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The story that originally ran in the papers down here said that he had stayed home from school that day and was riding his bike to school once he heard about the shooting. His interview at the time was pushed by all the national papers as a “student who was there”. He is an opportunist and likely handled from the beginning.

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Exactly. Now the MSM always refers to him as a Parkland “survivor”, but he wasn’t there until it was over. His only claim to fame is being a fraud.

That brake is too small, and the diving board could be a problem.

Good lessons for the next rifle.

Yogi/momma bear is to be taken seriously when encountered in the wild.
Damned near walked into a sow and cub several years ago in NM.
Edge of darkness and young eyes in our group caught her shadow of movement in the trees.
Wind swirled and the cub bawled and went up a tree.
Popping teeth and huffing.
All inside of 50-60 yards.
Took a 1/4 mile bypass.

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Ive shot about 500 220 LRHT’s out of a 10 twist. Your rifle is clearly not stabilizing them. Have you actually measured your barrel twist? This is going to come down to swapping bullets, or swapping barrels. Changing powder and charge weight isn't gonna do it.

It’s not just the “prestigious” universities. My university is chock full of Chinese nationals. They are professors, students, and department heads. Let’s not even start talking about all of the African continent folks who have taken over the engineering programs. I can literally go down the list of faculty in our engineering programs and not pull out half a dozen names of people who are not foreign born.

Pete Cefalu said:

Berger suggested the charge weights may have come from QL and may be a bit conservative.
Maybe they use(d) QL to work up a profile before they shot them? I don’t know, just going off a friendly call to them for info and sharing it here. Getting a little hot in here, time for me to go out and shoot.

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Possibly. I’ve never known them to actually publish data from QL, but they do use it because Bob ran a theoretical load through it on the phone with me last week. But, he was careful to distinguish it wasn’t their data and was purely theoretical. If they published it (ie sent it out to you), I’d be surprised if they hadn’t shot it, but you could be right. I just know he was very careful to distinguish their data (which he sent me) vs what he told me he got on QL with a different load (which he did not send). This was 300NM data with a 245 LRHT.

spife7980 said:

And what about the cool down time that he was talking about?

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When the brass drops out of the flame, it cools down VERY fast. It won't stay hot enough long enough to be an issue that affects the hardness, especially at the web area of a case. The rate of cooldown is an exponential curve where it's fastest from the higher temperatures and slower at the lower temperatures. This has something to do with Newton's Law of Cooling.

My brass prep is done in my non-airconditioned garage in the Phoenix AZ area where I've done annealing when it's 105°F in there. Even in that temperature, the brass cools down really fast from the peak temperature I get my brass to. Of course, it cools down even faster in the winter time with the ambient temperature in the 60's.

This gives a good breakdown of what it says, isn't always true.

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muzzleloader said:

Wtf post apocalyptic shit is this?

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Just NE of Bangladesh according to the geocoords displayed on the feed…and the music playing on the radio.

TonyAngel said:

I can tell you that I have compared the Black Hills 5.56 77gr loadings to the 77gr 5.56 load that I got from Black Arc. Granted, I didn't shoot too much of either, at approaching $1.50 a round; but the Black Arc did come in at close to 100 fps faster in my 16". 100 fps really isn't much, but considering that the Black Arc shot better and isn't too far off in price, I think the Black Arc is worthy of consideration. Just mentioning it since Black Arc is a contender in the NAS3 game.

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I’m sure it’s good stuff. But the person who made that video inserts his black arc code in all videos. Plus I don’t want to be swapping barrel every 1k ish rounds shooting NAS3 stuff. Listen to the interview Paul Craddock did with Frank lowlight about that.

Can anyone recommend one that will accommodate a Thunderbeast 338 Ultra 2?

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We’re going to have to ask you to stop posting facts. It interferes with our theories and SWAGs.



What’s interesting to me is that this thread unintentionally reminded me to address the possibility that my suppressor is involved in an issue I’m having. I may go back to square three and test the variance when using it on a particular rifle.

The results of reloading manifest in multiple ways ... a chronograph gives directional information regarding the anticipated velocity envelope for the cartridge and load specifications. Velocities outside of expected results would indicate a possible (or probable) issue.

It's not just for safety, but a very useful tool in the process to monitor safe loads

straightshooter1 said:

It's not just reaching that the 600°F, but also how much time it's at 600°F. I assume you're talking about Fahrenheit??? 600°F is only ~ 316°C . . . which is not enough to do any level of annealing unless is for a very long time. Annealing (or the "flash annealing" that we do) the brass is best done at 650°C (1,200°F) .

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And what about the cool down time that he was talking about?

Your snippet lacks context, but a chrono does perform a safety function, and not everyone measures case heads. Time and again we see handloaders loading to book max, thinking everything is peachy, because the book says so afterall, while ignoring obvious pressure signs. The high chrono velocity would have been another indication of high pressure. No guarantee they would take it as a warning of course, as some think physics just gave them a pass on their shiny new gun.

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Wtf post apocalyptic shit is this?

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Nah. That is him realizing he has to die so the "movement" can flourish.
He was a communist, adulterer, pimp, and a false teacher of the gospel.

No, it helps with knowing if your loads are showing great SD's. I started without one, only mattered when I need a Ballistics calculator