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Hodgdon's data shows over 1800 for a JHP in a 20" carbine, using H110. At that bullet SD, my son and I got 1800 in our 357 carbine (18.5") using N110, and we weren't near their maximum charge (but the book was for a revolver, so we stopped). N110 is remarkably clean burning at that level.

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I'm more comfortable with that sort of advertising than with the slick and polished stuff. Save the polishing for the guns. I don't mind paying for quality. It is, though, a bigger gun than I feel I need. As I age, what I feel I need seems to keep getting smaller. The 357 and the 44-40 are about rig...

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JimT wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:49 am I was a good friend with Jim Hardy and his wife of Cave Creek, AZ. Jim was born in 1875 and died in 1978 at 103. He was sharp all his older life...

Interesting read that.

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Oh, yeah, but I have to sneak it off to the garbage because my Chinese wife grew up without a fridge and isn't convinced about this food poisoning theory.

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... until I make a decision about cutting off the choke and having the barrel threaded for a rifled screw-in choke. I didn't know they were making such. Tell me more. I handled an H&H Paradox at a recent auction. I assume this rifled choke is a bit less drastic than those Fosbery came up with 1...

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Yesterday I finally took a ride on a DC-3. It is the oldest one flying , made in 1937. It's been more or less restored to its original condition, although the gal who doubled as stewardess confessed it had a much later version of the Wright Cyclone. As such, it would have benefitted from the great s...

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I looked at Hodgdon's data again. Use 5.0 gn Clays under a 200 gn lead RNFP bullet in the 44 Mag case. That load is safe even in the 44-40 and should be quite subsonic. The starting load for both the 44-40 and 44 Mag is 4.2 gn Clays, although that will get you revolver speeds, but maybe that's all y...

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I remember reading his articles somewhere and even took notes from them. Memory isn't what it used to be. I thought he was from Missouri.

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Is it right, close to right, is it wrong, or is it very wrong ? I'm interested in such loads but haven't played with them. The QuickLoad simulator reckons the speed difference should be more like 175 fps between the two lengths. It's possible the factory rifle Hodgdon used had a sloppy chamber that...

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In those proposed regulations is an estimate of about 10,000 locations having to file yearly. I think there are more than 10,000 handloaders in this country. Something is not consistent.

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I know there’s the Tristar and the other Turkish gun Gforce but…. Suggestions? Well, I was fondling a very nice Holland & Holland 410 SxS yesterday at an auction house up state. I'm sure they'll make you one any way you want--for a price . Even nicer was an older Rizzini Brothers SxS: Flawless ...

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hfcable wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:56 pmthese were custom built... 22LR rimfires

Sweet!

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The problem lies in the fact that rubber and plastics contain plasticizers that give them flexibility. That's my understanding as well. I had a butt pad turn to gunk. It was an air rifle and was never treated with any cleaner, so I don't see cleaners as an explanation. This seems to becoming more c...

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Ouch! Best wishes for your recovery.

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Very nice, and in a classy cartridge, too.

I have one of the last Lone Star made. Workmanship could have been better, but it's fun to shoot. For all I know, the originals were a bit rough inside as well; my original '73 Winchester is rather rough there.

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Yawn, decade old news is this. I dress for the winter, so I don't bother with the cabin heater and just use the seat heater. I find the a/c affects range little, and I use it freely. My old tech battery pack does indeed decay much faster than those with a proper radiator. That said, I wouldn't want ...

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Most of the players in this field are quietly giving up or at least scaling back. It's a bridge too far. SAE Level 4 is as far as they will get, probably for decades, and it may then be of dubious economics. Level 5 is Unobtanium for the foreseeable future.

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i consider this evidence of the hydraulic expansion acting on the spring board. Neat photo. Unlike a bullet embedding into a block of wood, there's more than just basic momentum transfer in the motions here. Some of the kinetic energy is transferred into springs (the board and the truck's suspensio...

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Ray wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 6:41 pmI don't know where the idea that a 30-06 will only move a 25 pound block one inch came from.

It can't rise more than one inch. It can roll (move) horizontally much further.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 7:52 am KWX thank you for posting this.

I had botched that post: I forgot to insert the link to Kort's posts on CAScity. I've patched that up and will include the link here as well.

I really miss Kort posting new information on his BP experiments.

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What I should have said is that "muzzle energy in foot-pounds is not easily observable" ... which is what I meant. I interpreted what you, Scott, and Grizz were saying as "energy is a poor predictor of a bullet's effect on game." Going back to the Sixgunner days, your (and other...

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I often wonder if the old .44 Henry Flat really attained the advertised 1200 fps. I’m not sure how the factories measured velocity in those days. Dave Campbell wrote that the cartridge featured a 216 gr bullet at 1125 fps and I think that’s more realistic. If it did that in a 24 inch barrel, what w...

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Muzzle Energy as measured in foot-pounds does not really exist. It's a mathematical figure that is useful in comparing cartridges but it has no application in the real world. If .30-06 Winchester 150 gr. Extreme Point ammo actually developed 2839 foot-pounds of muzzle energy, think what it would do...

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It has the pregnant fore stock and misshapen trigger guard. It is aesthetically challenged.

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kaschi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 9:48 pm What is the case based on? A 30-30 or something different?

Yes, it's on the 30-30 case (in turn based on an older Ballard case).

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City living has some advantages, such as small lawns. In the months the grass is thin, I can get by with a manual reel mower. When it’s lush, I use an electric. No belts, gas, oil, or exhaust. The reel mower is a pill to sharpen, though.

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So far, I have never seen any study that promotes electric cars which took into account the mining. I've read reference to several. Actually, I think most of the recent ones do. A quick look with google finds this one from MIT which does. I think the model from Argonne Labs used by the EPA also does.

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A few years back, a newspaper piece by a doctor claimed the life expectancy of someone revived by CPR was about 30 days.

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To evaluate an old Alexander Henry single offered at an auction house not far away, I purchased off Amazon a Teslong flexible, 45" borescope. I also bought the set of angle mirror attachments for 22 through 40 caliber bores. The image is excellent. We simply plugged its USB port into a tablet P...

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I wonder if all the emissions from the enormous increase in lithium mining have affected anything? More electric cars means a 200-fold increase in emissions due to mining. Seems that electric cars are a step backward when viewed from a total start to finish perspective. Natural gas is cheaper, less...

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I wonder if Lone Star did that. I know Dave did at least one Gove side lever. The CCH looks like that on my Lone Star.

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I forgot to mention that this report was from November 2 , 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 100 years ago. You also forgot to mention that it was a very localized phenomenon, centered around the Norwegian post at Spitzbergen. Averages from around the globe show no su...

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This video is very enlightening about climate change. I'm not sure how much weight to give a single arctic temperature plot. It shows the area cooling over 5 F at the same time the last ice age was receding . One needs to look at data (if available) from around the globe to get a proper average.

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ABSOLUTELY NONE of this information is included in ANY KNOWN climate change hypothesis As I mentioned before, the earth's tilt and orbit are thought to explain the long term swings indicated by the ice core data. I doubt any one is doing detailed climate calculations over the span of time these cyc...

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READ THE LAST PARAGRAPH So what's he trying to say? On the one hand he claims all energy transfer at lower levels is solely by mechanical means. Then he goes and claims radiation might have an effect above 1 km. So how does he reckon that what goes on above 1 km can't affect what goes on below, whe...

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Grizz wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 11:56 amTHE 600 MILLION YEARS OF ICE CORE RESEARCH DOES NOT LINK CO2 WITH TEMPERATURES

Ice core data only goes back 800 thousand years. Some cores suggest the CO2 leads, and in some it lags. It's not the most precise sensor.

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this remnant of history in stone testifies to the truth of the narrative of the israelites in egypt Well, it shows the Egyptians knew of the Israelites. I've read several times there is actually no archeological evidence of an exodus, etc. What there is indicates the Israelites simply grew out of t...

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One point I forgot to make: None of the load book data for CFE-223 which I considered was in the mid-40s. At the combination of relative case size and bullet SD, all the starting loads were a little above 50,000 psi. Some powders can be peculiar at lower pressures, but I've not read that CFE-223 is ...

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Nosler's data on-line for the AI is limited to the 85 gn load. I looked at the IMR 4350 data. Using QL to match the fps with "4350" from IMR, Accurate, and Hodgdon, all suggest Nosler's data is running in the upper 50s on pressure. I looked at a few more cartridges in Hodgdon's CFE-223 dat...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 6:03 amThis batch of loads I have is the Nosler data, 5 each of...

What's the bullet weight for that Nosler data?

Out of curiosity, I'll look at P-max with CFE 223 and compare it to various loads in Hodgdon's on-line data, to see how well it tracks lab data across a few cartridges.

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This Mexican Mauser is the orignal heat treatment... Okay, I missed that, so the 62,000 psi is out the window. Be aware that these crude simulators (both P-max and QL) are optimized for pressures in the 50s. Accuracy falls off in either direction with psi. To what pressure are you comfortable runni...

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Here's how I'd come up with a starting load for CFE 223 in the .257 Roberts AI. I don't have an AI case on hand, but my copy of QuickLoad says the empty, fired case is about 63 gn water to the case mouth. (Published data for the standard Bob is 56 gn.) QL says the 100 gn Hornady SP is .99 long, the ...

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The idea behind a simulator is to let you compute a starting charge. Guess at the charge and look at the predicted velocity and peak pressure. If the predicted pressure is down around, say 45,000 psi, that would be a reasonable starting load. QuickLoad estimates the empty case capacity as 63 gn wate...

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I'm considering ordering QuickLoad software. Others here have discussed QuickLoad, which is a good, but not infallible, product. (No existing simulation software is infallible.) You might see if P-max , which is free, might fit your needs. You'll need to make your own measurements of case capacity ...

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The plot line for co2 is to the right of the temp line, it happens AFTER temp trends change. The problem with such a plot is CO2 and temperature are not tied in lock-step, and no climatologist claims it is. When something raises the air temperature around the earth, many feed back mechanisms are tr...

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One friend had minor side impact damage and the quote to repair it was for a $22,000 battery pack replacement which the insurance company claimed was more than the value of the EV so they totaled his EV and he lost a ton of money on a replacement. That's probably an extreme example (my battery pack...

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How much does it cost to run Your car? How would electric cars do in a very cold winter environment ? The fall off in cold (I'm in central Illinois) is impressive. Watching the meter, I reckon I average over the course of the year a little under 5 miles per kWh stored, certainly at least 4.5 mi/kWh...

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One fellow mentioned his electric car. Is it just me hearing tom hank's voice in character as forrest gump... Oh, that must be me. I have an electric car. It's our second car and perfect for suburban use. Other than tires, there's no routine maintenance, and I never take time at the gas station. Wh...

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... and at 39mpg (which I think is what some hatches get) is 10.25c per mile... Using $4/gal, our hybrid sedan costs 7 c/mi on average. Our little electric runabout (town use only) costs about 4.5 c/mi in electricity, and that's with the more expensive juice from the wind turbines. With coal juice,...

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There is no question the debate is twisted. I've read from climate scientists that the models have so many levers and knobs that you can get any result you want out of them. Knowledge of the heat transfer to the oceans is indeed one area lacking. However, the basic physics are undeniable and have be...

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