BlackDog

you most certainly don't want to dry fire a bow, like a dumbass acquantenance of mine who dry fired a bow last week and had it blow to shreds in his face and arms.

happy burfday you old bag

this one is probably excessive headspace. This was a reload I made. I make mild reloads straight from the IMR book, always at least 2 grains less than the max listed. I use 99% of my ammo for plinking, so I don't need any hot rods. the brass that I save from firing in my saiga seems to have a stretched shoulder by a few thousands more. I have boned up reloads that won't even come close to chambering in my Mini14, but these same reloads will drop right into the Saiga chamber no problem. I have probably resized at least 3000 pieces of brass with one 223 die and some of the thicker walle

I have to edit this post. When I was pressing the bullets into the brass, something was occasionaly catching in the adjusting knob of the die and that was causing the casing to crush and deform a little. I only reloaded 15 cases and I just can't believe that I didn't notice I had crushed them and then put them in the magazines without noticing. As I pressed some more new ones yesterday, occasionally the same crush happened again a few times. I just turned the knob all the way in and now everything is fine. I just made 200 reloads and all have been perfect. I came to the conclusi

2 of closest gun shops near me are always telling me "this is the last one", "this is rare", "Jimbo is coming in and he is going to buy all of my ammo because my prices are so cheap". or "You can't buy ammo thru the mail, the state is going to make everyone start paying the taxes on out of state mail order items". blah blah blah buy it now before the sky falls the one dealer closest to me has had a "going out of business / closing out all guns and ammo" sign up for 30 years. I wish they weren't so close to me and I wish I didn't have the gift of gab when I go there.

wow,,,, nice

My vote says it isn't going to work right and they'll need another 6 billion dollars to fine tune it. Looks like a 6 billion dollar pork barrel project that is going to be a useless piece of scrap metal in the end. Then they'll want to build the next one around the equator.

One of my buddies is a big Springfield M1/M14 bug. I don't know if this is true or not,,,but he was telling me that all military personnel get their stuff first before anybody else and that they are very busy just trying to fill their orders.

I must have screwed something up with the reloading. I got to the range a few hours ago and shot 5 each of Brown Bear, Malaysian M193 and Winchester white box. No signs of flattened or backed out primers. I am usually very diligent and check the powder charge 4-5 times initially and then every 20 loads after. I'm wondering if I looked at 1 powder load and used a different powder?!? I probably don't even have 1000 rounds thru my Saiga yet, so the barrel shouldn't be spent yet.

That was a reload I made. I must have screwed something up because 2 other the pieces of brass I just checked had some really, really flattened primers? I usually reload a few grains of powder under the max recommended by IMR, but I also use all the crappy brass for my Saiga reloads. I know my headspace is big, fired brass usually falls into the chamber that in comparison only drops about halfway into my mini? I recently bought a new .223 die set because of the questionable resizing, this may have been from the old die. Hmm

this little back piece jammed in the feed area, the other half cleared I have had a few stovepipes, but I never had this happen It was torn right apart, all shiny around the tear to, no creep.

I forgot about the guy who drank beer while he was using the range. The club officers told this guy he couldn't consume alcohol anymore while using the range. Quote - "Their isn't any sign that says I am not supposed to drink beer while I shoot!! DAMMIT!!" He didn't even make it a week and they caught him beering it up on the rifle range. They gave him a 3 month vacation from the club. After 3 months, he didn't last 1 week again and they booted him from the club forever.

I have to admit, I like to watch people at the gun range. I like how some guys shoot shotguns (w/pellets) at the rifle targets? I love the guys who show up with a $3500 AR and the cheapest 3rd world ammo they can buy. I love the guys who show up with a trunkful of guns and no ammo for all but 1 of them. I really love the guys who show up with a bag of hard rolls and butter and share. I like the tough guys who refuse to wear ear plugs, must be the loud gunshots are all they can really hear anymore? I love it when a guy tells you reloading is a waste of time and money. He is t

2 different dealers tell me their Saiga orders are "held up" at customs ?!?!

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my stash of Saiga specific reloads. I would pick up the spent brass and boxes from my club and fill'em back up. Don't feel too bad about not having ammo, one of my shooting buddies has about $4000 wrapped up in 4 guns and NEVER has any ammo.

my 3-9X scoped Saiga 223 carbine typically shoots 10 shots in a 10" at 200 yds.

One of my friends is a "sanitation worker" and he used to bring the wierdest stuff he picked up on his route. The lawn ornaments were the funnest to shoot. but there is something definitely wrong with shooting up some members of the nativity scene.

Sorry to hear the show was kind of a bust, but at least you went to it while I stayed home and dug out a stump.

I slip into my club for maybe 1 hour a week. Usually Saturday late afternoon or early Sunday. I don't think I've ever stayed there for over an hour. I have 2 young kids and I am also clearing a lot to build a house, so I don't have too much free time.

At my gun club, there is one member who I usually see with 1 new pistol/rifle a month. He also told me he has an ammo budget of $60 a week. I'm kind of jealous. He's shooting all kinds of calibers and alot of it. I shoot mainly 22LR and .223. My ammo budget is about $15 a week.

sorry to hear this, take care of yourself,

Don't worry about him, he "borrowed" my rims and tires once so his car could pass inspection. In other words, he could save money by not buying new tires right now. Well, he stripped out my locking lug nuts and I had to grind flat sides on the lucking lug nut so and use a pipe wrench to get the lugs off. It was a huge PIA for me, but what did he care, he passed inspection. That is the last time I let him borrow anything. I have 2 friends that I don't even tell them what tools I own. He is one of them. Because I never get my tools back. "Oh, I gave that back, I'm sure I did, I k

I remembered AR15.com had a post about this, but the pictures are gone now. I can't believe I found it. They take the spent 22LR brass and press lead wire into the cases and after a few steps, they have .224 bullets www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=408 really cool, but too time consuming for me, I'll spend the $40

I had a friend who would go buy a Wagner Power roller once a year and paint a room or 2 in his house. Then he would return the power roller to Home Depot or wherever and get his money back. He did this this at least 3 years in a row that I know of. He still pulls the same shit now too with all kinds of things. I used to tell him, "You are the cheapest piece of shit on the planet!" and he would actually get bent at me for saying that. "Oh, like you don't do that, everybody does it!?!?!" he would say to me. The best thing I found to tick him off is to tell him he can do all these h