Three Foot Johnson

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.

If I were a mere 6'2"/260, I'd be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. In Glacier Park with my normal size relatives.

My take - .22 rimfire ammo just isn't reliable enough. It's not likely to "just piss them off", as there's a significant psychological effect to being shot that is far more likely to convince most sober people to retreat. A determined killer likely isn't going to be stopped by the shock value/"stopping power" alone of a .22, but a .380, 9mm, or .40 won't have instant stopping power on a resolute attacker either, unless it's a brain or spine shot. A 12g Shockwave with buckshot slung over your shoulder under your jacket, center mass or head, would probably have the desired instant, one-shot-stop effect. A single stack compact 9mm is good, but recoil is getting to the edge of tolerable for most people in such a small light package. Despite all the hype about the concealability of a double stack micro-9, like a Springfield Hellcat, Sig P365 or similar, they're really not that easy to make disappear unless you're wearing a coat or rather bulky, loose clothing. The P3AT and LCP .380's are good, but there isn't much to hang on to, making recoil still a bit much for most folks who don't shoot regularly, but I've been really impressed with the double stack LCP Max .380 with the 12 round mag. The extension and slightly wider grip give me enough to hang on to, and 12+1 capacity is nothing to sneeze at. Install a $40 Galloway/Sigurd trigger, stick it in a Vedder Pocket Locker curved pocket holster, and it's about as perfect as it gets. A P32 is a great choice for ultimate concealability - small, light, controllable, but standard mag capacity is only 7 rounds, and even though it's only a .32, it's quite snappy in such a small package. LCP Max .380 w/12 round mag and Sigurd trigger.

I've never seen an eight gauge cartridge SxS shotgun. Single shots, yes, and I have an acquaintance with a humongous muzzleloading 8g flintlock SxS. 16 gauge rim = .815", 8 gauge bore = .835", 10 gauge bore = .775", so if a 16g shell will fall through the barrel, it's bigger than a 10g. New 8g brass shells are $15 ea, plus shipping.

I bought a Ruger a couple years ago with a crude repair on one grip where it was broken in two from the screw being over tightened. It took a few weeks to find the factory white "imitation ivory" with medallions, but I found a new/like new pair on eBay for fifty bucks.

I've had a fire in the wood stove almost daily for the past seven months up until two days ago, and I'll probably be cutting firewood again in four months.

Wild Bunch uses the same .38/.357 caliber and up pistol cal main match rifles as in Cowboy, but there is no exception for using .56-.50 like there is in Cowboy.

I worked at an ASARCO lead smelter here for 23 years, and performed all the jobs described. In '78 when I started, the 100 lb molds had been discarded in favor of 2000 lb molds, but the hundred pound pigs were in use all over the plant as counterweights on various pieces of equipment. We would cast 10 ten ton pigs per lot, which were loaded into rail cars bound for further refining in Omaha, or to the end customer. We averaged two lots per day - 200 tons - 365 days a year. Toward the end, we had to fab 5 ton capacity molds because our main customer at the time, South Korea I believe, couldn't handle the 10 ton pigs. The plant closed in 2001, and today there isn't a trace of it left, other than the slag pile.

I bought a Plain-Jane black finish .50 AE in '05, and ordered a .44 mag barrel for it a year or two later too. For some reason, the .50 AE has a reputation for ejecting the empties right into your forehead, which really shouldn't be possible, but it does. Owners call it "case face". This thing is a beast, but not very practical - only 7 + 1 in .50 and 8 + 1 in .44.