Abilene

Fleur-de-groove? :)

Right, the commercially available SS kits are all legal. The makers of them know not to go shorter. :) I'm thinking the limpbrain who told you SS are not legal was thinking of NCOWS.

I guess a better title would have been that the scoring system "reporting" sucks. But if the official scoring program(s) do not have the option of showing penalties, as Happy Jack mentioned, then I suppose there really isn't anything to be done short of the program authors adding it.

Well I agree with Flash, if I am understanding what he is saying. Whether for CAS or WBAS, some of the clubs I shoot with list scores with just the times and places, no info for misses or P's. Other clubs have multiple files to pick from - one will be overall times and places only and another says "detail" and gives just that. I even like it when the file shows rank points, even if the club does not use them for scoring. Makes it easier to compare how I did on each stage to others. For example the Wild Bunch (4-stage "side match") match last weekend at Comancheria Days (no rank points listed but does show penalties): Overall (simplified) score sheet: http://texicanrangers.org//uploads/Events/Comancheria%20Days/SASS%20TX%20State%20Wild%20Bunch%20Match%20Final%202019.pdf Details score sheet: http://texicanrangers.org//uploads/Events/Comancheria%20Days/SASS%20TX%20State%20Wild%20Bunch%20Match%20Final%20Detail%202019.pdf By the way, I accomplished my goal of placing in the top half of my category (barely), 7th out of 15 Traditional :)

Thanks, Skinny!

local clubs around here have pistol shots at both the pistol targets and the rifle targets. So you will usually have one or two of the magazines per stage to shoot about 10-15 yards or so.

That deal from J.Frank sounds pretty good. But I do as Abe mentioned. My 1911 fits into several of my SAA holsters, but the one I use is a 20-year-old Mernickle rig. Fits and looks just fine. I finally got some matching mag holder slides made for it, as I had been using vest pockets and some really flimsy home-made holders from dollar store cell phone holders :) But I've also noticed, at least around here, that the local matches are letting folks stage their magazines so really you might get away with that for a while.

Or I could wear my canvas shotshell belt with 2 shells in it. ;D I do keep a rifle reload or two in my gunbelt behind the strongside gun. But I haven't jacked out a round in like 18 years (must not be going fast enough), and 10+1 stages usually allow staging it. So if I ever need to start going to the belt, I'm gonna have to practice. Thanks for the info on being able to correct on the clock. A few weeks ago at a CAS match I was the first shooter and both I and the TO (and everyone else) forgot the instructions that said to stage the handguns, so I could have done it when I got to that position.

Okay, I guess this begs another question I've wondered about (both CAS and WB). Can a round or shotshell for a reload that is carried illegally (such as the shotshell in mag pouch example) be pulled out of the mag pouch on the clock, then set down on a prop, then picked back up and used? Or is there some verbiage I might have missed that says you MUST stage anything that is staged, BEFORE the buzzer goes off?

Why use the mag pouch? Because I have six of them :) Since reloads can be staged, that would certainly make sense, but remembering to always stage that one shell at the shotgun shooting location might be stretching the old brain cells, especially if I practically never need that shell. Haven't needed one yet, but then I haven't shot a huge number of WB matches. My two '97's (Chinese and Winchester) both have weak ejection when shooting CAS but so far have ejected okay when stoked. Thanks for the reply.

I'm guessing this is one of those things that if you have to ask, it's not allowed. But I'll ask anyway, as the Handbook doesn't spell it out as not legal. Can I carry (and use, if needed) a spare shotshell in an extra mag pouch? It could be thought of as a not very form-fitting (but quite useful) shotshell loop. A vest pocket could be used in cooler weather, but not in the summer! Thanks

A little late to this party. I've only ever had 2 1911's. A Kimber Compact Aluminum since 2000 that needed a lot of break-in. And my Armscor (Cimarron) 1911 I got for WB. It has been superb so far with nothing done to it. That's a small sample, but another point of data.

I don't know if this is a legal procedure, but...could the shooter thumb-cock the hammer and then rack the slide? Certainly this adds a little to your time though not much if you use the off-hand and for some folks it might help.

I have been using ACT-MAG's in my Cimarron (Armscor) which work fine but the lanyard loop on the bottom is hard on the palms. So Saturday I bought a couple Mec-gars and broke the prime rule by shooting them in a WB match Sunday without trying them out first. Fortunately they worked just fine!