[97 Winchester Action will not open]

So you are saying you never bother to clean your guns until they quit working?

[Coiled Snake Grips on The Man With No Name Pistol & Jim West's Pistol]

When you are built like a bowling pin it is hard for a suit to look that good.

[Franklin Arsenal X10]

 

[WTB Colt Base Pin Puller]

Who’s on first?

[WTB Colt Base Pin Puller]

17 hours ago, John Barleycorn, SASS #76982 said:

Let me know 

Let you know what?

[WTB Colt Base Pin Puller]

What is LMK?

[Roman Road]

46 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

A truck is not a wagon and no, I don’t drive in the ruts. 

I've been in a rut for the past several years.

[Lessons in Reloading or Why one shouldn’t have more than one set of dies on the loading bench.]

You done good.  There are a number of nitwits on the wire that would have crimped all 100.

[Overall Cartridge Length]

1 hour ago, Presidio said:

Gonna try to seat the bullets just a tad deeper with my Lee single stage.

 

If you are going to try and shorten already loaded ammuntion that has crimped lead bullets that usually will not work.  As the bullet gets pushed in it will shave lead.

[The Road to Burning Man]

The "peaceful protesters" can bitch all they like but the Tribe has sovereign immunity and cannot be sued by the bums.

[Elvis Presley's Smith & Wesson revolver sells for an eye-watering $200,000]

Truly a classic.

 

[Overall Cartridge Length]

Take your rifle ammo and drop a couple of rounds into the revolver.  If the cylinder turns you are good to go.  If the bullets protrude from the front of the cylinder you have some decisions to make.

[Elvis Presley's Smith & Wesson revolver sells for an eye-watering $200,000]

47 minutes ago, WOLFY said:

.22 Jet caliber?  Yeah, no thank you.  No thank you very much.

Why?  Mine shoots just fine.

[Overall Cartridge Length]

Shorter than the length of the cylinder.

[Roman Road]

Close up of one section of the map that you can buy on Amazon and other retailers.

 

[Roman Road]

Some useless trivia.  There is one surviving map of the Roman road system.  Called the Peutinger map it is 1 1/4 feet wide by 22 feet long.  Everything is linear as the Romans were not famiiar with the globe.  All roads did ultimately lead to Rome.

 

[Roman Road]

Does not look like a Roman road to me.  The stones are too uniform in their layout and in too good of condition.  Looks like a more modern garden road.

 

 

 

[Coiled Snake Grips on The Man With No Name Pistol & Jim West's Pistol]

I guess they both bought their guns from Cimarron.

[Elvis Presley's Smith & Wesson revolver sells for an eye-watering $200,000]

The second photo could well be a Model 53.

[Tombstone, then and now]

False advertising.  The lady on the right sure as hell ain't Dana Delany.  Looks more like Elizabeth Hurley.

[Brass headstamp question]

Military ammunition is only intended to be fired one time.  Some of the military 7.62 rifles have used a variety of actions and the designers do not really care how the brass comes out of the rifle as long as it comes out.  Sometimes some clearances are increased for reliable operation.  If I remember correctly some H&K rifles had fluted chambers so that brass comes out of the gun basically useless for reloading.  Not that common for commercially made rifles for the civilian market but it does happen so all the die makers make special dies for reloading ammo for semi-autos.  Here is an example of one.

 

https://www.amazon.com/RCBS-Small-Base-Sizer-308-Win/dp/B000NTMK10

[Brass headstamp question]

Winchester military round.  Some questions for the OP.  Did you ream the swaged primer pockets?  If you did not that could cause the failures to fire.  You said this was range brass, do you know what kind of gun they were fired from?  If these were fired from a semi-auto and you are shooting them out of a semi-auto there is a good chance the brass was not fully sized back down.  A lot of military style semi-autos are really rough on brass and the case head can expand.  To address this they make SB (small base) sizing dies.  Easiest solution is to not use crap range brass.

 

Here is an undersized die that I bought to feed a finicky Lightning rifle.

 

[Brass headstamp question]

Kinda hard to answer without you telling us what the headstamp is or having a decent photo of the case head.

[Favorite candy when growing up?]

Cannot watch a movie without my Junior Mints.  Got addicted to York Peppermint paddies in 1970-71.  That was when all the major candy bars went from a nickle to a dime but the pepermint paddy stayed at a nickle for a while and being cheap/poor I bought those.

 

One that I really liked when I was a child in California was the Mountain Bar.  Did not see them for years and then found them on the Internet.  Ordered some but they sure did not taste like I remember them in the 1950s.

 

[Navy SEALs to stop training in Washington state parks after complaints of 'armed men']

Same crap in lots of places.  Some restaurants in Detroit will not serve cops.  Here is a squib from an article about a food chain in San Francisco.

 

Some cops in San Francisco will have to look elsewhere for their leavened goods after Reem's California, a local bakery chain, said it is enforcing a policy not to serve anyone armed.