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Chantry

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  1. I use 2F Triple 7 in my Dillon 650. Depending on the caliber and charge you MAY have to put in the large pistol charge bar to avoid bridging and to get a consistent powder drop
  2. and garbage, animal remains and human remains as well.
  3. As long as you drop the Magtech hulls into soapy water or Ballistol and water right after you shoot them, case length is indefinite. I have not had throw out a Magtech brass hull in at least 10 years of shooting real BP in them. Elmer's wood glue does pretty good job of sealing the overshot card in and doesn't dry out nearly as quickly as Elmer's white glue. There is no advantage to nickel cases that I have seen and they split far more often then brass cases. I use .38 Special. Keep in mind that if you use Magtech hulls you need to move up a gauge when using fiber wads and cards: 11 gauge fiber wads and cards for 12 gauge, 9 gauge fiber wads and cards for 10 gauge, unless you can find over sized plastic wads. Plastic is quicker to load, but a bit more difficult to clean. Fiber is a bit longer to load, but easier to clean. Forget the cookies, Come to the Dark Side, we have BACON!
  4. All of Ritchie Valens' songs were performed by Los Lobos, whom the Valenzuela family personally requested be involved in the film. And Los Lobos looks so young in this video
  5. I've been aboard the USS intrepid a couple of times, all though it's been a while. https://intrepidmuseum.org/ One of the very few positives to living in the Northeast is the number and quality of military museums that are within a day's drive.
  6. Wonder how many waivers it took to keep him in
  7. Especially the ones about the fighter pilots
  8. Newer doesn't always mean better. In a role where the extra weight of the Maxim isn't a concern, I doubt that most of the modern infantry machine guns are significantly better. Although I'd prefer a Vickers over the Maxim. "The base had a stockpile of approximately 5 million rounds of Mk VII ammunition which was no longer approved for military use. They took a newly rebuilt Vickers gun, and proceeded to fire the entire stock of ammo through it over the course of seven days." https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a18971/forgotten-weapons-the-vickers-gun-is-one-of-the-best-firearms-ever-made/
  9. It's supposed to be humor. Guess I'm tired of the perception that the National Guard doesn't do anything or is incapable of doing their jobs.
  10. I tend to hover near Snacks (his alias) while he cooks the steak tips to make sure I get some. Also my own chili
  11. Hmm, while I wasn't in at the time, my MP National Guard unit did a tour in Iraq during Desert Storm guarding EPW's; a tour in Iraq during OIF training the Iraqi police. There were 10 Purple Hearts given out for that deployment and they also deployed to Afghanistan. And guess who won the 2023 International Sniper Competition, held April 10-13 at Fort Benning, Georgia? https://taskandpurpose.com/news/international-sniper-competition-2023-army-national-guard/ The National Guard of the 70's and 80's is gone. Most National Guard units could be expected to deploy overseas to either Afghanistan or Iraq when we still had a major presence in both countries.
  12. It's an AR type platform that is legal in states where the actual semi-auto AR-15 is banned, like here in CT. There are more accessories for the AR platform than any other rifle I can think of, some are useful accessories and some are stupid. And an AR 15 lever action is a lot quicker to fire than a bolt action. But that doesn't mean I want one.
  13. Most of the planes probably flew off the only two freshwater, coal-fired, side paddle-wheel aircraft carriers ever used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wolverine_(IX-64)
  14. Tracy Chapman released 'Fast Car' way back on April 6th, 1988. Her duet with Luke Combs was probably the only thing worth watching the 66th Grammies for. I still think the original was better, but seeing Tracy smile and the respect and admiration from Luke Combs and the audience makes watching it worth the time. I think the duet is slightly more uptempo and optimistic than the original.
  15. Some more on USS Texas's war record in WWII: "By noon, the assault on Omaha Beach was in danger of collapsing due to stronger than anticipated German resistance and the inability of the Allies to get needed armor and artillery units on the beach. In an effort to help the infantry fighting to take Omaha, some of the destroyers providing gunfire support closed near the shoreline, almost grounding themselves to fire on the Germans. Texas also closed to the shoreline; at 12:23, Texas closed to only 3,000 yd (2,700 m) from the water's edge, firing her main guns with very little elevation to clear the western exit D-1, in front of Vierville. Among other things, she fired upon snipers and machine gun nests hidden in a defile just off the beach. At the conclusion of that mission, the battleship attacked an enemy anti-aircraft battery located west of Vierville." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Texas_(BB-35) I remember reading about the destroyers coming in so close to land. I didn't realize that the USS Texas had closed to 3000 yards, which is a VERY short range for a battleship to use her main guns.
  16. The WWI battleships saw a lot of action, much of it in shore bombardment and a fleet action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf#Battle_of_Surigao_Strait_(25_October_1944) It's an irony that the last battleship vs battleship action was fought by battleships built during WWI The WWII fast battleships spent much of the war as anti-aircraft escorts for the fleet carriers. The only fast battleships to fight a surface action against another battleship was the USS Washington and USS South Dakota: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal#Second_Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal,_14–15_November While the fast battleships did shell Japan near the end of the war, they were less successful than their much older cousins due to lack of experience. The USS Texas, her sister USS New York and the USS Arkansas were the oldest American battleships to see combat service during WWII. All three were originally built to burn coal and were the last coal burning battleships built by the US. They all saw a lot of action bombarding enemy targets in the Atlantic and Pacific in support of amphibious landings. On edit: I always forget the USS Massachusetts against the partly completed and stationary French battleship Jean Bart
  17. The front sight is a fiber optic, so unless the rules have changed, the front sight on the CCH and blued receivers are not legal. The front sight on the brass colored rifle appears legal. I have no need for one, but if the build quality is as good as the other Turkish guns I've seen and the price is decent, it should make a pretty good entry level gun for SASS or for fans of the 1892 Winchester.
  18. Odd that this thread and a book about the Battle Stalingrad that I am reading on my Kindle has something in common. Of Mice and Tanks: The German 48th Panzer Corp, which was not directly involved the fight to take Stalingrad and so wasn't receiving supplies, had dug pits, drove the tanks into the pits and surrounded the tanks with straw to protect the engines of the panzers from the cold. The problem was with the straw came mice who promptly ate the insulation off the wiring in the tanks. When the 48th Panzer Corp was ordered into action, less then half of it's 102 tanks were capable of even moving, all due to the damage the mice had done.
  19. I find a 10 gauge with 1 1/2 ounces of #8 shot to work remarkably well. Kills them and disposes of the body at the same time.
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