6pt-sika wrote: ...I would like to see something like a lever action event , where you MUST shoot a flat nose bullet. And there could be sub categories!
I have often thought about this... Try these on for size, comments?
Standard cowboy rifle:
Original factory iron sights, barrel, action, stock and trigger.
Chambered for a RIMMED, REVOLVER cartridge, which will feed from the rifle's tubular magazine, using a cast, plain-based bullet.
Rethroating of factory chamber is allowed.
Bedding adjustments, such as relieving wood or shimming are OK without adding fiberglass, epoxy or metal parts.
Record strings must be fired with round or flat-nosed cartridges which are fed from the magazine.
Same targets, bench and standing courses of fire as for military issue class.
Modified cowboy rifle:
Any iron sights, click adjustable front and rear aperture OK. No scopes.
Set-back and rechambering of factory barrel or custom rebarreling for any safe center-fire RIMMED cartridge is OK.
Replacement of factory action parts with mass produced, commercially available replacements is allowed.
Alterations to factory wood, recoil pads and glass bedding is allowed.
Any RIMMED cartridge with plain-based bullet. Single-loaded fixed ammunition, including pointed bullets, which will not fed from magazine are allowed.
Same targets, bench and standing courses of fire as for military modified class.
Long Range Cowboy rifle
Rifle not to exceed 13 pounds with sights.
Any iron sights or fixed power, straight-tube telescope with external adjustments, not to exceed 6X
Any rimmed cartridge with plain-based cast bullet of 2” overall cartridge length and .30 cal. or larger.
Any single-shot or lever action, original or reproduction of a design manufactured before 1898.
Replacement of factory action parts with mass produced, commercially available replacements is allowed.
Alterations to factory wood, recoil pads and glass bedding is allowed.
Separate-loaded or breech seated ammunition, is allowed.
Same targets, bench and standing courses of fire as for military modified class.
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