He's out! Took him at least an hour.

How many rounds on it? Sometimes they take a little time to settle down.

P-Squared said:

I killed a rattler on my back patio about a month ago. I hate snakes.

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The wilderness trail I use to access my hunting area is infested with rattlesnakes.
I'm really surprised the granola eaters dont get bit more often. The snakes seem to favor the edge of the trails. Once I leave the trail, I rarely see them.

Convex said:

"I’m impressed with the March PRS scope. I’m a fan of Japanese engineering."

I don't believe the Japanese have ever liked the notion that "Made In Germany" meant for quite a lot of folks that something made from there was the best you could make it, and Contax and now March are being produced by folks determined to make their, "not as long as we're here" response sink in.

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Yes, very impressive. I am sure there are a million nuanced examples of this that we can point too. My overall impression is that from a engineering-cultural perspective the Germans are amazing problem solvers and innovators, but Germans get bored and want faster and better, and they think in those terms. Japanese think from an Asian cultural perspective where by longevity and efficency are expected, thus Germans innovate and move forward, never sitting on one thing, Japanese take existing tech and make it better and longer lasting, it's a cultural leaning, they improve upon. It's "inventing" vs. "perfecting" That said I am sure one can find many rebukes to my statement but in visiting Germany many times and working in Japan this theme becomes apparent.

Doing ray tracing with a calculator is incredibly high level mathamatics, that alone is crazy, the guy is obviously special.

Thinking of how these cases work just by observing the way they are built - all the headspace will come from stretching at the connection to the case head, not stretch in the body and shoulder as we are accustomed to with brass cases. Even a die similar to their pistol die would most likely tear the case head from the body it looks like, making reloading very counterproductive.

If you wanted to do something similar to what Federal is doing with their Backcountry line of cartridges, this stuff could fill that niche.

Hopefully someone comes up with a solution for reloading that doesn’t destroy the cases.

Sold

carbonbased said:

Gdamnit! I need to take up smoking, drink more, and take an axe to my washing machine!

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Give it a whirl, at the very least it'll be entertaining for bystanders.

And whatever this fella is that was hanging out a couple inches from the freshly hatching cicada. We didn't notice him for the first 10 minutes.

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Also saw one fresh drying his new wings.

Cicadas have been active the past week or two at my place. The boys like to go find the empty shells on the trees after school. We went out a little bit ago and actually found one molting! I've never seen that in my 47 years.

With the advances in AI and every single other aspect of society spiraling down the toilet, I expect Skynet to hurry its digital ass up and destroy us sooner rather than later...

Modoc said:

Pencil or heavy? I have a pencil and it will start to walk if shot too fast, so I am having to do multiple 3 shot groups with a significant cool down time between each group.

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It's the "heavy" barrel offering, although it's not really really heavy.

I've started thinking about maybe getting a new aftermarket barrel.

Hide Members I spoke with Wally at W.E. Birdsong the other day and he wanted to offer the Hide members a group discount on his Black-T and other Colors he is offering.

If you mention Tac Ops name when you call or send your firearms in you could get a complete handgun done for $125.00 ( Plus Shipping and Handling on the return ) and $175.00 on a long rifle. I believe an AR platform maybe around $250 or so with the discount you need to ask him… Glock complete uppers should be $110 with the discount.

W.E. Birdsong Inc.

1435 Monterey Road

Florence, MS. 39073

Phone 601-939-7448

Ask for Wally when you call and tell him Dago Mike referred you, he will take great care of you…

Mike R.