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To lube or not to lube....when seating bullets

My base to ogive measurement is much more consistent when I lube bullets before seating.
I am investigating bushing dies now. I have never been comfortable with how hard a generic expander ball pulls on brass. It seems to stretch it, leading to trimming required sooner. I’m just figuring out that bushing dies with the expander removed, when set up properly full length size the case but only squeeze the neck down to the appropriate size. If I understand correctly, an expander mandrel is just a gentler sloped expander ball, unless it’s used as a separate operation after sizing, making the pressure down on the brass while expanding, rather than pulling up. So a bushing die properly set up with the expander removed is basically a f/l die that neck sizes without a collet.

Kirk's shooter caught

I don't want the death penalty for this POS....I want him gang banged by his new prison husbands every fucking night for the next 60 years. Yeah...that's the ticket.

I hate to ruin your weird sexual fetish you got there, but people like him will be held in the SHU and away from the general population for his whole life if he gets a life sentence and not death.

Bullet proof vest tech- time for updates?

I have no doubt new and improved models will come on the market but I think this event was an unusual /freak . In a few weeks we will find out the who/what /where of the body armor and the ammo used . There is a good "chance" that a military type vest where the vest is much larger and some have neck protection would have saved him but his wear choice was a lowkey /low threat civilian type ....technically did its job but it is chance and luck too along with an old fudd gun/ caliber that people discount .
Um, it has been WELL established that “he” wasn’t wearing any sort of vest or plates.

Someone murdered Charlie Kirk

I watched Ericka Kirk last night on Newsmax. She is obviously still in the throes of incredible grief. She seemed defiant and resolved in her brokenness. If was hard to watch but beautiful, simultaneously horrible and lovely.

I have split and stacked a lot of firewood since yesterday morning. Listened to old messages from RC Sproul and prayed mostly. The thoughts of the children attempting to make sense of why daddy isn’t home…boy that is profound.

I thought a lot about how Tyler’s father must feel. I don’t like those thoughts but I open to them to put some/any humanity back on that side of the tragedy. The boy seems to have come from a normal home. His dad especially must be now pouring over every moment of the way he reared his son looking for some reason. I know this because I too am a dad and I too had a time where I wanted a reason for my kids rebellion.

Colleges are an indoctrination camp. Infiltrated by a relentless long game of ideological collectivists and then like cancer moving into healthy tissue. As a society we need to reevaluate what we tolerate. I am not sure how to do this but allowing cancer to plan and scheme under the guise of education of the most moldable of us seems ridiculous.

Someone murdered Charlie Kirk

I'm guessing a Chinese or Iranian troll farm. Recently joined and almost every post in this thread. I see these troll farms on every forum and comment board, posting incendiary crap just to cause social discord. Very obvious.
For sure a troll to whom English is not their first or even second language.


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Hear me out....

That's the first retarded AI we have seen.

To lube or not to lube....when seating bullets

Pondering on getting a mandrel set up with 3 different size mandrels for 3 different cases 308, 6 & 6.5 Cm's. Got frustrated with every on line site using some form of AI in their search feature, type in "mandrel die" and you get every "Fn" die they have.
So, where to look for 1 die body and 3 different size mandrels ?
https://www.brownells.com/reloading...ss-steel-neck-turning-mandrels/?sku=749001186

To get to this I had to search for . ".241 mandrel" any other search ended up with crap results .