Still hand Bill

Close, but I have found unique in the last few years and never trail boss. I got a 8lb keg of unique in the last year. Should hold me for a while.

Dry lube. Honestly I would use the old bicycle chain trick if you can remove the chain. Dip/soak it in melted wax. Will get the wax into the links and help flush out any dirt. Then remove and let cool. Knock off any excess. On a bike it’s good for 300 ish miles. Then repeat. Use a double boiler to prevent overheating the wax.

On mine the safety spring would push the lever open with a lighter lever plunger spring. I had to either run a lighter spring for the safety or bend the stock one a little to reduce pressure. I don’t remember who made one, but someone does make a lighter safety spring.

All pistols and rifles and shotguns are limited to 50 cal unless there is a sporting use exemption. Most 12ga and 20 ga get such an exemption. There are a few big game rifles that have exemptions as well.

Pretty sure it’s the same as the US. Right hand drive is usually only in countries that were under British rule. Any under French are left hand drive. Seems Napoleon thought it was uncivilized to meet with weapon hand to weapon hand and thus we drive on the right side of the road.

Yes. Called vampire drain. I left my ev for 10 days at the airport and it lost a few %, but not enough to matter. Teslas were notorious for having a high vampire drain when they first came out. I expect they have since reduced the problem to a manageable level. A quick search should show if it’s still a problem. all batteries self discharge over time even when not connected. Lead acid is pretty quick, less than 6 months. Nimh is really fast like a week or two, why early rechargeable tools were always dead. Lithium is pretty slow and can go a year or more.

The Marlin is not easy to short stroke. Even when short stroked, you have to run shorter ammo as the lever moves the bolt directly and to reduce stroke you have to reduce bolt travel. A very different setup than a 66 or 72 which has a linkage where you can change the ratio between lifter and lever. I looked at what had to be done and gave up on the idea of a short stroke. Just did the Widder mods aka Widdermatic.

They can’t even agree on the same charge cord, so same battery won’t happen. The charge cord is a more close analogy of pulling into a gas station and filling up. Imagine there were three different types of nozzles to get gas and you have to find the correct pump/ station to get gas. That’s what ev’s deal with. Imho it was a huge mistake in the US that the government didn’t specify a single connector for charging. They did in Europe and Tesla uses the standard, not the Tesla connector like in the US. Swapping batteries would be like a quick change gas tank. the idea of quick changing is really no longer feasible as the batteries have a lot going on for temperature control. They are also used as a structure in the car. Not as simple as just pulling it out and swapping in a new one.

I know that lots of people say it’s mandated, but digging in, it doesn’t appear that it is yet. I see articles saying it’s a thing, but no one points out the actual cfr and the retained capacity seems to vary, which is something that is critical. carb does require emissions to be warrantied, but not ev’s yet. I did find a few people who had letters from carb stating they did not do it yet. It’s coming in 2026. It doesn’t matter if it’s law or not as most mfg have a decent warranty. Gm is the worst at a 60% capacity floor. So you can lose almost half the capacity before you get a new battery.

Did some digging and there is not currently a minimum warranty requirement on the federal level. They are working on it, but currently there is not one. Just what each mfg offers. Even carb doesn’t have one right now. They have one set to go into effect in 2026.

Ev batteries life really depends on how they are treated. I think most are rated for 1000 cycles or so until, they reach 70% capacity. If you do say a 50% cycle depth it will go 2000 charges, 30% and now it’s 3000. This is why it’s important to have a much bigger battery than needed. The battery will go many more charges if they are shallow vs deep cycles. If you do full deep cycles every day and fast charge you can kill a battery in a short period of time. Many examples of this where people commute with too small a battery and charge 1 to 2x per day. nissan had huge issues with the first generation leaf battery. They were small and air cooled. Almost all of them were replaced under warranty. Heat and cold can be bad for lithium batteries as well. Fast charging while cold destroys batteries. Most cars have heaters built in and limit charge rates when cold to prevent damage. Liquid cooled batteries have cooling built in to help mitigate heat damage. The air cooled Nissan batteries had no such provision and failed in quite high numbers in hot environments. The mfg also don’t provide a good way to track battery capacity, so it’s quite hard to know exactly what the capacity is of your pack. I would guess my Bolt pack was down 10-20% after 3 years and 60k miles, but I was never able to put a hard number on the capacity loss. as a battery degrades the cycles get deeper which further speeds up degradation. It’s a vicious spiral that can quickly kill an older battery.

Klaus is a good one. A kids movie, but a few adult jokes thrown in.

When I was shooting a lot of clays, I could buy a flat for $54. Could reload for a bit less than that. Laid in a lot of components at those prices, so today I am loading for 1/3 to 1/2 the price of current prices. Then for 28 and 410’s it’s even better. Just paid $24/box for AA 410’s. I can reload those for under $4. really depends how much you shoot if it’s worth it and how much free time is available as time isn’t free. For a box or 2 per month, probably not worth reloading, but when I was shooting 8-12 poxes per week, it sure was.

I did a square load by using Lee dippers and figuring out the shot charge I wanted, then used that volume to load black mz. Then added wads to get the right stack height.

Black powder is confusing as it’s a weight, but that weight is volume. Modern equivalents are less dense and get measured by volume that is equivalent to the same weight in real black powder. Get a Lee dipper set or a black powder measure for loading muzzle loaders. Once you get the volume correct, then measure the weight and use that if you want to measure by weight. Say 60g of black powder, and you are using APP or Black MzL, it may only weigh 45 grains for the same volume. you can use more wads if you want a lighter load. I used felt wads in my pistol rounds to reduce them from full power loads. With BP you want to make sure not to have an air gap in your load.