A new gripe?

hellgate · July 01, 2011, 04:41:12 PM

Whenever there's a promo for CAS/SASS do you notice how BP shooters are featured in the photo or video? We're "showy" and come off the firing line with a big, fat, stinkin' grin!

TwoWalks Baldridge · July 01, 2011, 04:59:38 PM

It is the step child syndrome.

In days gone past - this black stuff we shoot was labeled as "Gun Powder" and that other stuff was called "smokeless powder". Those step children were the same folks that wanted our "gun" powder labeled Black and now call that other stuff gun powder.

As far as the quote: *If it's too loud....you're too old* At my age I know that is not true - I can barely hear my 44's go boom.

Cuts Crooked · July 01, 2011, 05:58:18 PM

Personally I think the sharp crack of that newfangled stuff is actually worse for causing hearing loss than the deep boom of a real powder load. I don't know that fer a fact, but it's wat I suspect. $:-\$

Shotgun Franklin · July 01, 2011, 06:05:57 PM

Seriously, you can always ask to be moved to another Posse.
We had a new, to us, Shooter come to me after a Stage and tell me that it sounded like church bells ringing when I shoot.

ZVP · July 01, 2011, 10:12:57 PM

I agree the deep BOOM from Black Powder seems a lot less irritating than the sharp crack of modern Smokeless powder!
When I shoot my Remingtons with a 35 gr charge next to a 9mm, the 9 just seems to get a bit more under my hearing protection.
I just wear a non amplified set of "ears" which usually do their job but some calibers of Smokless seem so much louder than any BP load.
Hey I don't know where the Govt put the warning label but soewhere I know it says cover-up, Guns are noisy, LOL!
Give me the big BOOM of BP anyday!
ZVP

Jamie · July 02, 2011, 10:03:34 AM

When I'm shooting 50 foot indoor .22 match pistol, mere feet away from others I have noticed that even with ear protection, I may pull a shot off a ring or two if another gun goes off just before I shoot. Not overly loud, just a bit distracting. (Nowhere near as bad as when an extracter throws a curve ball, and the hot brass from your left hand neighbor hits your hand or bounces off the wall and goes down the neck of your shirt! And yes I've had both experiences more than once.) I say that bp shooters should be considerate and shoot with silencers since the ping-dingers obviously are the serious competitors going for 10x accuracy and the alternative boom of bp is clearly distracting them. Alternatively a serious bp shooter might offer to allow them the joy of a cylinder full of real gunpowder so that they too might enjoy life again. As a second alternative, one might simply suggest that they get a life. I will leave the particular phrasing of that offering to your imaginations...
Jamie

Short Knife Johnson · July 02, 2011, 12:05:49 PM

Quote from: Shotgun Franklin on July 01, 2011, 06:05:57 PM
We had a new, to us, Shooter come to me after a Stage and tell me that it sounded like church bells ringing when I shoot.

To which I would say "That is the tolling of the bells of the Church of the Holy Black! Now fall to your KNEES and pray for your salvation brother! You have been SAVED!!! Now go forth and burn thy heathen powders no more."

Yep, everybody seems to like the show at our shoots when the stage is lit up with black. I have yet any volunteers to help me clean the mess.

zymurgeist · July 02, 2011, 02:05:00 PM

Quote from: Short Knife Johnson on July 02, 2011, 12:05:49 PM

Yep, everybody seems to like the show at our shoots when the stage is lit up with black. I have yet any volunteers to help me clean the mess.

Really? I'm surprised. I find cleaning my smokewagon very comforting. I look down the barrel of my automatic and sometimes wonder why I bother cleaning it at all. I look down my Colt Navy barrel and the activity fills me with a sense of purpose.

Short Knife Johnson · July 02, 2011, 05:51:32 PM

I know. The neat part for me is two, three patches max, and you're clean.

Smokeless fouled barrels I find consume patch after patch. Seemingly endless.

Grapeshot · July 23, 2011, 10:39:40 PM

When I use Black Gun Powder, it's 40 grains, compressed, a 250 grain Big Lube RNFP, touched off with a Magnum Large Pistol Primer.

The ground shakes, and the concussion takes your breath away. Not to mention that the rest of the posse stands in awe of such massive display of MANLINESS.

To bad I can't fire my 12 pounder at these events.......heh...heh...heh!

The Swede · July 24, 2011, 05:20:50 PM

Most folks I talk to at our shoots like the show us "darksider's" put on. We had some tourists out at our range during a 2 day shoot, and when they heard, and saw me shoot they got real interested! The powder puff shooters didn't seem to catch their attention...

Swede

Dick Dastardly · July 25, 2011, 09:45:33 AM

Didja ever take note of the photographers that follow us Darksiders around at a match? They KNOW that the flames and smoke are exciting and piff-ting is. . . . . not. Look at the CC and notice all the flames and smoke. It would seem that well over half the shooters are shootin' the Holy Black. Not so. But it does give our chosen propellant good exposure (pun intended).

DD-DLoS

ZVP · July 25, 2011, 10:53:59 PM

Our Club's Possee hosted a huge event this past weekend and yes, some of the shooters did sound like Church Bells! Heck some of those guys were FAST!
I was very pleased to see and hear so much B/P going off! Mostly Cartriges but there were some C&B shooters!
Music to my ears!
ZVP

The Swede · July 25, 2011, 11:46:13 PM

Quote from: Dick Dastardly on July 25, 2011, 09:45:33 AM
Didja ever take note of the photographers that follow us Darksiders around at a match? They KNOW that the flames and smoke are exciting and piff-ting is. . . . . not. Look at the CC and notice all the flames and smoke. It would seem that well over half the shooters are shootin' the Holy Black. Not so. But it does give our chosen propellant good exposure (pun intended).

DD-DLoS

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