Col. Cornelius Gilliam

Howdy, Just sharing a recent acquisition. I picked up a neat Model 12 Riot stamped "Washington State Patrol". It's in good shape with normal wear, scuff marks and dings from being carried in a car. The serial number puts the manufacturing date in 1959. Still has a legible rack number on the stock. The interior of the receiver was extremely dirty and the bolt was gummed up with small pieces of wood, dirt, old grease and oil that was a sticky, hardened mess. The action was rough and stiff until I did a complete tear down and deep clean. After cleaning and shooting a few boxes of cowboy loads, it is smooth, like a model 12 should be. It won't be my primary Wild Bunch shotgun, but I will use it in matches/stages occasionally and shoot it for fun. I will use it, not abuse it. Based on my research, the Riot shotguns for Washington State Patrol were factory stamped on the left side of the receiver. They were replaced by the Remington 870 police model starting in the 80's. The 870's were phased in as officers retired and the last model 12 was taken out of service in the early 90's. Anybody out there know anything more about these riot shotguns?

Yes, I know that alias! I am related to Col. Cornelius Gilliam. He is my 4th Great Uncle. I researched my family tree and became interested in the Col. He had very a colorful/interesting life. I've been using this alias since about 1996. He died in Oregon Territory in 1848 while serving as the highest ranking officer in the Territory commanding the militia during the Cayuse Indian war.

Yup, I've encountered the dreaded "double feed" w/ two live rounds, malfunction. It started occurring with 7-rnd Checkmate magazines with the hybrid feed lips. These magazines were reliable for a year or two, then the double feeds started. Traced it back to the feed lips spreading. IMHO, the hybrid feed lip design is more susceptible to spreading then the parallel design. Switched over to Tripp Cobra magazines and have not had a double feed since the change.

Total Time

Ummm, doesn't total time actually work for both these points?? I mean, that's one of the main arguments to use total time?? You can have overall and category winners with total time, and they are not different results.

The problem with total time is what do you do with a stage DQ? There is no way to deal with a SDQ in total time so it in essence becomes a Match DQ. And that is not fair. Stage point scoring translates stage time in to points and the shooter gets 0 points for a SDQ. Thus they stay competitive even with a SDQ. Actually, the SASS recommended SDQ for total time - 5 seconds per available miss on the stage plus 30 seconds works really well in my experience.

Where are the pic's? Sounds nice, congrats!