The precooked kind is great for backpacking but is paper thin and lacks a lot of flavor. In the oven, I use cookie sheet and put bacon between two wire grids to keep it nice and flat. I filter and save the bacon grease. When we are in the travel trailer, I will fry a bunch up on the Blackstone griddle, then keep it in zip lock to use later. Pop it in microwave for 15 seconds and its good to go.
Welcome to the fire. You are in the midst of a lot of good cowboy clubs. Go to a match, ask questions and have fun. We shoot the MI State match. Maybe we'll get to meet there.
(Just for the record, I spent many days running the Silver Lake Sand Dunes in our Jeep)
These are the dies I now use. I started loading early on using a conglomeration of dies using 45 acp to size. This greatly overworks the brass and will end in cracks on the case mouth. Ask me how I know.
Seventh grade and was with some others kids working on some project in the first floor hallway. A girl came down and said Kennedy was shot. We all thought is was the opening line of a joke. We were told to go back to our rooms. We were sitting at our desks in silence when our teacher, a staunch Democrat, came in and quickly wrote "JFK IS DEAD" on the front blackboard, then left the room in tears.
I, too, am honored to say that Kay and I are proud graduates of the Sawyer Shooting School. (At Tennessee State, I might add) It is an experience not to be missed.