RickRak2000

UN-FREAKING BELIEVEABLE!

I was in the USAF at Kadena in late '71 / early '72 and during my off time, I would occasionally fly Cessna 150's at the aero club. It was way cool to be chugging along and look out the window to see a "Habu" in the pattern getting ready to drop it's film cannister. I have a nice pic of one taking off with those afterburners cranked. What a machine. Completely gone... visually and sound in less than 50 seconds. And we're talking from tremendously LOUD to nothing. FYI... did you know that before takeoff it would continually leak fuel all over the place? After take off the pilot immediately flew to a waiting KC-135 to top off the tanks. At full speed, the aircraft skin would expand from the heat and seal up the leaks. It was designed that way on purpose.

Here's another cool one...fortunately this video was taken before they crashed it. It's a B-52 with 8 jet engines. These people have got way too much time and $$ on their hands.

Check out this youtube video of a radio controlled jet model of the SR-71 Wayyyyyyyyy COOL! http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=SDbQ5xvsrIU

I used to wear loafers on the range, but they got filled up with rocks too fast. Now I wear hi-tops and lace em snugly.

If it's still there, go to Daquiri Dick's and have a nice meal and get plastered. While walking the streets, have change to give the little kids who beg and offer you chiclets.

I had a '57 Indian Trailblazer which was actually a Royal Enfield with the Indian nameplate. Fast bike. Enfield made a 750TT Interceptor that was a real rocket ship too. Similar to a Norton Commando. These Enfield upright twins were made in England... not India. One cool feature on Enfield transmissions... A Neutral finder. Just kick it and you've got Neutral.

Been wondering the same thing about the RCBS. Sent several e-mails to mr. bullet feeder wanting to know price/availability. Zero response. Makes me wonder about customer support. I'd try calling me at the number shown on the website. Unless my battery is dead...I'll respond.

It's actually an Aeronca Champ.

I follow most of your post and most of it makes sense, except this part here. Two opposing forces from the side will only cancel each other out. They will do nothing to pin the gun from front to back. "freeze the barrel laterally" means the left-right plane of motion. I agree that the opposing left - right forces cancel each other out and they have nothing to do with the front to back plane. The "pin" reference meant hold the barrel from moving left or right. (I find it interesting that some of the so-called star wars type devices use modulated opposing thrusters to manuver and hold lateral positions/attitudes in space.) Another bit of voodoo seems to be that positioning side facing ports higher on one side of the compensator and lower on the other can impart a twisting moment when the gasses vent. Depending on the direction of twist of your barrel you might be able to counteract some of the torque by tinkering with the side port placement. Most of these mental gymnastics are probably a waste of time though. Sometimes just changing your grip will make a large change in perceived flatness. Get an accurate and reliable gun and spend the time practicing, dry firing... shooting on the move... working on footwork. That will pay bigger dividends than having a perfectly flat gun. ;-)

Here's my 2 cents worth. The largest component of muzzle flip occurs when the slide hits the end of it's travel (either open or limited gun). Slo-mo video clearly shows this. It follows that the primary function of the compensator should be to reduce the rearward energy/velocity of the slide so that it impacts the limit of it's travel as softly as possible. There is only a short time interval available for the compensator to do this work since once the slide unlocks from the barrel+comp, any remaining gasses exiting the compensator cannot affect the energy that has been already imparted to the slide. Compensator ports that divert all the gasses upwards can cause the locked slide+barrel+comp to begin to dip downward a bit just as the bullet is transiting out of the compensator... and this may contribute to the overall perceived flatness of the gun. Once the slide unlocks from the barrel though, the compensator has pretty much done it's thing. Any remaining gasses exiting the comp may serve to impart some momentum to the barrel, but I don't think that they do too much. Side ports are rumored to momentarily freeze the barrel laterally as the gasses are ejected... kind of like 2 rockets opposing each other. The opposing vectors upposedly "pin" the gun in space... ->O<- I believe that most of the useful comp effect simply comes from the supersonic gasses moving forward and acting on the compensator plates to push the still locked slide+comp+barrel forward in order to counteract some of the rearward momentum imparted to the slide by the fired bullet. The more gas that pushes the comp forward, the better the comp works. Once the slide unlocks from the barrel, the only thing that the comp can do is add an impulse in a direction opposite to the jet(s). At Area2 a couple years ago, I noticed that the comp on Match Winner Chris Tilley's open gun had no upward facing ports... only side ports. It worked quite well. Another minor contribution to dot movement happens after the slide hit's the stop an begins to accelerate forward. You can observe this by locking the slide back, watching the dot and releasing the slide from slide lock. The dot will rise slightly at first and then dip down as the slide goes into battery. When actually firing the gun, I don't think it's possible to see this slight rise effect, but you can usually see the dip at the end of the cycle. As for what comp works best on any particular gun... It's just VOODOO, I think.

HaHa! Sorry brother....I meant the guy who made the fully automatic 650. What an ingenious collator design..... ;-)

The estimated population of the world in 2050 will be 8 billion people. The average size of a US prison cell is 8' by 8' or 64 sq ft. If you give 8 billion people 64 sq ft of space (enough to lie down in ... move a bit...), you can put 8 billion people in a square that measures approximately 136 miles on each side. That square would fit inside the Texas panhandle. Yeah... I guess were running out of real estate on good ol planet earth. All the water that ever existed on the planet is still here in one place or another (except water sent into space or destroyed in underwater nuke tests). We all drink recycled dinosaur pee on a daily basis. And what about that sun.....? Argggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is.... duh.... mrbfcol.wmv Hope this answers the question. I alternated the bullets tip up / tip down so you can see the tip up bullets pass over the nose guide and the tip down bullets drop into the guide and get rotated out and flipped on the ramp. I slowed the motor down a little so you can see the operation more clearly.

Help the man out! Zephyr, right? Hard chargin' woman? How 'bout this: Woke up this morning, babe Reach for the telephone Woke up this morning, Reach for the telephone I got your message baby, To... And which chicago blueswoman today uses it as her signature song? Zephyr was a smokin band! Nice to see someone figure that one out!

Have you ever tried using a Lyman M-Die to size the inside of the neck? The die also can be adjusted to slightly expand the case mouth for easier and straighter bullet insertion. (see photos) The neck sizing section is .221" and the little raised area used for expanding the case mouth is .226" You can adjust the depth up to approx 1/16" if necessary. Might be nice to use in the final station.

OK... Some hints. This tune was recorded on the bands first album, which was released in 1969. The guitar player was noteworthy (pun intended) and achieved significant notariety (another pun?)... but alas, he assumed room temperature over 30 years ago. The chick singer (a real screamer) ran down the curtain and joined the choir invisible in 1984. There were 5 people in this band. I don't know if the other 3 are alive or not.

As any man can plainly see... I'm just as I appear to be... And I don't feel no pain... Woah someday a bad bad time is gonna come and you're gonna call out my name! Woman I don't play no games... Cause I'm a _______ _________ _________ (title) (I'm betting I'll have to give some hints on this one.)

"Mother Earth" is correctomundo. Referring to the version from the album Eric Burdon Declares WAR circa late 70's.

You may own some racing horses... Even own the whole damn track... You may have enough money baby... To buy anything you like... Don't care how big you are... I don't care what you're worth... When it all ends up... ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ______ ______. (title in last 2 words) previously... I've Got News For You ( a great version by Edgar Winter's White Trash sung by Jerry LaCriox)

Well you said the night we met... That your life was awful tame... Then I took you to a night club... And the whole band knew your name... Well let me put it to you mama... ____ ____ _____ _____ _____. (title goes here)

Inside Lookin Out (Mark Farner) Grand Funk Railroad

Bullets vary in length a certain amount, and mostly due to variations of the nose. For good consistent pressures and velocities, it's common practice to seat the bullet using pressure around the ogive of the bullet...not on the tip. The curve of the ogive is more consistent relative to the base of the bullet, so if you seat using the ogive, the base will be pushed down into the case to a more uniform distance. Naturally you will see a little variation in OAL (when referencing to the tip). You can make a little ring fitting on your calipers that will allow you to measure your OAL accurately (minus the distance to the tip from the rings measuring point on the ogive. I hope this made sense... maybe someone else has a comment about this.