PPC Revolvers

[sndbggr1484]

Here's my Davis built PPC revolver. It's built on a 10-7 frame. It was a prize at the Four Queens Desert Regional in Las Vegas. On the right side of the barrel it is engraved with the Roadrunner shooting the Coyote.

Cherrypointmarine. Your revolver is an earlier model since it had a pinned barrel. It looks like the yoke locks into the underlug. My yoke ball lock is in the top of the yoke and locks into the frame. Both of our guns have the early version of the Aristocrat Rib that adjusts on the front compared to the later version that adjusts on the rear. Hope you enjoy it.

 

[cherrypointmarine]

Oh I do . And AJ , I'll make sure to bring it . I'm not much of a revolver shooter , I prefer my semi auto PC guns . But this one talks to me , really , to miss with it you have to be blind in one eye and can't see out of the other .........

 

[CALREB]

A teammate of mine won a 4-Queens Davis gun just like Sandbagger's.
Only made in 32 cal. Guess it was made from a 16-4. It was really cute...
Think he wanted 500 for it, no one was interested. DUH..

 

[LEOPPCDist]

I started shooting PPC in 1975 with a stock M19 4" the first year. I met Royce Weddle from Norman OK at the Nationals in Jackson MS that fall. He built my gun on a M15 frame I had traded for. It had (and does to this day) a 1" douglas barrel and Bomar rib. None of the sliding sights though. They came along a few years later. A bunch of the guys in the NC league made fun of my paint job on the rear sights, but it worked well enough, I guess. I had a 3 color scheme that was designated for 7/15 yds, 25 yds, and 50 yds with the number of full revolutions from bottomed out that gave me my zero. I and most of our league used center hold at 7 and 15, and a neck hold for 25 and 50. I went through several revolvers for the Distinquished match before S&W finally came out with the right one for me. I shot my 19, 28, 27 target (borrowed from our Highway Patrol) for my only points out of all of these, and even went over the hill and tried a Colt Python that one of our best shoooters used for his Distinquished badge. When the 586 came out, I got one and 3 of the next 4 matches leged out. The inside has never been touched except for cleaning and oiling. You don't have to have all the bells and whistles, just ones that are good and work for you. Good Luck.

 

[SGT ROCK 11B]

... Go back to the 1960's and probably nearly all of the 70's when PPC was still in it's original form and yes, you would have seen duty guns and not a half ton of custom gear and leather and gadgets all dragged around in a Pachmayr shooting box with stacks of speed loader trays and Comp-III's.

PPC got "gamed" the same way IPSC got gamed, USPSA, you name it. They start out one way and after a stretch it becomes an arms race. It's the natural evolution of shooting competition.

Great State of PPC Report. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Sevens]

Great State of PPC Report. Thank you for sharing.

And thank you — I was 15 in 1988 the first time I watched a bunch of Flint City, Flint Twp and Burton cops (and other localities!) shooting these matches and I have just tried to read old articles ever since.

But it was the folks like you and other contributors on these PPC discussions that actually shot those matches back in the day. That’s where the real meat & potatoes comes from!

It’s an interesting sign of the times these days in the “information age.” Anything that has happened (on any subject!) in the last 25 years is well documented on the internet. However, esoteric stuff from before the age of the internet is far more scarce.

We need more folks that shot PPC in the 60s, 70s and 80s to wax nostalgic and get these experiences documented so it never gets lost in the future.

 

[lppd4]

I shot PPC Marches in the late 70’s and the early 80’s and would like to shoot in them again but I can’t find any matches locally. I will go to my former PD’s range and stay tuned up in case an opportunity presents itself again. I like PPC you can track your progress, emphasis on accuracy. I shot USPSA matches for years at the local state and national level but as I have grown older it just doesn’t excite me any longer.

 

[Baxter6551]

I’m waiting for my buddies estate to settle and hope to purchase his model 10 ppc gun. I have no idea who built it. The rib is unmarked. No non factory markings anywhere. It shoots great.

 

[StrawHat]

This is the Davis built revolver I used to get to the Governor’s 20.

A great revolver back then now I rate it merely good because of the weight.

Will it still plop them all in the 10 ring? Sure, that is what it was designed to do. And more than 1/2 will be in the X ring. Maybe more with someone else on the trigger.

Kevin

 

[AJ]

Will it still plop them all in the 10 ring? Sure, that is what it was designed to do. And more than 1/2 will be in the X ring. Maybe more with someone else on the trigger.
Kevin

I feel the same way about my old Behlert PPC gun. Not really a "Looker", but will get the job done with a good shooter on the trigger. Wish I had found all the games when I was much younger.

AJ

 

[Sevens]

I have not had the chance to get to the range yet with my newest addition.

Beyond the fact that it is a Davis Custom built on a Ruger Security Six, I do not know it's actual history. The "stainless" finish you see is hard chrome. It's been my experience that hard chrome is extremely tough, so it's difficult for me to tell if this revolver was commissioned and then used to good effect and showing little wear, or if it was ordered and then barely used.







I showed these pictures in the PPC pictures thread, but there has not been much recent activity there.

This is my sixth PPC revolver and my third by Davis Custom.

 

[AveragEd]

I have often wanted to buy a PPC revolver if for no other reason than the "cool" factor. But those who suggest you start out with a standard gun are right.

Back in the 1980s, I received a call one Sunday morning from a friend who was a police officer in the nearby Pennsylvania capitol city of Harrisburg. It seems he and his team had a PPC match that morning and one of their members had called off sick so he pleaded with me to take his place. I had no idea what PPC was but Jake insisted. "By the way," he said, "we also have a make-up match with these guys so bring lots of ammo."

I took my four-inch Model 19 and my six-inch Python along with boxes of my handloads of 148-grain hollow-base wadcutters. With two totally stock revolvers and no speedloaders I was able to register a 297x300 score with each gun, good enough for two second place finishes behind two 298s. Now, these guys were street cops, not big-time shooters, most of whom were competing with their duty gun. It was a lot of fun but I as a busy competitive trapshooter, I just didn't have time for it.

If you can find matches in your area, take a gun you might already have and give it a try before investing a lot of money in a "cool" gun. All shooting sports are like trapshooting - they can be money pits with no bottom.

Ed