Well dang, that turned out good as far as I'm concerned.
Type: Posts; User: HollowPoint
Forum: 3D PRINTED RELATED ITEMS
Well dang, that turned out good as far as I'm concerned.
Forum: Our Town
After September of this year, drone flyers flying a drone with a weight of more than .55 pounds will be required to have on their drones a remote-ID transponder. With this new transponder...
Forum: Our Town
I just came across this thread about drones.
I recently started studying for the Part-107 Commercial Pilots license exam. Some of the information that one is required to learn is just...
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
I don't want to sound like I'm discounting the seriousness of the original intent of the initial question about "euthanasia" but, at three pages long now it seems that this conversation has become...
Forum: Our Town
I can't remember a time when I didn't have this ringing in my ears.
It can range from a straight monotone ringing to a high-pitched ringing in one ear and low tone in the other ear and all points in...
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
I blame the misinterpretations of the Word of God by organized religion when it comes to the real lack of understanding surrounding euthanasia or suicide. There is far more to these subjects in...
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
We lost our mom a couple of years back to the same Alzheimer symptoms. She was about the same age, and she could no longer recognize any of us. She didn't know who we were or even who she was....
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
In my less than knowledgeable understanding of the redemption that Jesus Christ blessed his followers with, I am given to believe that we have been forgiven of all of our sins, past, present and...
Forum: Our Town
We had a fairly powerful microburst take place about 150 yards from my place last year during the monsoon season. I think my home must have been just far enough away from ground-zero that we...
Forum: Our Town
I feel sorry for all the allergy sufferers this spring. Me thinks that they're all going to get a nose full of pollen. The over the counter allergy pill manufacturers should do a brisk business this...
Forum: Our Town
It's been raining the proverbial cats and dogs since the early AM hours today. It's supposed to rain all day today and into tomorrow morning.
We'll get a two- or three-day break from the rain and...
Forum: Our Town
Speaking of lawn mowers, one of the things I liked about dry weather is that the grass on my lawn doesn't grow very well without water. This means that I don't have to do alot of mowing; mostly just...
Forum: Our Town
It's been a real long time since we here in the Arizona deserts have gotten the amounts of rain we've gotten in the past couple of months.
I'm not complaining. We really needed this rain but, I'm...
Forum: 3D PRINTED RELATED ITEMS
This was the kind of thing I originally bought my 3D printer for.
I know that what you're looking for can be done if it hasn't already been done.
After I got comfortable with my printer, I was...
This seems to be the general consensus that I've come across during my search for info on the internet. Some folks like them, some folks hate them and many folks say that stainless-steel tumbling...
It seems that the general consensus for using or not using stainless-steel tumbling medium is about 50/50.
HollowPoint
Even though my repurposed stainless-steel scouring pads seem to be working for now, eventually I may still take the plunge and pick up some stainless-steel pins or some other form of stainless...
It seems that over time alot of the things we reloaders have heard about or the way we've done things or the methods we believed were right are eventually rendered "Old-Wives-Tales."
They may have...
I've heard that same thing from other folks on the internet.
At this point it does seem to be working as I'd hoped. I did notice that those half-inch to 3/8" stanless-steel coils tend to lock...
I've been toying with the idea of buying some of those stainless-steel pins to use as my brass cleaning medium for a few months now but, with the holiday season coming around I really didn't have the...
Forum: 3D PRINTED RELATED ITEMS
I finally got around to modeling and 3D printing my DIY Auto-Disk powder dispenser for my 223 Ackley Improved varmint rifle.
I had some problems with my 3D printer for some reason. I just...
Forum: 3D PRINTED RELATED ITEMS
I usually do stuff like this for my own personal use. In those rare occasions when I have attempted to sell my 3D print ideas, they ended up being stolen by unscrupulous internet people who would...
Forum: 3D PRINTED RELATED ITEMS
No, I never tried it. I knew it existed but, I just didn't want to spend any more money on something I could basically make myself.
The adjustable disk I've printed allows me to keep the two...
Forum: 3D PRINTED RELATED ITEMS
This is how I went about adjusting the amount of powder that the LEE Auto-Disk Powder Dispensers are pre-designed to dispense.
If you're anything like me, the amount of powder that I come up with...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have two 6-cavity Lee molds and three 2-cavity molds. They all drop some nice-looking bullets.
My only peeve is that regardless of the alloy I'm working with when casting 9mm or 45, the bullet...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |