What caliber do ya shoot in main matches with your Rugers?

[Mustang Gregg]

Let's do another RATS poll.   
Which calibers do ya shoot for your main match guns?
The poll system is supposed to let ya vote more than once if you shoot multiple calibers.  Let's check it out!

Reckon I'll start--I got .44 K-Bisley Vaqueros in .44.

Mustang Gregg

[Calamity JoAnne]

I have two 7.5" .44's for main matches.
Calamity JoAnne

[Count Sandor]

MG:
I suppose it might overcomplicate the poll, but it would be kind of interesting to know if those calibers were shot in smokeless or BP.

Good Shooting,
Count Sandor

[Mustang Gregg]

Count:

That is not a bad idee!     
I'LL PONDER OVER HOW TO WORD IT & IMPLEMENT IT.
These forum polls are a might complicated for a computer-cowboy such as me.

MG

[Winchester Wade]

Winchester Wade here.  I shoot two case colored Ruger Bisley Vaqueros that are .44 Mag.
I usually shoot as a duelist, occasionally with BP.

WW

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

                                        The real deal 45 LONG COLT for cowboy


                                                                tEN wOLVES 

                                                          44 mag, when I mean business 

[Charlie Foxtrot]

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The wifey and I shoot 38 Specials out of the handguns and carbine.  For cost and efficiency reasons mostly, but SHMBO doesn't like to much recoil. 

And if Mama stays in the game, Daddy gets to buy more guns! 

[Angel_Eyes]

A pair of ROA's with 7 1/2" out doors at most matches and Marlin .44mag
(Pair of .36 Remmies indoor under protest)

[knucklehead]

pair of stainless old model vaqueros .38 bp loads

pair of stainless ruger old armies with conversion cylinders 45 colt bp loads

[Mustang Gregg]

Awwww, dang it!!
I can't make this poll thing do multiple votes (even if you shoot 2 calibers).

MG

[Crownover Rocks]

some days stainless......some days blue.....all are 45lc cowboy loads....that go BOOM!!!!

[Oddman]

44-40 cal. in stainless model with Black Powder 3f, duelist style

[Modoc]

MG

I am running either 38s or 44 Russian X-Longs depending on if we are travelling and how my hands feel.  The travelling part is because we cut the ammount of ammo in half that way .

Also some days it's the real deal and others they are shot with smokeyless.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

.45 Colt in my NRV's, 38-40 in another make, and .38 Spec. in another make. All rounds are smokeless, at least at the moment......Buck

[Pappy Myles]

45 colt   in a bair of blued OM vaqueros   5 1/2"

[Will Blastem]

I solved the 38/45 dilemma by buyin 2 pair...one brace shoots 38's and the other 45's...depends on what I'm in the mood fer

[fourfingersofdeath]

I started with a pair of 44Mags, one a Vaquero and the other a NMSBH (picked it up from a friend cheap). I then went to 45 BH Convertibles, then to a pair of 45Colt New Model Vaqueros (SS). I decided to convert to all 44/40 for simplicity, so bought a pair of slicked Piettas (nice guns). Trouble is these don't have enough room for my big fingers in the trigger guard and I set off the odd unexpected warning shot when hurrying. Dang! The NM Vaqueros in 45 Colt are back on the line until I get a chance to practice some and work the problem out. I need to get it sorted as i want to convert to Senior Duelist or Classic Cowboy.

I only shoot healthy loads, because the old 45 Colt BP loads were very healthy.

I will probably go to BP when I get everything sorted.

EDIT:

In Australia, the sissy gun rules. You need a special license to shoot anything bigger than 38s. The license is easy to get, you just have to ask for it basically and have been licensed for 6 months or more. For every 10-15 sissy guns shooters, you will get one big bore it seems. I must take note next big shoot.

[Mustang Gregg]

Four Fingers of Death:

Where is the caliber break-off point for them "sissy guns"? 
Above .38 cal? 
Above .40 Cal?

MG

[Four Eyed Floyd]

I shoot 38's with Big Lube bullets and wholly black! 

[JP Riley]

I developed a .38 Short Colt load with 105gr pill, I have a pair of 4 5/8ths case harden w/white checkered ivory grips. they sur is purty!