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I cast quite a bit, and have tried powder coating my cast bullets, but haven't been all that impressed with the results. Are you powder coating your own, or buying them that way? Sounds like you're buying them coated. Honestly, I didn't notice much difference in anything comparing uncoated to coated. I'm careful to keep velocities in-line with lead hardness, so I haven't seen any barrel-leading with uncoated bullets. I don't have a chronograph, so maybe the coated bullets are bit faster, but in my experience they're no cleaner. And the mess involved in coating bullets is hardly worth the trouble. Of course I'll continue to experiment a bit. I cast .338 bullets and may try coating some of those.
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I saw something new today while perusing Armslist. A TN seller is offering up 1000 308 BLANKS for their primers. It sure wouldn't be worth the effort to me, but it made me wonder if live primers can actually be pushed out of a case and reloaded. Whenever I've wanted to remove an unfired primer I've always put a squirt of oil in the case and let it sit overnight for fear of having it go off during extraction. Anyone here ever actually push out unfired primers and reuse them? I don't have any desire to actually do that, I just wonder how practical it might be.
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I have a mini-split system which has no auxiliary heating elements at all, and is 100% efficient to 0 degrees F. That probably doesn't help jhc77 much, but if you're considering replacing your old system, the new mini-splits work great and cost a lot less to run. They are more expensive up-front, though.
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Current headline on Fox News site It's old news, from Sunday, but worth a few minutes to read for anyone who cares about the 2A https://www.foxnews.com/politics/psaki-gun-control-a-priority-biden-not-afraid-of-standing-up-to-the-nra Psaki: Gun control a 'priority,' Biden 'not afraid of standing up' to the NRA Biden said his administration 'will not wait for the next mass shooting' to push for gun control
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It's not looking too good this morning. Very cold temperature and a bit of light snow falling. I'll be staying indoors today.
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Here in my neck of Cumberland county it's raining hard, but the forecast says it will turn to sleet or snow tonight. BUT... that forecast called for snow off and on all day and that hasn't happened so far. So knock wood, maybe we won't have the ordeal of an ice storm. Looks like tomorrow is gonna be frigid, though.
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There are span calculators available on-line. Here's one: https://www.awc.org/codes-standards/calculators-software/reversecalc An 11.5' span is relatively short, but it depends on the size of the joists and the loaded (dead) weight of the safes. A 2x12 will support more dead weight than a 2x8. If you find that you're pushing the limits of the joists under your house, you can add some 4x4 posts on concrete piers midway between the safes to effectively reduce the span. You can also add a couple of extra joists if you think you need them.
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I take anything I read on InfoWars with three or four pretty big grains of salt, but I think this article is interesting: https://www.infowars.com/posts/ammo-company-demands-customers-check-box-saying-they-did-not-vote-for-joe-biden-to-purchase-rounds/ I knew that there were a lot of firearms sold recently, but my eyes were opened a bit by just home many.
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It's too bad that investment rates don't approach the loan interest rates.
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Utah moves to Constitutional Carry
Darrell replied to Darrell's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
I moved here from Washington, which has interesting carry laws. Washington's a "shall-issue" state, but open-carry is legal without a permit. Of course one must be legally able to possess a firearm for open carry. I regularly carried a holstered revolver when walking through the woods without bothering to carry ID, and kind of miss that ability here. Unfortunately, WA doesn't recognize our TN permits because TN allows some 18-year-olds to obtain one. I'm well beyond that age, but I believe that allowance is for active duty military or veterans. -
Governor Spencer Cox (R), will sign legislation this week to eliminate the permit requirement currently in place for carrying a concealed weapon. The act will permit any law-abiding person over the age of 21 to carry a concealed firearm while in the State of Utah. It's good to read that several states are moving to Constitutional Carry, including Utah. But I wonder if those states will still issue permits. The way politics ebbs and flows, I think my preference would be to continue to hold my permit, whether or not it's required. I can foresee a day when the pendulum swings back, and those who might not have renewed a permit could be left swinging in the breeze.
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Taken. On it's way soon. .308 Case Length Gage: I bought a pile of reloading stuff recently, and in the pile was a case length gage for .308. As I already have one, this one is free to anyone who can use it. It had some grime on it and I ran it through my wet-tumbler. That changed the metal color a bit, but I put some cases into it and they fit fine.
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I'd like to have them. PM outbound.
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Feeling lucky? How about a barrel full of 5.56?
Darrell replied to Erich's topic in Ammunition and Reloading
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Feeling lucky? How about a barrel full of 5.56?
Darrell replied to Erich's topic in Ammunition and Reloading
Quite a bit of tax liability, according to the rules. You'd have to pay Tennessee about $850 in sales tax, and claim the $8500 as income on your federal return. At 20% that's another $1700. So you have to come up with $2500 just to claim the prize. I notice that it says nothing about shipping, either, though I admit I only scanned the rules. So $2500 for 14K rounds is about $0.18 / round. Still a darned good price, even at pre-panic prices. I wonder how much Brownell's will get for the long e-mail list of gun-owners that they're going to collect. Those e-mail addresses are probably worth a penny a piece to other retailers. And how much spam are you going to get after putting your name on the list? What the hey, I'll enter anyway! -
Precision Delta has 124gr FMJ Bullets Available Now!
Darrell replied to The Legion's topic in Ammunition and Reloading
Apparently it's all gone now. I'd have gone for that deal on 3600 "Blems". Too bad. -
95 year old man and his father's 1911 service weapon from WW1?
Darrell replied to Swamp ash's topic in General Chat
I doubt that the penal system is equipped at all to deal to a 95-year old who needs assisted living arrangements. Just guess, I would think they'll send him right back to another similar facility, but without access to any weapons. It seems odd that he was allowed to keep firearms at all in a place like that, and another guess is that the staffer's family is going to sue the facility. -
Thanks all. There's a local cell-phone store that's a PagePlus vendor and I went there and asked for something that would work. The nice young lady at the desk did all the transfer stuff, and the new phone seems to work.
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The problem is that no amount of "common sense" gun control will EVER be enough. Whatever "compromise" gun-rights folks are willing to make simply becomes the new normal and the anti-gunners begin again at that point. The progression is steadily against our right to keep and bear arms. I would LOVE to find a way to keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them, but the solutions the left champion infringe on the rights of the law-abiding. I think most of us agree that those who use guns in the commission of a crime should be punished to the full-extent of the law, but the left seems to want to protect criminals. It's frustrating!
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OK, I admit that I hate cell-phones, and consider them to be a necessary evil. My old phone is an ancient Kyocera that does everything I want it to do, which isn't much, but it's just about worn out with flakey buttons. I use my phone infrequently, it's mostly just in case of emergencies, but people I know like to send texts. I use a pay-as-you go plan, and just about always have money left over at the end of the 90-day period I pay for. So my question is: What do I need to know before I buy a new phone? What I want to be able to do is just to take the SIM card out of the old one, stick it in the new one, and carry on without drama. Can that be done? My cell-phone carrier, PagePlus, offers some phones on their website, but they're sold through an outside vendor so there isn't much help there. I want as little effort as possible in switching phones and would appreciate informed advice. Thanks!
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My wife got the first of two vaccinations yesterday. Cumberland county is using a drive-through system and she got the shot while sitting in the truck. The only side-effect, as of this morning, is a good deal of tenderness at the injection site, but no joint pain and no headache.
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This from Senator Durbin yesterday. He's on the Senate Judicial Committee: Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin · Feb 1 More than 100 Americans die every day from gun violence. This #GVSurvivorsWeek, we recognize survivors of gun violence & remember all those we have lost. We have a lot of work to do to make this country a safer place. I will do all I can to reduce deadly shootings & save lives.