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I don't think it is ammo they are swapping. They are acting like an old married couple half the time anymore. Dolomite

You have ZERO rights to freedom of speech on this board. The First Ammendment protects you from government abuses but not by private entities, which this board is. Yes can say whatever you want but we can come in and edit it or remove it. You and Robertnashville need to quit making a spectackle of yourselves in every thread you don't agree with. Both of you have pretty much the same views on this stuff but you insist on arguing with each other. Dolomite Dolomite Dolomite

I have met deer hunters that think they need a 7mm Ultra Mag, 300 Win Mag and even a 458 Win Mag to deer hunt in East Tennessee. I also know a guy who has hunted with a 22 Hornet and been very successful. You just need to know your limitations and be able to accurately determine distances. Dolomite

I have been to ORSA once to watch a high power match. So no, I have never been. I can't shoot any fast paced matches because of my injuries. Dolomite

Melt them down and use them as is. I use wheel weights, which are very soft, and have no issues. Dolomite

And if you want to try different weights of cast bullets I will make the same offer as caster. I have 150, 160, 180 and 240 grain 308 bullet molds. The 240's should stabilize in the 9.5 twist barrel but I would verify. And if they fly stabile I guarantee they will tumble in a deer. And if you want I can cast them out of much softer lead as well to help them mushroom. What reloading equipment do you have? If you want to load on the cheap you can buy cheap steel cases ammo and tear it down. Then load the with good powder and bullets. That is what I did for reloading x39 cheaply. There is nothing wrong with the primers in Tula. And no need to worry about collecting the brass to reload. Dolomite

The accuracy issues with AK's and SKS's is related to the ammo 90% of the time. I measured a bunch of commercial 7.62x39 and all of the bullets measured .308" not .311" like they should be. And those .003" make a HUGE difference in accuracy potential. Next time I see some I will measure the Zombie ammo to see what they measure, I bet they will be .308". If you want an accurate AK you are going to have to get surplus, true combloc ammo. I have seen AK's hit man sized steel targets at 350 yards 7 out of 10 times using quality ammo. The ammo was US made but had the correct .311" bullet. Dolomite

I will admit that I am a deer hunting noob. But isn't 4" a bit small for the vitals on a deer? I mean 4" at 100 yards is a pretty good feat with a SKS and iron sights and 4" at 150 yards would amaze me. I think paperplate size would be a more appropriate size for a deer's vital zone. Dolomite

One of the first bases I was at let any active duty member drink. When I got there, at age 19, the drinking age was 21 then shortly after I arrived we got a new base commander in. One of his first actions upon taking the post was rewriting the post regualtions to say that anyone, regardless of age, with an active duty ID could purchase and drink alcohol on base. And yes there were soldiers who got in trouble but no more than before the lift on the drinking age. Every Friday my 1SG would buy a keg at the local club. He would sit there and guard the keg while pouring beer for members of our unit. The first unit function, a BBQ, I went to was really eye opening. There were about a 1/2 dozen trash cans full of ice and drinks. I walked around looking in each trash can for a soda thinking I could not drink. I finally asked when I couldn't find any and was told if I wanted soda I should have brought my own. I think it was my supervisor who handed me a beer and said drink up. This was back when unit funds COULD be used to purchase alcohol. When I was overseas we had vending machines in the barracks that dispensed beer by the can. Alcohol was an integral part of the military and part of the commraderie when I first joined. Everyone drank and the alcoholics were the ones who drank hard liquor. I agree that if someone is old enough to give their life in defense of the country they should be able to drink. Dolomite

BTW, I cast EVERYTHING I reload except 223. Casting makes shooting so much cheaper and for me more enjoyable. I can load 45 ACP for under .05 each with quality compnents. If I used a bargain primer and miserly powder I can do it for under.04 each. I load 9mm for under .04 too. I recently started loading 300 blackout and I cast bullets for it. It costs me more, per round, for CCI Minimags than it does for my 240 grain 300 blackout loads. Without casting I could not afford to shoot what I shoot and as much as I do. It would also be too expensive for me to shoot things like the 300 without casting. Dolomite

Wheel weights? If so did you make sure none of them were zinc? I found out the hard way that there is zinc wheel weights. And that zinc will melt in lead. Once cast into bullets they will not hurt anything but aluminum will disolve in molten zinc. It can ruin a aluminum mold. I did not ruin my mold but I do have bullets that have zinc in them I never knew this until Caster clued me in. I had cast probably 30 pounds of bullets only to find out they were zinc. Not that big of a deal unless they don't shoot. Then I have to toss them rather than remelt them or just make blaster ammo. Dolomite

I have ran above published data but you need to work up. It is a very miserly powder but be careful because it uses such a small amount double charges might go unnoticed. Dolomite

The Zombie Max ammo that Hornady is making should work fine. It is nothing more than the V-Max bullet with a green tip. It will be accurate enough and damaging enough to put down a deer or hog within 100-150 yards. Dolomite

Actually it is just the opposite. Polymer mags do and have been having issues with swelling under the pressure of being left loaded. I have NEVER seen a metal AR mag suffer from issues from being left loaded. I have, on the other hand, seen several brands of polymer mags suffer from it. Things have gotten better in recent years but at one point polymer mags were so bad I would cut up and throw away any I got. I had one brand in particular that you could not seat in the magwell if it was loaded longer than 24 hours. And after a few days the magazines would spontaneously empty themselves as the feed lips spread. And forget about them dropping free. Even if you just reloaded them they would not drop fee because of all the flex. Dolomite

I have been told you can use a bullet sizer for a 44 magnum to squeeze 40 S&W back into shape after they have been "Glocked". I don't own a 40 S&W so I have not tried it myself. From looking at drawings it should work. The bullet sizer is .429" and the casing is .424". And having only .005" difference is nothing really. The problems you are going to run into isn't so much from loading your rounds hot as it is from leading in the bore. Even if you start out with a very mild load the bore can become so full of lead that the pressures can reach a dangerous level. And one of the worst things you can do is shoot jacketed bullets down the bore to clean the lead out. I suspect that is where the majority of the kaboom problems come from. I was talking to a friend who reloads and shoots cast through his Glock all the time. He said as long as you clean the barrel every 100 or so rounds you can shoot lead. For me it would be too much of a hassle. Dolomite

Personally I do not believe I would want to use a suppressor for self defense. Not because of how I will be portrayed but because it will be placed in evidence for an unkown length of time. It could only be a week or two or it could be years and I don't want to trust something like a suppressor to the system. It depends on the weapon being used for self defense whether the muzzle blast of a unsuppressed gun is going to suck a little or suck a lot. A SBR gun chambered in 5.56 is miserable indoors. Even with hearing protection you are going to have some ringing. Then the blast itself can be very disorienting, especially if you are shooting in a dark area or at night. And that blast will force your eyes closed no matter how hard you try to keep them open. A suppressor can mitigate all those problems better than a set of muffs can. A pistol is less miserable but it is still going to be pretty miserable indoors as well as a shotgun. Distance to the target also has an effect on the effectiveness of the suppressor. If the rounds are supersonic there will be a sonic crack but as long as the target is under the ~7 yard range it is going to be pretty quiet. Beyond that and the sonic crack can get pretty loud pretty quickly. I have shown this phenomenon to several people with my suppressor. I take high velocity, supersonic ammo and shoot into the ground at my feet. It will be as quiet as shooting subsonic ammo. But when I shoot at distant targets I get the supersonic crack. One more thing about the supersonic crack, not so much related to SD, is that the supersonic shot does not sound like it came from the gun. It sounds like it came from where it passes you. That is if you are facing the shooter and he is in front of you when he takes a shot but misses over your right shoulder the shot will sound like it came from the right and not from the front. That is because the supersonic crack moves out at a 90 degree angle from the bullet path until the bullet falls below the speed of sound. I have tested this myself by shooting past livestock with a suppressed gun shooting supersonic ammo. The livestock always runs towards the bullet path rather than towards me like they do when I shoot unsupressed. As far as shooting then removing the suppressor there are a few problems with that. First is lying about what happened. And athough getting caught in a small lie like removing the suppressor doesn't seem bad it puts into question every other part of your story which can be very bad. Another problem I see but I am not postitive about, I may have to test it, is the gasses and debris will be more concentrated on the target with a suppressor. I know that when I don't have a can on the gasses dissipate pretty quickly in all directions. When it is on all the gas and crud is directed straight forward into the target when I am close to it. And I think that concentration can make the shot appear as though you were closer than you really are. Rather than try to suppress something why not pick something more suited to self defense indoors. One of our go to guns is a 9mm rifle. Although it is not hearing safe it is definitely a lot quiter than a pistol and guns chambered in rifle calibers. Couple that with 357 magnum like ballisticas because of the extra barrel length and it makes for a very effective firearm. You have just as many rounds as most other rifles. I also believe that the blowback design of most pistol caliber carbines is more reliable and rugged than any gas or locked breech setup. And 9mm is effective out to 100 yards easily. And the energy level of a 9mm carbine is the same at 100 yards as at the muzzle of a pistol. As was mentioned earlier adrenaline can do strange things to the body. It shuts down 90% of your heard hearing. And although you may not hear the shot the physical damage is still there. You will still have ringing in the ears and temporary hearing loss afterwards. You also get tunnel vision as well as loose fine motor skills. Training and life experiences can reduce the effects of adrenaline but in a true fight or flight situation you will suffer the effects of adrenaline. In the end, for me, using a suppressor on a SD weapon is a GREAT thing but unfortunately because of circumstances out of my control I would not use one. Dolomite

You can find nice used examples at pawn shops for under $250 if you give it a little time. I have seen used ones at the shows for a little more. And if you don't mind a scratch and dent "shooter" those can be found for $175-$200 at pawn shops. Personally I wouldn't mind having one I am not afraid to carry in the woods. Or one I don't freak out over if it falls to the ground. And generally speaking those on the used market AR's going to be real Marlin rifles. Dolomite

Yes the paper it is written on makes a difference and not just the weight of it but the color. After I got out of the military I was reviewing a stack of resumes and had one printed on bright yellow paper. I did have him come in just to see what he was all about. I can't remember if we hired him or not but it got him in front of the hiring staff. I have seen pink ones and light blue as well. Also, the heavy resume paper also makes very nice targets once you get that job. I use them to print my targets on all the time. Rather than tear like standard white paper they cut a lot cleaner making groups easier to measure. Dolomite

Because they used the "I'm crazy" defense he will probably be put into a medical unit for the crazies. Which is good. If he is indeed crazy he is in the right place. But if he isn't and only used the defense to try to get a by being housed with the crazies will be very punishing. He will enver get a good night sleep in the crazies unit. Dolomite

I am so sorry to hear this. I think the biggest thing she needs to do is not give up hope. Once you give up hope then you become depressed and the rest of your life, in turn, turns to crap. Also, being active, both pysically and mentally, will help her live the rest of her life as enjoyable as she can. A lot can be said for natural unprocessed foods. I, along with my wife, have been eating a lot of fresh foods lately and it makes you feel like a new person. I think you did good for getting her out of the hospital. I have a friend who has cancer and he sits at home, drinks his coffe in the morning like always and is enjoying his life. They told him they could give him an extra month or two if they did a bunch of treatments and surgery. I think he said it best when he asked what kind of month or two would they be. He said he would rather have a great year than a crappy 14 months. And he is right, they might extend his life by a few months but he will loose much more than that during the treatments. Now you guys can spend as much time together as you want and enjoy life. That is better than sitting in a hospital feeling like crap and with the constant reminder of why you are there. Dolomite

The SD is posturing so they can dismiss some of the damages as not their fault. Like the laying on the back thing. They are going to have experts say the injuries were worse because the women did not do as instructed after the shooting. What the SD should do and say that they are 100% at fault, fire the officer then pay a reasonable amount in damages right this second. The women is going to have to pay, both financially and physically, immediately and the SD will not have to pay her for years. In the mean time the women is going to have to endure hardships because of some negligence on the officer's part. You do what is right in the beginning and not wait until later or when you are forced to. Dolomite

I had a soldier that had a resume like this. It was full of military accronyms and unless you had been in the military for a while you had no clue what any of it meant. I sat down with him and wrote out or put into better context those accronyms. Also, tell him to not be afraid to build himself up on the resume. People are generally on each side of the spectrum, they either hold back because of modesty or embellish or flat out lie on their resume. Not saying to lie but you do need to build yourself up as the greatest thing since sliced bread. And when talking numbers do not write them out like "four" use the actual letter "4". And if it can be broken down to smaller increments to make the actual number bigger do that. On one of my resumes rather than mention square miles I used acres which made the same area appear that much bigger. Resumes are used to get you in the door for an interview so you want it to read quickly with your accomplishments and stand out. Keep it to one page because most people who read them are looking through a stack of them and want to get through them quickly. But also have a more detailed resume if they ask for one. My detailed one is three pages where my regular one is always a single page. And write the resume for the particular job you are applying for, showcasing your Knowledge, Skills and Abilities that apply to that particular job. A person hiring for a rocket scientist doesn't want to see how well you can dig ditches. I know I generally had 3 resumes depending on what I was applying for. I know of very few companies that would actually hire based on the resume only. Writing a resume isn't that hard, just a story about yourself in chronological order. And when you write it make yourself the hero of the story. Dolomite

The magazine springs go bad from cycles. If it it compressed or at rest or anywhere in between it will be fine as long as it isn't being worked. I found a magazine that was loaded almost full with blanks. It was in my father's stuff and the last time he was in a until where he would have had it was 1985. I found the magazine in 2005 and promptly unloaded it. I filled it up and took it out and it chot fine and has continued to do so for a probably 50 more loadings. And with today's modern metals and durability testing magazines of today will last a lifetime more than likely. And yes, I do keep mine loaded. Dolomite

I have ate there and I will say this. Sample the food before having them cater. I had some great food and some not so great food there. I will say the highlight was the fried green tomatoes, haven't had those since I was a kid. Dolomite

He buys them by neither. More like storage container. That is how he can offer us the best prices anywhere. And you will not find a more honest man to deal with. He is a shooter and has all the knowledge you could need, all you have to do is ask him. I cannot say enough great things about David. He is trully one of a kind in this world. Dolomite