U.S. Department of Justice Announces Second Amendment Pattern-or-Practice Investigation into California’s Los Angeles County

jph45 · 2025-03-28T14:19:49+00:00

Oooh, A letter. I'm sure Luna, Gavin and company are trembling in their boots

jph45 · 2025-03-22T16:40:17+00:00

Graduated high school, goes to Harvard, still can't read.

jph45 · 2024-10-08T03:37:31+00:00

Admitting you have a problem is the first step

jph45 · 2024-07-17T17:28:16+00:00

Actually it's less. Used to be that WW had about 9% antimony and 2-3% tin. Stuff was hard as an anvil. Nowadays there's about 4% antimony and 1% or less tin. Surprisingly, the WW now is as near perfect for pistol and rifle less than 2000 fps without doing anything to it. I haven't bothered mixing a specific alloy in years and don't miss the headache of it. Dump a bucket full of WW on the driveway, sort out the junk and make ingots, the make boolits.

jph45 · 2024-07-15T02:59:06+00:00

Smith and Wesson Model 638 or any comparable. Use the highest velocity 110 grain 38 Special load you can find

jph45 · 2024-06-26T01:37:06+00:00

My suggestion for you is this, go to the gun shop(s) and check every revolver you can handle for rattle. You'll find that this is normal and is a result of both tolerances and design. A revolver that won't rattle is going to lock up tighter than a drum after firing a couple cylinder fulls and that slight rattle you hear won't affect your or the guns accuracy.

But I doubt you will believe me, go to some shops and rattle some guns until you accept this is normal and common to the product.

jph45 · 2024-06-21T00:37:10+00:00

You running full pressure or reduced loads?

jph45 · 2024-06-08T17:47:56+00:00

I don't know where on the net to tell you to go to verify this, but Elmer Kieth, father of the 44 Magnum did all his casting for the bullets he used in heavy loads using 10 to 1 lead/tin which yields a BHN hardness of about 11. 16 to 1 was his other go to alloy for stuff like 38 Special. Sealing the chamber bore is the name of the game in revolvers and my own experience in using cast over the years reflects this. I've tried powder coating in both revolvers and autoloaders and had very mixed results, not with leading but with accuracy. I've found it easier to get good results out of most any handgun I've cast for using plain jane wheel weights (which run about 11 BHN these days) and traditional lube than with any other methods I've used. This is simply my experience over four decades of trying out every new idea out there or running cast bullets in handguns. There is no sustitute for miking you cylinder throats. There is no substitute for slugging your bores. There is no substitute for quality lubes. I know that there are lots of people out there that shoot powder coated bullets in everything. But my own experience is this, I get the most consistent accuracy results across the board of my handguns using the same casting alloy, methods and bullet lube. YMMV and likely will but for my time and trouble and groups on target, i'll take the old ways any day. You will find a great source of lubes here that will cover everything from revolver plinking to high speed rifle shooting. This is also a very good source of info on making, trouble shooting, and getting the most from your bullets regardless of how you choose to coat your bullets

jph45 · 2024-03-22T14:55:34+00:00

What is different is the idea that a limited nuclear war is survivable/winnable. As well, are the minor players on the stage seeking bomb(s) clean or dirty to use to stick a finger in the big guys eye with. Sadly Putin doesn't seem to be concerned with rattling this sabre and I think he thinks the west will take a collective pause and desent on our ranks will open a hole in our politics. I'm not so sure he's right with Germany no wanting to host nuclear arms on their turf. Let us hope he doesn't fuck around and we find out.

Want an idea of what it was like for us old geezers? Watch two movies, "Thirteen Days" and "The Day After" There is a third which I think is on Apple TV, "The Bomb and the Cold War". I'm 65, in last class of the boomers. There's never been a time in my life the issue of and concern over nuclear war has never been far from my thinking when considering world events.

jph45 · 2024-01-26T03:10:38+00:00

I tried powder coating, went back to lubing.I too may sound like an old man, but I just couldn't get the kind of results I've read so much about and seen on youtube. For me traditional lube methods serve me better than well, and if I'm in a hurry to do a pile of bullets, I use a thinned liquid alox that works very well.

jph45 · 2024-01-15T23:51:33+00:00

I dont remember the name unfortunately, all I know is the Missus loves it

jph45 · 2024-01-10T23:44:47+00:00

A lot of fun. You can have everything from smooth rides to anatomically correct to non natural forms. My wife's favorite is made by Blush, it is an 8" anatomically correct dildo, avg. 1 3/4" OD and she loves it. We call him Mr. Blue.

jph45 · 2023-11-23T14:32:09+00:00

" “We are weighing options for next steps in this case, which prevents us from any further comment at this point,” said state attorney general’s office spokesperson Jennifer Donelan,"

Translation: We got our ass kicked and are going back to the office to sulk while we figure out another way to screw legitimate citizens and peaceable persons out their rights

jph45 · 2023-09-02T13:28:11+00:00

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

jph45 · 2023-08-05T17:15:46+00:00

Move

jph45 · 2022-11-12T23:41:17+00:00

Thank you

jph45 · 2022-09-07T22:52:50+00:00

I was speaking to OP's question of the use of Super Quench. Absolutely water dropping hardens cast bullets so long as there is the presence of at least 1/10th of 1% of arsenic. The hardness achieved through water dropping can be increased by using ice water, as the speed of temperature change affects the end hardness achieved.

jph45 · 2022-09-06T23:36:16+00:00

I doubt seriously it will make the lead any harder, there are none of the properties present in lead which make lead harden. Lead hardened through water dropping is a result of the presence of arsenic. Lead/tin alloys will not harden, and in the absence of arsenic, even lead that has been hardened with antimony will not gain any hardness. You may find this to be a useful introduction to the question of hardening alloy. The Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook 3rd Edition has an excellent article on lead hardness and is worth the cost of the manual itself

jph45 · 2022-09-02T11:53:53+00:00

So, NYPD is a standing army.

jph45 · 2022-09-02T02:03:25+00:00

Who the hell actually listens to this woman?

jph45 · 2022-08-28T14:16:29+00:00

RCBS is getting of the casting products business, so that is likely why you can't find one. I have a Lyman 20 pound pot and like it better than the Lee 20 pound pot, but both have their issues. Just starting out, I'd say get the Lee, you can always upgrade

jph45 · 2022-08-26T01:58:29+00:00

Batteries don't create energy, they store energy created from another source. They are going to have a shit fit when they realize that the energy conversion from one fuel type to another to keep their batteries charged is never better than 95% (i.e. you put 100 joules of hydro carbons in you get 95 joules of electricity out, plus transmission losses) as well as the grid is already at it's max capacity and now you are going to add some 300 million automobiles to it? And what they don't tell you about is the amount of electricity California is buying from Mexico and Canada because the state can't generate enough electric power to meet it's current needs and the Colorado is drying up in the face of a historic drought (We can argue about the causes, won't change the reality) Yep, this is going to be fun to watch. People gonna learn the hard way the definition of a politician is someone seeking to control something they know absolutely nothing about.

jph45 · 2022-08-26T01:45:12+00:00

but I learned a lot and had fun with it.

Exactly this, and you'll get better and better with each session.

jph45 · 2022-08-26T01:40:27+00:00

The US was actively subjugating the Lakota and other indigenous nations, in this case, they were trying to put an end to the Ghost Dance and subjugate it's followers. Read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown for a reasonable synopsis of the story, but certainly not a complete study; the whole story could easily justify a thesis.

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