Three Foot Johnson

I've used a lot of them, never a problem, but my springs are stock or toward the heavier end if lighter aftermarket replacements were installed.

Maybe that's the one I'm thinking of.

Pretty sure Deuce Stevens did a review of the CD 500 and had a favorable opinion of it.

I recently found not one, but two new-old-stock NOE 363 molds for the .38 S&W, made a lowball offer, and the seller accepted. One is a 4 cavity 200 grain RN for the British 38-200 service load, and the other is a 5 cavity 150 grain RN, both NIB.

I used to buy out the Sportsman's Warehouse supply when I went in - regular price $9.99, but with one of their $10 off $50, or $30 off $150 purchase discount coupons + military discount, it came out to $6.99/pound. At one time, I probably had over 150 pounds of the stuff, but have since sold off most of it - either it's their liability now, or they made a good profit off it. If my house ever burns down, I won't have to fight an insurance company over why I had several cases of black powder substitute in my basement, and God forbid somebody got hurt or killed because of it. The loading instructions say to use no fillers, no lube, and no compression. Alliant published load data for a small number of cartridges, but with variations in bullet design, crimp groove location, etc., I wouldn't consider it absolute. Just use 100% load density for whatever bullet you're loading - no compression and no empty space. ______________________________________________________ Alliant Powder Black MZ Cartridge Data BY WEIGHT The charges are by weight and are the charges, not to be reduced or increased. 38 Special (Federal brass, Fed 100 primer) 125 gr RNFP lead 16 grs @ 826 fps 158 gr RNFP lead 15 grs @ 773 fps 357 Rem Mag (Federal brass, Fed 100 primer) 125 gr RNFP lead 19.5 grs @ 913 fps 158 gr RNFP lead 19 grs @ 905 fps 44 SW Special (Federal brass, Fed 100 primer) 200 gr RNFP lead 25 grs @ 920 fps 240 gr RNFP lead 22 grs @ 869 fps 44 Rem Mag (Federal brass, Fed 150 primer) 200 gr RNFP lead 27.5 grs @ 1043 fps 240 gr RNFP lead 27 grs @ 995 fps 45 Colt (Federal brass, Fed 150 primer) 250 gr RNFP lead 26.5 grs @ 878 fps 300 gr RNFP lead 26 grs @ 824 fps 45/70 (Federal brass, Fed 210 primer) 350 gr RNFP lead 53 grs @ 1503 fps 405 gr RNFP lead 49 grs @ 1364 fps -------------------------------------- I glued a handle onto a hardwood dowel to break up the clumps.

My blood lead level is already high enough.

Some years back, Harbor Freight had a small cheapo Chinese cement mixer on sale for $99.99, so I bought one for the express purpose of washing shotshells. I got it together and I can't believe this lightweight piece of crap would ever mix more than a couple drums of concrete before it broke or the motor burned up, but it works great for washing shotshell hulls.

Scoop out 1 gn? I'm having trouble visualizing this... drop the charge in the hull, then reach in with a tiny little Barbie spoon and take some out??

I have several Load-Alls. The oldest one has an aluminum base and the rest have red plastic bases. The black base must be the current iteration. One of them has the 6pt crimp in front and the 8pt in back, and some of them have the crimp starter point to the front while others have the valley to the front. I could have swore I've used a 3/4 oz shot bushing too, but I just looked and none of them have a 3/4"er in the bushing set. Oh, and pass on the "automatic primer feeder" - unless they've redesigned it, it's slow, clumsy, and problematic.

First, the crimp starter on a Load-All isn't self aligning. After determining which one is six point and which one is eight point, you have to look up inside the tube and see how the star is oriented - for some inexplicable reason, they're not all positioned the same. If you don't index the shell properly in the correct crimp starter, your crimps are going to come out goofy like that. After I get that figured out, I mark the base with a Sharpie to remind me how to orient the shell.

You have to look at your own financial situation and do the math, but if a person has a decent investment portfolio making 8-10%, why on God's Green Earth would you use your own money instead of borrowing somebody else's at 2-4%?

It was cheap anyway.

Oof... twenty shooters are going to have thirty different answers on this. I've got a cousin-in-law who shoots in a shotgun league, and my method for loading CAS shells just makes him roll his eyes. I use AA or STS hulls, 12 grains of Red Dot - currently unavailable, but I've got plenty - 7/8 oz #7 1/2 shot, any 209 primer and pretty much any 7/8 - 1 1/8 oz wad - Claybuster Windjammer Lightning wads are cheap and work fine. I know folks who use as little as 10 grains Red Dot - you can actually see the shot ball going downrange if you're standing in the right spot. I load on a Lee Load-all, and adjust the height of the shot column with a pinch of a foam packing peanut on top to keep the crimp from folding inwards. There's no crimp depth adjustment on the Lee, so ya just gotta learn a feel for it, so you get enough pressure for a nice crimp, but not so much you crush a two piece AA hull.

When I bought my last new truck, I financed it for six years because I got 2.99% on the loan, and my portfolio over those six years earned three times that. Same with my last new car - the market was favorable and a loan was considerably less than my investments were making.

Real Steel Akuma at the moment.

Not really - today the big spike was around 3:00pm, yesterday 9:00pm - last week, 4:00am, midnight, 11:00pm, 1:30am, 4:00pm, midnight, midnight.

I don't know how accurate a wrist health tracker is, but here's an example of my heart trace from a couple days ago where my heartrate was all over the place most of the day. Most days the fluctuations aren't this severe, but instead the trace tends to have one big spike at some random time of the day with much smaller fluctuations throughout the rest of the day. Day, night, awake, or asleep doesn't make any difference.

Propofol, I believe.

PFA

Undergoing my second electric cardioversion, they wheeled me into the room, put a pad front & back, the anesthesiologist put a mask on me, someone plugged a tube of knockout juice into my IV, the doctor asked me how I was doing, the anesthesiologist said he was going to adjust my mask and reached over to move it around, the other attendants asked me how I felt, etc., then one of them started wheeling me out of the room. Confused, I asked why, since nothing had been done yet. She said, "We already zapped you, and you're on your way back to your room". NO grogginess, NO time gap or loss, NO apparent gap in our conversations - I still think it was some kind of practical joke.

Yes, but not in detail yet. This is my third cardiologist over the years, and the first two said a pacemaker was not used to control afib, but the current one briefly touched on it as being an option.

I was first diagnosed with an arrhythmia in 2010. This eventually became paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, a form of afib that comes and goes. It got worse and became chronic persistent atrial fibrillation, which means I am in fibrillation 24/7. Sometimes it's mild enough I can function more or less normally, but when it peaks, it becomes difficult to walk even a hundred yards without taking a break. I normally shoot about 40 matches a year, but only got in 22 last year, and none yet this year. It's been nearly 8 months since I've been to one now. I've seen my heartrate as high as 208 and as low as 40. Chemical cardioversion had no effect, and five zaps of electric cardioversion produced very short-term results or didn't work at all. I'm scheduled to undergo cardiac ablation on June 30, and as safe and routine as the procedure has become today, I admit I'm still a bit scared. The cardiologist says at my age (69), physical condition, and with my heart's past resistance to treatment, the odds of a successful conversion after ablation are around 60%.

When the planes take the river - 25 miles west of Missoula about ten years ago. All six of the 737 airframes involved in the derailment were scrapped.

And here I am scratching my head wondering how or why someone would want to shoot .50-70 cases out of shotshells.