Anyone ever figured out a use for those nasty little strips of "cut-out" left
over from punching out gas checks?
That is, other than hooking your fingers together.
Jack...
Anyone ever figured out a use for those nasty little strips of "cut-out" left
over from punching out gas checks?
That is, other than hooking your fingers together.
Jack...
They're great for getting blood samples, especially when you don't need one.......
I just put the copper strips in with my scrap brass and cash it in for money with the brass.
The aluminum goes in with the Blazer Aluminum cases and gets the same treatment at the scrap yard as the brass does, turned into cash.
Hope this helps.
Fred
Fold them over put them in a soda or beer can (your choice) smash the can and sell it with the other empty cans. in California to ups the weight on the cash redemption. At $1.57 a pound everything helps.
At one time we got to clean up after a huge multi-school graduation party at the end of the road.
We dropped a piece of pea gravel in the cans as we gathered them, then smashed them en mass by rolling the 1-ton doolly over them.
The kids still wound up with an entire truck load. I think they got 65-70 bucks to split from the pile. (Late 1980's, hardly got squat for the cans back then.)
God Bless America!
Sittin here watchin the world go round and round...
Much like a turd in a flushing toilet.
Shoot for the eyes.
If they are crawlin away, shoot for the key hole.
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The basic flaw with Science is man.
God Bless America!
Sittin here watchin the world go round and round...
Much like a turd in a flushing toilet.
Shoot for the eyes.
If they are crawlin away, shoot for the key hole.
NRA Life Member
CRPA Life Member
Magnificent!
The basic flaw with Science is man.
My nearest scrap yard is 25 miles away.
It would take an awful lot to pay for the gas to make the round trip.
I just weighed one, and then two of my cast-off strips. (.011" Brass shim stock)
1/2" X 6"L =
.05 ounces for one, .090 for two. (On a very unreliable scale)
16 ounces to the pound.
16 / .05 = 320 strips to the pound.
I got 14 punching's per 6" strip. (That's the material I had.)
So I would make 4480 disks to amount to one pound of scrap.
I don't think the scrap (even brass) would be worth the powder to blow them to the scraper.
YMMV
God Bless America!
Sittin here watchin the world go round and round...
Much like a turd in a flushing toilet.
Shoot for the eyes.
If they are crawlin away, shoot for the key hole.
NRA Life Member
CRPA Life Member
Magnificent!
The basic flaw with Science is man.
The .357 Magnum......
1935
Major Douglas Wesson, using factory loads, which were a 158 gr. soft lead bullet, traveling 1515 fps, from an 8 3/4" barreled S&W, producing 812 ft. lbs of muzzle energy.
Antelope - 200 yards (2 shots)
Elk - 130 yards (1 shot)
Moose - 100 yards (1 shot)
Grizzly Bear - 135 yards (1 shot).
It kind of makes one wonder, why today, it will bounce off anything bigger than a rabbit
Jack is cutting checks for a 458 Socom. I bet he has all the home defense nastyness he could ever need.
Last edited by justingrosche; 11-01-2011 at 08:32 PM. Reason: spell check
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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 |