What Competition Rugers Look Like
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Ideal Tool
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Hello, While it is true, shortining the cyl. would reduce weight..I wonder if it is because they are using very light loads..more accurate & less recoil, & shortining cyl. does away with the need for fillers to take up extra space?
American Eagle
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Wow....that is a shocking picture. 
You would think cowboy action competitions would like to stick with revolvers that are as close as possible to the originals. This one looks like a Frankenstein revolver
You would think cowboy action competitions would like to stick with revolvers that are as close as possible to the originals. This one looks like a Frankenstein revolver
Ideal Tool
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If you think that looks bad...The British were doing this with their big .455 Webleys..converting them to .22 rimfire!
Bill Akins
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Thanks for posting that picture. I liked that pic so much that I modified it to my own design. Some of you fellas think that first one was a Frankenstein revolver, wait til you see my photoshopped semi-auto concept of it. 
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Don't want to hijack this thread so I explained it in detail at this other thread...
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4718294#post4718294
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Don't want to hijack this thread so I explained it in detail at this other thread...
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4718294#post4718294
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And Phil wasn't talking about CAS. He's talking about the NMLRA National Championships at Friendship, IN, where accuracy is the goal, not speed. They don't shoot very light loads there, they tune their loads and guns to get the most accurate combination. They shoot 'duelist', so weight can be an issue.
Put up a NRA B-8 pistol target at 25 yards and shoot 10 shots at it one handed (duelist). If you can shoot scores in the mid to upper 90's, you are ready to for the NMLRA pistol matches in Friendship.
The NMLRA uses a different scoring convention than the NRA does in its bullseye pistol matches. By NRA rules, if the bullet hole touches a scoring ring, it counts as in the ring. By NMLRA rules, the center of the bullet hole must touch the scoring ring to count as being in.
We have a local guy who converts Piettas into 36 caliber target pistols using 9 mm barrels and sleeved down cylinders and a whole bunch of lock and trigger tuning.
The NMLRA uses a different scoring convention than the NRA does in its bullseye pistol matches. By NRA rules, if the bullet hole touches a scoring ring, it counts as in the ring. By NMLRA rules, the center of the bullet hole must touch the scoring ring to count as being in.
We have a local guy who converts Piettas into 36 caliber target pistols using 9 mm barrels and sleeved down cylinders and a whole bunch of lock and trigger tuning.
robhof said:
It's not like the original barrel and cylinder were destroyed to make this gun. This gun could probably be converted back to stock by putting the original barrel and cylinder back on, though it would be hard to un-drill those lightening holes in the hammer.
I predict it will be a long time before these revolvers become valuable collector's items, even longer if every revolver ever built is preserved forever.
kwhi43@kc.rr.com said:
No, I live near Austin, TX and I compete mostly in TMLRA matches held three times a year in Brady TX. It's about a 110 mile drive for me. The fellow doing the Prietta conversions is Ed who lives near Fredericksburg, TX.
I would come to Friendship if it wasn't on the other end of the country and if the shoot dates didn't nearly stack on top of the TMLRA shoot dates.
My main thing is ML trap and the farthest match I travel to is the Red River Renegades annual shotgun soiree way up north in Electra, TX, almost on the Oklahoma border where I get to meet a lot of the Friendship crowd.
I only get a certain amount of vacation days a year and if I included the Friendship events, I would have to give up something else that I love to do, such as the week of skiing in New Mexico every winter.
Bill Akins
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I know you're joking Gary . But seriously, it's mechanically possible but too short a burst time on only a six shooter. That one should probably remain a semi-auto.
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. But seriously, it's mechanically possible but too short a burst time on only a six shooter. That one should probably remain a semi-auto. .
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g.willikers
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And here I was thinking that BP guns were a step back in time, to a simpler era.
American Eagle
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I can't wait to see Bill Akins' black powder automatic design, but at the same time, the anticipation is mixed with a little bit of dread about the monster of a gun that will come out of his workshop....kind of like the Frankenstein story I guess.