I just use a weedwhacker on it once a month -- whether it needs it or not. In other words, about as often as I check my mail.
Type: Posts; User: CollinLeon
Forum: Our Town
I just use a weedwhacker on it once a month -- whether it needs it or not. In other words, about as often as I check my mail.
The only reason that I can see for some type of plexi would be if you just HAD to be able to see through it.
Anyone considered maybe a couple of sandbags?
There's a lot cheaper sources of steel... I can pick up scrap pieces of steel in 2-4" thick pieces for about $0.40 per pound...
Supporting it is easy... Put a brick behind the back edge of it......
I shot one of the support legs on the diffusers ONCE. All it took was a hammer and anvil to bend it back pretty close to straight. If I hadn't been able to straighten it out, I figure I could have...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
But that's only because they have weak stomachs... They need to eat more hot peppers so that the botulism doesn't stand a chance...
I periodically drive down to Mexico on my Harley and cruise...
Working up a load at a range is an example of when it is perfectly acceptable to reload in public. Not everyone has a few hundred yards and an acceptable berm for a backstop behind their house where...
One could argue that even the advise of an attorney working on your behalf might be questionable. Ask 3 lawyers the same question and you'll likely get 3 different answers. The person that you need...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
If nothing else, I guess the .300 WM would give me an outlet for the .50 and 20mm surplus powder that I bought...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Easy... First you die... If you have any leftover at that time, then you had enough... If not, then you didn't...
I'm not so sure I like that way of determining it though...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I can see how it would be easier to do with a flat topped barrel (e.g. octogon), but what's the secret for doing it on a round barrel so that you are sure that it absolutely is at the top of the...
Forum: Our Town
That one might be a bit extreme with the gloves and such. The actual device that you need to create is a "fume hood". Basically a box / enclosure that is at work table height that has a glass...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
That's about 75K rounds of 230 gr .45... I *think* that would last me for the rest of my life... Maybe...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
So, if you loaded the .300 WM to .308 levels (using .308 reloading data), would you think that you would get the same life out of the brass as you would .308, greater life than a .308, or still not...
Forum: Our Town
Your typical filter type respirator can be difficult and uncomfortable to breathe through. Plus, in any sort of contaminated environment, you are slowly clogging up the filtering capability of...
Forum: Our Town
As they say, "If you live long enough, something is going to kill you"...
Chemo is a case of the doctors trying to kill both you and the cancer at the same time... If you are lucky, they'll kill...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I've heard that the .300 WM brass does not tend to last that many times when you are reloading for it with factory power (or higher loads). I read where the best you can hope for is reloading it...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Considering what I've seen in some restaurants, I would have to generalize and say, "Ignorance is bliss"...
Luckily, as long as you are healthy, the worst that *most* of the bacteria can do to you...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Well, considering that you live in Leadville, CO, if any of us should have a lifelong supply, you should...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Probably if you put in on high for 1 hour per pound of meat...
Yeah, even after 98 posts, it hasn't morphed into a sex or politics topic yet... That has to be a record for a topic on the internet... :)
Not everyone lives in a place to restrictive... Around here, if a criminal is escaping with your property, you can shoot them, even if they are in their car driving away...
I would think that if...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
One thing that I like about this site is that the moderators are not so trigger happy with the censorship button like they are over at thehighroad.org. Every time a thread starts getting...
Government purchases are susceptible to marketing BS, just like everyone else. I'm not saying that is the case in this situation, but you can't just think that what the government does makes sense.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
For those who are stockpiling lead, do you have enough primers also stockpiled to accommodate that amount of lead? In blim's case, that would equal about 138K primers assuming 230 gr for .45ACP...
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 |