Did you ever make a discovery on your own, immediately followed by a strong feeling that everybody else already knows about it?

When trying out a new bullet for my 1885 high wall, I seated the bullet way out too far in the case, then stuck the cartridge into the chamber, where of course it would not go in all of the way.

Using the depth-measurer at the bottom of my dial calipers, I measured the distance from the back of the protruding cartridge to the face of the chamber. (Back of the barrel) - and that was how much further I needed to seat that bullet.

I felt mighty clever for a few minutes there, before realizing that the practice is most likely over one hundred years old.

Kind regards,
Salvo

As an engineer, I know that if I think of it, someone else has already done that, developed it, and it's on the market.  (Therefore buy it rather than make it!)

Fred Boulton wrote on Dec 27^th, 2014 at 2:31pm:

The fun of designing and building your own "better mousetrap".

For my part, I'm new to single-shot rifles and am still discovering the various perks involved. The ease of determining the seating depth for bullets was something that was unexpected. 

I only do two things with rifles; Informal target shooting and occasional hunting. My single shot seems ideal for my use.

I had an original idea that worked out well, but it's not gun related at all. (Associated with digital radio communications)

I was going to pioneer setting up a short-action bolt rifle for .450 Marlin, but Steyr beat me to it.

I'm going ahead with the idea anyway, now I'm trying to do it for significantly less money than Steyr is asking for their Big Bore Hunter, by utilizing a Savage model 16 action.

I think one of the charms/attractions of the single shot game as we tend to practice it is that it, by its very nature, brings together a bunch of creative people who all march to the beat of a different saxophone

40_Rod wrote on Dec 28^th, 2014 at 9:26am:

My brother shot in the BPCR matches for years, but I am not sure if he still does, we are both getting on in years and he is even older than I am. 

I'll probably never get to, I live in an isolated desert community and cannot get away to travel. So far, I have only met one other shooter out here who owns a single shot, a nice low wall in 218 Bee, but I've only seen him one time at the gun club.

I used to shoot competitively years ago, shooting bullseye matches with a Smith & Wesson in 44 special against guys with Colt 45 Autos. 

Seems like a very nice bunch here, I would enjoy shooting with any of the fellows that I have heard from here. The guns are fascinating, real beauties.