Still hand Bill

I have never understood the hate for the 1 hr time change. Honestly I think what we have today is about as good as it can get if you live in the northern 1/3rd of the USA. I like sunset after 8:30 in the summer and while 7:30 sunrise sucks, it’s far better than 8:30 as it would be on dst. I am one of those people who struggles to wake up when it’s dark. Always have. I also have traveled extensively and lived 14 hr time changes every 2-3 weeks. 1 hr is nothing. The fundamental issue is that there simply is not enough hours of daylight to have light before and after a 8+ hr of work in the winter. You get just over 9 hrs of daylight where I live in the winter, that’s it. When the world revolves around a roughly 8-5 schedule that pretty much uses up all that daylight. I don’t care if the sun sets at 4:30 or 5:30, if I leave work at 5 it’s dark when I get home. I do know it’s easier to wake up if it’s light out, so I would rather have any extra daylight in the morning in the winter. Now in the summer when we get 15 hrs of daylight, why not move a hour into the evening. Our current system does this, so why change it?

Drunk people make bad decisions. Even walking can be problematic. Good friend was a bar tender in college, had a drunk patron one night, so he drove the guy home. Left him at the curb in front of drunk guys house. Friend got woken up by the cops the next morning. Turned out drunk guy fell down the stairs after being dropped off and died. Friend was the last one to see him alive.

As someone who played soccer all through school, I really don’t enjoy watching the WC. They really should go with the hockey rule and add a penalty for embellishing. The players look more like fish than players.

The problem is there simply isn’t enough hours of daylight in winter. We get about 9 hrs on the shortest day. Sunrise is 7:40 ish and sunset is 4:40 ish on standard time. If they go dst as standard it will be 8:40 for a sunrise and 5:40 for sunset. go further west and it will be after 9am for a sunrise. For me it’s much harder to deal with an 8:40 sunrise than a 4:30 sunset. I would prefer they leave it alone or stay on standard time. also it’s a single hour time change. That’s nothing. Used to travel a lot and routinely dealt with 14 hr time changes.

The daily coffee is a full bar with scale, kettle, grinder, etc. still have instant on hand for camping or sailing. It’s handy when you don’t have access to the good stuff and easy to pack along.

My Walmart recently added powder, primers, bullets, and reloading supplies. Of course nothing pistol related.

This is why. Lots of states now have rules about how many and or what age people can be with a new driver. Seems that new 16 year old drivers are not that good and add in a group of friends and they have accidents. Honestly looking back at what we did as kids, it’s not a bad idea. We did dumb stuff, but no one was hurt and no one can prove anything. As they say, pictures or it didn’t happen.

I believe hydrogen is the lightest gas and can actually be hard to contain as the molecules are so small. But with that said, it can be transported, dispensed, and consumed on a consumer level. It’s done now on a small level. It can also be used in fuel cells instead of a combustion engine fuel with allows direct transfer to electricity and water. I believe the biggest problem is the amount of energy required to make it. the Hindenburg was due to the US being the sole source of helium pre ww2, so the Germans used hydrogen instead. Once ignited the hydrogen burns as would any other fuel. I believe some speculated that the covering was also flammable and may have been where the fire started before spreading to the gas/lifting bags.

At this point with a $0 form 1, why would they even try and enforce it. They are trying to say not paying a $0 tax is a felony. Pretty sure that won’t hold up in the courts long term.

I bet they will say it doesn’t apply to Leo ammo. Basically making it so hard and expensive to comply that ammo is no longer sold in IL. Won’t pass bruen except in ill.

You probably can’t get enough velocity for the 100g partitions to upset. I would guess they need to be 1800+ to actually expand. The hot cores probably work down to 1500-1600. Still will be marginal for expansion. The problem with lighter is they are usually varmit bullets and won’t penetrate enough for a whitetail. They are made to go fast and upset quickly as they have to work on animal that’s only a few inches thick.

Looking at what’s out there, I would try the 87g Speer hot core. Only $26 for a box.

I would guess the 100g was designed for a 1:10 twist, common in 25-06. I would think lighter would be better. I have a 25-35ai and it struggles with heavier bullets to get decent velocity. It’s a 1:7, so it can stabilize 134’s, but they are a lot slower than 75’s, probably 600 fps and I have more powder room.

Imho the half cock conversion is a must do. Completely eliminates going all the way back around if you slip off the hammer when cocking. Instead you just go from half cock and then fire.

Here are a couple of truths on hearing aids, first all they do is amplify the frequencies you can’t hear well. Some have better speakers and/or amplifiers, but they all do the same thing. Second most people wait too long before getting them and by the time you do your brain may no longer process the frequencies you have not been able to hear. So they don’t work. Third, there are only a few major players in making the speakers, Knowles and sonian, there is also one other smaller one. They are a specialized speaker and require precision to make them. Sonian is in Vietnam and Knowles is in the Philippines. They supply most of the speakers. They are not cheap, $25–$100 per speaker. Four, the industry is built on the purchase of hearing aids paying the bills, not office visits. So they are expensive to cover all the costs. That also means the more time they spend fitting and tuning, reduce profits. Hence they push RIC (receiver in canal) style aids with silicone tips. A quick tune and the right sized tip and they don’t have to see you for a while. Btw hearing aids are a medical device, so they have to be prescribed. Costco has been going against the mold for 10-15 years now and historically have been cheaper. Some are trying a direct to consumer with a tele doc doing the script , Jabara is one.

I have heard that you can do the form every year for a years worth of travel to a state. Makes the whole interstate travel not much of an issue. engraving is name of manufacturer, city and state. On my one sbr it’s under the stock, so not visible when assembled.

A sbr is configuration dependent. So a rifle made into a sbr is a rifle again when the original stock is put back on. So there are two ways to cross state lines with a sbr, 1) fill out the form, 2) return to a non sbr configuration for the interstate travel. If you want to convert it back permanently, you notify the atf and convert to a non sbr configuration.

Played in kennick one time on the artificial turf (mid 80’s). Was surprised how hot it was. Was pretty much just carpet. Much preferred real turf.

I believe geo fencing. They track the phone and later serve you an add based on where you were. We used it in our business 6-8 years ago and I am sure it has become easier and better since then. If you don’t have a phone, then of course you are not tracked and served adds, but if you do, they know where you are.

45-70 needs a big can to be even reasonably quiet. With subs it’s a bunch of fun. Also reduces recoil a lot making them more pleasant to shoot. Maker offers some great sub bullets for hunting. Unfortunately there are not a lot of big bore cans compared to 30 cal.

Mostly materials and weight. Cheap suppressors tend to either be aluminum or steel. Steel is durable, but heavy. Aluminum is light, but imho not a great material for a suppressor, especially on an AR with a short barrel. Honestly on an AR, almost anything will work. They just are not quiet due to the design. Thus a quiet suppressor isn’t a big advantage. If you are doing mag dumps, then you want a can with inconel blast baffles. It will be heavier, but will stand up to the heat and powder erosion. aluminum is cheap and light, but can’t handle heat ( melts at about 1300f). Mag dumps will melt an aluminum can. Also aluminum can’t be cleaned with most dip methods as the dip eats the aluminum. Works fine if you mechanically clean and don’t get them too hot. Titanium is light and reasonably durable, but also will run about 1k currently. Doesn’t like getting too hot as it degrades the can. Will handle more heat than aluminum. Also handles the cleaning dip with no issues. steel is cheap, and can be durable, but is heavy. Can be a good choice for AR’s. An inexpensive good can the, AB A-10. Runs sub $500 for the 30 cal. I have one that lives on an AR. Basically it’s a slightly heavier, louder version of their premium Raptor (Ti) can. They use one less baffle and stainless to keep weight close. I would not go for a 556 only can unless it was on a hunting rifle and then it would be an airlock industries.

I have worked on my own. The biggest issue is getting the barrel fit correctly to the frame. I simply drilled the frame 4-40 and added a button head screw with shims to set the barrel gap. Quick and easy to do. Shims are readily available to .005” thickness.

I might have witnessed a soda bottle on a 22lr and it worked. I have considered doing a form 1 to make a thread adapter to do this now that there is no cost. Same for an oil filter adapter. Cost to make it legal is just a little bit of time. Maybe this will help push to do away with the nfa for silencers.

As both 454 and 460 are basically the same case, just the 460 being longer, but the same pressure, bolt thrust should be the same for both. So if an action can handle the 454 it can handle the 460. I don’t remember my physics well enough to be able to evaluate chamber strength, but I suspect if it will handle one it would handle the other. That extra .400”+ in length would take some work to not have feeding issues.

If the max pressure is the same for both, the bolt thrust should be the same provided the brass has the same internal diameter. Force on the barrel would be slightly more with the longer case, but provided the barrel doesn’t taper, the steel should be able to contain the force as the stress would be the same for the whole length of the chamber. steel has the interesting property that if the stress is kept low enough it can take an unlimited number of cycles. This makes it ideal for barrels. If stress is higher, then cycles to failure will decrease. Why a single overpressure event that isn’t way op is ok. Do it 100 times and it may become an issue. Btw aluminum doesn’t have this property and will eventually fail no matter the stress.