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- Sat Nov 02, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Little Big Gun
- Replies: 7
- Views: 135
Re: Little Big Gun
That front sight seems to jump right out at you. My eyes now appreciate a very bright front sight!
- Sat Nov 02, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This is evil.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 122
Re: This is evil.
Evil indeed.
The parasites working for government aren't happy unless they are controlling peoples lives. It's terrible, because they give those who genuinely want to serve others a bad name, as fewer and fewer people trust government, for good reason.
The parasites working for government aren't happy unless they are controlling peoples lives. It's terrible, because they give those who genuinely want to serve others a bad name, as fewer and fewer people trust government, for good reason.
- Sat Nov 02, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Semi-Annual Offering to The Sun God
- Replies: 2
- Views: 66
Re: The Semi-Annual Offering to The Sun God
I grew up in central Indiana. We did not change our clocks. Half the years we were on Eastern time and half on "Chicago time", as we called it. Graduated college, took my first job 6 hours north in Michigan, and began the bi-annual changing of the clocks. Hated it from the first. Now, I wi...
- Fri Nov 01, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Casting - lube question
- Replies: 19
- Views: 320
Casting - lube question
Well, there are several posts out now on casting. Must be the cooler weather coming in. :D So, getting ready for the "casting season", I'm thinking about bullet lube. For my cap & ball paper cartridges, I use a mix of beeswax and lambs tallow. What is your favorite lube for smokeless p...
- Fri Nov 01, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Newbie bullet caster range day
- Replies: 9
- Views: 292
Re: Newbie bullet caster range day
Agreed - all counts.
- Fri Nov 01, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Michigan election FRAUD (anyone surprised...?)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 268
Re: Michigan election FRAUD (anyone surprised...?)
We've seen some of it here in SC. I never vote straight ticket - I may vote for all the Republicans (and usually do), but I vote for them individually. Then I check the printed ballot. My wife has two friends that voted straight ticket Republican only to have the ballot spit out a vote for Harris/Wa...
- Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday flightsimmer & Cowboy Tutt.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 145
Re: Happy Birthday flightsimmer & Cowboy Tutt.
Happy B-Day fellas!
- Wed Oct 30, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Casting This Afternoon
- Replies: 7
- Views: 274
Re: Casting This Afternoon
I was just thinking that the weather had turned close to casting weather. Then today was warmer and more humid. But it is right around the corner!
- Tue Oct 29, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Any love for the.30 Carbine?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 4563
Re: Any love for the.30 Carbine?
A pair (individually) of Ruger Blackhawks in .30 Carbine are coming up for auction on Friday, 1 November. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/ruger-boxed-old-model-30-carb-blackhawk-revolver-2577-c-ad24f6ea3f?objectID=191923238&algIndex=upcoming_lots_lotNumber_asc_prod&queryID=b86d38d3c8b...
- Tue Oct 29, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday Scott Tschirhart.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 394
Re: Happy Birthday Scott Tschirhart.
Happy B-Day Scott!
- Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thinkin of Doing my Handloading Early This Year
- Replies: 6
- Views: 342
Re: Thinkin of Doing my Handloading Early This Year
I'm looking forward to cooler weather for many reasons, casting being near the top (that and I'm tired of sweating through my clothing every day)!
- Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Handling lead bullets question
- Replies: 27
- Views: 935
Re: Handling lead bullets question
Oh, and I guess I'm in the majority here. I don't wear gloves when handling lead bullets. Even the best would drive me nuts when making paper cartridges! I do wear gloves when casting though, just because burns are no fun!
- Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Handling lead bullets question
- Replies: 27
- Views: 935
Re: Handling lead bullets question
I find it amazing that the generations who grew up breathing leaded gasoline exhaust fumes, licking leaded paint on their cribs and drinking water through pipes leaded together fought and won in 2 world wars, invented the computer and space flight, put people on the moon while the modern lead-free ...
- Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A Few Quotes From The Book
- Replies: 2
- Views: 279
Re: A Few Quotes From The Book
Y2K had some real humdingers when he was 2-4. We never knew what he was going to say in church - only that it was going to get a lot of attention (like other young boys, he had one volume setting in those years)!
- Sun Oct 27, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heavy 308 loading
- Replies: 5
- Views: 333
Re: Heavy 308 loading
I'd be smiling too.
- Sun Oct 27, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Need more like this young woman...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 236
Re: Need more like this young woman...
and attractive.
She just realized the same thing Tulsi did...
https://babylonbee.com/news/tulsi-gabba ... a-democrat
She just realized the same thing Tulsi did...
https://babylonbee.com/news/tulsi-gabba ... a-democrat
- Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday Tomf
- Replies: 2
- Views: 231
Re: Happy Birthday Tomf
Happy B-Day!
- Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Senior Citizen Romance
- Replies: 5
- Views: 482
Re: Senior Citizen Romance
Any night I can get a full night of sleep is better than romance!
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: At The Alamo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 824
Re: At The Alamo
I have been to The Alamo about six times. Each time I learn something new, and the new things I learn make me more in absolute awe of the heroes who died there. Everyone should experience the Alamo, and make sure you give it plenty of time. You will be well rewarded. (On my last visit, I ended up d...
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Comet
- Replies: 1
- Views: 221
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For Scott Tschirhart - THE ALAMO!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 711
Re: For Scott Tschirhart - THE ALAMO!
SC is the same way. Little to no restrictions, just punishment if you use a knife in the commission of a crime - as it should be (with all weapons)!Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:58 pm At the time of that photo, we had pretty restrictive knife laws.
Now, you can carry a sword if you want to.
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Are prices coming down?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 701
Re: Are prices coming down?
I'm sure Kamala thinks they are price gouging though...Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:29 pm I’m seeing prices drop at the big stores. The smaller stores won’t drop until they sell their current inventory. They have such small margins.
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Handloading Stocks
- Replies: 16
- Views: 908
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Handloading Stocks
- Replies: 16
- Views: 908
Re: Handloading Stocks
Good to see someone else here with a tinge of OCD! :wink: I've see some of your reload area pictures; we are kindred spirits. I do the same, plus actually list goals for loaded rounds for each caliber I need to feed. These vary on the gun, action type, and intended use. For example, my goal for my 7...
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 357 reloading question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 651
Re: 357 reloading question
I don't use magnum primers as a whole. I know these may improve performance, but I'm no longer trying to squeeze that last bit out of each load. But I did just buy a brick of small pistol magnum primers - mainly for when Y2K and I reload for magnums. Regular primers make my loads go boom; that's all...
Re: Trade?
I believe that if were entirely true, she would not have changed her party affiliation to us, the underdogs, the Republicans. I think she's much less susceptible to leaning with the political winds than most others. Agreed. She's a patriot that has served her country. Hard to support the team that ...
- Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For Scott Tschirhart - THE ALAMO!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 711
Re: For Scott Tschirhart - THE ALAMO!
That actually brings up a question. Does Texas have any restrictions on knives one can carry?
- Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday geobru.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 240
Re: Happy Birthday geobru.
Happy B-Day!
- Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Like a kid in a candy store.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1570
Re: Like a kid in a candy store.
Have you settled on a load for it? It was 8 gr of Unique under any cast or swaged bullet from 255-270 grains. But now that Unique is hard to come by, I am experimenting. Most likely the winner will be 231….but we will see. I started reloading with 231 powder. Looks like I'll be circling back to it ...
- Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Like a kid in a candy store.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1570
Re: Like a kid in a candy store.
Now to the kid in the candy store part. I own quite a bit of leather and daily wear holsters from Simply Rugged. This gun conceals under a common work shirt with a good pancake style holster. But when I am out in the brush country, I prefer something a bit more protective. I found this new old stoc...
- Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: almost afraid to ask
- Replies: 15
- Views: 898
Re: almost afraid to ask
I bought a few metal followers, and love them. I've never had the issue with it being hard to load though. That's odd.
- Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 77r form
- Replies: 4
- Views: 344
Re: 77r form
Sorry, I have distant ancestors from there, but I live in a free state.
If I want to buy a handgun I pick it out and usually 10 minutes later I'm at the cash register. 20 minutes if the Feds are slow that day. Walk out with it after I pay.
If I want to buy a handgun I pick it out and usually 10 minutes later I'm at the cash register. 20 minutes if the Feds are slow that day. Walk out with it after I pay.
- Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2704
Re: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
It’ll be interesting to watch. Asheville is a huge Blue bastion. This area is rich with both progressives and yellow dog democrats stuck in tradition. After seeing the feds horribly botch pretty much everything around the storm response, I wonder if they learned anything and will vote for the Repub...
- Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: At The Alamo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 824
- Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Not political but voting advice
- Replies: 12
- Views: 783
Re: Not political but voting advice
Even with that, people seemed to be taking the advice to vote early. Too bad that there may be many others who "Vote early -- and often!" Old No7 Yep. Why do you think MI, PA, and GA are saying they won't have results on election day? They need to figure out how much they need to cheat by...
- Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Not political but voting advice
- Replies: 12
- Views: 783
Re: Not political but voting advice
Voted yesterday. 50 people in line when we left, and we were told that the line wrapped around the building on the first day of early voting. Now mind you, my state is not remotely in question, and many of the offices had people running unopposed. Even with that, people seemed to be taking the advic...
Trade?
So, Liz Cheney moves so far left that the good people of Wyoming kick her to the curb. Instead of learning, she doubles down and is campaigning for Kalama. :roll: So we lost a nominal Republican. Today Tulsi Gabbard makes it official and joins the Republican party. Now that is a trade I'll take ever...
- Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Voted today
- Replies: 4
- Views: 476
Re: Voted today
I'm fortunate Scott. In the majority of the races in my district, no Democrat was running.
Six - I'd add another - pardon any grandmother now in prison for daring to pray in front of an abortion clinic. In fact, pardon anyone improperly harassed by any of the alphabet agencies!
Six - I'd add another - pardon any grandmother now in prison for daring to pray in front of an abortion clinic. In fact, pardon anyone improperly harassed by any of the alphabet agencies!
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Liquids For First Aid
- Replies: 14
- Views: 963
Re: Liquids For First Aid
Now you are talking!Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2024 12:43 pm I thought this would be about having a bottle of whiskey for snake bites!
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Red Dot powder
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1367
Re: Red Dot powder
Revolver calibers and it works well.
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wet cleaning brass
- Replies: 2
- Views: 309
Re: Wet cleaning brass
Not a vibratory model (I still use dry cleaning media with it), but I picked up a cheap rock tumbler from Harbor Freight to do some small batch cleaning. It works great!
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I really like bullets that fill the chambers.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 890
Re: I really like bullets that fill the chambers.
Not a lot of jump there!
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday LeverGunner.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 298
Re: Happy Birthday LeverGunner.
You were born on Ruger Day? Lucky! Happy B-Day!
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: At The Alamo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 824
Re: At The Alamo
I love visiting San Antonio and see the Alamo every time I go. I have a trade show to attend there early next year and plan on bringing Mrs. YK. It will be her first time.
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 22LR Ammo recall
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2492
Re: 22LR Ammo recall
My favorite general-plinking bulk ammo was Winchester Wildcats. Always had good luck with them. And I have boxes from K-Mart when they used to sell ammo and firearms (and used to be in business!) marked $7.98/brick of 500!
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 22LR Ammo recall
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2492
Re: 22LR Ammo recall
It's not just the bulk boxes either. I grabbed an older 50-count box of Remington subsonic to test my new-to-me Uberti in my basement range, and 1/4th the rounds would not load! I tried them in one of my Ruger 10/22's, and they jammed up the magazine! Worthless stuff. I know it wasn't either gun; bo...
- Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Voted today
- Replies: 4
- Views: 476
Voted today
Mrs. YK and I hit the polls today, which opened yesterday for early voting in SC. I've always been a "I will vote on election day" like voting was meant to be, but not this time. This election is way too important. I've never missed a national election since my first in 1984, but I've come...
- Sun Oct 20, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday Hawkins.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 256
Re: Happy Birthday Hawkins.
Happy B-Day!
- Sun Oct 20, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger LC and SDS 10mm
- Replies: 4
- Views: 446
Re: Ruger LC and SDS 10mm
Ditto. They are well-made, reliable and a great deal.Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 3:55 pm I have had perfect service from the Turkish Tisas 1911s I have owned, Jason.
- Sun Oct 20, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Too much bark?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 690