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Troy just messing with you and your kid brother LOL was guessing who would be 1st. I missed it
Lane could the best asst. hire in modern times or we told you so> I like our chances

Good to see you're back at it. (being onery, I mean). Take care of that heart, and get your ass to OKC. At least you didn't end up with urban meyer. (Joe"s favorite person)

Jackie,

Thanks for the info. I know you guys rubbed elbows with these people long before I ever knew IHMSA existed. Will try to contact him. Plus I have a 7mm Champ, bought it for the history. May pick his brain on that one. Unless, maybe, you know something about this caliber that Jim was involved in. Just saying.

Hey Cody Bobcat,

Made me pull it out of the safe. It's a 7PPC not improved, by the barrel marks. It is original Wichita, not a rebarrel, not a classic, and a silhouette model. Thanks for the heads up, because I remember these improved models but forget I have one when I go to order parts. End up with dies that don't do the shoulders.

Thanks for all your help.

Troy

TEFREY wrote:Hey Cody Bobcat,

Made me pull it out of the safe. It's a 7PPC not improved, by the barrel marks. It is original Wichita, not a rebarrel, not a classic, and a silhouette model. Thanks for the heads up, because I remember these improved models but forget I have one when I go to order parts. End up with dies that don't do the shoulders.

Thanks for all your help.

Troy

Dad's is a Factory "Silhouette" mod. Barrel is only marked 7mmPPC though it is in fact a 7mmPPC Imp. No idea why they never stamped those barrels with the Imp.. Like the Classic mod.

Safer to take a chamber cast be sure and would help getting the dies done also.

Whats the 7mm Champ?? I like the odd ball stuff

Want to work up a hunting load for my Ruger SBH 44mag and try it in Practial Hunter class. Also bought a new 12" T/C 357 mag bbl and want to load ( I know, long chambers) for BB unlimited. The 44mag will be with the Lee 310gr bullet and the 357mag with a NOE 360-180gr sil design.

Hey Cody Bobcat,

The 7mm Champ was developed by Jim Fields out of OKC. It's a 7X34 BR basically. Low recoil, originally for women and children, but now considered a flop position round, if considered at all. Was chambered in less than 10 Wichitas (some say as low as 5) and I got one. Came with brass and dies, my new standard for oddball rounds I purchase. I think I had my beer goggles on while on Gunbroker with that 7PPC. I woke up the next morning with a strange pistol in my bed, and she didn't have dies!

Sorry Tefrey, It was developed by Bob Barnett of OKC, one of the ol guys in IHMSA # 230. He passed last year, he made it originally for his granddaughter.And there are 2 versions of it.I have his original 7 Champ IMP reamer,Jack Dever Built me a 7 Champ IMP XP in 1990.I had Jack send the reamer back too clymer an make it 6.5.He passed before he could built it.

I plan to take my new 30 Carbine TC and shoot a 40 in FP using cast bullets no less. Until then, I will settle for my normal 8 or 9. Our club will be celebrating our 35th year this year and silhouettes are just as fun now as the first match I ever shot. Where did all those years go?????

That`s a very accurate round,If I remember right Phil Braud shot a 80 with his in production at Tusco in 2004?