Dranoel
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I think your best bet is to just get a new barrel. Odds are pretty good that if you start grinding and or cutting you're going to end up needing a new barrel anyway. And this way you would still have the old comped barrel in good working order.
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On 2/19/2021 at 6:06 PM, Squirrel45 said:
just to throw another wrench in it, what about WST or AA2
Those are faster burning powders. While they will work, I usually reserve the fast powders for cast bullets. AA5 or AA7 are better choices. As for VV, I use N340 quite a bit and it does very will with jacketed and heavy .45s. I also find the recoil, while still fairly stiff, is not as sharp as faster powders.
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Only met him once, at the 2nd Chance shoot, but I had spoken to him on the phone a few times. Damned if he didn't remember. He was a great man and a great guy. The world is poorer for his loss.
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Watching this, yet again, because I really love this movie. (despite Tom Cruise) The realistic depiction of the Samurai way and the underlying, and unspoken sub-plots, still fascinate me. When Japan lost the Samurai, they lost a part of the honor that we never really knew and is far further lost to us today. It may well be one of Cruise's best roles, but less because of him and more because of the role itself and the movie as a whole. It has been an inspiration to me since the first time I saw it.
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God Bless America sung by retired Navy Petty Officer Genero Wilson during the opening ceremonies at the Indy 500.
And our National Anthem sung by Jimmie Allen.
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Just curious... What did the anvil look like in the failed primers? Was it pushed in flush with the cup? Or did it stick up a bit from the cup?
I had an issue many years ago very similar with Remington primers. Turned out they were a thousandths shorter (back to front) than the CCIs I had used before and the anvil was not seating in the cup all the way. A minor adjustment to my primer tool to press them a hair deeper cured the problem. -
19 hours ago, Farmer said:
Those gotta be short unless they have a huge hollow point. Found some loads for copper bullets that they were using like 7.3 gr of Unique but that was also for about 1400 FPS. I too would use 155 loads to start with. Will be interesting to hear how they shoot.
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Never argue with someone smarter than you. Or dumber than you.
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I have some .45ACP 123 gr lead HP bullets from Straight Shooters but cannot find any load data on anything even remotely this light. They do not have load data on their site. I have +p cases, CCI 300 primers and a choice of AA#5, AA#7 or Vihta vouri N340 powders on hand.
Anyone have any experience loading these or anything similar? Any suggestions on loads based on 155 gr LSWC? Any help would be appreciated. -
Handloading in a limited space environment. Sucks but it's what I got.
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I've use a lot of different ones over the years. If my thumb can hit it and drop the mag without changing my grip, that's all I care about.
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Been done before. Years ago.
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16 hours ago, Modoc said:
When you and/or your spouse can identify a cartridge caliber and if it’s
loaded or not by the sound it makes hitting the floor. She did this last night when a 38 Special fell out of a pants pocket.
Bullet type, weight and construction.
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Machete
Machete Kills
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Top Secret
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On 4/30/2021 at 4:44 PM, Modoc said:
Johnny got a boom boom by Imelda May
Every time we disagree she was always asking me
Are you a man or a mouse?
Now that she's gone she probably thinks that I'm home just a moping around the houseDrinkin' my Baby Goodbye - Charlie Daniels
Lost control and rang your bell, I was sore
Let me in or else I'll beat down your door
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On 4/18/2021 at 10:56 PM, George16 said:
Lady in Black by Uriah Heep.
next:
“Who's lost and never found
Feel the magic, I feel it floating in the air
But it's fear, and you'll hear
It calling you beware.”Big round body Long lean neck Swear it was a woman That he had in his grip
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You know when Buddhist Monks are buying guns, the shirt is about to hit the fan.
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9 hours ago, Modoc said:
I used o teach Hunter’s Education with a Department of Fish and Wildlife Biologist. He always told us about the Hunter who came into the check station with an antler-less deer tag and insisted that the burro was a doe black tail deer. None of the personnel had the heart to tell him anything different.In southern Ohio I have seen MANY out of towners from Cleveland, Columbus and Pittsburg(Mostly lawyer types who never hunted before) trying to check in goats, calves and even a few large dogs.
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On 10/29/2018 at 1:24 PM, Drtheo said:
... and that I had shot a dear the last season at 800 yards. With my women and kids gun.
Sorry to hear about your wife. Or congrats, depending how you felt about her.
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On 4/16/2021 at 12:04 AM, Modoc said:
Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forever, sure I swear, I'll eat me hat
Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt
Any surface that was equal to the hot asphaltBeen riding hard for three days
And I can't turn back now
They sentenced me to hang
But I slipped away somehow
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Was just doing dry fire draws to target and made an interesting discovery. I'm sure I'm not the first to discover this but it is making my transition from iron to optics, while anchored to index, a lot easier.
The main reason for the transition is that as I am getting older and my eyes are failing, iron sights are just harder to focus on. But an issue I have always had, as I do shoot with both eyes open, is the double image of the iron sight was sometimes distracting and it would take me a split second to acquire the correct set. What I am finding with the optics is that, while the frame is still a double image in my vision, the dot only appears to my right eye.
With a slight adjustment to my grip making the optic the correct height, I am learning to ignore the double image of the frame and focus solely on the dot. I'm finding, with more practice, the dot is all I really see and since there is only the one in my right eye, I get it on target a lot faster. Also transitions are faster as I am not trying to determine which image is the correct one. One dot. One target. Easy index.
Driving to work
in What I Hate
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You should try driving all day FOR work. 10 hrs a day 6 days a week putting up with the utter morons that are the average American today.