Awesome video!
Type: Posts; User: jakharath
Forum: Our Town
Howdy! I've been fighting southern naiad grass in our 1.5 acre pond. We fish and swim in it, so didn't want to use herbicides. Got a permit from Texas Parks & Wildlife for Triploid Grass Carp...
Forum: Casting Equipment
$1.60 in 1966 would equal $15.80 (https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1.60&year1=196601&year2=202405)
Forum: Cast Boolits
Looks like a TC Mold. 50 cal 370gr. Think Lyman made something similar.
Forum: Our Town
I have used both corn cob and walnut media from Grainger:
https://www.grainger.com/product/Blast-Media-Walnut-Shells-53YK19?searchQuery=53YK19&searchBar=true - $85.08/50 pounds --> $1.70/pound
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185 Grain SWC over 5.5 grains of Titegroup. Have used it will several different 185 SWC's and it doesn't seem to matter.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Here's a PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j5rwxnk01q0pzs8t5crtw/H108-data.pdf?rlkey=2e37knlwdu2e6opj3dzwbx81g&st=t5x43ml1&dl=0
Forum: Military Rifles
Maybe we should also equip folks with shotguns for anti-drone defense? I'd imagine some #6 shot would ruin a drone pretty quickly.
Forum: Leverguns
One of those has been on my short list for a long while...
Forum: Prepper Talk
They are smart little guys. Used to have one that liked eating jalapenos right out of the garden.
Forum: Our Town
We are on our 2nd year of beekeeping to get an Ag exemption on taxes. Currently have three hives in production (started with 1 last year, have started 2 more hives last month) Nucs cost us $371 each,...
Forum: Our Town
Since the Vista purchase it seems like a bunch of RCBS's stuff started being made in China. Maybe Hodgdon will change that...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
No experience but supposed to be the same stuff as H870.
Forum: Our Town
+1
You know, I come here daily and it's the things you take for granted. It is nice not having to put up with stuff like that!
Forum: Our Town
In the top right hand corner of the page, click on your username. Then click "UserCP"
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On the left side of the page, you should see the "My Settings" box, in that is "Edit Signature"
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Forum: Cast Boolits
I let a small primer 45acp brass slip by while sorting. The 1050 I was loading on tried to put a large primer in the small primer pocket. The primer went off and I nearly had to change my pants. It...
Forum: Our Town
We shoot a lot of pistol and no rifles with muzzle brakes. Had someone out shooting a 223 ar and each shot was like someone dropping a decently sized phone book on you.
Will try moving the bench...
Forum: Our Town
Howdy! Put up a 15x30 tin covered canopy over my shooting bench. It 9' high on one end and 11' on the other. The canopy is to keep the sun off but shooting is now louder with a lot more felt...
I'm in Texas where it's hot, humid and hot some more. I've moved to the Hogue Wraparound grips with finger grooves because I can control my 1911 better with wet hands. These by no means are pretty...
<purple font>Wait, you screwdriver isn't also a hammer? What about a prybar?</purple font>
Playing around with stuff is how we learn. I say go for it!
Forum: Military Rifles
Howdy! I believe the first box is a 800 rounds of 7.62x25 Tokorev and the second is 780 rounds of Czech 7.62x54R Silver Tip.
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 |