Ramblin Gambler
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12 minutes ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:
Then it was under-loaded in the powder charge.
Bbl cyl gaps don't close up with smokeless.
What was the charge weight and bullet weight used?
I might have that information at home. Since I didn't like the loads, I didn't see a need to make note of the recipe. If it's anywhere it might still be on one of the boxes. I'm pretty sure it was a 200gr bullet. I know it was loaded in the 700-750 FPS range and that's where I like my power. Initially he was making some loads for me that went about 500 fps and I had to ask him for something more stout. So if that's under-loaded for unique it still means I'd rather not use it. I guess if I'm forced to use it, I'll keep this in mind and try something a little faster.
BTW, I should have said guns in that last post, not gun. both pistols were doing it. Never had it happen with the red dot or HP-38 loads.
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17 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:
If you are getting side splatter, you may well have a bbl to cyl gap issue, or index timing issue.
Had a gunsmith check the gun out and it was fine. No signs of shaving and he tested it with some tissue paper and his own loads and got nothing. Plus, I doubt the cylinder gap would close up just because the powder changed.
17 hours ago, Three Foot Johnson said:none of them cause "side spatter". Lead shaving isn't caused by the powder,
It was definitely powder. Little round flakes all over my hands and the table. I actually thought it was lead but the RO looked at it the mess I left closely a few times over the course of the match and finally asked what kinda powder I was using because it sure looked like a bunch of unburnt Unique to him. I had to go back to my cart and look at the box to see he guessed right.
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1 hour ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:
look for Unique
Unique is pretty much non-existent too. But I think my guy loaded some with unique and I didn't like them. I got a lot of side splatter through the cylinder gap and since I'm a funfighter that meant it was hitting my hand. It was a little unnerving.
1 hour ago, Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971 said:HP-38
I did get my hands on some of this.
1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:just Google cast bullets as well
Yeah I did that, and that's why I'm asking here. Other than the big name stores like brownells (who is out of almost everything), I don't know who's a reputable dealer. So thanks everyone for the leads. Keep em comin. All help is appreciated.
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I'm about to start rolling my own and I don't know any good places to get boolits. I tried the usual suspects like brownells, and all they had was something from hornady. I went ahead and got some to get me started but I figure there must be better places.
I shoot 45 colt with that new fangled smokeless powder if that matters to ya.
As a side note if you have a secret honey hole for Red Dot I'd like to know that too. The load I've been using since I started is Red Dot. Unfortunately the gentleman who used to load them for me got out of it and sold off all of his components.
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I'd be in if I could figure out a way to still shoot gunfighter. I wonder how short they can short stroke a 92.
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I'm with fretless on the importance of recoil over weight. Maybe let her try some lightweight heavier recoiling guns and she might have a different opinion on the weight.
If you eschew my advice, then be prepared for the new guns to become YOUR new guns when your wife decides she likes your heavy old revolvers after all.
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I do not know how many of the stories I heard are true. But amongst the more often heard stories are that there were up to 3 ADs on the set already before that happened, that the producers (alec) were cutting corners with the armorer and not only hired someone inexperienced, but had also told her not to be there that day.
If that stuff is true, he should be in trouble. If it's not true, she's likely in trouble. If she was told to not be there I imagine she'll throw him under the bus.
Also, I've heard from people who work in movies and they all say that you never actually point the gun at anyone. They use camera tricks to make it look like you are. So if nothing else he goofed there.
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11 hours ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:
I think most of the commentary here is about Alec Baldwin, the reviled person, not about what happened.
He won't be charged criminally because he had no intent to injure or kill, and because he has sufficient defenses that a county prosecutor is highly unlikely to charge him with a crime, under all of the circumstances.
I hold no brief for him as a man, but 44 years of practicing law leads me to believe that that will be the case. Of course, if I'm wrong, I'll have to figure out how to cook that chapeau before I eat it. Somhow, I think that Stetson will remain intact.
This was Alec Baldwin's movie and as such he is responsible for the safety. If he's charged criminally I would expect it to be because of that, not just because he pulled the trigger.
But he won't be. He's not a commoner.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
Pat, one more thing to consider.
You ride a motorsickle. They stop a whole lot quicker than a car does. So if you're riding down the road on your 600 pound bike at 55 mph, and there's somebody about 4 feet behind you in a 4000 pound pickup truck, would that bother you?
I tried to tailgate a motorscooter once. Not as easy as you might think. An hour later I think I saw them pulled in to a truck stop.
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14 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
An Aussie Flight Leftenant I knew in 'Nam used to to say "G'day, Cobber" to me and my bunk mate. I never asked what "cobber" meant. I was a afraid it would lead to bloodshed.
Reminds me of working on the border and the mexicans I was working with started calling me wheto (or weto, or jueto ... I never met anyone who knew how it's spelled). I asked what that meant and the only answer I got was that it was me so I stopped pushing it. I didn't know if there was fixin to be a fight or what but it all turned out friendly. Found out later it just means white boy. No negative connotation by itself. I started dating some girls down there and they called me wheto too.
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5 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
because the special characters can occur anywhere in the string of characters such that things like ABC/D/EF are possible, the solution multiplies by 8!/6!x2! = 28 (8 factorial, etc).
you mean the 1.4 trillion number (64^6 * 5^2) gets multiplied by 28 because the special characters can be anywhere? So now we're up to 39,760,164,908,800 before taking out the characters that are too similar, like oi1, etc. Cool. Can you explain how you figured 28 out? I racked my brain and I never learned how to deal with anything this complex with this type of math.
5 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:because space is allowed and because it may occur anywhere in the string, the combinatoric result includes too many identical possibilities. I will use # instead of space to illustrate. ABCDEF## is identical to ##ABCDEF and #ABCDEF#, thus the final answer must subtract the number of times this can happen. Seriously, I don’t like ABC#DEF# either.
You lost me here. I must have missed whatever was said about spaces.
After your post he told us the special characters may not be used at all. Is that what you mean? That adds more possibilities. I think that would just make the 5^2 into 6^2. I'm going to guess 5 characters get removed for being problematic so now we're at 42,517,977,910,128 possible combinations. Over 42 Trillion.
(59^6 * 6^2 * 28)
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4 hours ago, John Kloehr said:
As I read it, the field is 8 locations.
The first 6 can be upper or lower case characters or a digit. So 62 possibilities per location. (Quibble: 0 and O look very similar and both are often pronounced "oh")
The last two positions can be one of 5 special characters.
Assuming any character can be repeated in the first 6 or last two positions.
62*62*62*62*62*62*5*5
daggum it I forgot about capitalization. as you can see i forget about it when i post too.
but now he's changed it up.
1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:Upper limits? Our in-house computer geek at that time estimated several million end combinations but he didn't have the means to narrow it down.
My number was over 54 billion and it's orders of magnitude too low because I forgot capitalization. The modfications will make it go even higher because they can be in any position, even if it removes some of the letters like o, O, i, I, and l
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I get 54,419,558,400
36^6*5^2
36 possible entries in each of the first 6 slots, so 36*36*36*36*36*36
5 possible entries in the last 2, so 5*5
Now, if the 2 slots for special characters can be anywhere and not just in the last 2, then it gets higher. I'd have to think a minute to cipher that out.
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I'm not very bright. I'm not sure it would occur to me to have the same ammo. I lean towards 45 colt in the pistol and a big boy rifle cartridge like 40-60 or 45-70. Unless I'm in a heavily wooded area, then maybe I'd have a pistol caliber rifle. Or a lever action shotgun.
I know I went off book, but your title saying there are 2 choices only applied to the pistol.
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I can't hardly wait. I almost don't want to go to any matches before it gets here because I don't want to use my old ugly cart anymore.
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Hopefully I never have to replace mine. It's only got half a million miles. Should be good for another 20 years before I have to do any major work.
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16 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Getting a PID controller properly set up is akin to black majic.
I am still looking for someone to properly tune one of our pedestals at work. The OEM of the controller refuses to provide any expertise because they didn’t build the pedestal.
I can tune PIDs but when I'm done I never know how I did it. I took a class from the ISA or IEEE on PID loop tuning and it was probably the best continuing education class I've ever had. Went a long way towards demystifying the PID for me, but that stuff is still black magic. The absolute worst is the customer who wants to tune the loop in during the factory test in the shop. Before the thing is connected. I cannot make them understand the importance of the load on the system. So I always tune a super slow loop for those people.
What kind of controller is it?
On 7/31/2021 at 9:28 PM, bgavin said:Computer geeks can count to 31 on one hand in Hex.
In hex? I can do that but I coulda swore I was using binary. I tried that for spotting but it didn't work out too well. First time someone got 4 misses I forgot to convert it back to normie counting and the TO gave me an odd look. Not enough people miss more than 5 targets to make it worthwhile.
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On 7/30/2021 at 11:38 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
yes ........ but they ain't indiginous
Really? So you're telling me cats stopped all the other cute deadly critters around the world?
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15 hours ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:
Wow did not see that at all. I do have some junk I could have traded for $100 each.
According to that article they'll be back again next week with more gift cards.
I'd be pissed if that was my tax money.
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3 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:
Then I loudly stated to him and his minions that “You are violating Federal Laws by doing this and you are making people complicit in your crimes.”
Were they violating federal laws or california laws? I'm pretty sure in free states two people can meet anywhere and sell a gun FTF. No FFL and no paperwork required.
If I ever saw one happening, I'd be one of the vultures creeping on the line. I might even come up with some failed 3d prints to sell them. Provided the government can pass my background check, that is.
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19 hours ago, watab kid said:
i know - now i just have to figure out how to get it - the cable was cut last month - i need a TV fix soon , my current one [older] wont lock onto the air channels and im too cheap to buy another so far , might have to break down , not real good with all the modern options and i still have my CDs of old shows i liked to play , not as much fun when you already know how they will turn out and spout the dialog before they say it ....thought it might be fun , now im not so certain it will carry me thru , i do have band of brothers and pacific i need to rewatch tho as well as some old movies my family gifted me at christmas over the years , and a WWII boxed documentary ive never opened yet ,
I believe you can get an analog to digital converter box for those old TVs. you will also need a digital antenna as the old analog signals were a different wavelength. you're lookin at probably $20 for each of those (unless you live in the stix and need a really good antenna). If that's not cheap enough for ya, look for them at garage sales.
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23 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Revolvers over automatics.
Revolvers are pistols.
That's as tedious as the clips vs magazines debate.
Texas gun trader says pistols and revolvers are both handguns. That's as good an authority as there is on the subject.
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I just realized that means my Christmas decorations up early instead of left up for too long. All of a sudden I'm a go getter instead of a lazy bum.
Sure is exhausting.
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Where to get Bullets
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Finally made it home and found the info. It was 45 Colt, 200 gr RFN, 6.8 gr Unique. Is that under-loaded?