Patiently waiting for any interesting replies and the results of billy's range test.....
Am wondering if the older speer data for their swaged lead bullet in that weight range might be useful.....
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- Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone here using the Lee 255 in .45 ACP?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 87
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Piller, and other Texans
- Replies: 12
- Views: 188
Re: Piller, and other Texans
In Waxahachie, there is a Catfish restaurant that is supposed to be haunted. Great catfish. Mexican food restaurant across from the Courthouse that is great. We had a big Renaissance Faire annually, but last year CoVid stopped it. It is scheduled this year April 10th to May 31st. Lots of fun. Small...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:22 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Remembering Doctor King
- Replies: 15
- Views: 138
Re: Remembering Doctor King
reply/response deleted with apologies to any and all offended.....
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Piller, and other Texans
- Replies: 12
- Views: 188
Re: Piller, and other Texans
TEXAS is on my bucket list...... San Antonio and the alamo perhaps..... Slaying an exotic african or asiatic or european even-toed ungulate or two or three..... Lockhart for a smokey dose of cholesterol at kreuz's market..... Dallas and all of the j.f.k. related sites with a ride down elm street pla...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lee F.C.D......
- Replies: 15
- Views: 292
Re: Lee F.C.D......
49CBEFE5-46AD-4F8E-8B62-5439B428D9D0.jpeg Still wondering why all the confusion over which type I was referring to..... "Irresponsible perhaps but I've used a .308 win. factory crimp die to neatly crimp 30-30, .30-40, .300 sav., .308 win., .30-06, .303 brit., .32 win. spl., and 8x57mm." There seems...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:41 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Remembering Doctor King
- Replies: 15
- Views: 138
Re: Remembering Doctor King
Will we ever know the truth about the real character of this man ?
Quite a few disturbing allegations, morally speaking..... but just allegations.
The f.b.I. files are said to be released in 2027.....
Quite a few disturbing allegations, morally speaking..... but just allegations.
The f.b.I. files are said to be released in 2027.....
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lee F.C.D......
- Replies: 15
- Views: 292
Re: Lee F.C.D......
Many times a poster just says "Lee FCD" and that doesn't really explain which one they're talking about. But I'm guessing the OP is talking about the collet crimp dies for bottlenecked cartridges... Yeah it comes in a red plastic box on which is boldly printed LEE FACTORY CRIMP DIE and .308 Winches...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lee F.C.D......
- Replies: 15
- Views: 292
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lee F.C.D......
- Replies: 15
- Views: 292
Lee F.C.D......
Irresponsible perhaps but I've used a .308 win. factory crimp die to neatly crimp 30-30, .30-40, .300 sav., .308 win., .30-06, .303 brit., .32 win. spl., and 8x57mm.
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 8:16 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: “...Unregistered Ammunition...”
- Replies: 8
- Views: 203
Re: “...Unregistered Ammunition...”
500 rounds !
That's just 10 boxes of 50.....
Some wannabe or trifler most likely.....
That's just 10 boxes of 50.....
Some wannabe or trifler most likely.....
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blackhawk vs KFrame
- Replies: 32
- Views: 474
Re: Blackhawk vs KFrame
Errr..... I thought you were wanting a k-frame 32-20. Many $$$$ for a custom build.
http://bowenclassicarms.com/catalog/smi ... kages.html
Nobody here can tell you if a blackhawk is going to fit and point for you.
http://bowenclassicarms.com/catalog/smi ... kages.html
Nobody here can tell you if a blackhawk is going to fit and point for you.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blackhawk vs KFrame
- Replies: 32
- Views: 474
Re: Blackhawk vs KFrame
Not exactly K-frame but 1905s, m & p, and or hand ejector models in .32 w.c.f. abound for $300 to $1500 and k- frame grips can be fitted.....Saw one just the other day for $795 that had what looked like model 19-3 era grips on it....clerk said nobody wanted it because of the chambering.....32-20 amm...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pigs at River Ranch w pics
- Replies: 11
- Views: 362
Re: Pigs at River Ranch
Been scratching my head a pondering just where I have read this type of hunting themed narrative style before. The only ones I can think of are zane grey, outdoorsman or maybe hemingway's u.p. stories.....
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pigs at River Ranch w pics
- Replies: 11
- Views: 362
Re: Pigs at River Ranch
Am assuming that this is just the pilot for a cliffhanger serial and am patiently waiting for the next episode.....
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:21 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Here we go.....one down
- Replies: 2
- Views: 141
Re: Here we go.....one down
This comment was prophetic: “... To be clear, I am predicting that “the-powers-that-be” will resort to shutting off your access to phone (including cell phone and text messaging), Internet (including e-mail), electricity, heating (natural gas, propane, fuel oil, or coal), banking, retirement accoun...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody know what this is?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 443
Re: Anybody know what this is?
Except for the four years of misery in uncle ronnie's yacht club and 8 or 9 months working abroad as a civilian, I've spent the rest of my life in the deep south. To me snowscapes look nice on a foto calendar but otherwise not so much. In my work as a public health civil servant, I work at a facilit...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:33 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Question(s).....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 147
Re: Question(s).....
So I'm still trying to take my own advice and think prayerfully & positively but like I said above, I'm not very good at it..... What bothers me most is the anti-trump talk of 25th amendment & impeachment..... I've watched & rewatched his speeches that are being spun as egregious and responsible for...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:21 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: What are they so afraid of?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 229
Re: What are they so afraid of?
There were several fox news contributors commenting on why they thought apple, facebook, google, instagram, twitter, etc. would alienate some hundred million or so conservative users. The consensus was that a hundred millions is just a small segment worldwide with its billions and worth it to their ...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:25 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Did protesters "storm" the capitol?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 220
Re: Did protesters "storm" the capitol?
I think I saw that same perspective but wider view and the waving gesture seemed to be summoning reinforcements rather than urging noncompliance.....
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:12 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Wanted: 45-70 brass
- Replies: 6
- Views: 278
Re: Wanted: 45-70 brass
The only 45-70 brass available right now in these united states and subject to be sold-out in the next 20 minutes or thereabouts https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/74692 And they're still in stock.....surprisingly...... but the price has gone up twenty cents per since I posted i...
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:58 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: She was a white conservative so no big deal...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 204
Re: She was a white conservative so no big deal...
After years of watching cities being burnt, LEOs being attacked, ambushed, and murdered, innocents being mobbed by the BLM crowd because Black criminals resisting/threatening the police have met their maker? The hypocrisy and stench of the Socialists/RINOs is sickening. Speaking of hypocrisy..... A...
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Question(s).....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 147
Question(s).....
What now ????? I'm going to try this first even though I'm not very good at it..... “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be an...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 12:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New scoop/dipper.....
- Replies: 11
- Views: 820
Re: New scoop/dipper.....
Yeah doc, the stick powders like you mention level-off with just a tap of a finger or a shake of the wrist but smaller charges of ball or flake are more repeatable with a gentle, leveling swipe of a business card or knife blade, etc.
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 11:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: got virus? virii? wide angle view
- Replies: 13
- Views: 399
Re: got virus? virii? wide angle view
Lenin said that the whole world would be reset along engel's/marx's ideals in 100 years or less from 8 nov.1917. Then when 2017 rolled into 2018, hopeful commies said that the 100 years should start at the 1 jan. 1923 date of the soviet union. They also said that the nearly four years from the nazi ...
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 11:28 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Will the Church prevail, or perish...?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 182
Re: Will the Church prevail, or perish...?
What would you've said to someone in 2019 if they'd prophesied that in a few shorts months your governor would forbid you congregating in a proper, established house of worship ? For any reason !
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 9:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New scoop/dipper.....
- Replies: 11
- Views: 820
Re: New scoop/dipper.....
There has been a bit of a learning curve with this new dipper. It is just enough longer in the handle and rounder in the barrel to require a much larger powder container. Which is fine if I'm using powder out of an eight pound keg but not so good out of a single pound that has had some use out of it...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hmmm.....I think I need to STUDY Reloading again....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 272
Re: Hmmm.....I think I need to STUDY Reloading again....
If you don't want to get poked in the eye, cyber-figuratively speaking then make sure you have a kiddie filter running when you do a search on "rosie jones english pin-up model" !
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hmmm.....I think I need to STUDY Reloading again....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 272
Re: Hmmm.....I think I need to STUDY Reloading again....
Cartridge handloading requires such strict attention to detail that I'm not sure if I could keep the brain focused if she were anywhere near the raycave..... nor the carport or tractor shed if there is molten lead involved.....just that englisher or aussie accent or whatever it is is enough to distr...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:06 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Wanted: 45-70 brass
- Replies: 6
- Views: 278
Re: Wanted: 45-70 brass
The only 45-70 brass available right now in these united states and subject to be sold-out in the next 20 minutes or thereabouts
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/pr ... ctId/74692
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/pr ... ctId/74692
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Meteorite Collectors
- Replies: 29
- Views: 578
Re: Meteorite Collectors
I have a lump of iron that my grandfather dug up circa 1974. He was a d.o.d. civil servant and both witnessed the strike and helped extinguish the subsequent brush fire. The next day someone borrowed an army landmine detector and they were able to dig it up, still warm to the touch. About twenty yea...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Check this out.....
- Replies: 3
- Views: 240
Re: Check this out.....
I always enjoy reading anything by Terry Murbach, would have loved to have met the man even though he flamed me a couple of times. I hope the old site does well.... 8) That fellow could really hurt your feelings over a simple and sincere question but he was quite generous with his handguns and load...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: got virus? virii? wide angle view
- Replies: 13
- Views: 399
Re: got virus? virii? wide angle view
Jeepnik wrote : "Now unless every hospital in the US is in on the conspiracy, we are seeing a measurable increase in hospitalizations and death." Just about three weeks ago a local news report on the telly warned that, due to covid, hospitals were so full that there were only approximately 200 rooms...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Check this out.....
- Replies: 3
- Views: 240
Check this out.....
https://www.forum.paulmoreland.com
Click on menu to read archived articles. The three by the late mister murbach are quite entertaining......
Click on menu to read archived articles. The three by the late mister murbach are quite entertaining......
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: got virus? virii? wide angle view
- Replies: 13
- Views: 399
Re: got virus? virii? wide angle view
Where is all the research results.....all you hear is wear your masks.....adequate distance/spacing.....wash your hands...... But.....remember the early fotos from china of them viciously steaming and fogging the streets ? Fauchi scoffed at that. But schools and businesses are still hiring fumigatin...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Henry Long Ranger
- Replies: 2
- Views: 191
Re: Henry Long Ranger
Sounds like a good plan. Remember those old rem. scalloped nosed corlokts ? The 170 gr. meant for the 30-30 worked just fine in 30-40, .300 sav. , .308, .30-06, and .300 win. mag. with "reduced" loads of 4198 from the old lyman and speer manuals and normal starting loads of 3031 .....
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Night Owls
- Replies: 14
- Views: 466
Re: Night Owls
I get up at 0600 (that's sleeping in if I was on day shift) and then lay down for a 3 to 4 hour nap about noon before going to work that 1st night on back shift. I am too old to be awake more than 20 hours at a time anymore. And switching from days to nights and back messes up my coffee intake. I h...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Night Owls
- Replies: 14
- Views: 466
Re: Night Owls
Been working swing shifts and graveyard 12 to 14 hr. torture tours for most of my career(s). When I get a good night's rest on an off-night and am up before dawn, it is often 24 to 30 hrs. before I have a chance to sleep again and I do this twice per week. Hard to explain...... Sleep four to five hr...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 2:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: USPS Delivery Status
- Replies: 26
- Views: 586
Re: USPS Delivery Status
We've been recent victims of convoluted illogical parcel travels. We're almost sure everything has been accounted for but when santa's helpers use our address for secrecy sake, hard to know for sure..... The main problem has been instead of travelling on to the next destination, the item gets sorted...
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Postal system woes......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 755
Re: Postal system woes......
We're 90% sure we've received everything including two items that the seller promptly refunded the c.c. Now they're trying to figure out how I can remit payment without a redundant order. I suggested just mailing them a couple of double sawbucks (the total was $36 and specie) but they vehemently bal...
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Uberti quality
- Replies: 22
- Views: 780
Re: Uberti quality
I found this interesting article..... https://americanhandgunner.com/featured/the-cimarron-model-p/ I have one of the 3.5" storekeeper models in .44 w.c.f. The longer than necessary cylinder pin safety feature was difficult for me to get just right until I discovered that I could insert it all the w...
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:15 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: LOL...now he knows how it feels...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 223
Re: LOL...now he knows how it feels...
Since there are no quick or sure ways to establish l.e.o. bonafides.....criminals can and frequently do impersonate them. What are your choices ? You have seconds, not minutes to decide. Indecisivlely dawdle and you are robbed and or worse. Draw roscoe and respond and you're cooked if it is a cop or...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 10:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Postal system woes......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 755
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Postal system woes......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 755
Re: Postal system woes......
They have lost three checks that I've sent this year the last one certified. I hated to do it but I started paying my bills electronically. I sent a request to find the lost certified mail and never received a response. The first lost check was to my credit card company which resulted in late fees ...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:45 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Fauci predicted the pandemic....?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 318
Re: Fauci predicted the pandemic....?
Reading his bio, the good doctor certainly has roman bonefides but he is the sheeniest looking and sounding Italian I've ever seen or heard......Must be a brooklyn thing.....
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boge is "Rocking It" at Gunblast
- Replies: 10
- Views: 534
Re: Boge is "Rocking It" at Gunblast
Now that will wet a glass eye !Ysabel Kid wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:10 pmBoge's Christmas message was especially powerful.
I wish I could make amends with my brother...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Painting Elephant
- Replies: 5
- Views: 272
Re: Painting Elephant
Leave it to snopes to rain on your parade or pee in your mug of ale when you find something that makes you happy..... Back in '86 when I was a shipfitter for uncle ronnies' yatcht club in portsmouth, va., it took weeks for the security check to come through before they'd let you cut, grind, or weld ...
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Postal system woes......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 755
Postal system woes......
Its been all in the news about the recent parcels backlog. Shipments are up and holiday season sorting staff cut in half due to the confounded chinomicrobe. I have quite a few parcels out there languishing in the system, apparently lost. In tracking and tracing here is what I have found: The ones th...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ammo Shortage
- Replies: 27
- Views: 889
Re: Ammo Shortage
So he basically admits that they got caught napping and those millions of new shooters kind of snuck-up on them..... And that they've hired hundreds of new employees...... As far as "hate mail" goes, I'm quite sure he's had his feelings abused a bit but I'm also quite sure that an equal number of co...
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 4:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: An ugly duckling finds a home
- Replies: 16
- Views: 659
Re: An ugly duckling finds a home
Speaking of the 50 gr. federal load, Ross Seyfried mentions using it in africa for smaller camp meat but that it worked for as big as tommies and impalas......
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 4:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Holiday goodness from New Mexico
- Replies: 15
- Views: 590
Re: Holiday goodness from New Mexico
Oh how I miss desserts in general and holiday ones in particular ! Doc threatens that needles will be in my future if I don't behave and get that A1C down.....Pat and Vanna have gotten fuzzy on the "wheel" at 1830 hrs. and I got a toe turning blue.....so no sweets for me.....how I miss both pecan & ...