kimel

Okay guys...I don't see many Pacific Northwest Micros on this list. Sooooo....when you are in Bend for Area 1 or for the Race Gun Nats go to downtown Bend to the Deschutes Brewery and taste some REAL beer. They have a lot more variety on tap than they distribute in the bottles. Portland, Seattle etc all have more breweries in them than you can possibly hit in one day and remain sober. My faves though are not available anywhere but the Palouse River Brewery...located about 20 feet from where I type. At least three flavors are on tap at all times all hand crafted and brewed in small batches. I am the head brewmeister, cook and bottle washer (well, I keg but when I did bottle I washed them). Currently on tap are a porter, an alt (similar to Alaskan Amber) and a red ale. Speaking of which...my glass is empty.... Cheers! Kevin

Oh...those throw pillows are good for something other than holding up cats? Gee...who'd a thunk it! Good idea though.

Okay...how about "couple" covers? Hunky dude and Dillon Babe. Maybe posed doing a shoot-off on a plate rack with the sun, glistening off the sheen of their taunt bodies. The shimmering sunlight following the rippling muscles of their arms as they moved from target to target, meeting each recoil firmly..."the booming of their pistols echoing the booming lust in their hearts...." That, or the Blue Press version of the covers on romance novels. Swarthy hunky dude, stripped to the waist clutching the Dillon Babe of the Month in one arm and a Barrett .50 in the other. The babe, of course, would be armed with the new S&W .50 revo. "Their passion was of a high caliber..." Egad...I may have been wasting my talents all these years...anyone got know anyone at Harlequin?

Yeah...it is definately the "why" part that gets you. One of my closest friends, almost a brother, did it in 1998, no note, nothing. I still wake up at night wondering "why" now and then. Yes, it probably stems from mental illness...which makes this all the more sad because the majority of these cases can be helped but too many insurance companies won't cover it well enough and the stigma that society places on mental illness keeps too many from seeking help.

48. If you aren't having fun, you are doing "something" wrong. What a great collection of wisdom. Great thread! I hope all this is going to be added to the FAQ.

Ye gods SigLady! You have been around the shooting sports for more than 10 minutes and you JUST got your first Blue Press? I thought this was required reading! Brian, appreciation of the human form in whichever gender suites you is nothing to apologize about. In fact, there is medical research which indicates that looking at attractive members of the fairer sex can actually help men live longer. That is as long as the SO/Wife doesn't catch you or mind. Otherwise life expectancy diminishes rapidly. Heck, if Dillon's wanted to put some hunky dude on the cover just for the female crowd now and then I guess I wouldn't care all that much. Maybe they need to do gender specific covers. Order the cover gender of your choice. When I first started getting the Blue Press (several years ago) the lady of the manor thought it was some sort of porno catalog. She was thinking of the other connotation of "blue".

Yes, you do...if only because you have made those of us in the cold country jealous. Enjoy the 'gar and beer.

I have actually thought of capturing the audio from the BE interview on Matt's DVD (1st set) to listen to while driving. I have watched that interview many times and I keep picking up (and re-realizing) stuff. THE book on tape/CD would be awesome! I would probably end up commuting to work solo again but what the heck... A video/DVD companion would be nice too. A picture may be worth a 1000 words but a video clip would be worth what...10000? 100000? 1000000? words. My vote for fav section at this point would be the whole Focus Type sequence in chpt 3 because that is what I am currently pondering...again.

We shot this one last month, in the pouring rain. Word to the wise...when going into box B (right handed shooters...box A for lefties) with the can in hand it is REAL easy to swap hands with the can and incur a penalty. I did this going into box B. I was indexing on the targets and swapped the can into my left hand and put it on the post while going for the draw. I realized what I had done and probably actually doubled my penalty in time delay while I mentally lashed myself for being stupid but still finished it "ok". Would have done MUCH better without the penalty. Silly rookie mistake and/or brain freeze. Live and learn. I did PP1 PP2 T5 T4 because I wasn't sure that I wouldn't be waiting on the steel to fall if I tried to go PP1 T4 PP2 T5.

Actually, yes. I wear prescription glasses but I tend not to shoot with them on except for those "quick trips to the range" where I forget the shooting glasses. I have a set of shooting glasses (Rudy Project Kerosene Golf) with the Rx insert. The vision through these is slightly different than for my normal glasses (right eye is corrected more toward the front sight whereas the left is at distance). My regular glasses are bifocal but my shooting glasses are single vision. The corrected field of view is also considerably different. This makes everything just a wee bit different. So, I tend to dry-fire with the shooting glasses on. Yes, bifocals. I have worn bifocals since I was 6 so it isn't a "getting old" thing.

I used to get up early and dry-fire for 30 minutes several days a week. Never woke the wife...life was good. Then one day my timer arrived and the next day I got up at 0530 for some dry fire and decided to play with par times on my new toy. My "den" is about 20 feet from the bedroom. I was glad the gun safe was locked. Given the cold, steel gray stare I got from the wife about 2 seconds after the timer went off it was a VERY good thing it was locked and she doesn't know where the key is. Sometimes I regret teaching her to shoot. The timer is now not even allowed in out of the range bag when it is in the house. I need a basement, or insulation and heat in my shop.

My vote for messiest crapola on earth to use as case lube is STP. It works great...no jammed cases in the dies...but cleaning...ugh. Dad taught me to reload and he used STP on an old stamp pad. Lay a bunch of cases on it, roll them a bit and load. Messy just doesn't even come close to describing it properly. My second vote for worst would be RCBS case lube in the pump spray bottle. Guaranteed feed failures after 50 or so rounds and not easy to clean off without some sort of solvent. May be the same stuff as the Dillon lube. I now just use Hornaday One-Shot and only wipe down match ammo prior to chamber checking. I have two big old aluminium foil lasagna pans dedicated to the task. Cover the bottoms of both with a single layer of cases and that is between 300 and 400 rounds. Sure beats STP....

I hate the stupid f-ing jerk(s) that figured it would be fun to leave a note in a bathroom on the campus where I work threatening to blow up my building http://www.wsunews.wsu.edu (scroll down to the bomb threat stories). Thus forcing me to do a bunch of seat of the pants planning and then finally move an ENTIRE server room (a dozen large enterprise servers, switches, firewalls, etc) across campus, get them back online, and then move them back again. Cost me most of two weeks. It isn't like I didn't have anything else to do. This also forced 400+ people out of their rooms for two days. I also hate the morons that figured that they needed to keep all of this a secret from almost everyone so I had to move the server room under cover of darkness, after hours, one box at a time and I couldn't tell any of my staff. My supervisor and myself had to do all the work and make up stupid lies to explain it all to the rest of the staff who wandered into the server room and noticed lots of stuff was gone. When they find the jacka$$ that left the note I definately want to be in line as we attempt to beat some sense into them...slowly.

Sometimes a pickle is just a pickle.

There is already a sport where pants as worn by TGO are regularly seen...it is called golf. I agree, Todd's green ensemble does tend to make him look like a refugee from the PGA. However, given a choice of seeing TGO competing wearing these pants or a kilt (see some other thread around here somewhere) I think I would opt for the pants. Too bad this pic is in black and white so we can't know the color scheme....then again, maybe this is actually a GOOD thing.

Any of the Home Depot / Lowes work benches should do. You might want to add another layer of MDF or plywood or whatever on top to stiffen thing up a bit...especially if you don't go for the Dillon Strong Mount. Personally, I think the Strong Mount aught to be included as standard equipment with every press...but that may just be my opinion. I couldn't believe the change in stability in my press when I went from mounted to the bench to put on the Strong Mount. Also, if you can, bolt the bench to the wall or the floor or both. The more stable the bench, the more stable the loading process. Your powder measure (among other things) will be happier if everything is rock solid. Have fun! (Edited by kimel at 9:49 pm on Feb. 3, 2003)

Ah ha! Found it in another thread. Now I know where to look...reptile section! Dunno why I didn't think to look there. Oh well.

I have heard that places like Mailboxes Etc will let you ship stuff to them and they will store it for you and call you to tell you it is there. For a fee of course. Anyone ever use this service? I have had various packages stolen off my porch...well, UPS says they were stolen..... My workplace is VERY anti. They even have handed out anti bumper stickers. In fact, if I had explosives or firearms shipped to my workplace I would be fired, arrested and god only knows what else. Especially after the bomb threat this weekend.

I don't think I would use Brasso as a cleaner additive. This has ammonia in it (if memory serves) and this is rumored to react with brass making it more brittle. Cheers! Kevin

Try also Dawson Precision. http://www.dawsonprecision.com

So, what does one ask for when one goes to the pet store for media? I asked at my favorite pet store the other day for ground corn cob or walnut shells and the young blonde lass behind the counter looked at me like I had a third eye in my forehead. She asked me what it was for and pointed me toward a local sporting goods store. At least if I knew which dept to look in that would help. I looked in the bird section and the cat/dog sections but no joy.

Doh! A timer! Now why the heck didn't I think of that! I only have a half-dozen of those sitting around on a shelf about 20 feet from the tumbler. Mutter mutter mutter.....

I have the Lyman and have left it on overnight a couple times. Sure does make that brass shiny! Hard on the media though. Dunno how many thousand rounds it has polished. No complaints. (Edited by kimel at 6:44 pm on Feb. 2, 2003)

Amen Brother! Kinda almost makes one hope that these scumbags do pick up a toxic bit and they get nice and sick. But, wishing harm upon someone else is bad for one's karma. I am sure that they will get everything that they deserve. EBay certainly has become the cesspool of humanity.

Yeah...there was a patch released in July. Yes, lots of folks installed it, even more didn't. I did. However, subsequent patches from Micro$oft as well as installation of other software retrograded the patch without warning. So goes the life of a sysadmin....Blech. Oh well...only 27 more years and I can retire...maybe.