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have you slugged the bore? of course you verified the sights were nice, tight, and secure.... if all else fails, get rid of it, what shape is the receiver in? I might be interested.

thought it was me but I can't find it. I don't know where my lyman and lee manuals are right now, pretty sure it's in the lyman. found the lyman. 385 gr cast, 25.0 gr. 2400 for 1310 fps, 31.0 for 1565. 482 gr cast 24.0 for 1240, 30.0 for 1480. guess you will have to extrapolate, or just use the 385 data b/c the jacketed bullet will probably generate a little more pressure. WLR primers, win cases, tested in a ruger #1, all per lyman's 47th. enjoy

well, if GW is not aggravated or caused by anthropogentic CO2 emissions, and if we have enough fuel, then smog and other pollution (e.g., CO hotspots, particulates, TACs) is the only problem with IC engines. and the newer models are so much cleaner that we can indeed live with them. same for fossil fuel usage. we use it because it s energy dense, easy to use, and was plentiful and cheap. but that has changed. the easy-to-get oil is on its way out. clean coal can work, but it is less efficient that regular coal technology. fossil fuels appear to be fading into history, albeit very slowly.

well, I am not a scientist now, I do something else, so I don't collect any data. what I have to offer is a good understanding of what science is supposed to be, and which arguments are sound, and which are not. there is global warming. but as you note, there may have been GW on Mars too, and we think we see it on Jupiter. I knew ethanol was BS 10 years ago. I know that plastic bags and diapers can be more environmentally friendly than paper bags and cloth diapers. I know that hydrogen cars almost always suck for a few reasons: it is difficult to store because it is hell to liquefy; firemen hate it because it burns with a colorless flame; and it takes electricity to produce, and electricity takes fuel to produce. they make sense only in areas with persistent inversion layers where organics are not the limiting factor. for instance, they would help reduce local smog in los angeles, but not atlanta. but greenies all think they are the answer because only water and nitrogen come out of the tailpipe, and they don't peek behind the curtain. My mission is to keep my friends informed of the unbiased scientific truth. I can tell you much of what we see in our popular culture is BS, derived from but not based in science. but that's probably not anything new, the press has always segregated the facts were are presented.

man can easily alter the environment. we have already done so by deforesting so much of the amazon. we could easily cool the planet by loading the stratosphere with aerosols. we could really cool it with a nucular winter. it is a bit arrogant, but so is man, if you think about it. I absolutely believe in global warming. the records don't lie, and if one refuses to believe in it, then they are a fool. it is not a question of whether the globe is warming or not. it is a question of whether man has caused it. that is open to reasonable, good-faith debate. too bad that we don't have more of that. I grew up on the edge of the LA basin. in the summer, we would watch for the smog to accumulate and wait to see if it would reach us. often, it would. we would have third-stage smog alerts, schools would close, we would be told to stay indoors, I remember my eyes burning and my lungs hurting. aggressive clean-air efforts, which began as long ago as the '40s, dramatically improved air quality, despite a tripling of population and cars. and despite jerking knees, including mine. I used to be one of those who railed agains auto emission controls. that was because they sucked so badly, that I hated them, and did not care if they worked, or even care to know if they worked. I already had my opinion formed. but a funny thing happened (after some not-so-funny thingls like "lean Burn," "CCC," "TBI," and whatever ford called it's mechanical emission-control travesty); cars got very clean and very efficient and made more power on less gas. now everybody is happy with that, and it started with the horrible early ECM stuff. I hope this global warming issue will proceed similarly. I hope we do get more efficient and less dependent on fossil fuels. my dream is to save oil for cars and plastics, to use clean coal and nucular and tidal power and wind power for large-scale electricity. we should also drill our own oil responsibly and open some refineries. I am not convinced that our GHG emissions have caused GW, but I will be glad to not have to be wrong on that, because we reduced GHG emissions in the name of energy independence and good environmental stewardship. as noted we have cleaned up many rivers. "smoke on the water" is a song about a river actually catching on fire. that does not happen anymore. environmentalists were behind that clean up. environmentalists are not the devil, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I guess what bothers me most about the whole GW thing is the way it has become the only accepted position, and opinions to the contrary are being drowned out, and all in the name of science. we are being drowned out by the kool-aid drinkers. that is perfectly contrary to science. FWIW. the author of this article has a degree with honors in environmental science from the university of california. not the tree-hugging kind, but the serious physics and calculus, working in a lab kind. while not a greenie, the author is concerned that the traditional, expoitation-based economy must be made much more efficient.

looks like an AT&T brand - "reach out and touch someone."

except that there was at least one commercial small thread large ring oberndorf mauser - it's on accuratereloading.

check the completed auctions on ebay for more info.

a few just sold on ebay.

our cultural norms must be radically reset. there are several ways to do it, I'm sure, but the last one was the great depression. all but the wealthiest had to straighten their act up and actually worry about their next meal. dressing better than the next guy in line for the job application could mean the difference. people had to improve themselves. or maybe really lose everything. the habits that survived the depression were survival habits. the lessons were so profound that depression survivors never forgot them and were ususally penny-pinchers to the day they died. which was, and is, a good thing. our pervasive wealth has subsidized the most useless cultures. good habits are rewarded, but not enough. poor habits are not punished. there is no way to deliberately hit reset, people have tried with race wars and apocalyptic cults and everything else, we will just have to wait for the Next Big Thing and hope it straightens us up and does not destroy us.

no, he's right. we need to take away the criminals and the culture that breeds them. people used to dress, act, and pretend like they were persons better than they were. folks wanted to be seen as smarter, more educated, more successful. these days, folks emulate violent thugs and other dregs, people dress to look like criminals. look at the ridiculous piercings and tattoos. self-destructive behavior, no more, no less. that culture needs to go.

don't beat yourself up. their customer service is an ordeal all it's own. by the time you finally got a servicable stock from them, through pure chance, the return postage would have cost you $100. I have run the customer service gauntlet before and it is not worth it. last time I expressed how I really felt about boyd's, the mods on that board removed all the posts. and I didn't even use any profanity.

a family friend had a new 750i or whatever the newest biggest 7-series was about 5 years ago. some idiot hit him, and he had to wait like 3 or 6 months for the repair parts to show up. finally, the constant small-part repairs wore him down and he traded it in. the top-end beemers and benzes are magnificent cars but have become so complicated with gewgaws and doodads that something is always breaking down, despite the overall high level of QC. if the defect rate is only 1 in a million, but you have 2 parts, guess what. 2 things are broken right off the bat, and that's if everything goes as planned. this all applies less to the 3- and 5-series cars without all the options. maintenance is expensive, but apparently the cars are worth it. I used to work with 2 guys with older 6-series cars, and repairs weren't cheap but they loved them. my advice is to factor in the cost of ownership and regular maintenance and decide if the driving experience - which really is legendary - is worth it to you. on a car like this, a lease on a model with all maintenance included is a good way of packaging the driving costs and limiting yourself to a defined term of committment, if you can keep the miles down.

yeah, seems to work OK.

you can always grant the title to the firearms to the individuals now, and reserve a life estate in them. that way, you have a right to use and possession until you die, and when you do, the right to possession immediately goes to the holder of the remainder. the holder of the remainder then gets possessory interest and legal title together which collapses into regular ownership. you can do this for each firearm, and give a document to the remainderman, complete with serial number. the SN will only be disclosed as needed, and in the discretion of the remainderman. explain what you did in your will, less serial number. "I, Rufus Cervicus, hereby give to my son Junior, all title and interest I have in my H&K PSG-1, serial number 0000001, less a life estate. I retain the life estate, for the rest of my natural life, which extinguishes upon my death, for the unrestricted use and possession of the property, including my right to improve, modify, waste, damage, or destroy the property, intentionally or otherwise. "I grant this interest of my own free will, and contrary to popular belief, I am not suffereing from cosmoline poisoning, alcoholism, or addiction to nudie bars. It's not suffering when you enjoy it." then, in your will, mention that you have already given away your firearms, retaining only life estates. list the firearms and describe them well, without the serial numbers, and list who gets each one. this way, there is no conflict between the will and the life estates.

too many boards suffer from too many forums. If I were looking to borrow a tool, I would not think to look for a dedicated forum - I would first think to look for a gunsmithing or similar forum. that's where the dudes with the tools are. if a forum does not get visited at least once a week by more than a few people, kill it.

describe them photographically, and by make model and est date of mfr. if you want to describe them well enough to preclude a contest later, you will have described them well enough for the UN to grab them if they so desire, if ya catch my drift. you can always will the contents of your gun safe to somebody. But the more vague you are about describing them, the easier you make it for somebody to do wrong. describing "a shotgun" makes it possible for somebody to grab the LC smith your grandfather handed down, and to put in a POS from a garage sale. I vaguely remember my trusts and estates class, if you want a more private malpractice session, pm me.

actually, for stick powders, the perfect powder measure works very well, sometimes best. it's a leaking mess with ball powders and thoroughly average for granular powders; but for stick, it can't be beat.

what is the noise she wants to abate? some noises are easier to abate than others. there is a science to it. lower frequency noises are tougher to abate, IIRC.

well, which would you prefer? a loose woman or a crooked one?

loose inletting is one thing; flat-out crooked inletting is another. there is no excuse for crooked inletting.

boyd's QC sucks. and they do not care.

all true, but they are also mad at themselves, esp. the guangmingdong (phonetically attempted) whick still persists in taiwan. I don't think they want to take the world over, and even if they do they still have a long way to go. I believe the first order of business for them is to take over china. they have a saying, the mountains are tall and the emperor is far away. they still have renegade provinces that largely ignore beijing's edicts, including the one-child policy. you know the saying, get your own house in order first before you look at somebody else's? I think that's what they are doing first - cleaning up their own house. of course, to do that, they need money and materials and manpower. manpower they have, materials they have and have access to for now, money they need. they are trying to acquire capital globally, and they are successful so far, but their plan cannot continue without modification. for one, they are ruining their natural and human environment to produce cheaply. and their non-governmental international relations have been described as "ham-fisted mercantilism." they will have to change or greatly refine their game plan to continue. the question is - will they have inserted themselves substantially and durably as a global economic power before they have to change their current strategy? it is an interesting question. also, I don't think they want war. I don't see china having been particularly aggressive historically. nothing like the bloodthirsty europeans.

get the lee classic cast and never look back. it will do anything but break the bank. made out of steel, from railroad track I think, no kidding.

well, let's hope I'm right....