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PawPaw · Post by **PawPaw** » Sat May 23, 2015 12:47 am

My lady practicing her Cowboy Fast Draw shooting. My grandson serving as rangemaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw9HuXkKw_I

This is a lot of fun. Shooting in the backyard on a Friday afternoon. The revolver is a Ruger Vaquero in .45 Colt, shooting wax bullets with shotgun primers at 21 feet. The times called out is the time between when the light comes on and the bullet hits the target (to the thousandth of a second). The target is a 24" mild steel circle, wired to a timer. By my actual chronograph, the wax bullets have a muzzle velocity of 610 fps.

What better way to spend a Friday afternoon. Oh-the voice in the background is my grandson, running the range. He's turned into quite the safety fanatic.

First Shirt · Post by **First Shirt** » Sat May 23, 2015 12:53 am

Looks like more fun than normal people should be allowed to have!

Post by **randy** » Sat May 23, 2015 12:58 am

Cool!

She certainly demonstrates the old adage that a smooth consistent draw looks unhurried and a lot slower that it really is.

IOW "Make haste slowly".

rightisright · Post by **rightisright** » Sat May 23, 2015 1:10 am

Well, hells yeah!

Darrell · Post by **Darrell** » Sat May 23, 2015 1:26 am

Too cool, thanks for sharing, Paw Paw!

PawPaw · Post by **PawPaw** » Sun May 24, 2015 9:15 pm

First Shirt wrote:Looks like more fun than normal people should be allowed to have!

Don't show your minions, First Shirt. You'll be over-run with minions, as I am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZKao-C5v_w

That's my 12-year-old minion, Zach, trying his hand.

First Shirt · Post by **First Shirt** » Sun May 24, 2015 11:51 pm

Well, I've already got the Vaqueros in .45 Colt. How much did you say the CFDA brass was? And the rubber bullets?

PawPaw · Post by **PawPaw** » Mon May 25, 2015 8:07 am

First Shirt wrote:Well, I've already got the Vaqueros in .45 Colt. How much did you say the CFDA brass was? And the rubber bullets?

Here's the CFDA linky to the ammo page.

Here's an alternative that some of us use.

PawPaw · Post by **PawPaw** » Mon May 25, 2015 9:21 pm

My lady wanted to drive an hour north of home this morning, to a place called The Spotted Dog, a sporting goods store in Columbia, LA. It's a great-big sporting goods shop in a little town near lakes, woods, hunting, fishing.

She had decided that we need another Cowboy revolver, and The Spotted Dog has them. We came home with a Uberti Hombre, a colt-clone with matte finish and a brass grip frame. She has shot one cylinder through it, before a stray thunderstorm drove us under cover. Initial impressions, it's a nice little revolver, popularly priced (think $450.) It works like a Colt, differently than a Ruger, but it loads easy, cocks easy, is slightly trimmer than a Vaquero and ejects spent brass with authority. Sweet little gun. Milady is trying to decide if she's going to use it, or her Vaquero.

It's always nice to have another revolver in the bag.

First Shirt · Post by **First Shirt** » Mon May 25, 2015 10:37 pm

Oh, Crap!!!! They make them in .38, too! Did NOT need to see that!

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