Well, we can still dream about it.

@Pain92 nice work dude !

FuhQ said:

Yeah, don’t ever buy a barrel from @CarbonSix …

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Well besides that.. I think most know to avoid C6 barrels based on some user experiences.

Yes the pan juices are value added.

When I do briskets or pork butts I will Texas Crutch them and put a pan underneath them.

Mix with BBQ sauce or make you're own from scratch. I use it to moisten the meat for reheating.

The pork butt au jus got mixed with crushed pineapple, brown sugar, soy and commercial BBQ sauce.

Sweet was an understatement but I wanted regular and something different. It worked .

I'm in the da woods by myself a lot day time and night time.....been through the hunting thing with others while shooting, been through the camper thing while shooting, been through the pissed off land owner, been through the stumbled on grow site, been through the illegals camped with guns (crop workers), have had a mether or few stop and want to talk (see what is available to steal) been shot at for being in the wrong area and folks wanted me gone.

I like the comments about it's my area too. Yet they lack a certain practical understanding that some people are far more serious about it than you are.

* One can drive from the Mexican border to Canada on back roads if one has great maps / removal of head hands and feet + fire + a hammer for the teeth and misshaping of the skull + scatter a few miles away. Throw the remaining chunk over the edge and drag it down the hill 50 yards and tuck it under the brush - critters will take care of the rest. Problems can be solved easily out there, especially if one is just movin through the area. There are some folks (particularly since COVID) that are hiding out in woods that you really don't want to make contact with.

Geaux Tigers!





@Terry Cross

oldrifleman said:

You Always going to want to wear EarPro when shooting Super Sonic rounds! Even Sub Sonic it would be prudent. A suppressor reduces sound, it does not eliminate it.

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Yeah, I learned that the hard way the first time I thought I'd be okay.

I just didn't know if it was going to be perceived as being "louder" with the added brake too.

AllenOne1 said:

Is anyone sizing and seating on the same tool head? If so what results or issues have you seen?

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Long ago, before the whole 'two tool head' thing caught on, I seem to recall David Tubb using one tool head on a 550 for his match ammo. IIRC, the 'trick' was that he alternated inserting cases, so as to spread the load out across the tool head. Bear in mind, this was before using expander mandrels was common, or even frozen tool heads.

The order went some thing like this:

Station #1: F/L sizing die, with expander
Station #2: Powder die / funnel ( think he was using a Prometheus, even back then)
Station #3: skip
Station #4: Bullet seater die

The process was to put a case in station #1, size / decap / prime, then rotate the shell plate but *DON'T* put a case in #1. Raise the ram, charge the case, lower the ram, rotate the shell plate to #3 (empty), and put a case in #1. F/L size, decap / prime, then sit a bullet in the mouth of the charged case @ #3, rotate the shell plate and again, don't insert a new case in #1 yet. At this point you should have a sized / primed case in station #2, ready for powder, and a sized / primed / charged case in #4, ready for seating.

The concept is this: isolate the 'high force' operation (sizing / expanding) from the 'low force' operations that require some amount of 'feel'. With the original tool head, there was a chance for the force of the sizing die operation to load the tool head ever so slightly, possibly affecting the consistency/runout of the seating operation. So nothing else is done while sizing. Seating (and powder, even with the press-mounted thrower) require very little to no force, but a fair amount of 'feel'. Separating them from the sizing/priming process increases the consistency of both, and adds relatively little to the overall time.

The way you're proposing could work similarly... but again, I wouldn't necessarily recommend F/L sizing in the same stroke as bullet seating, not if you're trying for 'precision' ammo.

All that said, I used to have a good friend who couldn't *stand* the drudgery of weighed powder charges, even from a Chargemaster, and kept going back to using the Dillon APM on a 550, then a 650, and for some stuff (.223) a 1050 - and routinely beat the pack by a good margin. He didn't always win the match, but it probably wasn't because of his ammo.

This could be footage of @akmike47 if that kid was a 300 pound gay mongoloid.

Throw rocks all you want, just my experience looking through scopes for days and killing more deer than chronic wasting disease.

One of my buddies had a farm in Western Ohio, and his dad had a kill permit for something like 50 deer. We shot 21 one night braining them with a 220 Swift under the glare of a carbon arc searchlight mounted to the roof of a truck. All head shots. The rest of the herd would just stand there as we turned them off. Butchered them till the sun came up with rivers of blood flowing out of their garage. Then we drove around Wheeling to all the food pantries and were like camo clad Santa Clauses.

I guess my point is that hunting is not competitive shooting, and I find that although my comp guns would certainly kill deer (it's not very hard), there are "better" (more comfortable) tools for that. The reverse is not true. You can't shoot a comp with a hunting rifle, or rather you can, but will be in the basement at the end. I don't try and get any of my firearms to do it all. To me they're different tools for different jobs, and what is important and applies to one job does not, or is a hinderance to others.

We (myself included) like to think that guys who only hunt and go through a box of Corelokts every couple of years can't shoot and are ignorant, and in terms of competition and precision shooting they probably are, but if you needed all our knowledge, skill, and the minutia of reloading wildcats to kill a deer very few people would hunt, as very few shoot competitions. The hunters outnumber us thousands and thousands to one, and despite what we know, many are highly successful without shooting a 6mm or having four thousand dollar scopes on their rifles.

I almost never see a 56mm, mil scope on sale. It's almost always the SFP, 50mm, MOA hunting scopes that vendors are trying to give away. The only scopes I have in MOA are on hunting rifles, because...who cares?

Those less expensive NF NSX scopes are pretty useless for what we do, but they make fantastic hunting scopes IMHO.

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