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The sponges are accesible and decent. Forget what brand, but I'd also include the treated gauze as a good idea as it makes wound packing simpler. Even if you don't know what to do with them particularly well, having the basic gear on hand for anyone with trianing who gets on scene ASAP is never a bad thing.

Yes, I have a PWS DI carrier. IT cleans up REALLY easily, I was actually surprised as that was not one of the reason I gave it a try. Ice arms is in theory coming out with a melonited whole BCG soon.

That's not the only time it happens. I'll sometimes suggest they ask the other pits because last I checked I ahve more help than they did. Doesn't mean I'm always right. I'll also say similar to people when I'm at a point where more hands won't help yet because someone might get help if I pass them along, but if I have them stand around doing nothing, they'll probably wander off and not help. Contrary to Jim's perception, OB does get saturated with help many months out of the year. Often "lack of help" there means lack of autonomous skilled help, not lack of I'll do whatever you tell me to do type of help. The two big spots that need help are pulling the walls, and staking everything. They are at the very beginning and near the very end, the bits in the middle need 2-3 people total unless you have enough experienced people to manage more hands.

If you base it on gun handling, then they jumped the shark at the start of last season where you had people snapshot headshotting zombies from 50 yards away with one hand without looking. If you are basing it on story, pacing, actually using multiple locations and making better use of the ones they already had, then no it isn't, it's finally getting some improvements after being starved for funding by mad men. I've accepted from season one that the gun use was going to suck. IT was amusing to see that not only was Carl scoring instant head shots. he was doing it with the ar with no rear sight but that has an inexplicable 1/2" rise on it for no discernible reason. Hitting an 8" target from 15-20 yards with an AR is not hard if you leave it in semi auto. Doing useful things with full auto without burning through all your ammo is a different matter. The manual of arms is pretty simple as long as the thing runs, it's makign it run again when there is a stoppage that's the rough part.

for the record, if you want non abrasive, a-grip is also available. I like it, but they do hold sweat and dead skin cells. I used one set for about ayear on a competition gun, and it definitely needed replacing by about month 10 in terms of funk. But they do add grip in a comfy manner.

I'm going to guess no on this one. The internet barely has anyone willing to sell you a brand new upper, so I'm guessing they aren't littering safes across the nation. Reading up on it, if for an AR, I'd probably go with .240 tomahawk myself. Granted you can just buy hornady, but that hasn't worked so well in the past for other single maker cartridges, and it's kind of borked in ar mag length form. First thing I asked myself is why not just neck down 6.8spc to 6mm. Apparently someone had and gave it a name already. The other question is where does one shoot it that it makes a difference around here?

It's hdpe. Rifle rated stuff is about an inch thick, and the rifle rated stuff I have seen isn't class iv, but Iii+ that covers 7.62x39 and ss109 5.56. Hdpe is stupidly tough stuff.

a very insightful statement.

Your experience was likely because they just took a whole press out of the production line. You might have even made some other people happy by freeing up small parts they can't get otherwise. I haven't had a primer ram problem because my press predates the issue. The reason why the dime doesn't fix it is because your problem isn't form peening the press frame (I've loaded enough rounds I'm heading into that world). Your problme is the ram is too short/ the shoulder that it stops on is positioned incorrectly and you get less seating than just below flush. Sounds like you may have that problem. You can either order a primer ram from a 3rd party and hope it is in spec. You can get on the horn with hornady repeatedly and hope they eventually offer to machine you one that works, or you can try to keep getting them to send you the part under warranty until you get one that works. Which if they haven't caught up with orders may be quite some time. AT this point, most of the things I have called them about recently they will not consider sending me replacement parts unless I send the whole machine in. It's not like I'm up their butt about things a lot either. I've had to call them all of about 4 times excluding when I'm jsut calling in the hopes they have purchasable spares none of their resellers have in stock. First item was my powder measure out of the box had casting flaws in it. They said it should still work and didn't want to replace it. It caused the press to run rough, but technically worked. I argued with them that this wasn't acceptable, they blamed my setup, argued some more, and they said they would send out a replacement. Never did. Second item was for help getting the ejector wire to work. They said it should work fine, but if it wasn't I would have to bend it up some. They sent me a spare I didn't ask for, I guess in case I screwed it up. Third item was trying to get it to run with 9mm and called about the shell plate being too tight. They blamed my bending the ejection wire. I told them I already tried the stock spare I had and no go, and that they should really consider my original suggestion as I could take the shell plate off the press, load it up with brass in every station, chuck it across the room like a ninja throwing star, and all the pieces of brass would stay in it. At that point they told me my problem was that I bought the combo plate. I asked if I could exchange it for a dedicated plate. They informed me there was no dedicated plate, and then changed their story to say they had tightened up the plate at the request of the 38 super guys. I said ok, but what do I do if I want to load 9mm. They said I could send it in and they'd fix it in the machine shop for $20. I said nice warranty policy there. $20 + shipping for something that doesn't work right out of the box. At which point they told me they would jsut be polishing it with an aggressive honing compound, and I could try it myself, but they couldn't fix it if I removed too much metal. I proceeded to fix it myself. Fourth item was a question about a missing part for the ez-ject conversion kit, turned out the instructions were misleading and I didn't need it, which was what I suspected. Concluded successfully. Fifth item was regarding a spare part for the case feeder linkage as the design seemed doom to destroy one of the key pieces regularly. They said they absolutely would not sell me a spare. They said I must have it set up wrong. SInce it appears to be the exact same way in everyone's videos of their case feeders, and I'm not the only one with the problem, I'm pretty sure it isn't me. I've modified the crap out of my case feeder mounts and mechanism to avoid problems engineered in. I'm also not the only one who came up with the same fix to the problem I wanted a spare to insure against downtime from. As for the bad hub castings, I know at least one person I know on a forum got three of them in a row as replacement parts. They all broke rapidly, and he wasn't a card carrying member of team push it harder.

gerrymandering is a huge part of it. The republicans got a LOT more votes yesterday, but they didn't shift many seats.

I've had less success with that than with taping it up and using a roll pin starter punch. worst was my noveske lower. I got everything in without a scratch, then slip while going to put it away and bboble it only to bounce it off my vice and scratch is up just above where youwould from messing up the roll pin install on the bolt catch.

Last entry for it on the supreme court web site was that petition was filed and that it was distributed for conference at the beginning of october. http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/12-1401.htm cert being denied would mean the court says they aren't oging to hear it and the ruling of the lower court stands.

No. OB was having issues with the current release of practiscore, so I'm sitting tight at the revision I am on. Maybe next month.

Forgot ammo, forgot my gun, forgot mags for the only gun I brought to function check. NOt all at once mind you, and most of it was while heading to a match where I do a lot more than shoot, but it has happened.

Yes, thread protectors need to be permanently affixed.

Why, there are tons of them out there.

Call the lawyer, pay the lawyer. If your initial shrink won't sign, nobody else will without taking you on as a patient for a little while. Some will sign such a letter, I know people who have gotten one. That too goes easier if you do it up front rather than tell them the police won't give me a gun unless you say it is ok.

You'll have to ask vlad. If they were, they'll be in the mid November update.

yup, we do not post scores on the USPSA web site. (I think the sectional match we hosted was an exception)

Signup is open. http://cjuspsa.coffeecup.com/forms/CJ_11102013_Form/

I don't know if caracal disclosed the flaw, but they had a spate of slides breaking in two and the back half coming back at you and a very dangerous manner when it went bang. The unrepairableness means either a) Tehy designed in a stress riser they can't design out, or b) it requires QC they have no intention of introducing to sell it in first world markets.

And I want a pony. Almost all the stick type magazines ofr the 10/22 are questionable in terms of rreliability or durability. There are a couple out there that aren't.

Well I can tell you two issues with them. 1) No cop will argue that in general, the visible presence of a marked cruiser alters the behavior of drivers. Parking a visibly marked cruiser in the median will get traffic as a whole to chill out and behave more. Similar for cruising within traffic. Stealthy "marked" cruisers reduce that effect. 2) officer safety. Apparently the officer has a fair amount of control over which lights get lit THe car I encountered only had a razor thin portion of the outline as retroreflective black, and had all the lights facing the side of traffic approaching on the same side of the road turned off dealing with what appeared to be a minor single vehicle accident. I can definitely say it was REALLY hard to determine if the officer was out of the vehicle and if any of the vehicle passengers were either (answer to the officer question was YES). He might have screwed up, but it was NOT good juju for people seeing you at least moving in front of the vehicle. 3) Officers being jerks. Cops can and do screw around in their cruisers. They seem to think they are protected by a magic forcefield of authority. I argue some of that magic forcefield comes from being in a marked cruiser that is set up to be visible. I've almost gotten creamed by the last generation of caprice classics with cops racing each other with all their lights off and generally being giant unsafe douches. Recently I almost got creamed by a stealth marked ford taurus that was just speeding like the cops in that town have ALWAYS done while on duty. They are speed nazis there, and if you saw a cop car, you expected to be subjected to a moderate to severe speed differential. You do not expect what looks like a base model black taurus when it comes around the curve up the road to then floor it right at you at top speed as you are turning onto that street. It's not the first time I've encountered the general pattern of behavior, and it wasn't nearly so surprising witht he clearly marked white cruisers, and the clearly marked black and white cruisers. It honestly felt like as close a call as the gross misbehavior with the caprices, and it was not nearly as hairy a situation to start as the speed differential was MUCH lower and I had greater distance to where I could first see the vehicle. It might be revenue generation, or it might just be stupid fashion dictating what makes the coolest toys to spend the budget on.

I wouldn't bother with the 550. It's not a bad machine, but it is manual indexing, and most kabooms I ahve seen have been done on the 550 due to lack of vigilance on the reloader's part. I've gotten distracted on my lock-n-load, but the auto indexing means it's a squib and not an overcharge. As a LNL-AP owner, at this point and time I would say go with a dillon 650 and cough up the extra cash unless you never plan on adding a case feeder. Especially if you are going to start loading pistol as adding a set of dies and the pistol rotor to the powder measure easts up a good chunk of the difference, and that's what you have to add to get the same functionality out of the box. Since I got mine, the price gap has narrowed significantly, and the only positives I would list are the simpler primer system is still nice to have, the captured primer system out of the box is nice to have, and the ez-ject system brings case ejection up to par rather than having it be some dark magic you had to perform to make it eject things right. Customer service has gotten worse, and never has been as good as Dillon's. Sorry, but the number of things I haven't gotten form them that they said they would send is too high. That's actually improved from often failing to ship something and them telling you that you weren't supposed to get anything, to being able to tell you they don't know why that warranty replacement item has never, and will never ship and all they can do is cancel it and you can go through the whole warranty process from scratch to reorder it because they can't approve an order without your issue going through trouble shooting. Even without that, when they have a bad lot of parts, their process is to replace a problem part with a part form the same lot until they have gone through all of them rather than tossing out bad stuff. Talk to victims of the bad rotor hubs and the out of spec primer rams. They have also been stubborn as hell about some mis-designed stuff. Like the powder through expander system. It NEEDS the little turnbuckle like device to work well all the time. You can have the most unusable ammo out there, you aren't getting one without paying for it unless they changed something. Then there is the powder through expander for .40. It didn't work right to the point they re-profiled it. You can't get a replacement under warranty for the part designed like crap, even if you want to pay, it is the EXACT same model number, so you can't tell if you will get it or not from any given vendor. They wouldn't even assure me that if I bought it form them, I'd get the right revision. Also, what has been happening with much greater frequency, even before the panic, is missing parts from boxes. They just send out incomplete items. I bought a couple powder measures from them (which I still would mainly because even after shenanigans they are significantly cheaper for their performance than any other measure on the market, especially if you catch a sale), and both boxes were missing parts.. not even the same parts. If I didn't have spare parts already and a bench mount, I would have been dead in the water right out of the box. I know at least a couple people who had similar issues with their press kit. Then there's the issue of the case feeder. The actual device is fine, it is essentially a clone of the dillon one or vice versa. What ISN'T the same is the mounting and the linkage to feed them on the press. The Dillon set up is just a LOT better. I've got mine sorted, but there's a lot of built by me stuff onit to make it behave consistently so I don't have to constantly fiddle and adjust it to keep it running. The dillon is like that out of the box. I can't even imagine adding a bullet feeder given the hassle the case feeder was, and certainly not hornady's clone of the RBCS one. I know this sounds like major bashing, but it's not really. In plain old form, it's a pretty capable machine, and not a PITA by design. However, their QA/QC has dropped, and certain aspects were never that hot like getting warranty items shipped to you are still around even if they evolved. I never much minded because the few items that would regularly be issues were pretty cheap and I just stocked spares. Their CS is not something I would like subjecting a new person to, and with their increasing rate of mispacked items, they WILL be having to deal with it. Also the increasing rate of defective parts that just get assembled anyway is troubling. THe price difference is also VERY, VERY small when you get down to it. from midway, to get a LNLAP, the pistol rotor and emasure, and a set of lee dies for one pistol caliber is $504. To get a dillon xl650 from brian enos is $567, and if you talk to a local dillon dealer like Vinny, you may be able to do even better.

That's kind of silly. You should at least run your loads through it and see what groups you get with it before you do that.