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My sons and I met up at Sardis lower lake last Wednesday for some kayak crappie fishing. Paddled out to find 12 foot of water and dropped a jig to the bottom. Slow paddle backwards, let the line come up them fall straight down. As the jig was coming off the bottom that's when we would get a strike. We got our limits of 15 in 3 hours.

Last time I bought wheel weights it was $40 per bucket. Sort the trash, scrap metals, zinc and steel for about a third of a bucket of good alloy clip on's and lead stick on's. Next time in, new manager wants $50 per bucket, no way. I carried a truck load of aluminum cans and electric motors to scrap. They had lead pipe for 20 cents per pound. I got all they had, 112 lbs.

You could have asked up for a mule train. That's where you'll drive so far to meet up with someone that will carry the package as far as they can to meet up with buyer or transfer it to someone else. I did that on Wewe. Traded 2 cartons of primers for 350 rds of 38spl ammo with a guy in Jacksonville, FL. My primers went through 7 hands and 16 days to get to him. His ammo went through 9 hands and 18 days to get here.

I saw an ad earlier, .355 124 gr FMJ nickel each. That would be $50 per 1,000 plus shipping.

For light weight crappie fishing I've gone to trigger spin reels. Shakespeare Crappie Hunter combo in 8, 10 and 12 foot for $10 to 15. Zebco Crappie Fighter combo in 6.5, 8, 10 and 12 foot model for $10 to 15. Southbend 14 foot spinning rods for $11. Southbend trigger spin reels for $5. Sellers bring them to a local auction.

Check the BPS black Friday ad and their clearance section. Might find something, but like said they aren't cheap.

I saw an ad today. 500 rds of Wolf Gold 223 $1,000. A buddy and I bought 10 cases at $165 each so we could get free shipping.

Can't find it now, got a link?

I looked at a video on you tube, the guy made a single cylinder from PVC for his HF rock tumbler. I see that you'd gain space for a few more cases per tumbling, not many. It would give you something else to tinker with and keep you out of the wife's way. Free PVC pipe can be found. A supply house could be cheaper than a retail store.

I heard of putting mineral spirits in the media. Suppose to helps cut the dust. How many loads could you tumble before refreshing it. I don't care for the smell, I'll buy a cheap paint brush and throw it away before cleaning it with mineral spirits

I've been playing with this treadmill all morning. It has a 160 minute timer, almost 3 hours of future tumbling time, set it and let it run. Belt speed, I set dial to 24, jacked the rear end up on a concrete block. Placed a brick at the head and turned it on. The brick went 21 feet then rolled another 7. Turned it down to 0.1 and got on it. I think snails move faster than I walked. Headed to Harbor Freight to pick up some bar clamps.

DaveTN, there's 2 ways to buy one of the FA media tumbler kits. Buy the SKU: 645880 kit for $80 or buy the SKU: 855020 tumbler for $45 and the SKU: 507565 rotary shifter with bucket for $30. I would go with the second and save $5.

Looking at a Wewe group this morning a person close to Gulfport, MS wants to trade 175 rounds of 40 S&W ammo for a brick of sp or sr primers. Thought I knew that name from a fishing site, yep same person. I know what these primers cost so I offer a brick of each for his ammo. I won't take advantage of his offer. I know If I sold all I have at current price I could retire. Now to find some drivers for the swap instead of shipping.

Set the case in the correct shell holder in a single stage press, no dies. Press the handle down to get the case up. Grab hold of the bullet with good pliers and pull up on the handle. If you can't grip it use a hammer style bullet puller to get it close to factory settings or out.

There's a thing about using dryer sheets in the dryer. They lessen the life of a dryer and can cause fires. Here's a test. Pull the lint screen from the dryer, roll up the lint and do what you want to do with it. I stuff it in toilet paper rollers for fire starters. Take the screen to a sink and put a couple of drops of water on it. Does the water bead up or run through? If it beads up look for other problems too. The lint screen needs to be sprayed with HOT water every couple of months. That glue in dryer sheets gets into vent pipes too. Visiting a cousin in Nashville some 15 years ago. She is at her computer and I'm at my laptop. You know, I use to see smoke outside the window when the dryer was running and I don't see it anymore. I crawled under the house and brought out a 22 foot piece of 4" PVC vent pipe. No way to see light from one end to the other. Ran a water hose through it and added a nozzle and set it to fan spray and drug it back slowly. Took 3 hours to clean all the lint out of the pipe. I was under the house cleaning others connections while she cleaned the pipe. The next morning while our clothes were washing and drying there was smoke from under the window.

Wow, craigslist ad, Free treadmill in A-1 working order, 40 miles south of me. I got the address and phone number. Ad is gone now. Will pick up tomorrow.

I don't have photos. Here's a link to you tube, his set up is just like it.

I've been casting sinkers and bullets for a long time. Equipment for rough lead melt can be bought new or by checking out yard sales and thrift stores. Dad's came from yard sales, $2 for a 6 quart cast iron dutch oven, quarter for serving spoons and ladles, $5 for a fryer base. Had to clean the rust out of the burner and spider webs out of the tube. If new, that would be about $100. Production pots can be found used for about half price of new. Free and cheap lead is hard to find, but it's out there. 2 years ago a friend found a 1,800 lb keel on the east coast for $400. I helped drive and cut it up with an axe for 300 lbs. A brother-in-law gave me six 60 lb implement weights in May. Leading: The lead might be to soft. The powder charge might be to high. Bullet size might be wrong for the gun.

The pandemic cut production back or closed some operations all over the world. What I've read is we might get our first shipment of primers from Italy in January. Our last shipment was in May. When the Winchester plant in Oxford, MS was being built I helped a friend pull wires, so I got a sort of tour without machines. The primer room holds 8 machines. They are down to 4 to give employees space. They product 22.s, sr primers, 223 and 556 ammo.

Want a cheap tumbler, got a treadmill? A friend built a wood ladder to fit on his mill. Add the large Folger's coffee cans like Sam's carry with media and cases inside. He can tumble 7 cans at once. He's looking at you tube for wet tumbler ideas.

I have a Frankford Arsenal and Lyman Turbo. I use walnut media to clean the cases before they go to the press. Desert Blend from Petco does a great job and cheaper. For cases that are trimmed and sized I use corncob media to remove the lube. New media will take a hour or 2 to clean the cases. As it gets older it will take longer. I add spent dryer sheets to remove some of the black dust. I go about 5 years before dumping the old media in a flowerbed. Use the tumbler outdoors. I got a container of Tuff Nut once, ran the tumbler in my shop for about a month. I have red dust on everything.

In 2009 my dad sent me a few links. They were from all the big reloading sites. He said watch prices daily and cash in when a price is good. Midway had Wolf primers, they might be $28 per carton one day and whatever price the next day, or an hour later. December 14, 2009 I open my computer before heading to work. Midway had Wolf sp primers for $13.50 per carton, I ordered 5 sleeves. Wolf sr primers $14.75 per carton I ordered 5 sleeves. When I got home I checked again, they were $33 and $35. I got other good deals too. At that time we could spend a few hours at the range with very low cost in reloading.

Only fish I go for is crappie. For now they are in deep water. One spot I can fish from the bank in 27 foot of water. I put a 2 oz sinker on the line, don't tye it. 3 foot from the hook baited with a big minnow is a bead lined in place. Cast out to that spot, give it an extra 5 to 10 foot of line. Reel to click it closed, set the rod so the tip is close to the water. My rod holders might be 10 to 15 degrees. Watch the line not the rod tip. Any line movement reel it in. Most fish will strike, crappie won't.

Looking at an ad on another website earlier. 1,000 rounds of 223/556 ammo, make offer. I see a picture of 10 piles of rifle ammo. I ask, is this 223 or 556? Next reply, PM sent. Next reply, sold $1.25 per round.

A couple of months ago I went to an auction. One seller had 1 box of 500 Thunderbolts 22LR. I looked it up online, $29.99, I was willing to go $20. A friend sent me a text, ammo and primers are gone from all the stores I've been to today. You see anything grab it for me and gave me a list. I won the bid at $22, he didn't get them.