rifle detonation again

[Kevin Alexander]

In my 15 years of shooting these rifles I've only fired them with black powder. I have no interest in shooting smokeless in them. I'm just guessing, but I bet there's a good reason the NRA matches don't allow duplex loads anymore. Of course the attendance to their matches have been declining since that decision was made. To me there would be nothing more exiting than pulling up to the match and seeing 600 plus shooting, visiting, selling, trading and just living life.

There are a lot of guys reloading that don't know what they are doing. They just hear parts of reloading conversations or read a part of the reloading manual, or get into a rush reloading at the last minute to get to the next shoot.

I wish at these big long range matches it was black powder only, but sadly that would result in the attendance going from 600 to probably 100 and no body wants that, especially the people who are selling items and making money at these events. Safety needs to be the main concern at all matches. If repeated accidents happen then it needs to be looked into and fixed somehow. I agree we can't fix stupid, but we can maybe chip away at it.

My 2 cents.