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    9mm inquiry: questions, dilemma, etc......

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    I’ve owned a dozen 9mm pistols. All of them were Glocks except for a POS Remington R51.

    I currently have 3 - 9mm Glocks. I haven’t had any chambering issues with a great variety of manufactured and hand loaded ammunition. So, I really can’t help regarding other manufacturer’s guns.

    My loads mostly are:
    115gr FMJRN - COL 1.125“

    147gr FMJFP - COL 1.100”

    124gr XTP - COL 1.060”

     

    Honestly, I am only posting to say, please be very careful with overall lengths. Shortening cartridges to match a short chambering could cause extreme jumps in pressure. I’m sure you know this but wanted to mention it. 
    Also, I would recommend using a taper crimp for 9mm loads. For me a taper crimp assures a consistent case contour. No bulges that could cause a cartridge to stick in a chamber. 

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    23 and Me

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    I haven’t used “23 and me” but my wife has an account. She actually just recently found her biological father on their system. The man that was her dad wasn’t her actual or biological father, but her mother would never tell her who her real father was. Her mom passed away in ‘99.

    My wife met her father recently and have been in contact since and we had lunch with him last week. 
     

    I have an Ancestry account, but it is not active. I did a boatload of ancestry research and had traced my Dad’s side of the family back to 1750. I had traced my Mom’s side of the family back to 1725 and then I learn that the man I thought was my mom’s father was not her father. It turns out her biological father was not the man she had told me was her father over and over for years. My Mom died in 2007. And here I am at 61 years old a couple of years ago and I learn from my aunt, my Mom’s sister that I had been researching the wrong man’s information. To say the least I was truly pizzed off. So, I quit paying on my account, as Ancestry was no flippin’ help with this and I froze my account. 
    I haven’t decided if I am going to start over with my Mom’s family info or not. 
     

    Things I did learn:

    My Dad, who was adopted but knew his biological family, claimed his blood family fought in every war back to the Revolutionary War. Completely false! No one in my bloodline on my Dad’s side ever served. They were all coal miners and steel workers. My Dad was a Marine but left the Corps with a Bad Conduct Discharge. 
    My Dad claimed we were “Scots-Irish & Cherokee Indian.” Another falsehood. I have zero Cherokee or any other tribe’s blood and I am just a few percent Irish. I am mostly English and Scottish. 41% and 40% respectively. 
     

    Regarding 23 and Me - Thank you for the info @Lawdog Dago Dom I appreciate it. 

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    Motorcycle safety equipment

    in SASS Wire Saloon

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    11 hours ago, Equanimous Phil said:

    Kevlar reinforced pants with knee protectors (looking like regular jeans).

    I bought some of those pants. Great in cool weather but hotter than he** when temps rose and / or when the sun was beating on you. 
    One of my problems is my natural average body temp is 97.1-97.6. I get hotter faster than most folks. A warm motorcycle suit becomes hot for me sooner than for others. 
    I met a new motorcycle rider that was my size and I gave him both pairs of Kevlar jeans. He was ecstatic. My wife was not. Those jeans aren’t cheap. My logic was that I would not wear them. He would as he was new to motorcycles. I figured he could use them. 
    I don’t know if he ever went down wearing them as we moved away from Oregon. I hope that if he ever did that he was wearing his protective gear. 

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    Turkey for Thanksgiving

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    I love turkey. If I could afford it I would make a turkey a week. Not kidding. 
     

    I think this year I am going to smoke a turkey for Thanksgiving. 
    I won’t need the Big Bamboo rolling paper, but in high school we filled that big rolling paper up in the school parking lot and torched that bad boy. My friend bought the album. No one suspected a thing. Just 15 guys standing in a circle having a discussion. 
    What did we fill it with? Why parsley and pipe tobacco…Uh-huh, then we went to church…Yeah, that’s what we did. We went to the Dari-Delight…I mean, church. Yep! Church…I don’t recall what we did after that. All that churchin’ got my brain addled and fuzzy. :rolleyes:
     

     

    EDIT: By the way. Big Bamboo was released in 1972. The experience above happed in 1976. My friend Chuck got the album, brand new with the giant rolling paper at a “second hand” store, and yes, the paper was just fine. ;)

    Party On, Dudes! :lol:
     

     

     

     

     

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