a 16" barrel. However, 45Colt rifle chambers are generous... and below 6.0 grains I've been too close for comfort on the power factor. Sized at .452 isn't a problem, as I've found that if my front sight has been on the target, the bullet arrived there also. My actual velocities from my guns varies from that quite a bit. I thought I had a chart of actual velocities, but it's for a different bullet & charge. Did find a pic of the bullet, 4th from left: http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d197/sass93/45bullets.jpg

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See the caption. My Hero!!! Although it's a little tarnished after this weekend!