DR J
I suggest getting a leather holster as well. I carry my 617 in a pancake. AS for ICORE you can do just fine with a 6 shot. At the moment 1 have a 6 shot 4 Inch, Andrew has a 6 shot 6 inch and Chuck has a 6 shot Model 17 with I believe a 6 inch barrel.
We are all using HKS K22 Speed Loaders carried in Kydex Belt Carriers that I make.
You will probably be shooting ICORE with us, unless someone has added another ICORE Range that I do not know about. The Big Piney Sportsman's Club in Houston Missouri should be the closest ICORE Range to St Louis.
You can get the push to release speed loaders and carrier for the 6 shot also. Do some reading on them.
ICORE at Big Piney is a lot more Practical Tactical than Run & Gun. WE also shoot the same course of fire with both Rimfire and Centerfire, so you will be doing reloads on the clock.
Another thing we do a little different at Big Piney is throttle down the Stage Round Count. The only time we ever go past an 18 round Stage is on the November Postal Match, where someone else provides the Stages. Most all stages are either 12 or 18 round. Normally 6 Stages with a total match round count of 100 maximum.
We do shoot Steel Targets in ICORE. How we handle this is keeping all steel in either 1 or 2 Stages. This way Rimfire either skipps shooting steel or just Pings it.
We also have a Defensive Pistol Match Bi Monthly on the Saturday infront of the ICORE Revolver match. It is loosely based on IDPA minus about 80% of the IDPA Rule Book. We have a Rimfire Division as well as a BUG Division that IDPA does not have.
Come on down and play. We can loan you HKS Speed Loaders and Belt Carriers for the match.
We also have a local holster maker Rocky Hill Leather who is pretty reasonable on a Pancake Holster.
Bob Roach
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President Big Piney Sportsman's Club
http://www.bigpineysportsmansclub.com/
05 April Saturday Reactive Steel Challenge
06 April Sunday ICORE Revolver starting around 9 AM
03 May Revolver Nationals Berry Ill *****
10 May Defensive Handgun Match 9AM
11 May ICORE Revolver 9AM
Bob
