Thread: Where to start?
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Old December 12, 1999, 11:11 PM   #4
Ned Roundtree
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Join Date: December 8, 1999
Location: Lexington, KY,USA
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You are very lucky to be in a state with so many CAS clubs. For simplicity it is usually best to keep lever action rifle and revolvers in same caliber. Very bad if you get them mixed up. Secondly, are you a reloader? If so then 45LC is no problem. If not then cost vs caliber selection may be an issue. A typical match will go through 90-100 rounds of pistol(45-50) and rifle(45-50) and 10-25 rounds of shotgun.Secondly many stage scenarios call for loading the rifle in advance ,then shooting at set targets. Having a rifle with ten in the magazine (minimum) is helpful.A few shoot carbines with 8 or 9 in mag, but most shoot rifles with a min of 10 in mag. Shotgun: On a Iga SxS, most cowboys would disconnect the xtractor and polish the back bore, just enough that when you turn the barrel up the shells fall out pretty fast. Don't worry about not having all the equipment. Just let them know when you sign up. My first year three of us shared the same shotgun. We used to laugh and call it the community shotgun. Have fun. See ya on the trail.

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