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June 8, 2018, 09:00 AM | #26 |
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That's two of us
Man, I hear you there, I too will purloin that gem!
I keep the sound muted on my PC just to stop the inane videos that pop up when surfing around the web. At least it kills the sound.
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June 8, 2018, 10:40 AM | #27 |
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It almost sounded like you are describing politicians. Amazing!
I'm referring to briandg, post #18. |
June 8, 2018, 11:37 AM | #28 |
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I hope that I can be forgiven for doing most of my reading electronically. A kindle is just like a book, but I can enlarge the font. Try doing that on a paperback.
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June 8, 2018, 12:03 PM | #29 | |
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Secondly, bad advice is occasionally given here as well. It's typically addressed, but it doesn't go away, and continues to surface occasionally. Of course that's to be expected since TFL is both internet and social media. |
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June 8, 2018, 12:06 PM | #30 |
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Those are new to me.
But the first use I ever saw for Loctite was gluing primers in loose pockets, seen in a gunzine before Al Gore invented the internet. I know a fine shooter who does it. A strange improvisation brought about by economics. Long ago there was a guy with a .38 Super. He did not like the cost of ammo, bullets and brass. But in those days the DCM was selling .45 components to NRA members very cheaply. So he got a surplus .45 barrel and magazine; and a supply of .45 brass. He turned the .45s down to a very rebated rim to fit the Super breechface and was quite happy with the results. |
June 8, 2018, 12:09 PM | #31 | |
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I think that from now on I'm going to be a lot less helpful and in consequence a lot less liable for foolish choices.
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June 8, 2018, 12:15 PM | #32 |
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Unfortunately, it's all part of the "instant gratification" mindset. Growing up, I had to wait for a month to pass for my next edition of "Guns and Ammo" and "Shooting Times" to arrive.
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June 9, 2018, 07:17 PM | #33 |
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'Instant Gratification' is pie! Love pie.
I told a guy a while back it would take 4-6 weeks for build time & he flipped out! About two weeks later, after finding out no one else could do the job sooner, and at twice the cost, he came back still complaining and when I told him I was now booked at least two months out on another job, he called me everything in the book and stormed off again... I didn't take his calls anymore. Once is a bad day, twice makes him an A-hole and I just don't need the work that bad, wasn't like I wasn't busy! |
June 30, 2018, 09:33 AM | #34 | |
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And the big question, did you- er, I mean he, actually save any money in the end after buying the .45 barrel and magazine so he could use cheaper components? |
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June 30, 2018, 10:12 AM | #35 |
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For standard reloading, I don't know why you'd want to complicate a process and product that already works just fine the way it is.
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June 30, 2018, 03:12 PM | #36 |
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Yeah! Just how much can you save by doing such idiotic things!? The value of a used case doesn't compare at all with the possible damage you can do to yourself and your firearms.
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June 30, 2018, 04:58 PM | #37 | |
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You are attempting to interject logic into this, big mistake. I have to talk my wife down a couple times a week, guys at work who think as well.
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I have bi-focals for the paperbacks (grin) - I do have plans in the future that I may at least have an electronic reader for. The human mind can be amazing, both good and bad. I know some really good people who I can't begin to fathom why they think the way they do on certain aspects. Years back I had a conversation with a frind who was a Nurse. More or less she kept saying something about germs did not exist (she was xxxxxx religion) - I finally asked her if that what she really thought. No she said, why would you think that?, I am just being silly. Well with all due respect, your xxxxx has some beliefs in it that don't jibe with science and I wondered if you just went along with the germ thing to keep your job? She took it well but it never tracked for me. Wonderful person, intelligent, fun to talk to but the beliefs did not track with well established science in a number of areas. I did warn my wife about FB years back, she had to try it. After being deluge by a bazillion people she did not know she asked me to make it stop. I did. I gather we are tracked anyway. At least Emma Brehaaa does not email wanting to be friends. I just refer to it as an ESD (electronic social disease) - share my foot (and other areas higher up)
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June 30, 2018, 05:44 PM | #38 |
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After watching a few of the internet experts expounding on their reloading techniques, except for a few video's produced by reloading tool companies , powder & bullet manufacturers and Midway USA , those other private internet experts are either idiots or fools. I don't give them the time of day. Video's are the last place you want to get proper reloading information from.
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Those videos aren't to different then post on forums really . You always need to do your part to weed the bad stuff out but if you're a complete noob then it's best you do more research then one video before jumping head first into something that can get you or others killed .
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July 1, 2018, 03:33 PM | #40 |
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I could not agree more.
While some don't use them, I always felt we were given brains the size we have for a reason.
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July 1, 2018, 06:42 PM | #41 |
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Totally different mentality on social media. Many things I see on fb would not be allowed to stand and be snuffed in short order here and other dedicated loading forums.
There are a lot of folks that buy a manual, go straight to the data and start at max published loads. |
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There has been a couple times the poster of a video was so wrong I had to comment to set the record straight .
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July 2, 2018, 01:52 PM | #44 |
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There are is some useful information in those media sometimes, but the problem that I see is that a beginner doesn't yet know enough to tell what is good advice and what is dangerous. Heck, there are some ideas and techniques that I read about here that are over my head. I know enough to know what I don't know; not everyone does, or admits it to themselves.
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Let me be the first to suggest taking the Metallic Cartridge Reloading Course offered by the NRA. While most of the guys taking this course are newbies, I have had several who where seasoned reloaders, and even they have gotten something out of the course.
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