Caster

If you miss your shot and are quick about it, you can probably lunge forward and bonk 'em on the head with that thing, as long as it is. :rofl:     A very nice rifle, muzzle loaders can be some of the finest looking guns ever.  Something a bolt action or lever gun just can't pull off.  Classy.  

Well, ya'll do some badazz work.  I likes it.   :up:  :up:  :up:

You do the machine work and stippling?  Looks great!  Been trying to work up the testicular fortitude to stipple my G19 and remove a bit of the trigger guard that bites my knuckle.  

Benghazi Brand.....ohh wait, wrong Clinton.  Sorry.

My biggest concerns are the actual engraving. First, engraving plastic is a bit shifty. Second, I wanna say I've heard the ATF wants the engraving done on metal....but I can't substantiate that. I only paid $50 for the lower, Brand New. I care very little about it. I might get a sixer in my liver one afternoon and break out the wood burning kit. If it turns out nice, register it. If not, put it back where it is now, a back up...just in case.

I knew the savings were marginal at best. The real savings for me would be the fact that it's already here and paid for and he assembled rifle it's a part of is nothing more than a glorified "oops, I broke my good one" back up.

I'm on season 3 right now. The old bag commenting about her son being a 'sword swallower' almost made me pee my pants. LOL!!!!!

Hippies.

Thoughts? I already have a polymer lower. It's a Tennessee Arms Co. lower and not your typical cheap crap. It has threaded inserts and is quite well made. We're it not for the fact I alrady have it, I wouldn't consider it but I DO have it and I am. Now that my trust is done, me and the wife were looking over some things. Her AR is very nice. She spared no expense. But it's godawful heavy ESPECIALLY for her. I was thinking of doing an SBR since she's on the trust too. Shedding every ounce possible, I could fix her up a 12" suppressed AR with an Eotech that would be minute of man accurate to a couple hundred yards and be VERY light. I'm just curious of the implications with engraving polymer.

It takes some trial and error.   I do it angling the flame out toward the mouth and bring it in slowly.  I spin the cartridge by holding it in my Lee lock stud and a drill on low.  Chase the heat right up to the base of the neck and it should spread to just enough of the shoulder. Takes about ten seconds of heat per case with mapp gas. I use a towel under the drill to catch them in and let them air cool. It works for me.  YMMV.  

Well, I do have to ask; how is it they got in the house in the first place? While no one could ever plan for every contingent, forethought now will give you those seconds to put them on. I have no doubts a determined thug could get into my house. He's gonna have to make a LOT of racket to do it. Not to mention getting past an 80lb pit and doing it all without disturbing my wife's chihuahua. That little girl can hear a gnat farting in the neighbors basement.

THe electronic ear muffs are GOLD!  Mine will actually amplify sound if I crank them up but still block the shot noise.  Anyone would be a fool not to have a pair next to your HD weapon.  If you don't have time to get them on, ohh well, but the option should be there.  It's not like you'll ever regret it.  

I won't argue a shotgun's effectiveness, but I will tell anyone who keeps one for HD, you should try find a safe environment to fire one inside a closed space.  If you're really feeling froggy, try it with nothing on your ears...such as it would be when something goes bump in the night.  I understand the variables will change with the fight or flight adrenaline dump you're gonna have when your family's life is on the line but two or three rounds of 12g in the house is gonna be ROUGH and no one can deny that.     It doesn't take super godlike velocity to kill a man.  The reduced recoil loads made by Hornady TAP and others will MORE than suffice and in the process, give you better control, not to mention something left of your hearing after the fact.  

By that reasoning, I really DO know everything.

I hate you.   I'm still humping a torch.     Did I say I hate you?     :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:

Well, it could be worse.  I will have a much easier time next go around.  It's a bit daunting the 1st time for most everyone I suppose.     My reward?  A Titanium YHM Phantom.   I did go with the 5,56 version.  After much deliberation, I felt it was NOT worth an extra $300 on the of chance I might wanna suppress my .308.  I'm not threading my Weatherby and I will never again own another caliber.  I'm done with that.  The $300 saved will go a long ways to putting glass on my AR-build this suppressor is for.       Big thumbs up to the guys at Everything Weapons.  Nice lot there.  Glad we have them as vendors.  I put it on my rifle, before they carted it off to the safe.  I couldn't feel any difference.  By god it's a long setup though.  18" barrel with a magpul A2 buttstock.  Add that suppressor and she's a long ole gal.  Ohh well, I likes it.     If anyone has been wanting to check out Everything Weapons, they're open on sunday and that's damn nice for us greasers who work all damn week long!  The big store opens at noon.  I think the range is open a little sooner.  Check them out.  

Finished my Trust.  Went to Everything Weapons today and bought my suppressor. Mailing off the $200 and the metric crap ton of paperwork tomorrow.   THEN.... Wait.     This sucks.         My birthday is in Sept.  Maybe I'll have it by then.  Then I'll have a nice B/day with a titanium suppressor for my AR I'm almost done building.   Tell you what though, now I know why so many refuse to bother.  For simple minded people who loathe and despise paperwork [like me!] it's a bit ridiculous.  Ohh well.  Worth it in the end.  I just hope the poop can't satay off the fan till then. :rofl:

You really shouldn't be casting and loading in the same day, unless your casting some dead soft (almost) pure lead. Bullets need to age a bit for best results. Wheel weight lead will harden with time. If you want the best results possible, cast, let them cool, inspect and cull, then set them aside and size/lube em a couple weeks later. This is a LOT more important with rifles than with pistols but still......

It's a shame it was just a squad car.  Shoulda been a Kenworth.

Ronnie Barrett would vehemently disagree with this myth.

Amen! Why build those stupid battle droids and SBD's? If Droidekas are so hard to defeat, why not make more of them? Why not build an entire army of IG-88's or IG-100 maganaguards? Why build the stupid droids that only get wiped out en mass with the greatest of ease? Materials wasted on a million useless B1 droids could make half a million high quality droids. Lunacy!!

I would tell you that Chewbacca is dead now but I've just been informed all written texts no longer matter. Which I find to be BS! Chewie died saving Anakin Solo.

The comments on "enjoyment" are spot on. If you don't enjoy it, find something else to do. I actually like casting and loading more than shooting so the fact that many of my loads are very labor intensive means precisely dick. But seriously, if anyone rads this thinking they will only do it for e cost savings.....forget it. You will never achieve your goal in its entirety because you will always figure in your time.

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......if you didn't live so far far away. I have them all. The Darth Bane books can be jumped right into. Darth Bane: Path of Destruction tells of his rise to power. It's followed by The Rule of Two and goes from there. It's hard to get started but once you do, you won't wanna stop. Prepare yourself to spend at least a year or more though. I spent over 9 months reading most of them and I can squeeze an easy 4 hours a day in at work. Also, you WILL NOT wanna miss Karen Traviss's books "Republic Commando" series. They follow Clone Army special forces through the Clone Wars. Friggin AWESOME!!!