cypher

I am paranoid about lead, and thanks to me so is my son. If he handles a single round he goes and washes his hands thoroughly with soap and water. When we go to the range sometimes water is not readily available to do this. So we keep an abundant supply of "Wet Ones" to clean our hands arms and faces and mucho paper towels to dry off and blow our noses with. Sorry I didn't mention that before... I am not overly concerned that he or myself will have any unhealthy effects from reloading or shooting because of lead exposure because we are sure we take the proper precautions. And Bill don't worry about being a wet blanket. Your concern is very much appreciated. 'Sides... Flex was going to mention it any day now... Right Flex? Homero (Edited by cypher at 2:11 pm on June 15, 2002)

I can hear 'em in a .223 as well. But I sure as heck can't hear 'em in a .45. I guess I've shot enough, eh? Homero

My 11 year old son helps me when I reload as well. He flips primers, loads them in pick up tubes, dumps them in when my alarm goes off. Sorts brass for me. Sometimes I let him load a few rounds for me (under very careful supervision. The best was the other day though. I was doing a large reloading session (for me) I was planning on reloading about 500 rounds of .45acp. When I realized that the screw that holds in the crank arm for the powder measure on my 550 had somehow backed out. This in essence was letting the little square plastic part jump out of the powder charge bar. To make a long story short I had a bunch of squib loads mixed in with about 400 or so good loads. Anyway I'm in the process of pulling them all and he comes by and sees what I'm doing, and after a while he takes out one of the loaded rounds and shakes it next to his ear and says "squib". I look at him and laugh and explain that he can't possibly tell if that's a squib or not. Just to show him, I pull it. Sure enough, it's a squib. I ask him to try a few more... so he goes through around 20 of them and shows me 3 more that are squibs... sure enough, he was right. I pulled a few that he said were good and darned if he wasn't on the money with those too... To make a long story short (again), I made him go through all the ammo and identify all the squibs. Pulled all the ones he said (all squibs) and shot all the ones he said were OK. I paid him $5 for his assistance. Best $5 I ever spent. Homero (Edited by cypher at 4:01 pm on June 10, 2002)

Or you could order them straight from Choate. http://www.riflestock.com/ Just select Shot Shell Caddy under the Category Search... Hope this helps. Homero (Edited by cypher at 11:52 am on June 8, 2002) (Edited by cypher at 11:54 am on June 8, 2002)

I saw it the other day. twice. The second time I made my son watch it too... Homero

Yep. I guess that went the way of the dodo, or is going to anyway. I do remember when it was cool to do that. (I didn't do it - full length guide rod). I also remember when people used to clear their gun by dropping the mag (into their weak hand) and then racking the slide sort of across their body(muzzle pointed down range)... the weak hand would cover the ejection port and the round would pop into their weak hand. Strong hand thumb would push up on the slide lock to lock the slide. Then you show empty chamber to RO. Problem was some guys weren't all that good at it, especially if they had a heavy recoil spring. They would angle their weak arm in such a way that their weak elbow would be in front of the muzzle. Our club ended up "suggesting" that people not do it the "cool" way. So we had to plop a round into the dirt so the RO's wouldn't get antsy. I don't know if people even do that anymore. My guess is they probably don't. C'est histoire.... Cypher

Ya think? Nah... that would be too easy. They might even actually start selling some of them. Then they'd have to start getting up early... actually going to work. No. Definitely better this way. If people really want these things they're gonna haff to work for 'em, by gum Homero

EricW, Check out http://www.rangeboy.com Homero

Dani, Everyone is definitely kidding and no one thinks you are trying to cheat or gain an unfair advantage. In particular I was wondering why my times were so different on the reflex tester website than from firing a staged gun. As you pointed out I was not comparing apples to apples, even though I should have known that. This caused me to think that one of the sources was inaccurate, either my timer or the website. That didn't make sense to me though which cause me to wonder what could possibly cause that incosistency. Your explanation cleared that up for me right away and now my times for the website and staged trigger pull are very, very close to each other and I feel I am getting a more accurate picture of one part of my ability. Thanks again. Cypher

All kidding aside... I couldn't figure out why there was a discrepancy between my reaction times with a staged gun and my reaction times with the Reflex Tester site. I knew how the mouse worked, since I work in IT, but it was one of those things that I knew so well that I failed to take it into account. Dani helped me figure out where the discrepancy was ocurring and thus removed a cause of considerable consternation... even though he is a gamer... Homero

Dani, Thanks!!! I never thought of that... The majority of my times were right around .17. Now everything starts to fall into place. Thanks for the pointer... Homero

OK... Thanks Larry. Now my brain is unwrapped again. Det, can you clarify your earlier statement? Thanks Homero

OK... tried finger on the trigger, gun on target, fire at the beep. Worst time .29 (???) most were in the .23-.24 range with some .20 and even one .17. That's better than I did on the reflex tester website, so there must be something to that difference to reaction between auditory and visual stimuli. Hmmm... and I would have thought it would be the opposite with me... judging by how fast I react when an attractive member of the opposite sex walks by... Homero

See? I hadn't thought of that... That makes sense to me. Now I can wrap my poor little brain around that concept and accept it. Another reason why I love this place Homero

I agree with TDean I think the recoil spring lb. affect the slide cycle time (as well as all the other things you mentioned Det). I would be curious to hear your explanation as to why it doesn't. I'm not saying it doesn't, I'm just saying that I think it would. Then again I didn't think that going to a lighter recoil spring would lessen perceived recoil. Homero