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  1. Trent

    SCOTUS narrows question in the NY State Gun Rights Case

    Don't let yourself be so demoralized here. The "total win" is not as small as you'd imagine. You are looking at this as "6 of 50 states" and thinking it would be a hollow victory to get shall issue in those 6 states - 12% of states, a slim minority of the country. Those 6 states have a...
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    Keeping a Shockwave/Tac-14/SBR in a vehicle

    The OP really doesn't request a huge debate on all 50 state's worth of gun laws guys. :) "Those of you who do have a truck gun, where do you store them when driving and when you leave the vehicle?" Let's try to help the guy out with what he wanted to know and stick to the question please!
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    One Powder for 9mm and 45ACP and another for 357/10mm

    I burned through a 10 lbs keg of unique over the course of a few years, in 9mm, 45, 40, 38, and 357. It is a bit dirtier than some other choices but works real well! Meters consistent, too.
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    Hornady Match 75gr BTHP AR-Help

    So if you let the bolt chamber rounds (full strength) it doesn't extract? Sounds like something is jamming the case in to the chamber pretty good. This can cause the extractor to skip right off the cartridge when you manually cycle rounds. Take a sharpie to blacken up the entire case...
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    Case trimmer, what say you

    I use this guy; https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1012944415 Like you I was kind of set back at spending a lot of money on a trimmer. I got by for a long time using a hand crank trimmer. Trimming was historically one of my least-favorite tasks, with reloading, now I don't mind it so much...
  6. Trent

    dirty primer pockets

    I don't think I've ever cleaned a single pistol primer pocket? I don't remember doing it anyway. :) I've scraped the crud out of magnum rifle pockets before, to make sure primers seat all the way. I don't remember how often, juts done as needed. Some of that brass makes it a long time with...
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    Show us a picture of your reloading bench

    I wasn't, the current prices and availability leave me sore, and I feel bad for new shooters. When I was getting started out, so long ago, you could buy a ton of components dirt cheap and shelves were always stocked good. The environment young shooters find themselves in today is just damn ugly...
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    Tumbling media

    I dry tumble occasionally in corn cob media after depriming so I can get the primer pocket somewhat cleaned out. Compressed air won't work as the media isn't uniform and air can get around it in the flashole. What I use (that is 100% effective) is a toothpick. I do it in the same step I'm...
  9. Trent

    Show us a picture of your reloading bench

    Subjective, I haven't shot as much in recent years so they may last a while longer. Back in the heyday it wouldn't be enough for one season! :) I haven't bought primers in 10 years, or more, though. They were a lot cheaper back when I bought them!
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    Show us a picture of your reloading bench

    Moving sucks! It's starting to come together slowly though. Been having a few health issues that make stairs tough, so relocating the equipment to the attached garage w/ in slab heat. Clearly a work in process! :) I have to build a new bench for the XL650 - but the prices of lumber! My...
  11. Trent

    No battery optics

    PS90's gen1 and gen2 optics are both set up similar to this. The Gen2 optics are lightyears better than gen1. Even in incredibly minimal starlight the PS90 passive gathering works fantastic. As you go from day to night, the reticle changes from black to red, making it easier to see at night.
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    Inexpensive Night Vision: Sightmark, ATN, Pulsar or Other

    Whoops, got my numbers conflated above. The IR illuminator is ATN's 850 supernova, the *laser rangefinder* is the 1500. Durp. :) Also bear in mind the pics posted were reformatted twice (once to trim the video, another time to upload), so there was a lot of resolution lost in that process...
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    Inexpensive Night Vision: Sightmark, ATN, Pulsar or Other

    Here's the ATN 4k Pro 5-20 @500 yards, lighting up a traffic sign at the edge of our property. Behind that you can see the 1500 illuminator I got from ATN is also lighting up the grain silos at ~950 yards; although they are reflective, so take it with a dab of salt. :) This is ~250 yards, the...
  14. Trent

    Shot like poop

    There's two sorts of shooters, ones who have had that happen to them and ones who will have that happen to them. I had a visiting shooter hand me a high master card once at our high power match. He had every bit of kit you could imagine with him, definitely had been running the national match...
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    Biden to nominate horrible choice to be ATF director

    Low road. I was hit in the head in a vehicle accident 11 years ago and had to relearn how to speak, and to this day I get words mixed up. I also still, to this day, design and build supercompute architecture. Be mighty unwise to underestimate a man based on how he speaks. :)
  16. Trent

    A message from Hodgdon

    Let's leave the prepper talk out of it fellas.
  17. Trent

    Biden to nominate horrible choice to be ATF director

    I read he had nominated Chipman and my stomach lurched. A chief advisor of an anti-gun organization running the ATF.. that's just.. lovely.
  18. Trent

    Must be my day to be a PITA...

    Brass springs back after firing; but don't rely on that to be uniform.
  19. Trent

    Bumping the shoulder on .223 and the case growing?

    Well, as usual with reloading, experiences may vary. But I have several calibers in several rifles which I've shot to 10, 15, 20+ times (after annealing) which I never purchased full length sizing dies for, which have only had the neck touched. The brass case springs back after firing; if it...
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    Bumping the shoulder on .223 and the case growing?

    You still need to trim if you neck size. That brass flows under extreme pressure while firing; it doesn't just grow from sizing! Full length sizing moves more material around and they will appear to "grow" faster; but whether you neck size, or full length size, it's the act of firing that case...
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