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Okay, as someone who has no clue about casting bullets but thinks he would like to 'one of these days' (after I really get a handle on the basics of reloading and decide on a few bullets/types I really like) I have a couple of very basic questions: 1. Why do you need a lead furnace? If a hot plate and a cast iron pot will melt the wheel weights to make ingots then why couldn't you simply use the same hot plate and maybe a different cast iron pot (to keep the contamination from the original process out) to melt the ingots down for molding? 2. Why do you even have to make ingots to begin with? Why can't you just melt the wheel weights, flux an extra time or two then pour the lead directly into the mold and skip the 'middle man' ingot step? Unless, of course, you are melting more lead than you can use in one session - but still, why not go ahead and turn some of it into bullets then make ingots with the remainder to use later? 3. If you quench the bullets in water to harden them and are using them for a revolver (say, .38/.357 or .44 Special/Mag) is leading going to be all that big an issue or could those bullets likely be okay to shoot 'as cast'? Even if the .357 or .44 Mag pressures/velocities created a leading concern, would you think they would be okay to shoot 'as cast' for fairly mild .38 or .44 Special loads? I know accuracy wouldn't be as good as with sizing specifically for the gun but for 10 yard range fodder would it really make that much difference?

I must disagree. Such things can be relative to the individual and I must say that Glocks are not 'ergonomically correct' for me. Until yesterday, it had been a few years since I had fired a Glock. Yesterday, I had an opportunity to fire one that was about as 'nice' as a Glock could be. Wanting to see if my feelings about the grip angle have changed, I was thankful for the chance. Now, I am no Glock aficionado so I don't know the model number and can only say that it seemed to be a 'full size' and was chambered in .40 S&W. When I say it was 'nice', I mean it was customized with a Ghost Rocket trigger, some A grip material on the grips and a few, other things that I can't recall. Seems like it had an aftermarket barrel, as well. It worked really well, as I expected. However, the grip angle still just did not work, for me. In fact, due to something about that angle, firing it hurt my wrist. Now, you might think that my wrist is possibly a bit 'sensitive' but that is not the case. See, there was another guy there who let me fire off a few full-house 180 grain .44 Magnum loads from his snubbie .44 Mag and it didn't hurt my wrist in the least. Slapped heck out of the webbing of my hand between my thumb and forefinger but didn't hurt my wrist at all. It seems like, even putting my preference for hammers over strikers aside, a Glock still just isn't for me. Other than the wrist pain issue, this 'not exactly factory' one was so nice to shoot that I almost wish they were.

I'm talking about the accessory available from the factory that allows one to mount two extra magazines (one on each side) in the 'skeletized' part of the buttstock. It sounds like a really good idea/useful accessory given the relatively low capacity of factory 995 magazines as it would allow the user to have a total of three magazines 'right there' with the carbine, ostensibly without getting in the way. Anyhow, I am wondering if anyone on here uses one and how it works in reality. Does it hold the magazines securely? Does it interfere with getting a cheek weld or operating the carbine in any way? Over all, is it a worthwhile purchase? I am strongly considering getting one along with a couple of extra mags for my 995 but I wanted to see if there were any opinions, positive or negative, from actual end users. Thanks in advance.

If someone's first gun happened to be a Colt, his father's first gun was a Colt and the only guns his grandfather ever owned were Colts but that person went on to compete in shooting competitions on a professional level and was solely and 100% sponsored by Smith and Wesson then I wonder how S&W would feel if, upon winning some sort of national or international shooting title, the shooter held up a 'Colt' banner along with the 'S&W' banner? I imagine that S&W would feel pretty betrayed and would likely immediately yank their sponsorship. And they would be 100% justified (and right, IMO) in doing so. That is what should happen, here - his U.S. 'sponsorship' to be in future Olympics should be yanked.

I haven't hit any + or - buttons and honestly didn't even know how to +1 (or -1) someone until reading this thread and noticing the up arrow in the lower, right hand corner. I knew other people were, apparently, engaging in positive or negative rep but really wasn't concerned enough to find out how. I also had no idea how to find out what my 'rep' was on here. I guess I am behind the times - I refuse to join TwitterFace (if I want my friends to know what I am doing then I will call, text or email and tell them - I have no desire for someone with whom I had a class in 1994 to know that I have diarrhea today or whatever) so I am not really familiar with the whole "like" concept, either. Rep points don't mean much, to me. Hell, I'm a smartass who couldn't care less if someone doesn't like me in real life much less on an Internet forum (although I must say I enjoy the discussions on here more often than not.) If something I say helps someone else out, cheers them up or just makes them think then that is good but I don't need/seek approval for the things I say. That need for approval, often from more or less random strangers, seems to be much more prevalent in younger folks (not that I am 'old' - I'm 41.) Also, the need for approval or agreement used to be more prevalent among women but seems to have spread to younger men, as well (not intended as a negative comment or a 'slam', just an observation.) As such, the whole 'like this post' thing I see on other forums as well as 'positive and negative rep' really seems pretty silly, to me.

Not sure what that has to do with it but I bet that North Augusta, SC (where the incident took place) is, too. And, seriously, isn't naming your kid something like 'K'raven' just basically code for, "I want him to be dead by violence before he is thirty," or something?

Maybe you guys are right - and if so it wouldn't be very bright on his part - but since when has 'failure to be polite to an officer' or 'giving an officer lip' been a crime? Personally, as long as they aren't doing anything illegal or actually threatening an officer, I don't think people deserve a beating, arrest, etc. simply because they don't ask, "How high?" when an officer says, "Jump."

I thought that TN state law was changed a few years ago so that if the use of deadly force is ruled to be justifiable then anyone who wants to bring a civil suit has to pay 100% of court costs as well as the 'defendant's' lawyer fees and some, other expenses. Is that not the case?

Man, that would be bad enough if it were range junk but for premium ammo that is downright shameful. That is the ammo with which I keep my P95 stoked so I'll have to be sure to pay extra attention to it in the future.

I generally say, "Y'all," but will sometimes say, "You'uns," instead - although with me it comes out as one word, like, "Yewens" or even, "Yuns." Of course, I was born in LaFayette, Georgia, lived in that area until I was three years old and still have relatives in north Georgia so some of my word choices/speech patterns go back to that. In fact, if I spend a few days down there among my kin even my accent changes back to a north Georgia accent that is noticeable even to me. It is kind of funny how much more of what I think of as the "Old South" speech patterns still hold sway there than in East Tennessee. People there still often say, "Carry me to the store," use phrases like, "over yonder" and pronounce "it" as, "hit" much more than I ever hear in East Tennessee, just as a few examples. I remember having a disagreement with one of my professors at UT about speech patterns, etc. He was a linguistics professor teaching The Foundations of American English who was, strangely, not even a native English speaker. His native language was Hindi. To further complicate matters, he learned to speak English in Illinois. Anyhow, he asserted that people say the phrase, "I bet you," as "I betcha." I disagreed (as I often did - because he was often wrong.) He kept insisting that everyone said the phrase that way and even appeared to get a bit upset about it until I finally demonstrated for him the way I say it (likely one of the north Georgia influences on my speech pattern.) I do not say "I betcha." Instead, I use a glottal stop, don't even pronounce the 't' and say the phrase as something like, "I Beh (glottal stop) ye" with the glottal stop taking the place of the hard 't' sound. Between my hybrid and (I suppose) sometimes unusual speech patterns and English being one of my majors, I guess I probably drove that poor professor nuts that semester.

Sounds like I'm glad this guy got himself killed before he killed the wrong person.. It would appear that he very nearly murdered 'the wrong person' in this incident. The profession of 'bounty hunter' should be illegal - there are simply too many reports of so-called 'professional' bounty hunters screwing up. Anyone remember the couple of 'bounty hunters' who, a short time back, returned to a man's home to 'arrest' him even after the police told them that he was not their man and that they were to leave him alone? I have never done anything to land me in legal trouble so I have never needed the services of a bail bondsman, etc. and I hope to keep it that way. If some guy who is obviously not a cop comes waving a gun at me and yelling that I am under arrest then most likely one of us is getting shot. Hopefully it won't be me.

And I will be glad when the election is over so I will no longer have to read the convoluted 'explanations' from Romney supporters trying to convince the rest of us that what Romney says out of the right side of his mouth really does match up with what he says out of the left side of his mouth and that he was just kidding when he supported gun control and government run healthcare.

Some time back I did some very informal (water jug) tests to compare the Speer Gold Dot WMR ammo with the Hornady Critical Defense WMR ammo from my 1 5/8 inch barreled NAA mini revolver. Imo, the Speer was the hands-down winner from the NAA (I think I posted the results somewhere on here but can't locate them at the moment.) Well, I finally got around to informally ‘testing’ them both out of my Heritage Rough Rider. As my HRR has a 6.5 inch barrel, I expected the Critical Defense to do better from it than it did from my NAA mini. As the pics below will show, it certainly did. I was surprised, however, that the Speer Gold Dot really didn’t perform any better from the Heritage than it did from the NAA. In fact, I would say that (due to slightly better penetration from the mini) the Speer Gold Dot could be said to have actually done ‘better’ overall when fired from the mini than from the Heritage. I guess it really is optimized for a short barrel – not that it did poorly out of the Heritage, either. As per my usual, these tests were done by firing one round of each ammo type into one gallon jugs that I had filled with water. Unlike the mini, which was fired from only a few inches so that I could get a fairly straight trajectory on the first jug, both rounds from the Heritage were fired from ten feet away from the face of the first jug in their respective lines. It had rained all afternoon yesterday and I was just about to give up on being able to do the test. Luckily, the rain let up later in the evening but it was just about dusk by the time I got everything set up and actually shot the jugs and was pretty well dark by the time I took the final pics. Luckily, my cellphone camera has a flash. Anyhow, on to the results. First, I fired the Hornady. As I said, I was really interested to see how it would do from the longer barrel. I was a little disappointed with how poorly it expanded from the mini and, given that it didn’t expand much, penetration from the mini wasn’t very impressive, either. This time was different. From the Heritage, the Critical Defense had much better expansion and better penetration. The expanded bullet was found in the fourth jug. That is roughly 24 inches of water. I’ve read more than one place that water will generally yield penetration that is roughly 1.5 to 2 times as much as ballistic gel. Assuming such a conversion rate is even close then the Critical Defense met (or possibly even exceeded) the FBI’s “magic†12 inch penetration requirement. Even from the Heritage, CD still didn’t give quite as impressive an amount of expansion as the Speer gave from the mini. That said, the expansion was still quite good – especially considering the amount of penetration. Next up was the Speer Gold Dot. From the mini, the Gold Dot expanded very well and was found protruding from the rear of the third jug. The Gold Dot also expanded very well when fired from the Heritage. Somewhat surprisingly, however, it only made it into the third jug – there was no indication of any damage to the back of that third jug, whatsoever. My guess is that the bullet achieved higher velocity from the Heritage and that increased velocity probably caused the bullet to expand more quickly, actually hindering penetration just a little. Still, once again, I wouldn’t call the results ‘terrible’ – especially for a rimfire handgun. Once, again, I’d say that the expansion that I got from the Gold Dot certainly lived up to the packaging hype: I have also noticed, as was also the case - although to a lesser degree - when fired from the mini, that the Speer seems to dump a whole lot of energy into the first jug. This time, it didn’t just split the first jug a little – it actually blew that first jug wide open and I’d go so far as to say that it didn’t lack much splitting the first jug completely in two. The force also moved the first jug a few inches to the left as compared to the rest of the line of jugs. Heck, you would almost have thought I had shot it with a light deer rifle or at least a fairly heavy caliber handgun rather than ‘just’ a WMR rimfire from a revolver. The following pic was taken as the jug sat right after I shot it. I’ll go so far as to say that I don’t think I’d want to hunt small game like squirrels or rabbits with this ammo, even from the Heritage, if I planned to eat it. The Speer would probably blow such a small critter to smithereens! I’m guessing it would be even worse from a rifle but I’ll have to test that theory some other time when I have more jugs to slay. Of course, given the price of both the Gold Dot and the Critical Defense ammo, there are better (and less expensive) choices for hunting small game, anyhow. I’m thinking that either would do a number on a larger critter such as a coyote, though, and will henceforth be carrying one CCI shotshell and four Critical Defense rounds in the Rough Rider when using it as a yard/woods gun just in case I need to ‘deal with’ such a beastie. These final pics show a side by side of the first jug in line for the Speer test with the first jug in line for the Hornady test. The Hornady obviously dumped some energy and split the jug pretty well but, again, you can see that the Speer busted its jug wide open both in the front: And in the back: I still have not changed my mind about Winchester Dynapoints being the best ‘stocking up’ ammo for the caliber. It is much less expensive than most other WMR ammo and performs pretty well from all three of my WMR firearms. That said, after giving it some thought, I have decided to switch to the Gold Dot to carry in my mini when it is playing the role of BUG and Critical Defense in the Heritage when using it as a woods ‘defensive’ gun. For that matter, to be entirely truthful, I wouldn’t feel unarmed or even too badly under-armed if for some reason I had to use the Rough Rider/Critical Defense combo to defend against a two-legged assailant. Note: There seems to be some point along the handgun barrel length continuum where the Hornady Critical Defense ammo begins to really ‘shine’ while the Speer Gold Dot begins to actually see lessened penetration. As my only two handgun WMR platforms are the 1 5/8 inch NAA and the 6.5 inch Heritage, there is obviously quite a gap there and I currently have no way of filling in that gap. This doesn’t matter much, to me, as I have found what I believe to be the ‘best’ ammo for my, respective guns. However, I have no idea how my findings would transfer to, say, a 2 inch, 3 inch, 4 or 5 inch barrel nor do I have any idea at which point the ‘switch’ between the Gold Dot being better and the Critical Defense being better is made. Were it me and were I in doubt, I’d probably opt for carrying the Gold Dot until at least some informal testing of both could be done. Of course, I am no expert so this is simply my opinion and, as always, YMMV.

I just saw that Hostess is in bankruptcy court - again. Those who would approach the zombie apocalypse like Woody Harrelson's "Zombieland" character, 'Tallahassee' might want to think about stocking up, just in case, as 'the last box of Twinkies anyone will ever enjoy' may come even before the zombies get here.

I like my Heritage Rough Rider. Mine has a 6.5 inch barrel, fixed sights and I have both LR and WMR cylinders for it. With the WMR cylinder in place, it often gets used as a yard/gardening/woods gun. It wouldn't be my first choice for SD against a two-legged threat but if I had to use it for such a purpose I certainly wouldn't feel 'unarmed' (and, of course, that isn't your stated purpose for wanting a .22, anyhow.) The 6.5 models only come in 'standard' plow-handle grip styles but some of the shorter barrel models are available in either plowhandle grips or birds head style grips. As someone else said, pink faux pearl grips are available. I've actually seen some on a birds head model in person and, although pink grips aren't my thing, they actually looked pretty good. There are also adjustable sight models in some barrel lengths. Most models have alloy frames with steel barrels and cylinders (not steel inserts in an allow cylinder) but there are models available in some barrel lengths with steel frames, albeit at a slightly higher cost. I also like my WMR chambered NAA mini revolver. I ended up putting the 'oversized' rubber grips on mine. They make the little beastie easier to control but I find that, surprisingly, they don't really have that much impact on how well the little guy fits into my pockets compared to the birds head grips that came with it (YMMV). If you will also be carrying your Glocks, the NAA would probably be a lot easier to carry rather than another, full-sized gun. Loaded with a good, 'normal' load, I think the WMR versions can make a pretty good non-woods BUG, too. I recently tested the Speer's newish WMR Gold Dot load from my 1 5/8 inch barreled model on gallon jugs of water. The bullet fully expanded (looked like the picture on the box) and penetrated three jugs - I found the bullet stuck in/protruding from the back of the third jug. Sure, it's not a .357 but I don't want to be shot with it! The only 'drawback' to an NAA I see for your situation is that you say you also want to use the .22s for practice and, IMO, practice with an NAA mini really doesn't 'transfer' to full-sized, centerfire guns all that much. In fact, I think that shooting them is totally different. Other than that, they seem perfect for what you are wanting (if I understood your OP correctly.) I bought my WMR only model used a little over a year and a half ago and the 'sticker price' (before tax and TICS) was only $169. If you could find a couple at that price and then maybe pick up a (used?) S&W 22A or a used Ruger Mk I, II or III to use for practice you still shouldn't be out all that much $$$. As another option for the practice end of things, aren't there .22 conversions available for both of your Glocks (I don't own a Glock so I don't know that much about them.) As far as how shotshells do out of a mini, some time back I tested some CCI shotshells on a piece of newspaper that I had rolled up to resemble a snake. I put it on the ground, coiled up as if ready to strike, and shot at it from about five or six feet away (I really don't see shooting at a snake that is any further away - especially not out in the woods.) I was pretty impressed with the results as far as how much of the shot it actually put on the target: Some folks believe the NAA minis to be 'toys' or 'novelty guns' at best. They are not, IMO. They are definitely 'niche' guns but they are real guns that can serve a useful purpose, all the same.

Keep in mind, though, that during such an event as you postulate would also be a time when those of us who are armed would realize that we probably needed to be even more armed and even more vigilant to guard against a possible threat (thinking more toward whichever terrorists set off the nuke in the first place) and would also be a time when we would realize that we could count even less on authorities to keep us safe. Therefore, I'd think that many would be 'armed and ready'. Depending on how tense things were and the local 'climate', people might just be walking around with their shotguns and rifles in hand, carry laws be damned. It would be a powder keg waiting to blow and any threat - from the terrorists who originally caused the event to government personnel attempting to take the means for protecting themselves away from the people - would touch a match to the fuse on that keg. My thinking would be that even people who might not normally be all that stolid in their support of the 2nd Amendment would be willing to fight for their right to protect themselves and their families during such an event. I don't think the FedGov would want to poke at the hornet's nest during a time when people were already stirred up and expecting to have to fight something or someone in order to protect themselves. Personally, I'd think anyone who might want to take our firearms would be better off waiting until a time of peace, tranquility and prosperity. As 6.8 said, the government would need to wait until they were back in the 'good graces' of the general populace - and a time when the economy is in the crapper, gasoline prices are high and greater price increases are predicted due to the poor corn crops this year would not be that time. Nah, they'd need to wait until a time when even gun owners who aren't 'hard core' 2nd Amendment advocates might be thinking, "Things are going well in this country. Everything's pretty peaceful. I guess we really don't need those guns, after all. Maybe the government knows best and we'd all be better off if we just turned them in."

One of my uncles and I were talking about pet driving peeves one day and the idiots that get on your tail with their brights on came up. I told him that I'd like to have a truck or SUV with offroad lights - including one light for 'backing up' that I could turn on if some moron were tailgating me with his brights on. He told me that he had just such a setup on his Jeep and that one night, when some idiot kept following/tailgating him with the brights on he finally had enough and flipped that backward facing light on. And that's when the blue lights came on. Didn't matter that the cop was in the wrong/acting like an idiot/driving in an unsafe manner in the first place.

How is it that saying goes? Something like, "If you feel you need to be burying guns then it is probably time to dig them up." Still, I can see a certain attraction to it.

The problem a lot of folks had with it - and I still see the objection as valid (but more so when full addresses were listed) - is that it is really more of a, "These folks have carry permits which means there is a good chance they have other guns, too, so go to their house while they are at work, be prepared to overcome a lock box, safe, etc. and you'll most likely be able to steal some guns, possibly several of them," list.

Thanks, guys! Thanks for the offer - I just may have to take you up on that wrt the .44s. Except for those 300 grain XTP bullets I have, I'm mostly wanting to load .44 Special levels, anyhow.

So am I. I hear over and over, in every election, that if you don't vote for X then you are voting for Y, even if you vote for Z. That is total bull. It could just as easily be said that any vote that isn't for Obama is a vote for Romney so that should make these guys happy, right? In fact, I have heard that same line of bull crap in every election since I've been old enough to vote. C'mon, guys, get some new material, already. The old, 'use scare tactics to convince people to vote for our guy even against their own consciences' nonsense is worn out, tired and needs to be tossed on the scrap heap. Honestly, this 'either/or' crap is just another attempt to keep us firmly entrenched in a two party system. Will a third party candidate win this election? Chances are slim to none and slim just left town - but as long as people fear to vote their conscience rather than doggedly voting for a Repocrat they don't really even like just so that darned Dempublican doesn't win then we are never going to get anything but what we deserve - the same, old crap from the DempoRepublicrat party. See, what the Republicans and Dems have finally done is that they each have a candidate that I view as equally bad. In the past, I have generally held my nose and voted for the one of the two, big party candidates that I believed was the least bad (sometimes that was a Republican and sometimes that has been a Democrat.) I have voted for an alternate candidate in a few state or local elections but in the presidential elections I have, thus far, forced myself to choose the least bad candidate from the Republican or Democrat side. There is no least bad this time - or at least not enough difference to convince me it really matters. I won't say that I'd rather see Obama re-elected than see Romney win (although that would give the R's a chance to get it right in 2016 rather than trying to re-elect Romney) but I honestly feel strongly enough against both of them that I don't feel much differently about Romney winning than I do about Obama being re-elected.

If ya' like carnitas and are a fan of spicy, try (pork - although it us usually pork) chili verde sometime. Carnitas cooked in salsa verde (tomatillo salsa, basically.) Yum! Some places I've had chili verde and it was just a bit spicy. Other places, it would nearly set your hair on fire. I prefer the 'hair on fire' versions but it's all good!

Being that the OP said (emphasis mine): Since we're talking a handgun and not a rifle, II would have to wonder why fool with all the PVC pipe, gluing, etc. etc. etc. Wouldn't it work just about as well to heavily oil the gun, maybe even give it a good, exterior coating of wheel bearing grease (heavy and temp resistant enough that it isn't going to melt off if the temps get warm but can pretty easily be wiped off before using the gun and some brands contain corrosion inhibitors) then bury it in one of these: http://www.walmart.c...e-Blue/20563433 Those come in different sizes. This one is smaller: http://www.walmart.c...indingMethod=rr If one wanted to go a step further, the box could easily be wrapped in a layer or two of duct tape. Seems much simpler and more straightforward, to me. Personally, if I were worried that handguns might one day be illegal, I'd probably want to bury something more along the lines of a compact or even subcompact. No sense going to all the trouble burying a big, ol' full-sized pistol only to risk being seen toting it around because it is too big to conceal well. One of the more compact 9mm, something along the lines of an LCP or P3AT or even one of the smaller .45s built for concealed carry would leave plenty of space in one of those boxes to stash spare mags, extra ammo and so on. A small revolver would also leave plenty of room for spare ammo without the need to stash spare mags, too. Heck, for that matter it might even be wise to only stash a few rounds of ammo with the gun and bury your main ammo cache separately - maybe even dividing it up into two or three parts to be buried separately. Doing that, you could always decide to bury another handgun - or even a pistol caliber carbine - in the same caliber in a different location at a later date. That way, if one gun were found you'd still have the other and your ammo stash would not be compromised or if part of your ammo stash were found, you'd still have ammo in other places and would still have something to shoot it in - my thinking being that you'd have to be real unlucky or someone would have to be real determined for two, separate guns and two or three small ammo caches (rather than one big one) to all be discovered. For that, I'd probably want one smaller gun to begin with then later bury one or two Hi Points here or there just because they are relatively inexpensive. Personally, I don't have the resources to bury all that much of an investment in the ground so, despite my concerns regarding a full-size gun/reasons for wanting smaller, if I ever did something like this there is a good chance it would be exclusively Hi-Point pistols. As someone else said, I would think that good, well made ammo placed in ziploc bags and then stacked inside the box with the firearm would be fine. Again, going a step further and putting the ziploc packed ammo into a dry bag like this before putting it in the box might be even better: http://www.walmart.c...ry-Bag/17690257 I am using the Walmart.com links for this stuff just to show that such things are easy to find. These things are MADE for storing stuff and keeping it dry and they really aren't all that expensive. I could see some concern that the plastic of the box might crack over time but wrapping it in a couple of layers of duct tape should prevent that being a concern as long as the burial spot is chosen carefully. The ammo I have for my Mannlicher carbine has Nazi markings and a 1938 headstamp. Some is loose and some are in en bloc clips packed into a thin, cardboard box with a stick-on paper label 'sealing' the lid. I haven't fired mine, yet, but my nephew got one of the same rifles and some of the same ammo from the same place. We have shot his, some, and have had no failure to go 'boom', yet. Maybe one could take the extra step that some folks take and put a thin coating of clear fingernail polish over/around the primers just for an extra seal - although I am not sure if that would have an adverse effect (corrosion, etc.) over time. I also wonder about using a mortar shell tube (I've seen them available as military surplus, etc.) would work for such a purpose. They are made of heavy plastic - in fact, they look almost like a heavy-duty PVC pipe - and have a screw-on end cap and rubber O-ring. I've not tested the waterproof properties of one all that much but I did use some kind of an old, surplus shell tube way back when I was an art major at UT to carry around rolled up drawings and the like and it seemed pretty water-tight. Obviously, they are designed specifically for keeping ammo (mortar shells, etc.) safe and dry for storage which is why I wonder if that would work.

I looked again and I think you are right. Several places around where I live have goats so I've seen baby goats (kids.) Not all that many sheep around here so I don't think I've ever seen a lamb in person aside from, maybe, a petting zoo. I should have paid more attention to the adults the first time around. They still improved my mood, though.

Thanks for the info, Caster. One of these days - no time soon as I've got to completely get the hang of the whole reloading thing, first - I want to start casting my own. I'm thinking your brain will get picked pretty heavily when that time comes. I wouldn't have thought to check the cylinder diameters. Sooo, out with it, man - what 'bought bullets' have you used with good results, if you remember the brand, etc.