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Not a "speed loader", but the Mrs has pushed many-a-round into her 73's using this. Get the round started into the gate with one hand push it in with the pusher. She can load ten faster than I can w/o it. It's a wood finial drilled to accept the dowel. 45C round for size reference. Might have $1 invested.

Not sure what the extra handles and stuff is for with that kit. Try this one.

Exactly. And the low-hanging fruit is the shotgun. SG is the only gun we load on the clock. Git gud at loading the SG.

https://harpers.org/archive/1933/03/what-the-young-man-should-know/

All in the Family couldn't be aired today.

Now I'm going to have to dig out the civil war records of my great grandfathers that my dad "sent off for" many years ago.

When the contractor built the "neighborhood" (one dead end road with 16 houses) they ran 12/3 for temporary power in the trees behind the construction sites. There was a big ravine behind the houses across the street. We found a remnant of the temp power line and used it to get a good running start and swing out way over the ravine. Then one day we climbed the tree the line was in and found it attached by one staple.

Indeed. For a glimpse into the brutality read James Bradley's other book Flyboys. ETA link... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboys:_A_True_Story_of_Courage

Barracks

Forget the trigger. Can you explain how pulling the hammer back and holding it is different than pulling the hammer back and not holding it? IOW... with your booger hook nowhere near the trigger, pull the hammer back and hold it. What happens when you take your thumb off the hammer? Does the cylinder un-over-rotate? If the answer is "yes" then your pistols need some work.

A pair in 45C w/5.5 bbl. A pair in 45C w/4 7/8 bbl w/BH grips. A pair in 357 w/5.5 bbl A pair in 357 w/5.5 bbl w/Ruger's version of Bisley grip frame. All have free spin, springs, etc. The Bisleys have everything Wes Flowers could do to them.

Yeah. That's not the same.

Hop Sing.

Brother Dave

I have a reloading log. In it I log what I load... bullet, powder, OAL, the usual stuff. For handguns, unless there is a problem, there are no notes. For long guns I note accuracy. Once I have arrived at a load that works in a long gun that's pretty much it - that's what I load for it forevermore. For example: The Rem. 700 Classic in .243 Win likes an 87 gr. Hornady BTHP with [can't remember right now] grains of H4831 with an OAL of [can't remember right now]. That's what I load for it. Period. It works. SW Va. groundhogs agree.

The front shoulders & head of boars are a lot bigger than sows. If you see them in a bunch there will be no doubt which is a "mature boar". ETA: Think of it like this... in a herd of polled Herefords or Blank Angus cattle you can tell which one is the bull.

And the Romans long before that.

The Terminator movie. Does it happen over and over or only once?

Nice looking irons.

I'll try to make it to the CAGS this weekend. (Cowboy Action Gun Shoot)

Same in NC. There's been a resurgence of "drug free" farming the past 10-15 years. One outfit up the road raises Water Buffalo.

That bit about closing the dampers to "hold a fire overnight" is a stretch. Been around my share of old wood cook stoves and the thing they all had in common was you had to feed them constantly because the firebox was so small. You couldn't get one to "hold a fire" for 3-4 hours much less overnight. Modern wood cook stoves are a completely different animal.

Exactly. Until you got 'er goin' good you top load.

A former co-worker's husband is a Deere field service tech. They're in South Dakota. He said with the GPS plotting they use about 2/3 the fertilizer & seed that they used to because there's no overlap. Goes a long way towards paying for that six-figure piece of equipment. Of course in SD they farm on a whole 'nother scale than NC. And he sure was "away at school" a lot. Seemed like about as much as he was in the field.