Tefrey, Dues are around 2/3rd's to 3/4's used for all the costs associated with publishing the IHMSA News, and all associated mail costs (both News and all other correspondence including your annual membership cards). IHMSA News has always been the largest single on-running expense that IHMSA has ha...

IHMSA Membership history? This is ten years old now How big were we? Here's the data it took me two-two and half years to compile! Year End Total Count # of Life 1977 1336 64 1978 1517 77 1979 4662 150 1980 8140 206 1981 11510 253 1982 14312 304 1983 14961 345 1984 15189 370 1985 15184 394 1986 1428...

Guys, These pins should be available at every International match. Iowa Hqtrs brought them, as did I when I ran Hqtrs for the years I ran it! They maybe were laid aside, and just forgotten about! I also think it is high time that we as members start the fund raisers (Donations to the general fund) i...

Gentlemen, Funny to see this come full circle again. For the newer members of the forum, or IHMSA. The yellow logo was the original, and was drawn up in contest some 30-35 years ago. After the contest winner was decided it was made IHMSA's standard. Shortly after Elgin Gates copyrighted it (sadly in...

Xterrettx, Over the first couple decades of IHMSA there was lots of research done about what made some revolvers shoot better. Many theories were expunged in the pages of the Silhouette, or IHMSA News. There was much discussion about throat diameters on cylinders vs. bore diameters, alignment of eac...

Xterrettx, Bullets for made for hunting are not the best to use for Silhouettes! They are made to fragment, or explode, which doesn't work for knocking over Rams in IHMSA. Just find two of the same weight, and work it out that way! As someone said, use bulk Remington, or Winchester bullets for Silho...

Xterrettx, Best advice I can give is focus on your reloading for accuracy, and in a revolver it is no easy matter. More important than bullet shapes are your reloading technics. You should focus on case length probably first, and foremost. A forester case trimmer probably works the best of all brand...

Since we're all pretty generous with our opionions and sometimes ammo, go to a match, and ask if some people there would give you a 50 round box of their favorite brand of ammo to do your testing. Go to the range with your samples, and see what works best (In my opionion I'd try shooting at paper ch...

Standard Velocity is probably your best bet. Don’t want it tumbling somewhere in the last 25 yards or meters. RWS Target, Wolf Target, Winchester T-22 to name just a few that I've seen used over the years in Minnesota. Best to settle on one that matches your price range, and buy a case! The case pur...

Larry,

How have you been? I haven't spoken to you in quite a while, glad to see you're still slinging lead. Hope all is well!

Doug