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Bill in Oregon

The site server must be having issues. Noticed it yesterday, and even had a failure to connect this morning.

Bill in Oregon

Saw this illustration in a discussion of a blown-up K-38 over at castboolits and thought it was mighty interesting.

Bill in Oregon

Earl, as someone who rarely casts more than 100 at a time, that's a pile of boolits! I have had one Arsenal mold -- in brass -- and loved that thing. I confess to having mostly Lee molds but when I use an Arsenal or one of Tom's Accurates, I feel like I stepped up from a Ford Pinto to a Lincoln Town...

Bill in Oregon

That's sure a nice Redhawk, Jason.

Bill in Oregon

Just a small handful of these heroes left.

Bill in Oregon

Walt, yes, Ordered, read it and forwarded to an elderly vet friend in Pueblo.

Probably about time for me to re-read "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail." Someday I'd like to visit Roosevelt National Park up North Dakota way.

Bill in Oregon

Hmmm. I am reminded of Mad Max movies ...

Bill in Oregon

Earl, you are one of the best and most meticulous casters I know of. I have had great luck with Sage for gas checks as well, although I am not sure how enthused I am about the aluminum checks I recently got from them. Not their fault -- it is the material.

Bill in Oregon

I cannot see why I have such a fondness for bears. I've probably only seen about a dozen or 15 over the years. I'd like to have seen the clown that pulled down my loaded plum tree the night before I planned to pick it, and raked all the plums into his mouth ...

Bill in Oregon

Walt, certainly Churchill lived a fascinating life. As an officer with the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman, he is alleged to have killed seven Dervishes from horseback with his Mauser C-96. I couldn't help myself and ordered a copy of his "River War, an Account of the Reconquest of the S...

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Interesting project all right -- and the nature of that barrel flex surprised me. Would love to see it set up for three-round burst mode. I wonder how many thousands of dollars went into this endeavor. I've been fortunate in that friends have let me put a few rounds through their Barretts and McMill...

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Sure can't argue with those results, Scott.

Bill in Oregon

Doc, when I lived in the small town of Talent in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon, an innovative engineer came up with an electric street bike called the Brammo, and they went into production in an abandoned Walmart. These were bigger bikes than the E Ride, and it was always a surprise to hear on...

Bill in Oregon

Fascinating. Even I could probably ride one. Not prohibitive at $5K.

https://eridepros.com/product/pro-ss-19/

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Still kind of amazed that the military adopted a round that runs at 80,000.

Bill in Oregon

When I visited Burnet a year ago looking for traces of my great-great grandfather murdered near there in 1855, one thing was made clear. It is pronounced "BURN-it, DURN-it."

Bill in Oregon

Will, one nice feature of the Lee is that you can turn the indexing on and off so that it will stay on the same station no matter how many times you raise and lower the ram -- or advance to the next die.

Bill in Oregon

EG73, that's about the sweetest thing I have ever read on this forum.

Bill in Oregon

Will: Cast iron frame and base on the Lee.
https://leeprecision.com/4-hole-classic-turret-press

Bill in Oregon

How about this boys and girls? Pretty darned cool stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AJ5FKO-VbE&t=1s

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Brian, I had never heard of potato starch or black pepper for controlling bleeding!

Bill in Oregon

We have had maybe three inches in the past month -- nothing like down your way, Jim.
Grizz, were you passing through Burnet County yesterday?

Bill in Oregon

Doug, your thread makes me realize I need a better first aid kit than an airway tube and an Israeli bandage that I forgot how to use.

Bill in Oregon

Arima builds a great boat! For a time we lived in a community in central Oregon that prohibited storing boats outside. Knew it going in, but still.

Bill in Oregon

I'd love to have his shop!

Bill in Oregon

I throw this garbage out unopened, and will continue to until they shame Wayne. Not a whisper in the Rifleman.

Bill in Oregon

Will, I am surprised to hear about poor reviews. The one I had indexed like a bank vault and seemed just as solid -- a lot nicer than the Lyman turret press I had prior. I agree with Doc that for the money the Lee is hard to beat. But the Redding felt to me like it would be in use a century from now.

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Doc, the mixed deciduous forests ARE beautiful. The Texas mesquite forests not so much. :lol: I just spent Mother's Day weekend with my sweetheart in Las Cruces and came home via Cloudcroft and the Sacramento Mountains. At 9,000 feet the aspens with their new green leaves were positively glistening ...

Bill in Oregon

Glad Paul is still with us. That forest sure makes me miss Oregon.

Bill in Oregon

Jason, your Ruger with the lanyard loop is beyond cool, bro.

Bill in Oregon

Will, I have had other turret presses, but the Redding is the cream of the crop and the only one I would buy if I weren't so darned happy with my Co-Ax.

Bill in Oregon

I don't have any TiteGroup or 231, which show up often in handgun load recommendations, especially for shorter barreled revolvers. No Red Dot either, but Trail Boss, Bullseye, Unique, Universal, Blue Dot, 2400, 296 -- less than a pound of each but I am in the fourth quarter not far from the two-minu...

Bill in Oregon

Well I am envious.

Bill in Oregon

That's very interesting, but the fact it is being driven by commercial deer farm interests is troubling.

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It has been an honor being a Baby Boomer and child of the Greatest Generation, and now we are dying out as well. I wonder if this war will be fully forgotten when we are gone.

Bill in Oregon

"Burfday" wish from me, Jay!

Bill in Oregon

Dad was in the Sudetenland with the 97th Infantry on V-E Day. Everyone was relieved, but the fact the war in the Pacific seemed far from over tempered the joy. He would have been 99 last Friday. He is on the right with three other members of the Medford, OR, High School Class of 1943. Just small tow...

Bill in Oregon

Jim, have you been re-reading old issues of Boy's Life again?

Bill in Oregon

Yeah, the teflon plumbing tape mystery came immediately to mind ...
I have never forgotten the wisdom of Piglet telling Pooh, who had lost something, "Just look in the last place first."

Bill in Oregon

Maybe this will work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/co ... ictims_of/

I found this fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynOR72xvZPQ

Bill in Oregon

Oh brother. The Nanny States are rampant!

Bill in Oregon

Well dip me head to toe in sheep dip! Never occurred to me that you could enjoy a serious velocity gain by lubing a jacketed bullet! thanks for sharing this Jim. 8) Not quite apples to apples, but this reminds me that some friends in the Victorian Riflemen have found that dipping the noses of their ...

Bill in Oregon

That's some simply awesome accuracy!

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Scott, starting at 4:25 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtW4nCTf8I

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Lovely!

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Scott, Massad explains the catastrophic soft tissue damage that WILL OCCUR should you have an accident with the appendix position -- even if you miss your femoral artery. NO BUENO!

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Thanks fellas. Jim, I share your concerns (and Massad Ayoob's) about appendix carry. I have read that small of the back has been banned by a lot of police agencies for the damage to the spine that can occur if you should happen to fall flat on the weapon. I tend to favor carrying just behind the rig...

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... at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Still hard to watch that massive, graceful ship come to such a sudden end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fURATK5Yt30

Weird seeing all the Nazi flags in New York.

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/...n ... popup=true

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Anyone prefer this to appendix/kidney/small-of-back on strong side? What are the concealed challenges?

Bill in Oregon

SPF fellas.

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