Going to be real for a minute and post some of my feels from today.

My mom got my dad on the schedule for a Honor Flight and she requested me and my other two siblings to write a thank you letter for him.

So I wrote it this morning and it’ll be given to him with the other letters for his trip to DC next month.



Was pretty much in tears as I put some of my feelings onto paper and I hope it expresses how much I respect him.

His unit

His bestest experiences was flying in copters over Da Nang

All the feels

That’s pretty awesome, man.  I wish my dad was here. I’d tell him a whole bunch of stuff that I either thought wasn’t important at the time or that I’d be able to later.  

This will mean so much to your dad, annd mom, and you’ll always be glad you had the opportunity as well.  Sounds like you’re really proud of him.

Fortunate Son plays in the background

That wasn’t a magazine.

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I shot a tournament with my fudd gun today.

Needs more jonesered

Very awesome, Rex.

I wish he’d come back to us

So far this Stihl is running better than my Husqvarna ever did

I haven’t shot since October

Good morning lads and lassies

Awesome man

My only helicopter ride was strapped to a  gurney staring at the ceiling on my way to a trauma center ! Not the ride I always wanted

That's awesome.  

Mr. Monkey, illustrated.

Sounds like a great man and a good opportunity for your family to communicate your respect and feelz.

Let's go pick up some little piggies

That’s slightly racist

For my welds not being hot enough, they sure did heat warp the fuckin bed

Suckling little piggies

Not quite that small of piggies

Hitachi.  

Tried some maple blueberry venison sausage this morning.

That’s pree cool. My dad occasionally offers to help escort on those flights (for those vets that need some assistance). That’s a great program.

Ok first off I’m certainly not professing to be any all knowing shotgun reloading guru! Lol. I mean I did reload shotshells back in the early 80’s but I got out of it until recently. Metallic cartridges and casting I’ve been doing since back then but I really didn’t have a need and didn’t do much shotgun shooting. A lot has changed! ( mostly components. I’m probably wrong but as hard as I try I can’t remember there being more than about eight or 10 powders across the board. Now you got that many from one manufacturer lol). Anyway now that I have that straightened out there’s a couple of things that I can’t honestly say I find them more amusing or aggravating. Oh and let me clear this up. none of the posts I’m about to refer to came from this forum! That would be one of the reasons this is about the only shotgun forum I really pay any attention to.
Now my pet peeves! And there’s three of them I plan on discussing briefly.
The first one being how often I will read a post from someone that starts out something like this. “. I’ve been Reloading for 410 gauge for 40+ years and this is how I do it”. Well here’s a clue. 410 is not a gauge it’s a bore size! If you have been reloading for a .410 shotgun for 40+ years I would think that should be something you are aware of! The actual gauge of a 410 bore shotgun is someplace around 66 or 67. If I’ve done my math right which I believe I have. Gage has always been a measurement of weight in one way or another and that doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about wire, sheet metal, or shotguns. In case of a shotgun the definition of gauge goes something like this. (this is not something I just googled this is what I remember from when I first started dealing with shotguns 40 years ago so my definition might not be 100% exact but it’s pretty darn close). Gauge = number of round balls the diameter of the bore it will take to equal 1 pound of lead. 12 gauge = 12 round balls. 20 gauge, 20 round balls. And down the line until you get to .410, which is the actual bore diameter of that shotgun. Now once again I could be wrong but I do believe that’s the only shotgun size that statement is applicable to! Now some may consider this being picky on my part but I don’t believe it is. At the very least it is certainly not helping to educate a new shotgunner on how and why things are the way they are.
I have a second thing I’m gonna bring up refers to powder bushing charts. I’m really kind of amazed at how many times I will see the same question posted over and over and over again! The XYZ powder bushing chart for my XYZ reloader says bushing number “whatever” lists a weight of “fill in the blanks” but it always seems to drop light! Now I’m sitting here looking at a copy of the Lymans fifth edition shotshell Reloading handbook and I’ve got it opened to the various pages with bushing charts on them for the various different manufacturers. Under every chart no matter what manufacturer it says and I quote “. The information in this table is furnished by whoever the manufacturer is therefore Lyman makes no claim to its accuracy and in big bold letters this is not a loading data table! Also I’m glancing at the Mac powder bushing chart from Mac outdoors and it says right on the top of the bushing chart that to ensure accuracy a scale should be used to verify the weights! A bushing chart from a different manufacturer very clearly states that it is meant as a guide and that various things can affect actual powder weight. Things like humidity, variations from lot to lot, barometric pressure, the individual loader, and it has things like humidity, variations from lot to lot, barometric pressure, the individual loader. To some it up and I’ll paraphrase: bushing charts are a guide only! It would be next to impossible for any manufacturer to create a volumetric bushing that dropped the exact same weight of any given powder over and over and over again! As I stated previously I’ve been Reloading ammunition since the 1980s in that time I have used many many many different brands of powder measures. Unless you’re using some type of auto scale, auto trickle device all powder measures use some type of volumetric measurement. I have never seen any type of bushing chart or listing for powder drops( the old Lyman 55 measures had a chart that stated if you set the measure to such and such settings, using a specific powder it should drop a charge of a given weight but IT NEEDS TO BE VERIFIED WITH AN ACCURATE SCALE! ) that will drop charges listed in the chart. They can’t! There are too many variables involved. I’ve always believed that the manufacturers add in what I jokingly referred to as the lawyer factor. Take a moment and think about this logically and you’ll understand what I’m talking about. Consider the fact that some New Reloader’s have a propensity to load maximum charges. Take in consideration the lot to lot differences in some powders. Add that to the fact that some novice reloader has decided he hast to load to the maximum and you now have a bushing chart/powder measure that is dropping over pressure charges. No manufacturer in their right mind is going to take the chance of something like that happening and leave themselves wide-open for a lawsuit whether it’s frivolous or not. Sue a corporation it cost them money to go to court. That’s why I seriously Believe that powder bushing charts are specifically designed to drop lighter weight charges. Once again I could be wrong I don’t think I am. So for all the New Reloader‘s out there take the time and read instructions, manuals, bushing charts, everything in its entirety not just once but until you understand everything that’s written in those instructions or bushing charts. I know I certainly did when I started Reloading. Not that I’m patting myself on the back or anything else, there was no Internet, no forums, etc. to post The same questions over and over again. I have no problem helping New Reloader out answering questions about anything I know if I don’t know the answer I’m app to do a little research to try and find the answer. But I do get a little aggravated when you see the same question asked over and over again because people are too lazy to do the research on their own.
The third thing I want to bring up probably scares me more than it does anything else. The thread usually starts out something like this hi I’ve been Reloading since last Tuesday and I really want to load 3 1/2 inch magnum shells and I wanna know what’s a good load to use! Call me sarcastic but I always feel the thread should look more like this: hi my name is Fred I just started Reloading three hours ago and. I’m a masochist and I am really into pain I really like the idea of putting a pipe bomb next to my face in hopes that it will blow up and take the whole side of my jaw off! The really scary part is when somebody replies to the posts and gives him a load to use! I’m sorry for those that disagreed with me but the proper place to get load data is from a tested source! Not from a public open forum where anybody can post load whether it’s safe or not. Now before everybody gets out of shape I’m not implying that anybody would intentionally try and harm someone else by supplying unsafe load data. But, Big caveat, Unless you know the person that’s responding to you, do you know that person or what they’re capable of? Once again don’t take this out of context but if you listen to any of the statements from Ted Bundy’s victims they all tell you that he look like such a nice guy and looked harmless! I believe it’s the Trapshooters forum that won’t even let you post a reload recipe if you can’t supply the applicable test data associated with that load. So to the new Reloaders, if you want good loads buy a manual or go to one of the powder manufacturers and look up their data. Don’t ask uncle Charlie that you don’t know on a public forum. Oh and this goes both, folks that are so graciously sharing low data with someone, do you know that person? Do you know if they are competent ? Should The unthinkable happen in the person that you gave that load data to managers to hurt themselves or someone else and they can trace the source of the information back to you , can you think of a way that this might not work out so well ? As for me. I don’t shoot anyone else’s reloads I don’t give my reloads to anyone else and I don’t give out my reload recipes and I don’t use anyone else’s recipes.
well thanks for letting me rant guys!
Oh one more thing, I actually just read something concerning this while writing this post and I kind of figured it’s probably something that a lot of folks aren’t aware of. This is more for information and anything else. I actually just read this thread. I was glancing at another forum while I was typing this and first off we all know how disastrous substituting components when your Reloading shotshells can be. Well this person, once again not on this forum, posed this question. he normally uses win 296 for loading his 410 bore shotshells. He really doesn’t buy online because he doesn’t have the room or the need to buy large quantities of primers and powders. The place where he normally buys his supplies was out of 296 but they had H110. He had heard that they were the same powders and he was questioning whether or not that was indeed true and if he could substitute H110 for win 296. Well his very first response was from someone claiming to have been Reloading shotshells basically since Jesus was in diapers. And that substituting one powder for another would basically be disastrous and the world would come to an end. In a lot of cases might be a little over exaggerated but could really have some bad results, except in this case. There are four specific powders manufactured by Winchester in Hodgdon. Let me clarify and say two different sets of powders. That are the exact same powders they come from the same vat, put in the same plastic bottles, the only difference is the label that’s placed on them. Winchester 231 is the exact same powder as Hodgdon HP38. They come from the same vat. they are mixed the exact same way. they are put in the same plastic bottles. the only difference being the label that is put on those bottles. The other two that are completely interchangeable with each other, these are more applicable to shotshell reloading than the previous two, are Winchester 296 and Hodgdon H110! Let me repeat this, Win 296 and H110 are the exact same powders. This is not speculation on my part this comes directly from Hodgdon and without getting into details I can tell you with my own eyes I can attest to the fact that these are the same powders. Like I said that’s more for information I know this to be a fact. It can be easily verified by anyone who wants to call either Winchester or Hodgdon even though they’re the same company basically.
so once again thank you for allowing me to rant. I greatly appreciate the ability to do so. And I know and except the fact that I will probably get some hate mail over this. That’s OK.

any of my above statements are based on my opinions my knowledge and my experiences. And I perfectly understand that others may have other opinions, other experiences and other knowledge! ain’t America great!
I have proof to read the above about a half dozen times. Hopefully I’ve managed to correct any and all typos. Auto correct seems to like to change things that I type randomly so I apologize if I did miss any. Personally I think it’s some loony leftist Democrat conspiracy against me! But what do I know Lol. Hopefully you all will have enjoyed my rent as much as I enjoyed typing it!
Have a nice night

I will not read that.


I simply will not

That is a lot of words.

Honorable 13er.

Sunday Dinner is now cooking: Roast chicken stuffing, suckertosh with a dessert to be decided later.

Reading ! Its for faggots

Also does he have any Adderall left over I could get?

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Damn I had a pitcher for that.

Bruh
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Besides lube do any of y’all have 3D printers?

Nope

Prusa?

Springy pieces of scrap metal are machine guns.