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Michael Carlin

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  • Birthday 06/26/1950

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    Sparta, Wisconsin
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    Shooting:<br>Service Rifle,<br>Bullseye Pistol,<br>USPSA<br>IDPA (want to try it)<br>

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  1. My father, Michael Carlin passed away unexpectedly March 1, 2009.

    He is missed by all.

  2. Hank Ellis and all, I had LASIK in 2003, using a LADAR system mapping driven eximer laser. This corrected nearly all my near sightedness. My left eye in 20/13 with exceptionally clear vision, the right, my dominant had great astigmatism. There is a slight residual astigmatism in that eye. It is 20/18 or so. Now, about the front sight. Unless you ask for mono-vision and and insist on it, you will still, if over 45 or so not be able to see the front sight. LASIK does not cure a visual deficiency and presbyopia. The range of focus of an aging eye is still limited. I am very happy with my surgery, but I do need a specific front sight lens for my service rifle, bullseye pistol, and action pistol games. Since you should wear safety lenses of some sort anyway I feel that is acceptable. I am still in the Army and were I do do this over I would have insisted on mono-vision. Michael
  3. I personally hate the whole system. What passes for education in both the Ivy League schools and at state institutions is in the case of the Liberal Arts a travesty. When I discovered 40 years ago that I was not going to get any real help with school I did not apply to institutions with big price tags. I attended a state land grant institution, in my 3d year I simply went into the Army. It was 1970, some of you may understand what that entailed. My eldest, thanks to my father graduated from Boston University. She is a fine actor, but a flaming liberal. Her understanding of how things are is warped by her education. I agree, there is no education that is worth $250 to 300 THOUSAND $! Perhaps the sciences, and medicine are an exception. It is patently obvious to me that the agenda at the institutions of higher learning is this country is not about teaching people to explore through argument the truth. There is no true debate going on in any of these institutions. Where is the discussion of the merits of a preferential program for minorities? Affirmation action is a program that discriminates against the majority in the name of achieving balance. Where was and is the discussion of the Second Amendment? It was presented for years, in both undergraduate and graduate programs as moot. Rendered so complete by fact of stare decisis in Miller. When in fact, the Heller decision clearly indicates that there was indeed viability to the point of view that Miller was not determinative. The saddest part of this is the lack of civility to any opposition to the liberal agenda. Conservatives are routinely shouted down and abused. The fact is that the truth is so powerful that they dare not debate it. The intolerance, lack of discernment, and failure to teach students to think not what to think is an abject testimony to your point. It is not worth 50K a year!
  4. I would like to have a small NFA collection Colt Monitor (BAR civilian version) and a 1918A2 Thompson 1928A1 and an M1A1 M3 Guide Lamp MP5 10mm more realistic Browning B-2000 20 gauge Browning B-2000 12 gauge trap Browning Superposed 20 gauge a 6XC upper for my LR-308 systems a CZ 75 clone in 10mm with a six inch barrel and slide, good iron sights What I am waiting for: Two 1911s in 10 mm, one on a stainless Caspian frame and one on an Essex frame, one is 6" and the other 5", both are stainless and carbon steel. I can not remember which is SS slide on carbon steel and which is carbon steel slide on SS frame. It has been several months since I got the parts and my gunsmith was swamped with deer season work since I can back from Camp Perry in August.
  5. You are experiencing exactly what I would expect of range pick up mixed brass. My advice is to sort your stuff by head stamp as each flavor needs it own adjustment. Secondly I hope that you are well inside the pressure parameters as there is no telling to what pressures that "pick up" brass has been subjected. Years ago a fellow long range shooter related to me that the AMU team left their ONCE fired 300 Win Mag brass on the line at a 1000 yard match. When he went to pick it up the coach said to him "You don't want that brass." He picked up a case and showed the would be scrounger a case head with a missing primer. "It is junk now." My 600 yard brass was for a long time useless beyond a second reload. Many are still dancing on that edge. I just would not push it when loading pick up brass. Personally, if it is far enough away that I want to use a rifle, it needs brass of which I am certain.
  6. Shortly after I started to RO I had an experience similar to the one described. It was raining and the bays were muddy at South River Gun Club, and I was running Mike W. (several times a state trap champion who also is a pretty darn good USPSA shooter). There was a piece of carpet to kneel on to shoot through a barrel. He hit that carpet and applied the brakes, his feet went out from under him. He landed heavily flat on his back with his legs up. He gun tracked straight and level throughout the entire maneuver. He began engaging targets after dropping his right leg and bringing the pistol to bear through the barrels on the targets. It was probably the fastest time from arrival to engagement at that barrel. It never occurred to me to DQ him. In fact I have told this story many times to illustrate just how good gun handling is in the USPSA/IPSC realm!
  7. A fellow HP shooter and good guy does this: Dick Whiting's e-mail address is mountaineer063@yahoo.com His phone number at White Horse is 1-304-623-6093
  8. I can not push hard enough to unload faster using that method. The fastest way for me: Start with safety on. Point muzzle pointed in a safe direction holding the shotgun with the left hand on the forearm. Place the butt against the pelvis just couple inches inboard of the right hip. Right thumb forward as if to shake hands, palm towards the left and adjacent to right side of the M2. Press continuously up on the cartridge drop lever with the right ring (annular) finger, and retract the bolt handle with the right thumb. Fully retract the bolt handle and eject the round. As you allow the bolt to go forward it will strip the next shell from the cartridge carrier. Allow the bolt to go forward as the cartridge is chambered. Before the bolt is fully closed the next round will feed onto the carrier. Immediately retract the bolt carrier using the bolt handle fully ejecting the shell. Repeat this "short cycle until the shotgun is cleared and the bolt is locked to the rear. I can unload faster at present than I can load, I can unload in about 5 seconds, my eight rounds into the gun from the belt, weak hand reload is about 10.5 seconds right now. I am gaining speed, albeit slowly. I use a plastic storage tub to catch the dummy rounds with which I practice loading.
  9. Succeed at my next assignment, not just by a little but set the standard for that job's performance. Learn to fly an airplane well . Build an airplane with 6 places on floats (Murphy Moose with a 430 HP fuel injected M14 series engine). Become a distinguished rifleman. Make master with in USPSA. Become a competent three gunner. Learn to shoot combat shotgun well. Learn to shoot trap and double trap well. Retire by age 66 with enough income to pursue the above pastimes. Fall in love again. Own and drive a truly fast car to its potential. Go to rally/autocross/gymkhana school. Most important, be a good man.
  10. Ordered my first Dillon the month that they went direct sales, it was, as you will recall, a 450 as well! Michael
  11. I bought my first shotshell reloader about 3 weeks ago. It is an RCBS Grand; which cost 499 new at Scheel's All Sports in Eau Claire WI. It had been on display and some twerp stole the primer transfer mechanism and the bushings out of the measure. I found this after I got it home. Called RCBS and they shipped me the missing parts and an extra set of bushings that same week. Recob's in Prairie du Sac has Promo powder for 75.99 and clone wads for 73.99 for 5000, Fiocchi 616 primers for $110 per 5000. At 17.5 grains of Promo, and a 1 ounce charge of Lawrence Magnum shot (35.99 per 25 bag at Monsoor's in Lacrosse WI) bought 2000 hulls for 5 cents a piece delivered to my house. Figuring a life of 5 reloads, I get a total cost of 4.02 a box. And I am getting a hardened shot load. These break birds as well as Win AA and much better than the WalMart cheapos of any brand. I figure that with WalMart charging 7.57 a box for Win AA the differential is 3.55 a box, it will take 140 boxes to pay for the press. As for my time, if I wasn't reloading I would be posting here. Or watching (puke) television. I shoot about 4-5 boxes a week so in 8-9 months it will pay for itself.
  12. If you are set on an over/under let me suggest a Marlin Model 90 single trigger. I bought one with 30" barrels at Scheel's in Eau Claire, WI for under $300.00. It is choked modified and full, with the lower (mod) barrel firing first. Made between 1937 and 1959 the single trigger models are in the later part of that production. You can see several for sale at Gunbroker.com most of the time. There is small but very loyal following for these, my gunsmith thinks very highly of them. I tried my first real trap league this past few weeks. I shot my new Benelli M2, my Benelli Nova, an Ithaca 37, a Browning 2000 (a very fine semi-auto). But I set a personal record with my Marlin, and then broke it every week I fired it. Try these links: Marlin 90 engraved at GunBroker Or this one, a twin of mine
  13. Outstanding!!! (That is what we say in the Army) Great job! You should be proud of your son, he writes very well, as he grows in stature and strength you can be confident he is already well on the way in maturity.
  14. I do not play golf at all, and there are some who would argue that I do not shoot as if I do that either, but SHOOTING is another sport in which the "duffer" can participate next to the best. I am surprised that shooting was not recognized in the quoted post. Just an oversight I presume?
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