musicman

Barrel in good and tight? Anticipating? Whack the gun against a tree real hard?

+ bazillion

You need to work out a little actuator you can control with your foot... like hooked up to a throttle cable so you can time it all together and go faster. Looks cool dude!

Tentatively in.

Sweet! Mark, that all sounds awesome! I've never heard of wicking beds before... guess I know what I'll be googling as I fall asleep tonight. :-) I'm just barely getting to the novice stage of gardening, and this will be my third year. I have no soil to speak of in my yard, unless you count a thin layer of dust the weeds hold onto on top or rock. :/ I have two small 3.5'x8'ish raised beds and use some containers as well. I plan on making one more raised bed with some logs I have from some trees we had taken down last year. I'm also going to try some hay bale gardening to see how that works out. I don't grow a whole lot, mainly just a bunch of different kinds of hot peppers. Last year I had about 25 plants and 9 or 10 varieties. This year will probably be about the same. I have a small patch of strawberries, but between the bugs, birds, and squirrels, I usually only get a couple dozen strawberries for myself by the time it's all over. I'm going to do a couple yellow squash as those worked out pretty well my first year. They'll go in the new bed. I'm also going to try some orange watermelons. My neighbors didn't have any success with watermelon last year, but they didn't really tend to their garden and gave up around July. Of course, their jalapeños didn't care and looked better than mine, haha! I also do your basic herb assortment and some green onions. I haven't put anything in the ground yet, but have about 20 seedlings of pepper plants: 7 pot jonah, bishop's hat, early jalapeño, aji limon, some yellow and red scorpions, moruga black, and a few others. The one I really really wanted to try this year was the orange rocoto, but only 3 of 20 seeds germinated, and none of the could shed their seed husk. Two died, and I tried to help the third by gently pushing/pulling ever so softly at the husk, and the plant snapped apart. :/ Maybe next year for those. They're supposed to be a challenging plant... they are so far! Granted, I'm not doing things the "right way." I don't have a grow light, I don't have a heating mat, or anything else you're "supposed" to have. I have a 36 hole seed tray, a Lowe's misting bottle, and a window. I'm strictly low budget, even more this year than last. Someday I'll spend more and do things right, but a 1911 beckons!

I put some car polish in the media every 4th or 5th batch. Let it run for about 5 minutes before dumping in the brass. Super shiny, super slick brass is the result, and it runs through the dies slicker'n poop through a goose.

My TGO Rockeye disappeared as well. :*-(

Now I'm listening to ringing in my ears. :-) Good show!

I tumble in corncob/walnut and deprime AFTER tumbling. One, I don't wanna run dirty brass through my deprime/resizing die. Two, I don't wanna hafta check primer pockets for media.

Yep, I have all of their stuff and remain a huge fan. I actually only got into them right before Disarm the Descent, so I kinda' came in in the middle of the changeup back to Jesse. I like all of it, except ther very first album which was pretty rough. I seem to find bands later in their careers, skipping a lot of the "you changed, I hate you now" stuff. The first Metallica album I bought was Reload. Got into that, then went backwards and I love all of their stuff, short hair or long. :-)

Killswitch Engage all day for me today. Going to see them at Marathon Music Works tonight. Stoked! One of my favorites: https://youtu.be/M_Ks75nQwlM

Another +1 for PSA here. I've built two PSA uppered rifles and one PTAC. All of them were 100% in fit and function. The PTAC was a super budget build and I bought the complete upper as a blem for dirt cheap. I never found any blem or any reason why it should have been marked as such. I actually shot that gun more than the others and kinda abused it (didn't clean it for a couple years, only shot cheap steel ammo) and it never even hinted at giving me trouble.

The dog on the phone... I had to hold in my laugh cuz Wifey's asleep beside me!

100% spot on. Not only can you just download magnum cases, but you also get the benefit of not having to worry about cleaning the "carbon ring" left behind by shooting specials. I only shoot 357 brass in my 357 guns, whether full power or light wadcutter loads. I simply don't have any 44spl to mess with, just mag.

My first turd was a 597 as well. I also bought a brand new 870 last year that worked fine but was just poorly finished and sliced my finger open the first time I racked the action. I don't even know how it happened, but it did. That was gone in about 3 weeks. My other turd was a brand new Taurus PT22 that was given to my wife for Christmas by her mother. Piece of garbage. The trigger engages about 40% of the time. It's absolute garbage. Sure, I could send it off to Taurus... but I kinda like letting the piece of crap rot in a junk drawer... much more satisfying.

Like others have said, get a bunch. Lee's manual seems to have the most raw data. Of course, each powder manufacturer also has their own data available online as well. http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/pistol

I've enjoyed them. This thread especially :) I think "Because I'm smart." Is the best one of them all, and should be a perfectly valid response in every day life!

Academy in Smyrna had one box of Hornady 30gr Vmax for $13.99 when I was there at about 5 Wednesday. I don't have a 22mag so I left it. It still shows up every now and then... like a winning lottery ticket. :/

I think mebbe next weekend I may be going to OKC with some buddies from church. Let's party! I have a little semi-auto 12g I haven't had a chance to try out yet. And a laptop to destroy. :-D

This. BRD is an agressive malady for which I have yet to find a cure. Happily. As a couple have mentioned, I work on the trigger first, and it's what gives me the most satisfaction out of any upgrade I perform. I have CMC 3.5lb single stage drop-ins in two guns and love them. Super crisp, great reset. I have both a curved and flat trigger, and like them both. If I had it to do over again, I think I'd go flat for both, as the finger placement is just a little further forward and puts me at the perfect spot for a straigher pull without curling my finger at all. My last build was a cheap/rush job, and a pistol. In that case I wasn't going for a light target trigger, but I didn't want a gritty 6lb milspec either. I went with the ALG coated job for like $55 on sale last fall and am VERY impressed it for the money. Uber smooth, and juuuussssstt a little creep after takeup and before it breaks. The movement is perfectly smooth, however. Reset isn't as nice or short as the CMCs, but it's also less than 1/3rd the cost. The other thing I do on every gun is change the grip. I hate those plastic milspec jobs. I like the Ergo grip with the rubbery texture and mild finger grooves. After that, each gun has its own premise, so optics, rails, stock, etc will be different for each one. Yes... mags and ammo. Lots. Of each. I've come to prefer the Israeli E-Lander steel mags. I was all up in the magpul bandwagon for a long time, but I'm over polymer mags now. I'm moving over to all E Lander mags. They're a little heavier, but go into all of my guns easier, and I've NEVER had a round pop out of a mag due to a little jostling or sitting loaded for a long time. I can't say that about all of my magpuls. Most of all, have fun!

Gotcha. I would definitely agree, then, that if the impression after the first whack was the same as all the other rounds that fired, something was amiss with that one, and I am surprised that it even went off at whack 2. So far, I have never had a primer of any brand in factory, reman, or my ammo, fail to go off when given a solid hit. I have definitely had light strikes, however. Happy shooting, and I will now butt out, lol!

There's a big difference between a "dimple" and a solid primer strike. Battleop, can you explain a little better the impression on the primer after the first strike? I generally don't blame light primer strikes on the primer. A dirty firing pin channel or some temporary impediment can cause a light strike. :-)

A person could wrap a HiPoint in ACTUAL $100 bills and it STILL wouldn't be worth $200. :/

Works fine for me. I've also had success with Wolf and S&B. I pretty much get whatever is cheapest when I'm ready to buy and haven't had trouble yet.

Welcome to the club! We should get jackets made! :-D "The Perfect Tens"