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Sedalia Dave

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  1. Blame a lot of it on bean counters and piss poor managers that have been taught that yelling at and threatening their subordinates is how you motivate them. Bean counters map out a route on their computer and say that it takes X amount of time to complete it. Failing to take into account heavy packages, longer driveways, construction and traffic. Then when the delivery drivers fail to get the route completed on time they get yelled at and threatened by their manager. They may also get paid by the route and not the actual time it takes to complete it. So if it takes them 10 hours to do the route the computer claimed was only 8 hours long, they end up working 2 hours for no pay. When they complain they are accused of goofing off. I've been fortunate that USPS, Amazon, and UPS do a decent job. However, I've had nothing but trouble with Fed-Ex
  2. I'll sell mine for 1/4 that price.
  3. Forgot about the clumping of APP. I have a screen in the bottom of the funnel I use when filling the powder hopper. It is coarse enough to let the powder through but catches the clumps and desiccate packs.
  4. The real question is if there is no "Gun Registry" where is the data coming from?
  5. I'm betting the idiot heard the police arriving and decided to attempt to hid from them on the roof.
  6. The center of most antler is rather porous. Drill a hole large enough that the epoxy can adhere to the more solid outer part of the horn.
  7. By my reasoning, publishing anything so humiliating about an individual as powerful as Napoleon could lead to your untimely death. So given the potential risks involved I think it would be very plausible that such an event would not actually make it into writing during Napoleon's lifetime. It also bears to keep in mind that there were a lot of people that didn't like Napoleon so fabricating and publishing such an event after his death is not beyond the realm of possibilities.
  8. Triple 7 meters great from any powder measure. However, you may find it a little hot for pistol loads. You can minimize this by seating the bullets deeper into the case. Load just enough Triple 7 so that when the bullet is seated it is barely touching the powder. You don't want any compression. 3F APP runs just fine through my Dillon powder measure. Avoid 2F APP, it is way to coarse to meter properly. I load 3F APP the same as T7. Use just enough powder so that the bullet barely touches the powder. You don't want any compression. Don't waste your time using filler in 38 specials. Light 38 special loads will not seal the case to the chamber and allow excessive blowby. This will just gunk up the chamber and action. Rather than using nickle brass, I use different colors of powder coated bullets to let me visually verify the load.
  9. Two MG 151/20 E 20mm cannons, one in each wing near the fuselage and two MG 131 13mm machine guns, just forward of the cockpit on the top of the fuselage.
  10. Ginger beer with a couple good shots of Woodford Reserve makes for some smooth drinking.
  11. Just before WWII the Japanese developed an improved version of the German Enigma machine. How the U.S. Cracked Japan's 'Purple Encryption Machine' at the Dawn of World War II
  12. The Germans and Japanese figured out pretty quickly that we were using several different Native Americans languages for code. The problem was neither country had anyone on their side that could understand the language well enough to decode messages fast enough to be of use. Both the Germans and Japanese tried multiple times to send spies to the reservations in vain attempts to learn the languages. AFAIK all their attempts failed miserably. It is really ironic that for as badly as the US Government has treated Native Americans they were and still are exceptionally patriotic. When most people hear about native American code talkers they only think about the Navajo. Sadly there were code talkers from many different tribes with each tribe using their own language as the basis for the code. Even if you could speak the language it was highly unlikely you could decode their messages because they used a significant amount of symbolism to disguise the true meaning of the message. They also memorized the code, so it was never written down in books that could be captured. Few people are aware that Native Americans were used as code talkers in WWI. Their use was so secretive that it was virtually unknown until long after WWII
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