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Got the last of my SSR stuff on Friday afternoon and fitted myself out.
Did a few dry draws and reloads Friday night.

After the obligatory honey-do's Sat morning, I made it to the range
around 1:00 PM.
Hung 3 IDPA targets in Bay E and began my normal 250-300 rd practice
routine. 3x, 20 yds, 6 shots, 3.5 average, 0 down.
Hey, this roundgun thing is no big deal.

Time to move forward and work on draws, splits, transitions, and reloads.
It was about this time that the education began in earnest.

You can shoot and reload a bottom feeder all day and at no time do you have to grab the parts of the gun that change temperature during firing.
(Read that as gets to HOT TO TOUCH !!!)
However, after firing 5 or 6 full cylinders on a round gun, everything
forward of the hammer and above the trigger guard will fry your appendages.

Why do all the neat reloading vids on the web show how to hold the cylinder with your weak hand and insert the seedloader with your strong hand while doing an IDPA reload?
Furthermore, I also noticed that there seemed to be a lot of excess lube around the yoke area, the cylinder release, and the left side of the grip.

When I joined the military fresh off the farm in Oklahoma, two interesting things I learned about my newly issued dog tags.
1. The notch on the end was to facilitate wedging the tag between my teeth if I was dead on the battlefield.
2. My blood type is A positive.

That's right the excess lube was good ole A+ coming from slices on
both of my thumbs.

Oh well, I'm still going to shoot SSR in the IDPA classifier this month.
I'll be the one with the band aids all over my hands and my gun in a cooler.

Ouch....sorry to hear that! I can't wait to see you shoot that thing. I have one in the safe and have not had the guts to bring it out. I played with my 1911 the other day and it looked like someone took a filet knife to my thumbs.

I don't think you even needed ammo at PSC this weekend for your gun to be hot. There was a point at approx 4:30 PM when my thermometer read 107F and I don't doubt it a bit.

I wanted to switch over and shoot my conversion kit for a little while, but I could not pick it up without being burned.

If metal parts are in the sun for more than 60 seconds, they're hot.

I learned that a few weekends ago while showing mom how to use a semiauto. Everytime I tried to load her spare mags, the rounds were already hot from being in the sun. I learned quickly to put her mags in my pocket and keep the rounds in the box until it was time to use.

I'm sorry to hear about your red-tinted lubricant for your wheel gun. That doesn't sound like fun. I hope you cleaned it well when you got home. (Both your wound and the gun.)

In regards to hot metal forward of the hammer. You'll get used to it. I feel nothing during a reload. I am so focused on the brass coming out and live rounds going in that there is absolutely no sense of temperature in my hands. The gun is 98.6 degrees as far as my hands know.

I am not clear on what exactly cut you? If your gun has the old style thumb piece (aka cylinder release), I highly recommend some deburring of that. They can be pretty sharp on the edges.
Other than that, I can think of no part sharp enough to draw blood.

You can get some tissue glue from the veterinarian or just buy some crazy glue to close those pesky wounds. It works great but if you start to twitch while waiting for the buzzer, I promise, the crazy glue is not to blame.

Good luck in your classifier. You'll be fine.

Gary

I am not a You Tube Fan, but someone sent this to me and thought I would post it because this is what I would call hot. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAohtjG ... ed&search=

carlson1 wrote:I am not a You Tube Fan, but someone sent this to me and thought I would post it because this is what I would call hot. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAohtjG ... ed&search=

Man , that guy qualifies for an ID ten T award.

I am REALLY looking forward to running the classifier on Saturday. This will be FUN!!!!

Steve

SRVA wrote:I am REALLY looking forward to running the classifier on Saturday. This will be FUN!!!!

Steve

Steve.
I'm using a new speedloader.
Met him in a grouse butt in the Moorland area of Scotland.
I'm trying to get him familiar with revolvers instead of shotguns.
Think this might work if I can find a second 686 in time.
Dave.

Many years ago at an indoor range in League City, I went to a bowling pin match. If I remember there were about 25 or so shooters, about 6 of them wheelgunners.

WITHOUT EXCEPTION, the revolver shooters had the fastest times ...

They HAD to be accurate to start with, only having 6 rounds until a reload ...

Thanx,
TraCoun

Dave, Bring your second 686. It says nothing in the rule about the SO handling your reloads for you. You pass an empty gun back, I'll pass a loaded gun forward.

Steve

Dave:

The question is, how much do you trust Steve? "Did I load six, or only 5? Make my day, punk!"

BTW, it is always good to see someone come from the dark side to revolvers!

David G.

SRVA wrote:Dave, Bring your second 686. It says nothing in the rule about the SO handling your reloads for you. You pass an empty gun back, I'll pass a loaded gun forward.

Steve

Steve.

I have been working on that technique with the Scottish guy from the
grouse butt.
We've still got a few kinks to work out.
He keeps yelling "BIRD UP!!!" every time he hands me the gun.

This really hurts my concentration.

Dave.

Hay MRT are a blast, this one was made in 1944 for the Navy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OAKbJFsrlvc

Nice and fun match...

Bobby

Well Dave, I stand humbled. You did a great job of running that round gun today and earned your expert rating. Good job and you were fun to watch.

Steve

SRVA wrote:Well Dave, I stand humbled. You did a great job of running that round gun today and earned your expert rating. Good job and you were fun to watch.

Steve

Let me add my congrats as well Dave, nice work with the revolver.

Hope to see you Wed. at Thunder.

Dave