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Maser · Apr 10, 2025

Homemade pizza cooked in an air fryer is the way to go!

ToddKS · Apr 10, 2025

1. If you have ever watched a less proficient pistol shooter try to find their dot, you will understand that that this is simply another layer of complication. It is also to an extent obstruction the shooters sight line to the target. The base of the sight blocks the view immediately above the elevation turret. The shooter also still has to be able to visually acquire the target or target area to put the dot on it.

021411 · Apr 10, 2025

padom said:
Getting back on track here...

Anyone see Criterion is now selling 22 rimfire hand taper lapped blanks??

I just ordered one to test out.

Interesting. I’ll take a look.

Shootnjunky · Apr 10, 2025

Bump let’s get it gone

021411 · Apr 10, 2025

buckleboy said:
If I ever consider going to a match and meeting fellow shooting aficionados, I’ll remind myself of this thread.

It’s no big deal. Just a bunch of bored men bitching online and 99.9% of us are completely normal in person. I’d have a glass of bourbon with anyone on here.

Simonsza1 · Apr 10, 2025

Same situation

Modoc · Apr 10, 2025

HPIguy said:
That last one works for fiber optic cable too.

Referred to as “<Your State> Rainbow Root”!

ICU22250 · Apr 10, 2025

Shoreglide said:
I was going to grab another Helos w/mil reticle since Walmart.com had them for $449. Showed 8 left when I added to cart, and OOS when I tried to check out 2-3 minutes later.

I just tried the same thing, but it said 8 in stock. I didn't hit the purchase button because I already have one coming but you may wanna try again just in case it was a glitch...

HPIguy · Apr 10, 2025

Modoc said:
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And I’m one of the old dudes.

That last one works for fiber optic cable too.

Wildcatter66 · Apr 10, 2025

BoldCorrections · Apr 10, 2025

Up top

Wildcatter66 · Apr 10, 2025

Modoc · Apr 10, 2025

And I’m one of the old dudes.

Modoc · Apr 10, 2025

babyguppy said:
BRASSO........ shit tons of BRASSO!!
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Yep, Charlie said it took 3 days to clean it back to show room condition.

rockwind1 · Apr 10, 2025

Caba said:
? Did you read my post? We are on the same page. Where did I disagree with that. Network is everything but you don't need your parents sending in your resume to HR.

and in retrospect, i shouldn't have done it that way. boomer mistake. son is just in last 3 weeks with finals looming, with one particularly tough class, so i was just figuring if the person liked the resume, then son could take it from there. i was just trying to save a step for him. oops.

22Hshots · Apr 10, 2025

Barneybdb said:
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In what other thread can you, out of the blue, see a hot motivational Pic of capybara sex?!

stello1001 · Apr 10, 2025

padom said:
I need to block American somehow. Lolol. Im avg 2-3 orders a week. Lmfao

Sell me back some of that h4895

rockwind1 · Apr 10, 2025

YotaEer said:
I am not a tech guy whatsoever, but I am now an executive with a company that I started out with as an unpaid intern, begging to be given a chance. So, I am sympathetic to your son's spot and you as his father wanting to help.

As for tech people/companies who may have a spot, Randy Cottle owns this firm and is a great person. If your kid was from WV, he'd crawl across broken glass to give him a spot.

Still, won't hurt to reach out. They have grown substantially and just opened a new office in TX.

Trilogy Innovations, Inc. | Federal IT Services | 8(a) Certified

Trilogy Innovations, located in Bridgeport, WV, is a minority-owned software and systems engineering company that delivers superior technical solutions for a variety of industries across private and public sectors. Application Modernization, Cloud Services, Data Analytics, and Cybersecurity.

www.trilogyit.com

thanks,, I am going to have jason reach out! that is what is good about a internship, they are designed to make you more hirable for that company later on after you graduate. however, the smaller companies can't afford to take the initial risk of wasting time with a newbie sometimes.

Short-bus · Apr 10, 2025

Sean the Nailer said:
So, what I hear you saying is, you spelled "Expertologist" wrong.

yes....and i'm an expert at that.

22Hshots · Apr 10, 2025

Hippy_Steve said:
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It's beautiful, clean, coal! Friggin' hippies.

rockwind1 · Apr 10, 2025

DownhillFromHere said:
My son got his best internship via a guy I knew through one of the gun clubs to which I belonged. Totally chance thing - so your asking here on SH is not a bad idea at all.

My son is a software engineer. I understand about "social skills... currently under construction." He struggled so hard with his senior-year job fairs and interviews... but he did land with the company he interned with and is now a well-compensated senior engineer there. But his human social skills remain "under construction."

Interestingly, after four years there, he was laid off during the pandemic, but landed less than a month later with a big raise. But he still helped a former coworker who was saddled with his responsibilities. Then, when he was laid off from the new job after just a few months as the pandemic wore on, he was brought back into his former company with a promotion and another raise. He's been there now almost ten years.

I wish your son luck. Persistence is everything. After I graduated college fifty years ago next spring, I worked for well over a year at a subsistence farm job that, some days, would gag a maggot. But when I landed, it was in a dream role using practical skills I picked up as part of my job search. And some of life's best lessons were learned on that farm job - not the least of which is how it feels to be looked at like you're nothing and how persistence can feel so futile.

Tell your son DON'T GIVE UP, and even menial subsistence jobs have value.

thanks for the kind words, sounds like my second "real" w2 job in my late teens, i was, among other things, a "hub hopper" , i would run in front of the blade and shoot grade with a hand level. sometimes the blade would hit a hidden manhole cover and i would have to go down into the live sewer and clean out all the rocks and dirt. i think the driver did it on purpose sometimes. always nice to see the tampons and turds flowing again after i got done. never saw OSHA anywhere as i went down into a confined space over and over again, too stupid to know about hydrogen sulfide at the time.

i'm hoping he does get something menial just to build some life experience. we had hope for something thru my wifes work, the third party IT company that helps them with their security but he just heard back from them that they are not big enough to do a summer gig.

straightshooter1 · Apr 10, 2025

bdubmkg said:
Last night I was loading some 6.5cm and I decided to see how much difference there was in the weights of each case. All hornady.
Most of the brass hovered around the 158 to 160 gr area but had a decent amount of them that were in the lower 150s.
It got me thinking, how much does this affect round consistency? I would think it would if you have a case that's 8+ grain weight difference.

Since there is certainly some correlation for a brass weight and its case volume, a significant difference like that can indeed affect consistency for velocity and on target. I've tested this by weighing my Lapua brass comparing those that were the most light to the that were the most heavy. Culling out the outliers can help with getting better consistency (lower ES's and SD's).

Old Man with Gun said:
I weigh mine and there is higher velocity with heavier brass and better SD when I batch them by weight groups.

Yup, the heavier brass tends to have less volume, which will increase velocity given the same powder charge. I too like to "batch them" after culling out the outliers, which I found helps a lot in getting lower SD's and ES's.

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