To put a fine point on it, it's depleted from a natural concentration of about 0.7% to 0.3% or less.is we have a billion pounds of the stuff just laying around. Of course, there is that pesky radioactivity....
Not a Tactical Supergrade, which by the way I am drooling over, but my stainless Professional has been my EDC for over 20 years.Tactical Supergrade
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The toes are pretty random, the 410 not so much!My Grandmother's Iver Johnson .410. She got it in 1915, right after getting married. She kept it close by, wherever she was on the farm.
Supplied many family meals and dispatched unwanted critters.
One of my favorite squirrel guns. My grandkids are now enjoying it.
Random enough?
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The toes are pretty random, the 410 not so much!
Part of that is the geometry of the penetrator and its velocity.Even the 30 mm rounds used against armored vehicles by the A-10 “Warthog” GAU Gatling gun have depleted uranium.
To put a fine point on it, it's depleted from a natural concentration of about 0.7% to 0.3% or less.
Which reduces its radioactivity by 60% (from natural U-238). At 24 days after depletion the U-238 decays to U-234. Which is getting down to the levels seen in a bunch of bananas, or about a third more than natural anthracite coal.
As to quantities, about 60% of DU goes to military uses (all kinds, including weapons casings) the rest goes to industrial uses.[/QUOTE
Yeah, I never really worried about it. The Army likes the cost break vs tungsten alloy. The EPA has an issue with it though. Not that they don't have an issue with everything else.
Interesting, the company name is spelled two different ways on the boxes.Added a 4-1/2" barrel to the early Supermatic setup. really glad to find it!
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Interesting, the company name is spelled two different ways on the boxes.
Hi-Standard was just the abbreviated version of High Standard. Take a close look at the roll marks on their firearms. They used both.Speedo66
That is kind of interesting as I have only known it as High Standard. Kind of got me thinking, since the boxes look a little dated, that my Gun Digest of 1955 might shine a little light on the matter.
Sure enough, on the very same page in the "Pistols and Revolvers, models and prices Section", you have both names: High Standard and Hi-Standard!
And try not to look at the prices!
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