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  The steel in the cases is going to be softer than your dies so it shouldn't scratch them but it probably does shorten the life via regular wear and tear.   Its often berdain primed (look for 2 small holes instead of 1 big hole at the primer) so you can't use that without special equipment and primers.   Also it does not reshape well -- its going to split after at most 1 reload in most calibers.  Agreed that its hard on the guns as well unless you are shooting an AK or Makarov or something else built for steel cases.    Its just not worth it.   Its always magnetic, though :)   A good hard drive magnet can pull them out from several inches away.   Ive seen people use water pressure to deprime it and go to great lengths to reload it.   Its good info because someday we might be there.  Today isn't that day.

Wood glue is stronger than most woods when applied correctly.   Drilling the ends of the crack can give strain relief; a very small hole from your smallest bit is often enough for a hairline crack type split.  So I would try drilling both ends (save the drilled out dust) and then glue and if separated, clamp to dry.  Fill in the holes with glue and if visible, mash the dust from the drilling into the glue at the surface to mask it.    You might also look into the root cause of the crack.  Sometimes, its just age, but often in a gun its recoil + a tight fit.  Its often the case that shaving down the wood just a hair at some key point will stop pushing the recoil down the wood and creating the stress that cracked it.  You might also rub the wood down with an appropriate oil if it seems to be cracked due to dryness.  

  No, I was tired of him by 1985.   I'm just as tired of the media circus as anyone else.  But his death isn't the issue, the issue is lack of coverage for real heroes by a media that considers soldiers to be war criminals and has done so off and on since Vietnam.     I guess, just remember that "news" is "business".   They exist to make money, and they do that by selling advertising, and they do that by hooking people into watching/reading/listening, and they do THAT by covering whatever the low information idiot will click the most.   What do you think sells more clicks, the death of a superstar or the suicide of an never-before-heard-of ex soldier ?    Its circular... as long as the un-washed masses want their news to be entertainment, that is what we will get.

Well pardon the man for dying already. He probably didn't OD (from the sound of it he was a health nut type), and it seems clear he didn't suicide.     You are not wrong, the media sucks, but its not prince's fault that the media sucks.   

If you are real close to the newlyweds, take a double barreled shotgun?

MLK hasn't been dead long enough. But he certainly is a contender. I like this image.

  Yes.   Had they had better treatment they might have had some famous general who took over texas or whatever too.  But the what-iffing isn't history.   Every one of them is a hero.   I think we have a few letters written by a few of them, and those are cool.   But again, there weren't a lot of major players in the grand scheme of "lets spend a couple of days on this person".    Tubman at least can say that much.  Douglass too -- and I'd be right behind putting Douglass on the 50 if they want to change the lineup some more because grant was possibly the second or third worst president of all time (heck of a general) in a lineup that includes obama.        Note that Tubman joins the ranks of Franklin as one of the very, very few (including obsolete currency) non presidents. I think they should bring back the big bills and have a few more faces.   Be cool to bust out a 100k bill when you go to buy your house, even if you only had it from taking out a mortgage :)

  out of over 3 million, its roughly 5%  ... a handful in relativistic terms yes.

Sorry for your loss.    I enjoy my inherited guns but its hard too.        the world of 3-d printing has its uses.

  I think the number of data points collected in verification of money would astound us all.  Last time I looked into it there were like 20 or 30 security features on a 20.

Welcome!

  Well, while I think Jackson was a murderer,  there is an ongoing effort by the left to produce non-white and non-male historical figures of consequence and cram them down our throats.    There were some awesome folks of color and women, but their roles were still relatively minor in the grand scheme of things (count the number of black signers to the declaration or constitution and let me know the total?).    There were not really that many of em in the revolutionary war and even the civil war had just a handful.     Racism and sexism of the times limited the roles these folks could have.   That limitation is a documented fact.   This means they were not in any way, shape, or form the primary source of our history.   Its an ugly history that way, but trying to dredge up minor figures and force schools to teach about them instead of the major players is idiotic.     That is what gets on our nerves.  Real heroes and major players are marginalized while minor players are given months of study --- because the left is obsesses with race and gender over substance.

Ive long thought that Jackson was a poor representative.   Franklin is great, and I hated when they replaced him with kennedy (coin).  Tubman is fine ... she was a heroine, tough and brave.  Much better than some of the other contenders... we are lucky it isn't obama or some other half wit.     Best as I can tell, Jackson was a war hero but also a SOB.  

Sounds like a shady outfit.  25% restock?  That is hundreds of dollars to do what,  put it back on the shelf and add +1 to their inventory count?   Bulloney.  Then charging more for non-stainless?  More Bull.    Man up and swap the item.  Lose a few bucks, keep a customer.

shes old and alone.  She probably needs, or will one day, the occasional heavy lifting and odd job done.  Be there for her?

You let it fall anyway.   Its not going to hurt it.  Cosmetic maybe but that can be buffed out and touched up.  Most of the $$$$ guns are large frame and wouldn't be easy to drop anyway.   You drop the high recoil light weight cheap stuff. 

there is a bad trigger installed on some glocks intentionally ... I think it is to meet some LEO requirement or something and it does have a 10 pound pull.  You maybe stumbled across one of those?  They are uncommon in free states though,  its like a CA or NY law / requirement. 

welcome!   what does service rifle mean?  WWII type stuff?

Ur welcome.  If its on the internet, I can find it :)  One of my many unmarketable skills.

http://www.dnj.com/story/news/2015/02/27/swat-commander-misfires-gun-carpet-smyrna-town-hall/24144261/   A 25-year officer with Smyrna who has been chief for eight years, Arnold said his department has had four or five incidents involving officer guns firing by mistake. Only one of those in 1998 involved an injury to Officer Muhammad Ali (formerly known as Robert Ladell Haynes). "He almost died," Arnold said. The chief recalled that Ali is now on disability after being shot in the groin and losing a leg when he went to pick up a prisoner in Nashville and dropped a pistol after reaching for it in a metal box that holds weapons while lawmen are at the prison.    You should be able to take it from there with his name if this is the one you recall.

Heh I will give you 3 answers.   answer 1 --- if everything were perfect, all cartridges would have the same pressure when fired, and lighter bullets would go faster, fat boys would go slower, but they would have about the same recoil and they would all function almost exactly the same.   answer 2 --  9mm has one of the widest ranges of bullet weights (even without going weird with handloads its 90-150 or so)  and pressures (from light all the way to double +P)  making ammo all over the place.   answer 3 -- powder burns at different rates,  quality control varies, and there are probably another dozen variables across bullet types, powders, primers, gun chambers, gun recoil springs, and so on that affect whether it works or not.     Yea I have a 1911 with light springs (45 though).  It shoots lighter bullets in a target load.   If we had kept the glock, I would have replaced it with 2/3 weight springs so it would work with light ammo and even a slightly loose grip.   Some people physically cannot hold a gun immobile and some guns jam if you can't do that -- springs are a way to fix it.     The final answer to the real question: - if the gun is "normal" and the ammo won't cycle it when locked in a rest and fired, the ammo is bad, and there are a couple of brands that load "light".  Its not the bullet weight.   The bullet weight only DIRECTLY affects the velocity via physics apart from minor things (surface area friction too, but lets ignore that for now).    The mass of the bullet has zero effect on the force produced by the explosion.  NONE.  It has an effect on how pressure builds up, which is why you use less powder on bigger bullets, and it large bullets seat deeper which increases pressure again.  Trying to jack a really big 357 into a 9mm is tricky and dangerous for this reason.   But the pressure should be the same for all (standard pressure) ammo give or take a little margin of error.  That is the key ... it should be, but it isn't.   - there are a LOT of guns that are not "normal".   On one end of the spectrum, I think my ruger antique p series can probably cycle on a good 380.   On the opposite end,  kel tec and glock won't work if taken NIB and fired with a weak load as their springs are too stout out of the box.

Not a winner.  To win you have to die.   This isn't even life threatening, its barely an honorable mention. 

?  Not sure what rubbing it on paper proves since a lot of it is full of graphite.

Yes, you can tumble it off.  But you really should use a thin enough amount of lube that its a non-issue, you shouldn't have to do this at all. 

  Heh, the kel tech is plenty accurate.  But if you can't lift a bulldozer with your index finger, the amount of force you have to use to shoot it will invariably twist your hands all over making hitting the target unpossible.   Kel tec has a lot of creativity and fills a niche (inexpensive self defense pistols) but I can barely pull the trigger.  If you got it to go bang using only one finger, you are farther along than I am.