Barneybdb said:

Asked for a pic of @akmike47 and @Dirty D to hang in front of the dartboard, got this ......


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Mike is my dartboard

Lightning8 said:

You assume that the B2 flyover was intended to influence Putin - maybe it was to influence US citizens, maybe influence EU

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B2 is a a cool AF plane so it was pretty neat.

kortik said:

I agree that Alaska was a Russia territory. At the same time, lots of Russia historians claim that it was a rental deal for 100 years, starting from 1867.
I do not have a clue. So, whatever happened in reality is what we should accept as a fact. I do not know for sure what really happened, it is impossible to find an original 1867 Alaska assets sale agreement online. I hope my statement ends this discussion and we can all agree on basics and stuff...

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Possession is nine tenths as they say, US has Alaska now so that's a bit stronger than 150 year old claims.

I wstch for the flame coming off the brass to change color to orange. 6 seconds is the sweet spot for my alpha brass and for my Fed brass

ttt

GreenGO Juan said:

So thats your official description of what happened?

Lol.

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I mean look at the terrain around Kiev, the size of the city and the supply routes the Russians had. You're looking at more soldiers then Russia began the war with just to take Kiev. Sure you did say sack and not occupy but it's a pretty stupid idea to think the Ukrainians wouldn't form even basic resistance and kiev just looks gnarly to assault.

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bigboss91 said:

Can someone who knows more about annealing than me give me some guidance?

I've watched a Eric Cortina's video with his benchsource annealer and he like to see a slight glow in the brass to let him know its properly annealed. I can get the brass to glow with my flame annnealer but I feel like it was in the flame too long. I backed it off a couple seconds and landed here. Did I over cook my brass?

Overcooked?

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I've run tests and actually measured the hardness afterwards too, like so many. . . I'm not guessing about the results of my flame annealing.

The necks have got to get to a red glow, as seen in a darkened room. That red glow is an indication that it's got to ~1,100 to ~1,200°F. 650° or 750°F just isn't going to do the job as it takes way too much time (like over30 seconds in the flame) to get the proper anneal and this leads to getting the body much too hot. For my .308 cases, it takes ~9 seconds in my flame to get the red glow I'm looking for. It glows for a little over a second before it drops out of the flame. I don't use water to cool the brass as air cooling is fast enough once they drop out of the flame. Water cooling only has more work to the process. . . nothing more.

My goal for how hard/soft I get my necks is that I want them to be the same as my Lapua virgin brass. So I tested my Lapua brass to find the temperature and amount of time in the flame to get the results I wanted. Since I size my brass after annealing to get consistent results on sizing, I had to actually get my brass a little softer than my target. That's because when the cases are sized, it work hardens the neck up by quite a bit.

So, go for the red glow for a ~1 second, or a hair longer and you'll be just fine. You've won't be over doing it and your cases will be just fine. You might want to adjust the angle the flame in hitting the cases to minimize how much heat is below the shoulder/body junction.

Since I'm using a hardness tester, I'm not guessing like the others about whether I'm getting the annealing I want. I have a very good idea of what it takes to do the job when flame annealing.

TTT one more time!

Greenboy i really do not care what you know and what moves you. MH17 is old news so basically either you choose to believe or you educate yourself on this site i find plenty o’people capable or willing to educate themselves and admit their wrong when they are (we all are at some points of time) and i discuss or disagree with them but being chatGPT for lazy or emotionally challenged as a non AI person i won’t be. Do you can merrily fuck off or use grok, chat or nothing i really dont give one or two or half a fuck what you believe.

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Bigjake83 said:

That's interesting the steal doesn't go into the Cam Pin slot where most of the wear occurs.

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The cam pin should not be contacting the cam pin cut out on your rifle. Most the wear caused by the cam pin will be on the side track of the receiver where Geissele reinforced with steel. The cam pin will attempted to rotate against the aluminum in that area as the bolt closes and strips a round from the magazine. SOTAR has a breakdown of a super duty upper with 100k rounds on it that shows the wear that is experienced in the upper very well.

I firmly believe it to be a nerve issue as well. She sometimes hurts under her shoulder blade, but nothing shows up on tests etc. Deep massages, acupuncture, chiropractic, none has worked.

tpepper70 said:

Morning all. Been on the Hide for a while and just now saw this. Glad to see it. Long time believer married to a woman with much stronger faith than I. Short back story to my request. 7 years ago she started suffering excruciating pain in her left arm and really bad headaches. Went to several Dr's until MRI found 85% spinal fluid blockage from Kiari 1 malformation. Had surgery to remove part of her lower skull to relieve stress on lower brain causing spinal fluid blockage. Spinal fluid flow back to normal and no headaches, but arm pain is still there. She says it feels like her arm falls asleep, yet she can use it, functions normally, just hurts real bad. Weird thing is it doesn't always hurt. Went to more Dr"s and no one knows what the prob is. Have had nerve testing, blood flow testing, joint testing, all is normal.
Prayer is to find what the issue is, healing/no pain and for me to not be angry at Him. I really struggle with my anger. We're mid 50's and been together 31 years. I don't want to accept that this is "her cross to bare" even tho we know it could be. She has accepted this as her normal.
This got longer than expected. Thanks for listening and God bless.

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Prayers for her. My left arm and hand go numb and/or hurt when I'm in certain positions. Usually holding a book or my phone with my left hand. Circulation is normal, BP normal, etc. I BELIEVE it's a nerve getting pinched somewhere in my shoulder or elbow. Goes away when I change positions.
Oh, and I also had trouble with spinal fluid blockage years ago. Terrible headaches etc. Dr did a spinal tap and checked fluid pressure and he told me to strain a bit and he thought his guage (an actual mechanical pressure gauge) was going to blow. He put me on some kind of "old" medicine and it straightened out after a few months. He also said it was normally women who had this problem, not men.

I agree that Alaska was a Russia territory. At the same time, lots of Russia historians claim that it was a rental deal for 100 years, starting from 1867.
I do not have a clue. So, whatever happened in reality is what we should accept as a fact. I do not know for sure what really happened, it is impossible to find an original 1867 Alaska assets sale agreement online. I hope my statement ends this discussion and we can all agree on basics and stuff...

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supercorndogs said:

Depends on the reticle.

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And the target. But it mostly depends on which scope in on the gun. I have never had too much trouble quartering 1 moa dots with anything above 9×. Some reticles like the EBR7 I have to turn the mag up higher to see the center dot because I can shoot more consistently than trying to quarter a dot with it. What ever sig used in the tango 6 was like that for me also. I am not a big fan of tiny center dots. More mag isn't always better.

Have a chest holster and another fde kydex pelt holster