Everything posted by raz-0
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The Expanse.. Season 5 starts Dec 16th
It has not. We have one left to go. It's going to drive my wife crazy if they leave it hanging with big things yet to happen.
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Shot timer
Depends on what you want it for. Dryfire? Get an app for your phone. Live fire, IMO the pocket pro II is the best combo of features and durability. I'll give my brief timer analysis based on trying to find good timers for matches. Speed Timer 3000 simple, durable, way too easy to clear shot history when trying to review it, and when they get hot the display goes black. CED 7000 decent but complicated configuration. Display goes clear if it gets hot. Pretty good for individual practice though. CED 8000 Increadibly configurable, very complex setup, weak beep, really meant for dry fire or personal practice. Setup is not really ergonomic for running a stage. PACT club timer 3. Simple, seems good, but has critical flaws. I forget if its display goes clear or dark when hot, but it does one of them. Much worse is that when it gets too hot, it starts missing shots. PACT MKIV XP, the old MKIX was the bees knees but pricey. The XP is flat out broken and PACT's repsonse after buying ~$3000 of them was basically screw you. The critical bug has to do with the data history. The more shots in data history, the longer the delay between pressing the button and getting a beep. RUN a big match and you can start heading into 30 second plus delays. Clearing the history is a PITA to boot. Pocket Pro. Butt simple. Not full featured for dry fire. Display goes clear in heat. Pocket Pro II. The bitmap display is nice and heat resistant. It's basically on par with the ced7000 for options, slightly simpler setup with a more menu driven setup. Biggest issue is getting it bumped into config mode when trying to review. Also not the cheapest.
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Ammo increase in price
Well look at the manufacturers selling direct. They are selling at basically $0.50 per round for 9mm and nearly a buck a round for a bunch of other stuff. So a good chunk is all the way up the supply chain. I've been reading places where some retailers participate, and one of the things happening is not so much gouging as the removal of the wholesaler/distributor discount we are used to. Some shops are paying retail or scalper prices just to have inventory for their local customers. So you are paying their operational markup on retail prices.
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Powder ID...
That might explain it. There are thicker single perforation stick powders out there though. I’m always hesitant with visual identification of powders. but yeah tail boss is used by people who don’t want nearly empty cartridges when making powder puff plinking loads for cheap.
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Powder ID...
got a pic of tail boos from the side, cause the original sample seems pretty chunky and trail boss looks kind of thin.
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Powder ID...
trail boss is thinner from all the pics I have seen. Roughly half the thickness of the center hole. This looks close ot the thickness of the center hole.
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Negligent discharge in a public range. SO stupid...
Just cause it wasn't intentional doesn't mean it isn't a crime. I mean unless it's in a car, then it's fine apparently. But it fits the criteria for involuntary manslaughter or negligent manslaughter or equivalent.
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Prep For Quarantine / Pandemic
Yeah costco has been weird. Lately all the luxury toilet paper you could want, but jack shit for paper towels, and only a minimal amount of facial tissues.
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RO killed in accident during match
There's nothing dangerous about it if you just use it as intended. Cocked and locked. Treat it like an SA gun. Then if something goes click instead of boom, you can pull the trigger a second time. Bonus. IF you want to carry decocked, you get one of the models with a decocker.
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RO killed in accident during match
Because SA is sweet and DA is intended for restrike capability? If the gun doesn't have a decocker, it was likely intended to be carried cocked and locked. Anything that requires you to pull the trigger on a loaded chamber while fiddling with shit in order to holster it was likely meant not to be holstered in that condition. Just saying.
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RO killed in accident during match
The gun is intended to be carried cocked and locked. Which would prevent discharge if dropped. This is a confluence of the gun design and USPSA rules for production along with poor gun handling.
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‘Dillo Dust
The down side of dillo dust is that it is a shit ton of sugar. I mean it's 1g of sugar per 1.2g serving. For those who don't want the sugar (and granted, it's a way different thing than the dillo dust) I can recommend pork barrel BBQ all american seasoning mix. It's frikin awesome on pork chops, and if you make a nice pan juice with it using chicken broth, it goes great on broccoli and rice.
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Primers
Unless you want large pistol, I haven't seen shit anywhere. hit up google and look up primer cup thickness for what you are looking for vs. what you have. Assuming you have something. If the cup thickness is the same, there should be no issue trying non magnum primers as stated above. Just make sure you have a rod to clear a squib worst case.
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ROKU Considerations
Do you want HBO MAX? Because it's not on roku. Their workaround for that bullshit between ATT&T and roku is to add airplay2 support to stream form your phone to roku. that needs a supported model. Which are: Roku Ultra (4800x, 4670x, 4661x, 4662x, 4660x, 4640x); Roku Premiere (4630x, 4620x, 3920x); Roku Streaming Stick Plus (3811x, 3810x); Roku Streambar (9102x); and Roku Smart Soundbar (9101x, 9100x). I've got an ultra and I like it. You also want to get a 4600x2 or newer model because the original ultras were prone to overheating.
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Ammo increase in price
Yes, but you are demonstrably wrong. There are plenty of retailers posting the numbers they are selling through when they get inventory. When 30,000 rounds goes out the door in seconds when it typically lasted a month, that isn’t fake demand and low supply. When you have brick and mortar shops selling six months worth of ammo in one month to only walk in traffic and with limits in place, that’s not fake demand and limited supply. The demand has exceeded the industry’s capacity. They are running 24-7.
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Ammo increase in price
Some already are. I suspect the reasoning is that it’sa large panic, and just like every other one there’s will be converts from a buy it by the box customer to buy it by the case customer. And some converts from the buy it by the case customer to the stack it deep customer.
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Set Up Your Voter Record Account and Track Your Mail In Ballot
The vote tracking page asks for the last four of your ssn or dl number. I’m pretty sure the state of New Jersey is already in position of those.
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Set Up Your Voter Record Account and Track Your Mail In Ballot
You mean all that information it asked for that they already had? There's cautious. There's paranoid. Then there's WTF?
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Ban on ordering new inventory?
If they don't do compliance work, they might not order SKUs other than 10 round SKUs. I know towards the end of the summer, many manufacturers exhausted inventory and basically have become just in time manufacturers of their entire lineups. When shit like this happens things that ship in limited quantities tend to go away. If 2/3 of their potential customer base can buy 11+ magazines, well the odds of getting 10 round SKUs in platforms that aren't compact and default to 10 round magazines becomes much, much lower.
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Ammo increase in price
My recommendation to start is a lee 4 hole turret. You just deactivate the indexing and you get the simplicity and focus of single stage, but the convenience of not having to change out dies off a turret. Then if you move on to a progressive, you can keep tool heads set up for things you do in small volume.
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Ammo brands and accuracy.
It's been a while since I shot factory, but when I did, blazer was always quite consistent. And their bullets are decent. Which is basically all that matters. In general, even offhand, I find a difference in jacketed, plated, and coated. With accuracy increasing in that order more or less. Specifically, you will often find some guns like heavier or lighter bullets. Most of my 9s like 115, they all like fast 124 ammo though, so it is what I load.
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My FFL says that he cant submit my info to NICS without my Soc
No you don't have to provide SSN. I doubt the guy is doing anything nefarious. Likely he just doesn't want to deal with name only holds and really doesn't want to argue about the 3 day release. As for his personal forms, I have run into that a lot for NJ as proof that they have informed you of the safe storage laws. It also usually serves as record that their notification complies with the state standard for font size and such. The requirement is notification of a single item that states "IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE, PUNISHABLE BY A FINE AND IMPRISONMENT, FOR AN ADULT TO LEAVE A LOADED FIREARM WITHIN EASY ACCESS OF A MINOR." in appropriately large font. I have encountered it stretched out to four items. The above required text, an item explaining what the law considers safe storage, a statement that you have waived an offer to purchase a trigger lock, and a statement saying that you have received these notifications, understand them, and have received a hard copy in duplicate for your personal records. Basically compliance with the law presented in such a way as that you can't claim the FFL tricked you into having to break the law.
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Second-quarter GDP plunged by worst-ever -32.9% amid virus-induced shutdown
You can open up all you want. You can’t make people show up. I expect that they own a cruise line isn’t helping their numbers. I can’t see spending $1k a day minimum for my family of three to just wait in line all day. Or you can upgrade to the waiting less package for double. But still expect to spend most of your day in line.
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NJ Absentee ballots for presidential elections
Do you really? Any time they want some group to be exempt form the full force of property taxes, it is solely to avoid repercussions of continuing to jack up property taxes. AS for redistricting, they currently have one month after getting the census data to redistrict. They want to effectively push that to 3 years if the data is late. The absolutely BEST version of why that is on the ballot is to be lazy. The reality is pretty reasonable estimates have been made, they know what is up, and think it is to their advantage to avoid the redistricting that is coming.
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A$9 holster for my C9
I will never grasp the logic behind the magazine pouch on holster thing with cheap holsters.