I'm basically a has-been considering that Josh Lentz, the reigning king of SSR and ICORE Retro, lives a few miles away and shoots all the local clubs that I do. Since I can't win anything anymore, I shoot my 4" 627 in ESR with moonclipped .357 Magnum and 158 gr. cast bullets loaded to 1200 FPS. Since it's an 8 shooter, I have to retain any moonclips that have unfired cartridges. This is an excellent excuse for slower times. Sometimes I'll use the blinding muzzle flash of W-W 296 as an excuse too. My strategy in SSR is slightly different. I will use my Model 64 with 2" barrel loaded with ammo that barely makes 105 PF out of a 4" barrel. There is no way that this ammo will take down all of the reactors and poppers when shot out of a 2" barrel, but it's all perfectly legal according to the new rules.

Dave Sinko