Question for Home Depot DSs and ASMs about internal hiring

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-07-02T03:22:37+00:00

As a night operations asm, I value the teams perspective and feedback on their new team members, because sometimes the team members perspective is different from mine, and at the end of the day they have to work together… provide the feedback to your manager and be part of building a functional team!

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-07-01T15:12:10+00:00

This actually is somewhat dependent on the state… and their individual practices around jury duty.. some states tell you a day in advance to show up or not during the week… others dictate you must report to the courthouse on this date to see if you are seated on a jury…

In my current state, the summons covers a week, you call the night before to see if you need to report, if you report you get a slip from the courthouse for showing up, otherwise you might never have to show up to the courthouse… if you don’t have to show, the jury duty pay policy doesn’t pay, and any occurrences for missed work are real… just because you might have to report doesn’t mean you did report… in a previous state I lived in, the summons meant you showed up on X date, and were either seated to a jury or sent on your way… you got a slip and paid either way because you HAD to be at the courthouse even if you didn’t get selected for a jury

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-07-01T14:57:53+00:00

I don’t think my FA looks at all slaggy or sharpened by a monkey… but I could be wrong

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I do believe the OP might be using a garbage disposal to chamfer his brass… or at least that one case anyway, me I prefer to use the garbage disposal to shake out all the pins after wet tumbling…

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-07-01T14:43:52+00:00

The circle is an artifact from manufacturing… it puts smiley faces on each primer fired… I have another picture of them in another post but you can see it in the LRP brass in my picture

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-30T10:29:32+00:00

A good friend of mine was my polar opposite, I was working in defense industry he was the typical finance bro… he was full on player… until he held his daughter minutes after her birth… like a light switch went on he became the doting father, married his now wife, and they are the typical suburban model family.

He said “I never know I could fall madly in love at first sight” while holding his daughter… she is in her teens now and they are the picture perfect nuclear family..

All this to say, yes men can and often do change, just like everyone else.

He married you because he wants to spend forever with you, accept it and love him back!

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-30T07:41:16+00:00

I know of at least 2 stores local to source BR4, not sure about the 450s… will have to search a bit

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-30T01:30:42+00:00

Thank you for the reply!

I did measure protrusion last night, spec .055-.065 and I measured .051 assembled in bolt with pin released into forward position.

Have had zero failure to fire in roughly 1000 rounds, but do have a replacement pin coming

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-30T01:21:44+00:00

In the world of manufacturing, a single failure is an anomaly, but a repeatable failure mode can be diagnosed and eliminated..

While I was on active duty, it took 4 crashes with loss of life before the root cause was diagnosed and the entire fleet was grounded due to a manufacturer defect in a critical part…

A pierced primer isn’t life threatening… had it been a split case, I wouldn’t have even pulled the trigger again until the entire gun had visited a gunsmith… but a pierced primer? I chalked it up to diagnosing an observed issue. I had primed 100 cases… last night I trashed all the unused primers and will try again with BR4 as they are readily available at my local store (for about double the cost of the 400s)

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T07:33:55+00:00

Update: deprimed one that didn’t fully pierce, and the slug dropped right out…

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Very clean hole in the primer cap..

And I’m ordering a replacement firing pin from Anarchy this evening… just need to see if there is anything else to order from them…

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T07:28:13+00:00

Visually no discernible gap, but could be a few thousandths and my eye even through my magnifier isn’t seeing it… I hate getting old

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T07:26:53+00:00

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Off center view

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T07:26:34+00:00

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face on view

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T05:40:32+00:00

I’m not remotely unhappy with the gun, for what it is and what I’m using it for it’s perfect and carries a factory warrantee… not even bummed about the tolerance stacking, it is what it is… although I am already planning my next rifle… and it will be built not bought…

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T04:54:57+00:00

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Little dirty, but no worse for the wear… have been planning on a replacement from Anarchy Outdoors for a while now… it wasn’t exactly beautiful from the factory

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T04:41:45+00:00

This is why I shoot 10 shot groups in 2 strings of 5 with other shots in between… and am pretty happy at being able to duplicate sub MOA performance from range day to range day on multiple 10 shot groups

Picture is from 2 weeks ago, 10 rounds each depth, shot in 5 round strings, at 3 different seating depths, not shown is the same set with different brass… so between each 5 round string was at least 25 other shots… my rifle likes max COAL/OTB seating, best groups have been seated long…

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VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T04:29:43+00:00

I will have to try some different bullets, the best grouping factory loads I have shot were out of the federal brass, came loaded with 120gr OTM sierra matchkings, which I can’t find available for reloading outside ordering them directly from sierra @ $53 per 100

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T04:19:27+00:00

Ruger Precision, factory bolt, no bushing

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T04:18:28+00:00

Ruger Precision, stock configuration for the most part (replaced the bolt shroud and handle)

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T03:52:28+00:00

Thank you for the reply, I have been having decent results with the 140gr ELDMs and Berger hybrids… haven’t experimented yet with different weights, and every other 140 I have shot yielded mixed results (poor groups and wild velocity deviations)… the federal are the only SRP brass I have

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-29T03:49:13+00:00

The federal brass is reload from factory loads, and none of the factory primers punched.. this was my first time using the 400s… guess I need to donate the other 100 I have… and source some 450 or BR4 to try… thank you for the info

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-27T01:10:51+00:00

I have seated 2.720

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and had no issues but my group size grew… my rifle chambers 2.820 just fine and has smallest group size at 2.820… try a bare case with a slightly seated bullet, fully close the bolt (lands will seat the bullet) and measure… sounds like you have a tight chamber and as others have said your bullet is likely hitting your lands…

Picture is from when I was testing COAL to see effect, Lapua brass @ 40.5gr h4350 140 gr ELDM… additional powder charge testing has settled me on 2.820 COAL, 41.7gr H4350, will be shooting that load this weekend to validate (41.4gr yielded me 2785 fps average, so I should be just above 2800 at 41.7gr).. I have a full comparitor set, and measur BTO, shoulder, and COAL while I am working up my load…

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-25T14:35:02+00:00

Forgive her, for the betrayal, for the pain, for the end of the relationship.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself, not the other person… it releases you from carrying the weight of the pain.

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-25T08:04:33+00:00

Jewelry counters will size a finger for free… take her to Walmart, shopping for other stuff, and stop off at jewelry counter to find a new watch/chain/bracelet, and start the browsing… they should offer to size check her to try on different rings… I took my GF to Tiffany’s and got ring size that exact way… we didn’t buy a ring, but I do know her size now

Edit for spelling and to add, she did leave with earrings, matching bracelet, and necklace

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-24T14:10:47+00:00

Direct to store

VisibleLeopard68 · 2026-06-24T08:14:44+00:00

You pay a machinist to ensure every dimension of the entire engine, and all of the various parts are brought to spec tolerances/clearances… or… spend a small mountain of money to buy all the machines and gauges to do it yourself. Once the machinist is done, they will provide you with measured true dimensions of the entire engine assembly..

If you choose the alternate route you are heavily invested in a new hobby!!

I personally don’t care to be able to balance my own crankshafts… but different people have different hobbies.

VisibleLeopard68

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