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Federal match grade large pistol primers. newspaper wad over primer, 20" drop,538 grain Paul Jones538 grain Paul Jones Creedmore with 64.5 grains of Swiss SFFG, I hand cast with 20:1 lead. Weigh every round and separate to groups of same weight. 1/16" compression, so first driving band has to be pushed into rifling, use a lever to push round in, no crimp, no case resizing Starline brass cut to length, and brass annealed the length of the bullet. Use one wet patch and then 1 dry patch after each shot. Also a Pedersoli Billy Dixon 45-70

The USPS can never manage to a budget. They get bailed out every year. I'm going to get yelled at but,,,, when are we as consumers and business owners going to stop being told what we can or can't do by Unions. Go to community mail boxes, cut staff and tell lthe Union to go pound sand. Or have UPS or FedEX take it over.

Just a thought but, the level being inside the hood keeps the sun from causing glare. Which makes the level useless. I shot a number of long range side matches over the years. Each club sets "their" rules. There are no standard LR rules. Except SASS rules about the rifle itself. One of the worst was a club had standard distances they shot all year. They didn't tell us the distance. And there were no sighters. Guess who won the side match?

This is all well and good until......a lateral load like an earthquake. high winds, tornado hits. Then it all comes tumbling down. The 1906 San Francisco quake didn't get the builders to change. The 1933 Long Beach, Calif. quake did. All the brick buildings had nothing tying the 2 layers of brick together. And the roof and floor joist had nothing tying them to the wall. The building code changed after 33. At least for Calif. You'll see a lot of old brick buildings with stars or round cast iron plates on the outside with a threaded rod sticking thru. The rod runs to the other side. Tying the walls and holding the joists in place. Also inside they gunited the walls to bond the bricks together.

Recognition and honoring the deceased vets is a good thing no matter where the flag is. People don't know the protocal. But they do knew flying our flag is meant to honor those.

A long time ago when 1911's and Wild Bunch was starting to surface a match decided to make a side match stage. Just 1911's. One stage. Fastest wins the Cadillac. So me knowing I won't drive home in a Cadillac loaded up some BP rounds. Shooting through a window, TO snuggles up to make sure the typical mouse fart loads are heard. And timer goes off. And BOOM! The TO jumps back maybe thinking I blew the gun up. Me I kept blazing away. He was rattled and the look on his face was a XXX moment. And yes 1911's get dirty real quick with BP.

Texas on its path to provide more green enery built some huge solar panel sites. Hail storm with wind basically destroyed a site. Causing local folk to be without power!

depending on their age Holstein calves are raised to become "veal" cuts of meat. My opinion but the process is horrible and abusive to the animals.

Theres a locksmith on YouTube who's specialty is opening safes. For a key pad, he checks the battereis. If they're good. he takes the pad off. Connects an electronic thing that starts running number combos. Takes about 10 minutes. He puts the keypad back and then opens the safe. If its a spin dial he drills a hole and moves the tumblers into alignment. $$$$$

Thanks everyone. The info helps.

I can't shoot anymore so I am getting rid of everything. What are primers going for now per 1,000. I have Federal and Winchester Small and large pistol. Thanks Ike

I can't shoot anymore so I am getting rid of everything. What are primers going for now per 1,000. I have Federal and Winchester Small and large pistol. Thanks Ike

Well Hello Shorty You were always a big part of High Plains Drifters. We merged the two clubs and are now Battle Born Rangers. Much smaller but still at it. http://www.northernnevadacas.com/ Great to hear you beat the Doc's and are coming back. Ike

My instructions are. Cremation with no service. Bring my ashes home and spread them over the grave site for 6 of our dogs. Thats it.

As we all get older the chance of getting prostate cancer increases. Men 70 or older account for 43% of all U.S. prostate cancer cases. I had the lets go often deal. Did the PSA test and I was at 8? lets watch it. Doc. did digital exam and he felt something. As the doc explained the digital exam only allows one side of the Prostate to be examined. PSA first and then Biopsies. Anyway I learned there are 5 types of cancer in prostates. Each one worse than the next. I had the 4th worst yay! Radiation every day for 9 weeks. They do it in small doses over longer time to reduce impact on your system. I was put on hormone therapy. Basically turning your man stuff off and making you a woman? Was supposed to do that for 2 years but. It has some weird side effects. Muscle atrophy. I could hardly walk after 15 months.stopped that. All clear now for 4 years PSA is .001. Prostate cancer is very curable but, if not found and dealt with it can release cancer cells which your lymph nodes pick up. And then stuff gets real serious. Get a PSA test.

Whats really sad is a hobbyist builds a 1/4 scale fighter jet, B-17 etc. They may have $20K in the thing. It goes up and suddenly something fails and it comes down....horribly.

I shoot Frontiersman. I can shoot my rifle that fast!

I'll bet the rule book was 1/2 as thick as it is now!

Ahhh. the Aesop fable of the Ant and the grasshopper. When primers were hard to get I had bought 5,000 each time I went to the gun show before the shortage. Being a blackpowder shooter I bought 50 lbs of mixed 2F and 3F. And then bought more. I quit shooting do to health. I can't ship the stuff but I have been selling it to the local shooters for $20/lb. Same with primers. DOesn't do ya'll any good but.....when it comes back buy, buy, buy.

longest vs. further?

I read the article. My point is were the Apollo missions lucky in that the moon was closer?

He did this same thing once before right after he and his wife separated. He's a sports celebrity. Nothing will happen to him.

"sending humans the farthest they've ever been from our home planet" Huh? The other Moon missions were closer?

OH I see, someone with an alternative thought about a sporting event is inadequate!.. Nothing like an understanding group pf people who support the 1st amendment and alternative thoughts. Thank you for your person bias. And again baseball. A big yawn fest.

So.......any economists on here that can explain why if we get 0 oil from Iran. And most of Irans oil goes to China gets 90%. why does it drive the world prices up????????