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I found these links a bit ago when I got to thinking about my hybrid holster and gun belt. Galco makes a decent product but they are about $8 each or so, due to being for guns. Some boot products have the same ingredients such as the mink oil and kiwi clear and are a bit cheaper, and for me already on hand. Because we are discussing a hybrid holster you don't have to worry so much about making it too soft, though it may change the rigidity some if you use too much. Mine is also leather lined so I may get the interior Galco product to slick it up some, in the future. http://www.handgunsmag.com/gear-accessories/holsters/care-for-leather-holsters/ http://www.opticsplanet.com/howto/how-to-maintain-a-leather-holster.html

Lowe's and Home Depot carry the kits: http://m.lowes.com/pd/Stanley-National-Hardware-Anti-Sag-Gate-Kit/999911861 They work decently enough, but it's best to repair the gate first. Is there a 4x4 at the hinged end? If not it needs one, and some sort of corner brace to keep it from leaning. Gates are heavy and need a good corner post to keep them from saging in the corners.

Seems TN actually received a bargain when they spent $46k for their new logo: http://gawker.com/5070093/pepsis--new-logo-a-bargain-at-several-hundred-million-dollars I seem to be in the wrong business, and I can run Photoshop and Illustrator well enough to create these works of art. Man, the guns I could buy then.

BP is not that bad, I've left my ML loaded for over a year and it fired on the first primer. As for using it for 300Blk, besides "just because", why use BP? It's good to know it works and all, but unless you use it in a bolt action wouldn't it dirty up the gas tube too much? Has he cleaned out the silencer to see how much soot it collected?

I use tapatalk for pictures, and its not blocked here at work like the bucket is.

While this is indeed a problem, I think it goes the other way as well. I have personally seen where a soldier is doing something against regulation/illegal and want to play the PTSD card when caught. And since it is difficult to know when someone is faking it, some actual PTSD guys fall through the same crack that the fakers do and vise versa. I am no doctor but I question the PTSD defense in cases of thievery and violence. Don't get me wrong, I was not the same person I was prior to deployments but nothing over there made me want to injure anyone in a premeditated manner. I can understand getting startled and defending yourself from a perceived danger and all, but some cases are hard for me to understand. Now the drinking, loner mentality and depression I can see, specially considering the things already mentioned about having no one to talk to.   Family is great, and they can be a great resource for many and play a very important part in our mental well being. But unless they were active duty, there are just some things that they may not understand. In our community we have quite a few resources to help those with the loneliness and having no one to relate to. Due to our mission set, we can't really just talk to anyone, they may not be able to relate and or be cleared to hear some of the things that some of us need to talk about. Even after I retired, I still had access to our unit Chaplin, our psychiatrist and a slew of guys that were more than willing to spend time with me if needed. I consider myself mentally strong, I compartmentalize and rationalize all the things I seen and did while deployed but I still experienced a few things that I had to sort out. First was the hyper alertness, every loud noise made me want to take evasive action. But mentally I was able to process the fact that I was stateside and that more than likely it was innocuous; but I was and am always evaluating my surroundings. Second, it took me a few years to go hunting again; I just had no desire to kill anything. Heck for awhile I didn't even mess with my guns. I didn't seek out any help because I, for the most part, had it under control. But at least for me it was good to have a safety net if needed, that is why I am always available to sit and talk with anyone that may just need a bit of companionship. And that goes for military or civilian alike, because even though civilians didn't experience bad things in war, there are a lot of things out there just as bad.

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It appears to be gone now, at least the one I posted.   Didn't see your post...I blame it on age.

Kind of hard to tell from that angle but it looks like you have a 2x4 going across but no uprights. A gate needs a frame, and if its heavy then it needs a turn-buckle so the corner does not sag. Warped boards can be straightened when wet but may crack once they dry out. Something like this with the turn-buckle going from top hinged side to lower corner. When new it doesn't need it but after awhile it will because the corner will drag eventually.

Keep us updated, I was thinking of doing the same thing but I want to do some more reading up on the areas to find out where pigs are more prevalent.

Get a bore brush with some hoppes down the barrel and keep checking. If it reduces it then its buildup, which is what it looks like. But that rifle is going to to need some TLC, maybe even a ceracoat job. Once rust starts its hard to keep it at bay, I had to completely strip my 303 due to the same thing, but at the time there was no ceracoat so I browned it.

I don't know that I agree with that. My turret makes changing calibers a breeze, the dies stay set between loading sessions unless I use a different OAL. I have multiple powder drops which I would have to set anyway depending on if I am loading with different charge or powder but one set it drops through the die.

Ok, I have only physically been there once and it may be the biscuits talking, love them things, but Jim and Nicks hasn't been mentioned...the others that good?  I avoid Nashville, but the wife and daughter bring me back some ribs that are pretty good from there and they seem to like the burgers there as well.

That is a distinct possibility, the primer in the picture is just an example.  The one that originally caught my attention had the primer cup actually come out of the body, it was the striker inside that I first seen and at first thought it was a piece of the T/C.  The thing is, is there that much pressure difference between the two powders?  Or is it that one is powder and the other pellets that is allowing backpressure?  I'll have to fire a few with powdered pyrodex to see if it does the same thing.  I'll give my bolt a look see but it will be difficult to know if the spring is weak or not just by looking at it.  At any rate, it doesn't shoot out or anything, it stays contained in the cupped face of the bolt.   It is cleaner, running a patch down the barrel with both I could tell there was a difference even with just a couple of each shot.  The thing is when hunting I usually only fire it once or twice before I clean it so having it be a little cleaner isn't much of a deal to me.  If I was at the range, shooting multiple times it would be better since you wouldn't have to swab it as often. And according to their page its not as caustic as BP or pyrodex and they recommend using oil based solvents vs standard water-based solvents so that is a plus if you cant clean it immediately after a hunt or range.  They also say that it does not absorb as much water as other powders so there is that, but if you start with a fresh load before any hunt you should be ok.    And the other thing about the expensive part, it is higher priced than pyrodex; using Midsouth prices; its on sale for $29.95 for a 10oz can which makes it $3.00 an oz, Pyrodex is $14.74 for a 1lb can or $0.92 an oz and the Pyrodex pellets are $21.92 for 11 oz box or $1.90 an oz.  So I guess if you don't mind paying 2 to 3 times as much per shot for the cleanliness and other pluses I mentioned then its ok.  For me, if its much more accurate or has other qualities I am not seeing at the moment then maybe it may be worth it but right now I am not completely sold on it though if I only use it for hunting I will be using these 10 oz for some time to come.

From what I can see, it crushed the sides of the primer like a soda can, pushing out the primer cup. My WAG is that the BH produced enough suction with the bullet, like a plunger on a syringe, that it crushed the body and when the seal broke on the primer some gas escaped and blackened the whole primer. My rifle is a T/C black diamond, I don't know of a different breach plug for this one when using BH. I will look into it, this guy has the same rifle; good pic of the breach plug and 209 adapter: http://s194.photobucket.com/user/10pointer2002/media/100_3363.jpg.html As for hunting with it, I'm going to pickup some Blackhorn tubes, they are around $6 for a six pack. They are clear and graduated so you can use as a measure and easily see the charge. In this link they are a little more but better pic. http://www.midwayusa.com/product/863732/blackhorn-209-muzzleloading-powder-tubes-pack-of-6

Well, effectiveness wise it was really no different than the pyrodex pellets.  But it was 100 grains vs 85, and it did seem to be cleaner when I ran a patch through it at the range.  I never really had an issue on how dirty the barrel was with pyrodex, and the pellets are convenient as heck.  I know you can load pre-measured charges from a variety of tubes but they are just not as easy to hunt with.  I went from powdered pyrodex to pellets very early on, as a matter of fact I am still on my first lb of pyrodex but my second box of pellets.  Maybe when they make blackhorn pellets I will get more enthused about it, but for me anyway its not worth the extra expense   Oh, and one of my shots required two primers.  And one other had a longer lock time, very noticeable difference between that one and other blackhorn shots but I can't blame the blackhorn since it was only two out of about 10.  I am going to use the rest of the blackhorn to give it a good trial run but if it does not show a better outing than at the range it will probably be my last lb I get.

So went to the range to sight in my BP rifle yesterday and tried Blackhorn 209. I started off by popping off 2 or 3 primers then shot my first few rounds using pyrodex pellets, 100 grains, to make sure I was on target. Then switched to Blackhorn, I read that it was a bit more powerful so I decided to go with 90 grains. Due to using a new measure, it turned out to be more like 85. So first shot and every shot there after deformed the primer. It didn't seem to be any more pressure according to the felt recoil but some of the primers had the primer cups come out of the primer body. Has anyone using Blackhorn ever experience this? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T817A using Tapatalk

Total scam, different birthrates. Re-read, I see it's two different people.

https://www.gofundme.com/61ht8c That's weird, I hit a hard return after the URL and it added an extra "c". This should work.

She lays it on pretty thick. This is a gofundme page she is running: https://www.gofundme.com/61ht8c These kind of people make me sick, using her kid and making people think she is a veteran who the military has done her wrong in more ways than one. Edit, fixed link.

Went back out to MCSC with the intent of sighting in my BP rifle and GSG 522 as well as shoot my BHP. I also took my G-23, Ruger Mark III, SBH, and my XDs so a couple of friends could try them out. Sorry, no pics, but I didn't have to make any adjustments on the BP or SBH, but on the GSG I gave up, for some reason I could not find the tiny screw driver to adjust the red dot and when I was trying to boresight it I discovered that the parallax on that thing was terrible. Anyway, all three of us agree that the BHP is one nice shooting gun. We were all getting some nice groups and that thing just seems to return to the target on its own. I wonder if after it's detailed cleaning and storage for another long haul if it will more than double in value again ?.

Well no, the ATF says you can only have 6,999 to be considered a collector. And of those, only 60% may be rifles, and of those only 5% may be of calibers higher than .22.

I am not a fan of the .380, not because of effectiveness, just much rather have a round which is officially adopted by enough government departments to keep it on the shelf. That has been my strategy since I started buying guns. I do own other calibers like the 300Blk which need reloading to be worth it, and the .270 which I only hunt with so I have enough components to last a lifetime, but all other calibers have been military or PD rounds at some time or another. Even the venerable .22 is the choice of many departments as practice rounds; though seeing how availability has been in the past that might change. For some time it was almost cheaper shooting 5.56 than .22. I have always been an advocate of shot placement, and knew early on that most SD guns could be effective with the right cartridge. The bad thing is that we had to do our own tests with wet phone books, and Denver books are great for that, to confirm what the "experts" were pushing. I collected a few studies such as the one linked above throughout the years and they all helped solidify my beliefs. The bottom line is that it's better to have something than nothing, and you need to practice with that something so you can consistently hit a target where you want.

So, going to the range and decided to pull out the BHP. It indeed is one of the "made in Belgium" models. I guess I'll have to baby it more...nah its a shooter. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk