Clod Stomper

With most presses, dies are a standard size and interchangeable.  The Dillon Square Deal B requires its own proprietary dies if my memory is correct.     The standard is 7/8x14 threads.  That's what most presses are made to accept.  

  For the most part, I agree with you.  But the left is working on the instability, and the apathy is well-established.   Could the logistics come from the drug cartels south of the border?

Wait a tic....   This just brought a question to my mind.  You cannot take a NFA weapon out of state without filing more paperwork, right?   So, what if one has an SBR registered lower and adds a 16" upper to it.  Can it now be treated as a non-NFA rifle?  Could one take it wherever without asking permission?   Just curious.  I don't own any NFA-type weapons.... yet.

Yeah, Brownell's still offers an FFL discount.  Mine expired in '09 and I still get the discount.  I guess they haven't purged the system in a while.  But it does make me tend to favor Brownell's when I'm ordering.   Unfortunately, the era of the smoking deals on surplus arms is nearing its end.  You can't order automatic weapons with an 03.  And that's what the world's militaries started going to in the 50's and 60's.     But, yes, if you find something you want and it is over 50 years old or otherwise classified as C&R, you can have it shipped to your door.  Not instead of going through an FFL, but because you hold an FFL.   You cannot "engage in the business".  Which means you can't buy a ton of old stuff and resell it at a profit.  Occasional buying and reselling is not forbidden.   Cost/benefit?  You'll probably save the $30 on your first Mosin Nagant.  So yeah.  Economically it's well worth it.

Maybe copper wool? Or masking tape. Or any sort if tape really. I used heat shrink tubing because I knew it was tough and would most likely not let the steel rod touch the bore. Seemed to work pretty well.

  Eat more garlic.  It's so effective, I've repelled human females this way.

Even the desert isn't this bad. I'll take 110 degrees and 15% RH over 95 and 80+ %. I just step outside and start pouring sweat. BTW, I'm not one of those people that whines about cold weather too. Bring it on!

I wouldn't worry about a polymer frame bending or breaking from riding in a car.   Just don't leave it in a car in the sun.  It will melt.   :stir:

  Yep.  EXCEPT...     The only small correction I can see.   Am I right O.S.?

  Agree.

I tend to agree.  It doesn't bother me if a company tries to jack up prices based on a current panic.  I just won't pay their price if I don't need to.   But I do hold a grudge against some companies that seem like they're intentionally trying to poke a stick in our eye.  Like Troy hiring Dale Monroe or H-S Precision using Lon Horiuchi as a spokesmurderer spokesperson.

Where on earth can you find a 50 lb bag of AL powder? I don't need to make any tannerite, but I'd like to make a little thermite on occasion.

Like you said, depends on a lot of variables. With a low pressure round in a blowback action there might be no damage or just a bulged barrel. With a high pressure round in a locked breech, probably a bulged barrel at best. More likely a split barrel and/or damaged shooter at worst.

I've used both of those methods as well. Then I had a wood dowel split and I then had a bullet AND a wood dowel stuck in the bore. So I don't use wood any more.

  If I were in the Middle East and had to get my weapon firing again in a hurry, I'd do the same thing.     But in my back yard with my pistol AR, I'm gonna be as gentle as possible.

  He he...  And unlike real pron, this was actually a true story...

  Yeesh.  That gives me the shivers just thinking about it.   I'm impressed by the epoxy holding the screw to the rod.  I've used some (1-Ton Epoxy, or something like that) that was super strong.  Couldn't believe how well it held.     Isn't it amazing how much we can put bores through and they still work?  This wasn't my first foul-up, by any means.   Edit:  That reminds me of an article I read many years ago about someone shooting a full-auto M-10 .45.  If memory serves me right, they had a squib load that was enough to push the bolt back and several more rounds fired after it.  It ended up being 6 or 7 bullets lodged in the bore of that MAC.  Don't think there was any major catastrophe.  Just stuck bullets.  

Well, I'm a tinkerer. So sometimes I screw things up. Which happened recently when I was trying to make a subsonic load with surplus 147 grain tracers and Trail Boss in .300 Blk. (BTW, don't try that combo. It ain't worth the trouble.) So, skipping the drama of getting the bullet stuck... I needed to get it unstuck. No longer being one to run to the nearest gunsmith, I have to figure out how to drive that bullet outta there on my own. First things first. I have some Kroil handy, so I dribble a bunch down the bore to hopefully help ease the bullet's path back out of the bore. (By the way, the bullet was a couple inches past the chamber into the bore.) The first tool I ran across was some hollow steel tube I've had forever. I try using that to hammer the bullet out backwards. Not happening. Even though the tubing is pretty thick-walled, it starts to expand around the nose of the pointed bullet and actually engages the rifling enough to spin when I pull it back out. Uh-oh. Hope I didn't scratch my bore. Well, it's really stuck, so I have to start getting serious. First I run to Ace Hardware in Bearden. I pick up some 1/4" steel rod (hot-rolled, in case you are wondering). I also get some 1/4" heat-shrink tubing to apply to the rod to protect my bore. I cut off an appropriate amount of the 4' rod (I have an 11.5" barrel, so I cut off 12" of rod). I bevel/round the edge so I won't scratch the bore. I then polish the entire end of the rod with 1500 grit sandpaper so that there is no chance I can scratch the bore. I want the end of the rod to stay centered in the bore, so I want to drill an "indention" or cone-shaped crater in the end of the rod. Well, my lathe is at my Dad's house and I'm in Knox, so I drill a 1/4" hole in a piece of wood (I happened to have a piece of 5/4 (1") deck board handy). I insert the 1/4' rod halfway through the hole and put a drill bit (driven by a cordless drill) through the other side and start drilling. It works as intended and I have a rod with a concavity in the end (no jokes here, please). Here's where I screw up again. I wanted a deeper hole in the end. So I use a smaller drill bit, thinking it will stay centered in the rod. It doesn't and I now have a rod with an off-center hole in the end. <snicker> Oh well. It'll have to do. I re-bevel and re-polish the end of the rod.... Starting near the end I've been filing on, I put some heat-shrink tubing about 1/4" from the end and heat it until it's tight. I keep on adding (about 2 and a half pieces total) until I am about an inch from the other end. Then I dribble some more Kroil in the bore from the muzzle end and some into the chamber end. I drop my new driving rod into the muzzle and start tapping (with enthusiasm). The bullet starts moving immediately and I just hammer it until it falls out through the chamber. Pics to follow... Edit: Ok, I normally use Flickr, but something has changed on their site. So no pics until I can figure it out. They're not that interesting anyway. Sort of an afterthought really...

  That's what I figure.  Can't be too hard to convert to "semi-auto".  Oh, quelle horreur!  Yeah, they'll wet their panties and add it to the ban list.  

  I think I saw some H110 at David's tables at the gun show this past weekend.  Maybe he'll have some wherever he sets up next.     HEY!  There he is ^

I'm not implying anything by this this question, I am genuinely curious. Did you really carry a Garand in the Army?

If you have a Hi-Point, it is required (by law) that you carry it in the open in an Uncle Mike's nylon holster anytime you shop at Walmart. I'm pretty sure.

I was too. I kinda miss King of the Hill too.

Went yesterday and today. There is a ton of .22, but all at ridonkulous prices. And I didn't see anyone buying any. I don't get it. Somebody must be buying it at stupid prices or this foolishness would have stopped. Anyway, picked up some AR parts. One table had a heck of a deal on Magpul CTRs with a riser. J&T had a box full of blem parts. Of course I found it after I'd bought some stuff elsewhere. Btw, they're still open if someone is looking for a CTR stock.

Heh. Note the name of one of the commenters.