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The hulkster called home Pinellas county, Clearwater where I lived for years. I was at a gym I went to called Seminole fitness, RIP Johnny green, and witnessed the hulk in action.
He went way way out his way one time and helped a guys sick kid.

Spent last night at Alyeska Resort for our 20th anniversary. We had dinner at the Seven Glaciers Restaurant at the top of the mountain.

Dinner was incredible. Seven courses with paired wine.

But kicked it off with a Four Roses Old Fashioned.

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mark5pt56 said:

Appears the same here, just lower velocity. I think I might order a .221 mandrel from 21st CI and try it, then run it.

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If you have some 600 -800 grit cloth and a drill around you can take that off on a couple minutes .

It's not the ? 6$ or time is bad waiting but you will have a very slick mirror finish.

Not much need for relubing after sizing.

I'm too lazy to test more neck tensions than my standard 0.002 and slight crimp. I don't think it's anything the tuner won't cover.

That neck standard so far has been used on 52g up to 220g bullets in various calibers.

Do you think 0.003 will be discernable as opposed to my standard 0.002 ? I have tried 0.004 without using the mandrel and did not like it at all.

I’ll take the last ten.

Check PM.

"Stunt doubles".... I know you've all encountered them. There are also "ghosts" and zombies sometimes.

That bird, (mine were usually quail) that you ABSOLUTELY DID NOT MISS who chucks a handful of feathers and flies away like nothing happened. I've seen pheasant drop out of the air (I swear the practice flopping) and then disappear, or just wait till our dog gets close and take off again knowing we're not going to shoot our dog. Yeah, they're professional pratfalls, mines, clowns, anything but on my table. And they know it. We hear them laughing at us.

Then there's the buck that makes you want to get your eyes checked again... We hunt in and adjacent to the woods. We hear them before we see them. I've even smelled them around, but never made contact (is your heart racing yet?). So all "tuned up", we watch for movement, and bring up our rifle and squint. And there, he is plain as day. Squeeze, BOOM! yeah, I just took a piece of deer-shaped/colored wood... Again. I have a antler-shaped branch professionally mounted... And I can hear them. Laughing this time. It's like your friends moving a mount in front of the game cameras, only worse...

Finally, that While E. Coyote that I've shot at a dozen times. It's like all the skills l, and good equipment are reduced to the odds of David and Goliath. I have, and should killed the emereffer 10x over. And I swear I've hit them. I know I have because I see them tumble and die right in front of me. Only it's usually dark, or nearly. And it's a hundred yards away. So like in the most realistic video games, he was instantly re-spawned at the last checkpoint. Laughing at me...

I do have to follow these stories up with something about firearms safety rules and ethical hunting. Because we all miss. And the worst thing would be knowing a animal suffered and dies without being harvested correctly. Every time we shoot, we search. I don't hunt late in the day, because I hate searching at night. And yeah, I know people that stayed out all night, the hunted the next day, which is also a bad idea. No laws were broken. We find more than we miss, and I teach people that the tag is attached to the bullet, not the bull. I know people that have harvested an elk that was already shot. And yes, we let the game wardens know if we can't find them. On rare occasion the first hunter has been able to claim the one that got away, and the 2nd hunter got to use their tag again. Hunting teaches us and our children about respect and honor.

We all miss sometimes. It's what we do next that matters.

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That pineapple was actually not a big one. Here’s a couple larger ones we picked on Monday.

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As to the preparation suggestions, I like them all, but I’m the only one at home that likes a Hawaiian style pizza.

We’ve already eaten the top right one just as fruit. You can see that I let them get past what most people think is ripe. They have to be a dark orange and you can smell the pineapple without cutting them. That way the fruit is so sweet and delicious and doesn’t have that acidic bite most store bought have.

With this many and more coming, I’ll take one down to my parents this weekend for them and probably cut a couple up to freeze for putting in with strawberries for jam. Freezing the pineapple first helps reduce the effect of the enzymes that keep pineapple jam from jelling.

It’s also easy to take some out of the freezer for making a dish using pineapple.

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Two look perfect, the two where you can still see green could have cooked a couple more days. I waite, first for the color, then for the ants. Then, you know they are perfect.
Contrary to what people think, pineapple does not, I repeat, does not ripen more after it is picked, it starts to rot.
That's why pineapples, ripe, are up to 8 a piece and you can get greener ones for way cheaper.

Until I knew better, we had a produce market, we would buy flats of pineapples about that size for 1 a piece times how many on a flat, for unripe and up to 5 a piece times how many on a flat, for beautiful sweet smelling ripe.
Never buy cheap pineapples nor cheap bananas. Bananas are picked green and immediately loaded into containers that are charged with a gas, I forget which. If anything happens to the gas charge in the container, the bananas are sold off cheap because they won't ripen correctly.

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SOLD

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Corruption.

Typically the company that wants the contract hires the O-6 and above types that oversee the program as soon as they retire. These officers are paid 400% more than anyone else in their new positions and they slip graft back to the officers and civilians who administer the contract as its fulfilled.

Works the same way for ships, planes, uniforms or firearms. Just as Eisenhower warned in 1960.

I promise, they do not care about the safety or survival of any enlisted person when it comes to procurement.

Ttt....

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Just curious how many hours publicly funded NPR and PBS have dedicated to covering the breaking stories. You know the ones that can’t figure out why they’re being defunded because they’re biased?

Just curious.

theLBC said:

if you don't want to stock too many different calibers, having a more compact platform for .308 is workable and effective option.

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And they are the ultimate in cool factor. For me a .30 cal just has this mystique about it. Its a pretty hard hitting round that seems to have an inherent accuracy. Every .308 I've owned has shot to some degree of very well.

Snuby642 said:

So eating handicapped wife wanted mashed potatoes for her supper, ok.
This editor is a genuine piece of shit

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Repost since tag editor seems better now?
Anyway wanted to add the links were hot Italian and added to the potato soup after a portion of plain was reserved.

Absolutely potato soup versions are way up on the comfort food list .

Lapua Midas+

Bump

sirhrmechanic said:

If I had a need to smoke that much meat...

And everyone in my neighborhood is either a soy-sucking vegan or has their breakfast Lobster Thermador flown in from Maine. So no point trying to do a 'community smokehouse.'

Well, maybe if civilization collapses I'll build one commensurate with my warlord status.

Sirhr

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I get it, me too. My wife doesn't care for smoked food, some, but I wouldn't s.oke enough on it to justify building it.
Now, a big wood burning oven to bake in???
One day.

btt