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    RCBS X dies...worth it?

    Wow, can anyone actually read that? Anyway, I've always wondered where the extra brass from the stretched case goes with an X die, and nobody has provided an answer. I'm skeptical until someone can explain how they work.
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    Any Body Else Hate S&B Brass?

    Wow, just how far are you bumping the shoulder back?
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    AHHHH Case rim keeps tearing off

    I think he meant 99% alcohol content, ie stuff that's only 1% water as opposed to the normal 70/30. Yes, lanolin and alcohol is pretty much what you get with some of the best sizing lubes on the market.
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    AHHHH Case rim keeps tearing off

    yeah, you complain about stuck cases, then tell us how good the lube is? Sorry, doesn't work that way, especially when you aren't even lubing all of the cases.
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    Pistol extractor question.....

    Unless your gun is push feed (and I don't know any pistols off the top of my head that are), jumping the extractor over the rim is going to put more pressure on the extractor than it was designed to take. Most (but not all) pistols that use a coil spring on an external extractor are designed to...
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    thoughts on a .357 hunting load for deer

    You didn't tell me how much of the bullet exits ("all of it" doesn't work in calculations), so let's just assume it's a 150gr bullet. In that case: .5 * ((150 / 7000) / 2.20462 lb per kg ) * (200 / 3.28084 feet per meter)^2 = 18.0600675052 joules, or 13.320422206 ft lb Simple, isn't it...
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    thoughts on a .357 hunting load for deer

    Of course there is. Tell me how much of the bullet exited and at what velocity, and I'll tell you exactly how much energy was not used inside the animal. You started out in one post by saying that we were just assuming you didn't understand mathematics, you're doing the same thing assuming...
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    thoughts on a .357 hunting load for deer

    We all know that shot placement is critical. The energy of the bullet does damage, it's up to you to put that damage where it's most effective. As long as you cause enough damage, using more energy to cause more damage doesn't mean much. Nobody's arguing that you need a certain amount of energy...
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    thoughts on a .357 hunting load for deer

    Who here has said that energy is the only thing that matters? Don't pull a straw man on me here, take the entire argument into context. As I've said multiple times, the bullet design determines how that energy is used and shot placement determines exactly what is damaged, both of which are...
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    Sorry, but "Energy" didn't kill that deer.

    So go ahead and throw those large bullets at that charging elephant. Not fire them, throw them with your hand. I would much rather impart a large amount of kinetic energy on them with the rapid deflagration of smokeless powder.
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    thoughts on a .357 hunting load for deer

    Physics is the science of how the physical world works. I can't believe people actually think that could be irrelevant. It's mind boggling.
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    3-die set versus 4-die set

    I would encourage you to look for another solution. Crushing your bullet so that it fits is a really bad "fix". And here we go again. If you really believe that you have to crush bullets to know that it's bad, we have nothing to talk about.
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    thoughts on a .357 hunting load for deer

    You're misunderstanding the argument. Think of it as two different bullets of the same weight and caliber, both loaded to the same speed. One exits the animal and one doesn't. The one that doesn't will have used more of it's energy doing work and have created a larger wound channel than the...
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    Sorry, but "Energy" didn't kill that deer.

    Of course they won't perform the same, the energy gets applied completely differently. No comparison. Energy is only one part of the equation, but it is a very critical part. Are you sticking your fingers in your ears when you say that?
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    thoughts on a .357 hunting load for deer

    You need to go back to Physics 101. Energy is what does the work, the bullet is the vehicle that determines how that energy is applied. To say energy is nothing more than math is just plain silly. As for one hole or two, internal bleeding is just as effective as external. That second hole is...
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    Sorry, but "Energy" didn't kill that deer.

    And without sufficient energy, there is no hydrostatic shock, there is no expansion, there is no tissue damage. The energy of the bullet is what causes the damage, the bullet design determines how that energy is used.
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    Sorry, but "Energy" didn't kill that deer.

    And what caused this tissue destruction? The energy of the bullet, of course. It's not the only important thing, but it's not meaningless, either.
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    3-die set versus 4-die set

    Use them all you want, just know that they can and will make sub-par ammo.
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    3-die set versus 4-die set

    If you're the worst shot in the world, how do you know? And how, exactly, are you supposed to adjust a fixed carbide ring? Yeah, like larger bullets or thicker brass. Or simply a carbide ring that's smaller than it's supposed to be. It's been known to happen, Lee's QC is pretty bad. Bull...
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