Very sad to hear this, Ed was a great guy.

high standard 40 wrote: My contention is why do we add any 500m option in the hopes of attracting participation, why there are FAR more 200m ranges available for Ultra.

Exactly my feeling also.

I'm all for the idea of trying new stuff, and we ave tried many things at our club in the past. I was one of those that pushed for the addition of Fifth Scale many years ago and we also offered Ultra .22 years ago. My question is this, and I don't have an answer for it. What makes anyone think that ...

However, I would also like to see some give and take for the smaller clubs that don't have access to 500 meters....or yards. IHMSA recently approved 500M Big Bore and I think that's great, but it is very limited by the availability of 500M ranges. Why can't IHMSA approve what many have referred to ...

I'm all for it, but there isn't anyplace within 800 miles of here that has a 500 meter silhouette range.

I've been doing that for decades. No problem.

The 9mm Luger is also a tapered case, and it is legal.

I never saw a single shooter ever use an encore. I saw an occasional RPM and even a BF, but 99.9% of them used Contenders and G1 contenders. I never saw a G2 contender either. JIm K Well, Jim, you just were never here when that happened. For a few years, I used an Encore in .414 SuperMag in UAS, an...

Check the die for the vent hole, most likely it is hidden under the lock ring, so you'll have to unscrew that. These vent holes can get plugged with grease and dirt. Clean the vent and the die body there and the inside of the lock ring.

When our numbers started to decline we were in danger of no longer being supported by our club so I opened up the match to pistol calibre lever guns (lead only) on the Field Pistol targets, this led to allowing any lever guns (lead only) on the Big Bore targets. Now we allow any 22LR rifles on the ...