Handsome Rob

'pologies, the Cabelas cooler is 40qt. http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/fishing/2016/03/ice-chest-throwdown-12-top-end-coolers-ranked-and-reviewed

Cabelas also make one (I think 65qt) under their own name that scores amazingly well compared to much more spendy affairs... I'll see if I can find the link to a review Field & Stream did.

These guys are fairly new to the scene, but have been garnering a LOT of interest on the rokslide forum. I'm in on a group buy for an 80qt cooler https://www.atlascoolers.com/

It's the sternum strap. It enhances my moobs. Also, stop objectifying me! I'm more than just eye candy dammit!

Oh, I'll be carrying my .308 too. This is for an elk hunt backup. Just in case. I'm not concerned in the least about walking up on a bear, I'm more concerned about a bear walking up on me if I happen to find myself elbows deep in elk innards!

Unfortunately they don't do the .400 corbon barrel for the 3.3" xds, however I ordered a couple of boxes of Underwood .45 Super ammunition. Ran a box of 20 through the gun to check for malfunctions or feed issues & other than relocating my right elbow to somewhere around my right ear.....no problems whatsoever. Honestly, it's brutal. Definitely not something I'd want to shoot unless I had to, but it puts the little acp into the legitimate bear/moose protection category. Oh, and I also picked up a Safariland holster & drop/offset mount so that I can comfortably & easily open carry whilst wearing a loaded pack & bino harness!

I changed my reloading order. I've always deprimed/sized then wet tumbled. I tried tumbling first then sizing. It seems like the carbon deposits in the case neck are reducing it in size enough that they were sticking to the expander plug on the way out. I tried the reamer suggested by Chris, but it just polished the carbon deposit. I also switched to Redding sizing wax. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Love everything about it!

Not sure if it's been done before. What is your '24/7 every time I'm wearing clothes' edc pocket knife? I've beecarryingng this Benchmade 556 Mini Griptilian every single day for the past 9 years. The only time it isn't in my pocket is on a plane. I've cut everything you can think I could possibly cut with it. It's dressed 6 hogs, 4 deer, 3 coyotes & 11 raccoons. I've spread mayo & mustard, opened countless boxes, un done screws, re tightened screws, opened a million snuff cans & popped the top of hundreds of beers. I'd rather let you have an hour with The Wife than 10 minutes with this knife.

There should be a small coupler on the gear-shift shaft. You'll have to remove the lower bolt before the lower unit will drop loose. Try shifting it from forward to reverse & look up at the top of the shaft. You'll see it right near the casing joint in the least accessible place possible. Obviously.

Never mind, problem solved!

Any 280 Ackley shooters here? I'm having no end of trouble with my Redding dies. Both the FL & neck sizing die are extremely 'sticky' The cases run fine up into the die, but are a maddening hell to get out. I've tried several lubes, both spray & paste. I've tried hugely overlubing the inside of the mouth & I've even run some 2000 grit wet & dry over the expander plug. Still bad. It's almost as though the brass around the neck is too thick. I have no way to neck turn the brass unfortunately. It's Nosler brass, by the way. Any suggestions?

It's taken about 15 years of practice to be a natural!

Managed to get the scales glued up, pins installed, shaped & finish sanded over the past couple of days. ¼" stainless pins, G10 scales with white & blue liners. All I need now is for my leather to arrive & I'll get a sheath made up.

*facepalm*

Been a loooong time since I last had access to a workshop, but I had a fun day today! Got this hunter profiled, ground & heat treated. O1 steel 3/16 thick. 4¼" blade fully flat ground at 62RWC. 5½" handle. I'm just waiting on some bar stock to come in for the pins, but I'll be handling it with blaze orange G10 with blue & white liners.

It's an SKS. If you can't fix it with a 2lb hammer & a crescent wrench, it's screwed.

PM sent Sam....

The quantity of my admiration is only surpassed by the rigidity of my tumescence. That's one of THE most beautiful doubles I've ever seen!

They're really nice. I've actually tried one in every conceivable configuration, but with a bino harness & the sternum strap on my pack, it simply doesn't work. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

So, by that reckoning, only a 'handful' of people were killed in WW2? "World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in absolute terms of total dead. Over 60 million people were killed, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion)"

Well. This is a gamechanger..... http://www.xdtalk.com/threads/45-super-in-the-xd-s.208944/ I'd never even heard of .45 Super until Nightrunner mentioned it. The gist of the thread is that it's ok to run in the diminutive XDS, just not very many & not too often. I get the impression that I probably wouldn't enjoy it anyway!

Just as a little background, this is purely going to be a once or twice a year carry gun. Mostly while I'm hunting out West. The XDS covers anything I could ever run into in the woods here, with any number of legs. I have some +P that I was planning on loading up for Wyoming, just in case of grizzlys (a distinct possibility where I go) but I think a 10mm would be a little more suitable. I hike a LOT in the mountains & weight is a huge factor to me. I try to stay as light as possible with all my hunting gear (I can manage 10 day's in the mountains on less than 50lb) & it seems odd to then carry a 3+ pound sidearm that I'll probably never need.