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Yosemite Sam
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The real problem with semi autos for us handloaders is brass retention. I often lose 50% of my brass in the grass at the range. Luckily for the calibers I shoot brass isn't too expensive or hard to come by, and I have a big supply of it.
You guys with the unshot pistols should just sell 'em before you find out you like them and start having to accumulate those, too. Gets expensive after a while, and detracts from perfecting your revolver shooting. I speak from experience. 
-- Sam
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M'BOGO
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Location: METRO DETROIT
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: I love Revolvers! |
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| knuckles wrote: | I never imagined I could feel this way about a cold hunk of steel that goes BANG!... but I'm in a dreamy love affair with Ruger single & double action Revolvers...
....................... and I covet yours! |
I feel your pain.
What did you go and do now? |
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yankee7809
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Joined: 17 Jan 2005
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Location: Powell,TN,USA
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Yosemite Sam wrote: | The real problem with semi autos for us handloaders is brass retention. I often lose 50% of my brass in the grass at the range. Luckily for the calibers I shoot brass isn't too expensive or hard to come by, and I have a big supply of it.
You guys with the unshot pistols should just sell 'em before you find out you like them and start having to accumulate those, too. Gets expensive after a while, and detracts from perfecting your revolver shooting. I speak from experience.
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Not only lost but in some instances mangled rims,etc..
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Elmer
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Yosemite Sam wrote: | The real problem with semi autos for us handloaders is brass retention. I often lose 50% of my brass in the grass at the range. Luckily for the calibers I shoot brass isn't too expensive or hard to come by, and I have a big supply of it.
You guys with the unshot pistols should just sell 'em before you find out you like them and start having to accumulate those, too. Gets expensive after a while, and detracts from perfecting your revolver shooting. I speak from experience.
-- Sam |
Yep. Every time I go to the range for pistol shooting with a buddy or two, I end up helping them look around for their brass that got thrown all over. At least we don't have to spend time looking for mine too. Now if I can just get them to switch...
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patrickjames
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Joined: 15 Nov 2008
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Location: northern california
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: I love Revolvers! |
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| knuckles wrote: | I never imagined I could feel this way about a cold hunk of steel that goes BANG!... but I'm in a dreamy love affair with Ruger single & double action Revolvers...
....................... and I covet yours! |
I feel the same.I like knowing there is other's like me. |
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Olsherm
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Joined: 16 Feb 2007
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Location: Dexter,Missouri United States of America
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:54 pm Post subject: colt 1911 (bottom feeder) |
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| I think the 1911 colt is ok but I don't even know what kind or configuration,bullet wgt ect to get for reloading it. Besides it would be another bullet type I would have to purchase and dies,shell holders ect. So, I think the bottom feeder is gonna have to go before I shoot it. I know where there are two 4 5/8 44 spl flatops waiting to get traded for.Gee, I already have the 5 1/2 inch. OH,what a conumdrum I am in. I must have rugeritis now. |
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maxpress
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Joined: 27 Dec 2008
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Location: washington, the state not the capitol
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:22 am Post subject: Re: colt 1911 (bottom feeder) |
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| Olsherm wrote: | | I think the 1911 colt is ok but I don't even know what kind or configuration,bullet wgt ect to get for reloading it. Besides it would be another bullet type I would have to purchase and dies,shell holders ect. So, I think the bottom feeder is gonna have to go before I shoot it. I know where there are two 4 5/8 44 spl flatops waiting to get traded for.Gee, I already have the 5 1/2 inch. OH,what a conumdrum I am in. I must have rugeritis now. |
lots that shoot the load the 45acp and 45 colt find a bullet that will work for both and just buy in bulk. say a 230gr lead round nose for practice. |
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RedHawk44
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Just as a matter of curiosity....is the term 'bottom feeders' meant as a putdown of semi autos or am I just 'reading between the lines' and finding invidious terms...  |
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Quattroclick
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Location: Spooky Colorado
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Really when it's all said and done, I just hate walking around looking like a chicken for 10 minutes trying to find my brass. With a revolver, I am reloading and shooting! |
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knuckles
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| RedHawk44 wrote: | | Just as a matter of curiosity....is the term 'bottom feeders' meant as a putdown of semi autos or am I just 'reading between the lines' and finding invidious terms... |
"Bottom-feeder"... it's just slang for a magazine loaded pistol, no difference then saying a "wheel-gun" for a revolver.
We load a 1911 from the bottom... (bottom-feeder) most of us have some kind of semi-auto in our stash. 
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ewayte
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| knuckles wrote: | | RedHawk44 wrote: | | Just as a matter of curiosity....is the term 'bottom feeders' meant as a putdown of semi autos or am I just 'reading between the lines' and finding invidious terms... |
"Bottom-feeder"... it's just slang for a magazine loaded pistol, no difference then saying a "wheel-gun" for a revolver.
We load a 1911 from the bottom... (bottom-feeder) most of us have some kind of semi-auto in our stash.
Bud (knuckles) |
I also like the term "brass shucker" for semi-autos.  |
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RedHawk44
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| Quattroclick wrote: | | Really when it's all said and done, I just hate walking around looking like a chicken for 10 minutes trying to find my brass. With a revolver, I am reloading and shooting! |
I agree to that!
That is why, in my battery of handguns I have only a handful of semi autos and about 4 times that many revolvers.
Semi's are all right is the .22 rimfire and even the 9MM, since I have a lifetime supply of brass, but in the other calibers, the only semis I have are collector pieces which I only shoot occasionally. |
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Jayhawkhuntclub
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Joined: 28 Aug 2007
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Location: Topeka, KS
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Really when it's all said and done, I just hate walking around looking like a chicken for 10 minutes trying to find my brass. With a revolver, I am reloading and shooting! |
VERY well put!
My favorite guns are Ruger SAs. I do think a 1911 and a Mark II, or two, should be manditory though. I have a Dan Wesson 1911 . I chose it over a Colt due to the quality. I wouldn't mind having a Colt, but only for the name. The DW is a spectacular piece, but I haven't put 100 rounds through it for the reason stated above. |
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maxpress
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Location: washington, the state not the capitol
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ive got a glock just because they said "indestructable" when they came out so i set out to prove them wrong. still havnt been able to abuse it enough (within reason) to get it to fail. but it is definatly a tool with no personality whatsoever. a combat weapon in its simplest form.
a revolver, especially an sa just speaks to me and wants to tell me about days gone by and show me all the things it can do, and be a steadfast companion.
well that being said i guess i might have to look for a shrink tomorrow. |
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Jimbo357mag
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Location: So. Florida
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| RedHawk44 wrote: | | Just as a matter of curiosity....is the term 'bottom feeders' meant as a putdown of semi autos or am I just 'reading between the lines' and finding invidious terms... |
Heck no, there is no conotation to the term "bottom feeder".
1 : a fish that feeds at the bottom
2 : one that is of the lowest status or rank
3 : an opportunist who seeks quick profit usually at the expense of others or from their misfortune
...Jimbo
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