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Not planning on doing much rifle for now.  I got the hand press to see if reloading was for me.  I can make enough 9mm to replace what I use.   Reloading for rifle with a hand press, while tedious, might be a welcome distraction in the dark months of winter after November.  In other words, even with a slow rate of reloading, it is much easier (and cheaper) to store primers, powder, and bullets.  I have been saving brass since the ammo disappeared after Sandy Hook.  Also, I have rigged the hand press so that it is semi-stationary, which reduces fatigue.     Shell holder definitely touches the die.  I was thinking it would be easier to clean with an open primer hole.  That is how I have been doing 9mm.  I shoot almost exclusively, so maybe I have been lucky since the shells are much less likely to get dirty on a concrete floor.

I have been using a Lee Hand Press to reload 9mm for a few months now, and today I decided that I would try .223.  I got the Lee Pacesetter .223 3-die set.  I am using the Lee resizing lube that came with the hand press kit.   The instructions state that the decapper should fit flush with the end of the nut.  However, every time I use it after setting it flush, the first case will cause the decapper to protrude about 2 mm from the nut.  It will still decap the primers, and will continue to work on subsequent cases.  Each time that I have loosened the nut to reset the decapper, it takes a lot of force (two wrenches and a vice clamp), and when I reset it and tighten it, I am making it as tight as possible.  I literally feel like I cannot torque it any tighter.  Yet, with just a moderate amount of force, the first press will push the end of the decapper out as it decaps the primer.     It feels like the collet just cannot get tight enough around the decapper.  I cleaned everything to make sure there was not lube or oil allowing it to slide, but it still happens.  It also does not move any farther than than the initial protrusion.   Does anyone think that not being flush will be an issue?  I figure if it is decapping the primer, the pin must be going far enough into the case, but I wonder if there could be a problem resizing the last 2 mm at the base or possibly affecting the shoulder?  My calipers are not detecting a significant difference between the resized cases and an unfired cartridge.  I have emailed Lee, but I suspect it will be a day or two before I will hear from them.   Another question:  do you trim the cases before or after cleaning (assuming you are depriming and resizing before cleaning)?

Sorry to hear about Axl.  Although it all happened rapidly, in retrospect, it may have been for the best for him.  It could have been worse if he had surgery and the associated pain, inflammation, and cost and still ended up in the same condition.  One of the most important things that a surgeon does is knowing when not to do surgery.   I have had owners agonize of whether they should have pursued some treatment and whether it would have made a difference.  In your case, the weight of that type of decision was lifted from you.  Although not the outcome you wanted, at least you don't have to second guess if you could have done anything different.  It might be a small solace, but it is good to think about what he didn't have to experience in his last days.

  Glen also picked up a bat from a display case in Noah's neighborhood.

The two guys with the horses probably come from the Kingdom, one of the other settlements Jesus mentioned. He didn't mention it by name, but that is the name in the comics.

Well we know it wasn't Carl or Rick (and not because of plot armor; they were mentioned by name as not being in front of Negan).

I'm a few miles from the TN-GA border, and I have several. They show up in the most interesting places--son's bedroom, the tub, and once in the curtains (it made real nice picture with the sunlight silhouetting its distinctive shape).

I thought he was holding it weird, with the middle finger on the trigger and the index finger along the slide. It was an odd enough grip that I wondered if there was something wrong with his index finger, like it was short or too weak to pull the trigger. I didn't notice how he was holding it when he shot Daryl.

  I don't think they ever showed it; they only showed her sewing it up in the sleeve.  

Sandy Hook and the Great Ammo Scare stimulated me to start saving brass, but I didn't reload until this year. Originally, when considering a simple kit, I figured it would have to be a lot of 9mm to break even. I bought a Lee Hand Press, which cut costs some, and I am trying to get everything as simple as possible. The hand press can be tiring, but I just rigged a stand for it, and now I can easily use it with my weak hand now, which adds to the speed. I'm thinking about doing .223, but the case trimming is an obstacle, although the Lee Quick Trim case trimmer looks like it would suffice.

Since they had Eugene and Abraham doing a very similar scene to the comics, I kept waiting for the surprise arrow. When Abraham left, I thought maybe they would find his body. I had given up on the scene when suddenly Denise gets it. Great misdirection and another lesson that we can look to the comics for hints but can't depend on them for concrete spoilers. As for the plethora of ammo in private houses, they would have to go door to door, room to room to find it all, and they showed the difficulties of that before they found the prison and again at Noah's neighborhood. I bet letting rotting Walkers out of houses got old after awhile. With the expected number of houses in the suburbs around D.C., they should have access to a bunch of canned food also, but maybe previous expeditions have been too risky.

The cost savings for me is the ability to store the components easier and cheaper than storing/hoarding finished product. Also, when I store the components, I am potentially storing multiple calibers, vs if I had to buy and store separate finished ammo.

I saw a movie once where a mother tracked the daughter's phone. When she wanted to go out with her boyfriend, she left the phone at her friend's house. I could see a real teenager voluntarily leaving the phone behind if hormones are involved. I would track both the phone and the car, but I would be tempted to only tell her about one of the two.

A wedge biopsy is when they cut a piece of tissue directly from the liver.  An ultrasound-guided biopsy would have essentially been a very large needle biopsy.  The advantage of the wedge biopsy is being able to more carefully sample the liver and have more tissue to examine.

Did they get any ultrasounded-guided biopsies?  If they were worried about Von Willebrand Disease, they may not have wanted to do a biopsy at that time because the disease causes a clotting disorder, so biopsies could lead to serious bleeding.  Otherwise, our specialists often try to get biopsies while doing the ultrasound because there is a limit to the information that bloodwork can tell us about liver disease.   The only surgery that I could imagine would be $3500 would be some type of shunt repair.  I can't imagine a simple exploratory surgery with liver biopsies to be that much, no matter where you live.  Also, shunt surgery is about the only liver-specific surgery that I could imagine; most of the other possibilities require medical treatment.  I would definitely wait to see what the tests show so far.  

Now Governor Deal is making noises that he has some reservations with the bill.  Some of those reservations sound like talking points straight out of the mouths of the bill's opponents.  

Letting them know that Maggie was pregnant was part of her plan.  You can clearly see the mood change once they found out Maggie was pregnant.   Remember, in their eyes, the Saviors are the good guys, and not many good guys would hold the sins of the mother against the unborn child.   At the very least, Carol figured they would be less likely to shoot Maggie first if they needed to send Rick a message, so you could see it as a potential self-sacrifice.     The caring about the baby's welfare was both genuine AND part of her long con, I believe.

One of the first modifications to mine was swapping out the handguards.  Also, if I had done things differently, I would have gone mid-length instead of carbine length.  I got a new handguard that works around the carbine length, but I think there would have been more options with a mid-length.

Just two a few years ago, all campus carry was torpedoed.  The legislators and GeorgiaCarry.Org must have spent some quality time finding out what exactly were the objectionable parts of previous bills, because this bill sailed through the Senate smoother than any of the other gun rights bill before.  In previous years, we had to deal with the Lt. Governor refusing to call bills to the floor, petulant conference committee Senators, and attempts at poison pill amendments or neutering of previous bills.   If this bill becomes law, then those students (21-years and older who have a Georgia Weapons Carry License) who live in student housing will have to keep their guns in their cars, which is what they are allowed to do now.  I suspect that this will affect a very small percent of the student dorm population, although at UGA they did have "family housing" for married couples.     Once it is law, then perhaps the dorm provisioned can get overturned on the basis of discrimination, but on the whole, it is a major win for us in Georgia.  If you have every been to downtown Atlanta, you may have seen that the magic invisible boundary between GSU and the city is elusive.  With this bill, that will no longer be a concern.   The arguments from the opponents of the bill were farcical; according to them, all the 21-year old GWCL-holding students are hot-headed, alcoholic, pot-smoking fiends who are liable to shoot someone over a bad grade.

I think that Rick's group is going to start taking casualties.  I think they have greatly underestimate the Saviors' numbers.  So far since being in Alexandria, they have had contact with one guy from Hilltop out roaming around, but have encountered three groups of Negan's people, which suggests that maybe Alexandria has been lucky up to this point.  On the whole, the post-apocalyptic world appears to be sparsely populated, so their encounters with a rival group suggests that they may be facing much greater numbers.  I'm imagining a scene reminiscent of the walkers surrounding Alexandria, but instead it is humans who are mad about their buddies.  

Remember what Maggie said about their deal with the Hilltop: "It's gonna cost us something."  Were the writers hinting at a character death, or maybe the loss of humanity by the Alexandrians as they become hitmen?   I heard that Norman Reedus bought a new house in the area recently, but I'm not sure if it would have been before or after the season finale was filmed.  You would hope that if the producers were decent people, they might keep their actors from making expensive mistakes.  However, one of Emily Kinney's complaints was that she did not find out about Beth's death until close to the episode's filming, and she had recently bought a townhouse in the Atlanta area.  Maybe the producers have learned since then.  I hope the actors learned from her mistake.  If I were them, I would not be making any permanent roots.  Chandler Riggs and Melissa McBride, however, already lived in the area before Walking Dead.

Thanks for the link.  From what I saw on the behind the scenes footage, they were mostly using blanks.  I also remember a crew member who was wearing ear muffs, so I assume it must have been loud, especially in an enclosed space.  

Would squibs be enough to fully cycle the actions of the semi-automatics?  The only squib that I have (fortunately) experienced jammed the gun because it didn't fully eject.

So, on television, do they wear flesh-colored ear protection or something?  I assume the noise is still loud even without live rounds, but I have never been around blank-firing guns.   On The Talking Dead, during the behind the scenes section for the shoot-out, it looked like Andrew Lincoln had some type of conventional ear plugs.  I must admit, I'm usually not intently staring at the actors' ear canals during fight scenes.

In regard to the "baby steps"-- at least there might be something close to a standard sign for which to look, and not a 2-inch square, transparent decal (looking at you, Hunter Museum of Art).   Of course the small progress from this change could be mooted if the AG opines that the spirit of a "no weapons" law is more important than adhering to some lawfully and specifically-designated standard.