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I try to get my component column to where I have approximately an eighth inch of shell material above the over shot card. When I finish my crimp, I want a full roll and the over shot card tight against the shot. I’ve had instances where there was a little more plastic showing, but I haven’t had any discernible issues with over pressure or other failure. Roll crimping also allows me to reuse shells that have received damage to the crimped portion of the shell. I simply trim off the damage and shorten my column. I shoot them until the overall length of the empty hull is less than 2 1/2”!! Two different over shot cards. Clear plastic and paper. Short 10ga shell.

Gotta’ love it!!

The last SMOKEOUT IN THE HILLS at Possum Trot was a long time ago now. I wrote all of the stages and the stories that went with them and Ringer and a couple of other shooters in the club helped me rewrite portions that didn’t work or had perceived P traps in them. Copperhead Joe, Whiskey Creek Johnson, and I rough set all of the targets and I spent two days doing the final setting and test shooting the stages. Iron Maiden led a crew of folks in getting decoration and non shooting side matches designed and set up. There was a chili cookoff, pie eating contest, liars’ contest, and several other events. Whiskey Creek and Ringer set up the shooting side matches and arranged for them to be run and scored. TN Critr printed the badges and built the shooter’s list, proof read the Shooters’ Book and the stage descriptions. I’m not sure, but I think he arranged and oversaw the printing. Several of the aforementioned people spent all or part of the final week before the match at the range, making sure that everything and everyone was safe, ready, and right! The process began on the evening after the awards ceremony and entertainment the previous year! Those involved spent hours upon days for twelve months to make it all work and to seem like it was just another great weekend at the range!! At that time, SMOKEOUT was one of the biggest Black Powder events in SASS!! There were more Black Powder shooters than attended several State matches that year!! And we had almost as many smokeless shooters attend the event as well!! A shoot of this magnitude is a giant undertaking and to be successful, it has to clear a really high bar in every way!

Just in time for the weekend!!!

Flapjacks

Time marches on!!

I did that once! It proved that my guns are better than I can do them justice!! 🥴

Diesel engines will run on nearly ANY flammable liquid and most flammable gasses if properly metered. Working on agricultural and “over the road” diesels for many years, I learned a few tricks for starting the engines that had been “run dry” as in out of fuel. Those with mechanical injectors can be easily started without “bleeding” the air from injector lines. Simply fill the fuel tank and then take gasoline and spray some into the aie intake while cranking the engine. It will run on the gasoline fumes until the fuel is present in the injectors. At that point, the engine will run as it was designed. ”POP” style injection systems present the problem of bleeding the fuel delivery system and injector lines. Opening each connecting fitting in the fuel system, starting with the delivery pump and progressing to the injectors will do the job. I HAVE seen these engines started successfully by applying low air pressure to the fuel tank and cranking the engine while, again, supplying the air intake with gasoline fumes. They will generally start and run this way, but they usually require SOME bleeding of the system downstream of the distribution pump. Since the injectors operate on pressure supplied by the distribution pump, air compresses and won’t pass easily through the injectors, while liquid fuel won’t compress! The trapped air causes the engine to run poorly and rough if it gets started. The pressurized fuel tank trick forces fuel at a higher pressure and will usually overcome the air pockets, so once the engine is running, bleeding the individual injector lines gets the last of the air out and allows the system to work properly.

Strange that you should broach the accident damage subject when this car was mentioned! I was literally run over by a flatbed semi hauling bagged sand on the Interstate Highway in downtown Nashville on a rainy morning! The car was leveled to the bottom of the trunk from the back bumper to the base of the rear window!! The passenger compartment maintained its integrity and after unjamming the doors, I got out and walked away!! I actually drove the car for three more days until the insurance company declared it totaled and paid it off. There’s a lot said about “modern” automobiles and their ability to protect the occupants, but there is much to be said for building them with durability in mind! YOU CAN DO BOTH!!

Sadly, most of the good things from two centuries ago have faded away.

Here’s Mountaineer Mac!

If you break all those rules, your grandmother will massage your cranium with her rolling pin!!

Rube Goldburg would be proud!! 😜

Two things that I gleaned from the article that are of useful are that suppressors are a good tool and that is validated by this experiment and that my impression that 9mm guns are too noisy is accurate! On the subject of suppressors, this information should be force fed to every legislature in the country and made a “public health emergency”!!

Yep! Good information! How accurate and how valid it is could be readily questioned! The same, and perhaps more potent shock waves are present in stamp mills and foundries as well as in automotive repair and manufacturing facilities! It was never mentioned in the article whether “cognitive” issues were measured immediately upon completion of testing or later nor was it said if any of this was permanent or temporary. Cognitive issues discovered immediately after testing could just as easily be the result of fatigue and if not tested again later, might have been temporary as well! While I don’t dispute the statistics obtained, it is evident that far more testing and further examination of the data is called for before simply accepting this as incontestable!