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Clark · July 15, 2012, 12:42 AM

Ever get to the range, and the ammo is seated too long and will not chamber?
Ever get to the range, and you forgot they are closed on Monday's?
Ever forget a gun at the range, and the rangemaster calls you wife?
Ever shoot a hole in your chronograph at the range, come back, they make fun of you, and you do it again?
Ever have a mouse chew a hole in the bottom of a container of powder, it leaks out, and you try to salvage some of it?
Ever seat a bullet so long that it gets stuck in the lands? Then when you pull it out, the bullet stays and stick powder is spilled all over? Get some sticks of powder in your chamber and the next round you fire has the brass come out with leprosy?
Ever try to moly coat soft tipped bullets and the Lead contaminates the vibrator and media?
Ever accidentally buy brass that is the wrong cartridge, but you keep it anyway, because someday you might own a gun in that cartridge? 10 years later, still no 30 Luger pistols around here.
Ever can't load anything because there is one little thing you can't find?

July 15, 2012, 12:42 AM	#69
Clark Senior Member Join Date: December 4, 1999 Location: WA, the ever blue state Posts: 4,678	Ever get to the range, and the ammo is seated too long and will not chamber? Ever get to the range, and you forgot they are closed on Monday's? Ever forget a gun at the range, and the rangemaster calls you wife? Ever shoot a hole in your chronograph at the range, come back, they make fun of you, and you do it again? Ever have a mouse chew a hole in the bottom of a container of powder, it leaks out, and you try to salvage some of it? Ever seat a bullet so long that it gets stuck in the lands? Then when you pull it out, the bullet stays and stick powder is spilled all over? Get some sticks of powder in your chamber and the next round you fire has the brass come out with leprosy? Ever try to moly coat soft tipped bullets and the Lead contaminates the vibrator and media? Ever accidentally buy brass that is the wrong cartridge, but you keep it anyway, because someday you might own a gun in that cartridge? 10 years later, still no 30 Luger pistols around here. Ever can't load anything because there is one little thing you can't find? __________________ The word 'forum" does not mean "not criticizing books." "Ad hominem fallacy" is not the same as point by point criticism of books. If you bought the book, and believe it all, it may FEEL like an ad hominem attack, but you might strive to accept other points of view may exist. Are we a nation of competing ideas, or a nation of forced conformity of thought?