Best explaination I’ve ever heard on the 2nd Amendment was made by a woman testifying at a congressional hearing. She said the 2nd amendment wasn’t about hunting deer or shooting clay pigeons or protecting your family and property, it was meant to protect citizens from YOU! refering to congress.
I love guns… I’ve carried the same Colt .45 for a long long time now. Actually, this summer will mark the 20th year. I hunt but not as much as I did in the past due to time restrictions.
Jon.
This is a fun video!
http://current.com/items/87302871_shooting_machine_guns?xid=200http://current.com:80/items/87302871_shooting_machine_guns?xid=200
Yes Jerry , thats what I’m talking about !
A lot of my family and friends go there , I’ve just never made it there myself .
Of course the club I belong to , usually has machine gun comp’s thru the year , I just can not afford to feed the machine guns .
Yesterday was the Red Brush Raiders cowboy action shoot , and I had a lot of fun shooting in the comp .
I won third place in Frontier Cartridge , which is when you load the cartridges for your single action revolvers , and the cartridges for the rifle , and shotgun with black powder , just as it was back before 1900 .
Anyway here is a video of Plum Loco shooting at one stage of the match .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55-4jxbJZQ8
Dennis Paulson said:
Yesterday was the Red Brush Raiders cowboy action shoot , and I had a lot of fun shooting in the comp . I won third place in Frontier Cartridge , which is when you load the cartridges for your single action revolvers , and the cartridges for the rifle , and shotgun with black powder , just as it was back before 1900 .Anyway here is a video of Plum Loco shooting at one stage of the match .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55-4jxbJZQ8
Whooooooooooohoooooooooooooo! Great fun was had, I bets!
But where were the native Americans?
They had guns, too, y’know… 
tac
Life Member NRA
Dennis Paulson said:
Yesterday was the Red Brush Raiders cowboy action shoot , and I had a lot of fun shooting in the comp . I won third place in Frontier Cartridge , which is when you load the cartridges for your single action revolvers , and the cartridges for the rifle , and shotgun with black powder , just as it was back before 1900 .Anyway here is a video of Plum Loco shooting at one stage of the match .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55-4jxbJZQ8
Air pollution AND noise pollution! YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEE - I love it!!!
Good thing they didn’t invite Cheney, it would have been a lot worse!
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:snigger....
Good thing they didn't invite Cheney, it would have been a lot worse!
‘When I said ‘duck’, that was actually advice, NOT a description of the target.’
tac’s advice to a newbie under fire.
tac
Hillary’s mis-speak about being shot at in Bosnia is just confusion about the time she went duck hunting with Dick Cheney. 
Whoooooooo…just finished cleaning two black powder revolvers - a Ruger Old Army and a second series Colt Walker. The weather was appalling all day, in fact, it’s still raining hard, but luckily our range is covered - for the most part.
We went through almost 200 shots - two newbs who had never shot a handgun of ANY kind before - and great enjoyment was had by all concerned. Being a trifle damp meant that the ‘bang’ was somewhat exaggerated in effect by the nature of the atmosphere - the ROA was being loaded up with 28gr of Pyrodex P, and the Walker with 45gr of FFg, shooting ball.
I think it’s fair to say that both newbs were well and truly converted to BP revolver shooting on the spot, and will be applying for one kind or another when they make their application later on this year - they both still have more than three months to go of their provisional membership before they can apply for a firearms certificate here in yUK.
Sadly, neither of them were able to have a go of my bull-barrelled and scoped Ruger Super Redhawk in .357Mag - the rules say that only the license-holder can actually shoot the arm.
Needless to say, like most rules governing the ownership of firearms here in UK, they are generally held to be utterly ridiculous. Fer’instance, I can’t buy an Airsoft replica, but I can and do own 18 rifles of all kinds and calibres.
Piccies can be sent if anyone cares to lool.
Best
tac - standing outside in the rain because of the smell… [I don’t mind it, SWMBO, however, does]
Way to go tac , and yes I would like to see the pics . 200 shots , whew , thats some shooting cap & ball .
I have found that once my BP revolvers are seasoned for BP , they are faster and easyier to clean up than smokeless powder in small arms , of course I can not wait as long afterwards to clean them , maybe a day or 2 later , at most .
Dennis Paulson said:Well, another day on the range washed out by 'vacation weather' :(
Way to go tac , and yes I would like to see the pics . 200 shots , whew , thats some shooting cap & ball . I have found that once my BP revolvers are seasoned for BP , they are faster and easyier to clean up than smokeless powder in small arms , of course I can not wait as long afterwards to clean them , maybe a day or 2 later , at most .
Not TOOO bad, though, since we are mostly under cover
This morning I took both my Swiss misses with me, as well as a couple of .22s. As always, the K96/11 and the K31 performed flawlessly with my handoads, and were as popular with the newbs as ever - most had never seen any kind of straight-pull action rifle/carbine. A mite punishing though - the handloads duplicate the GP11 service load - and reminders to pull the stock well in were taken note of, bleeve me.
There was an absolutely beautiful 1908 Brazilian contract 7mm Mauser there as well today…as near mint as I’ve ever seen.
AND a Winchester Model 1895 in 30-40 Krag!!!
We may not have any guns, but the ones we don’t seem to have are quite interesting.
Best
tac
U.S. Rifle M1 Garand (Springfield) and Mosin Nagant.
Red Ryder BB Gun.
Stephen Morochnick said:The M1 Garand will get the job done very well , a real masterpiece .
U.S. Rifle M1 Garand (Springfield) and Mosin Nagant.
Narrow Gauge Lover said:V interesting take on BP revolver shooting from the cleaning POV. As my house insurance won't let me have the real stuff, I have to use 777, and have found it pretty darn good over the years.
I've always loved trains and guns. www.drburkholter.com/cf4.html for a look at the gun stuff.
28gr and a .457 conical for the ROA, and 45gr and RB for the Walker. Chambers are sealed over with a proprietary dermalogical emulsion handcream called E45 - stuff I have been shooting with since around 1970 or so. Cleans up a treat.
The .58 Musketoon shoots the Lyman Minie bullet over 55gr of real BP - FFg - ‘borrowed’ from a pal on the range in exchange for allowing him to shoot my .451 Whitworth - that uses 80gr of 'borrowed, BP a time to shoot the 600gr hexagonal bullet, swaged by the Polisar Brothers in Albuquerque NM…
All VERY smelly and great fun!
…and then in the afternoon…trains.
Life is pretty good.
e-mail me for piccies!
Besp
tac
Yesterday morning I went shooting.
It was a guest day and I introduced three noobs to black powder revolver shooting.
Then I came home and cleaned the guns.
In the afternoon I played with my 1/3 scale MoW diesel locomotive.
I also cleaned it up before I put it away.
Then I came home.
tac
Its always amazed me that some black powder revolvers , clean up faster , useing water , than smokeless powder revolvers .
And my Stainless Ruger Vaqueros shooting 45 Colt , BP cartridges are really FAST clean ups .
For myself here , only the real black powder is used , but I realize there are different conditions eleswhere .