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any time man, any time. Hope it works out for ya OK

I have no desire to go stainless so figured I'd post this for people that dont use stainless.

One of my tricks for new tumbling media is on a windy day tumble your brass outside with the lid off of your tumber. The wind catches all of the light dust that's in new media and blows it away and you don't have to deal much with dust in the future. I got mine outside now and it's blowing all the crud away. Just figured I'd show one of my tips for you.

I shoot a ton, I dont even want to know how much I go through. I shoot almost every other day and yesterday alone I went through about 300 .303 Brit. Last time was 7.62x54 and that was about 400rds. So on average range session I go through about 350rds of centerfire rifle. If you are worried about ammo price get a mosin, the ammo is about $70 for a 440 rd spam can.

thats weird when matt and I went the guy was really cool and said "everything you see is for sale" you may have hit them on a bad day

wow that's a lot of candles. Remind me to buy stock in a candle company..... Happy B-day FRANK!

I cancelled that out for ya ray

I thought that was your position ray, the tacti-tard nerdy guy.

finicky little devils aren't they.............................. If you look at 00:22 ish on the vid, it jams half way through a mag not reloading. There's issues beyond operator error. This happens more frequently than you would think

I wash all my guns in the sink with hot soapy water. Soapy water is my solvent of choice. Heads up, the little waterpiks that walmart has for cleaning your teeth is the ultimate tool for gun cleaning. Its like a micro pressure washer and gets into all those impossible places.

Reloading is a hobby within a hobby. Some reload for cost some reload for accuracy. I myself load for accuracy. The ammo I make cannot be bought and is in a standard of it's own. If you were to buy ammo like I make it would be verrrrrrrrrrry expensive. As an example take a brand new rifle round from a major manufacturer and roll it across your bench or counter top and stare at the very tip of the bullet. The wobble in the tip is called runout and is the bullet not seated in the neck straight. Normally with factory ammo is appalling that this stuff is passing QC. But my loads there is almost zero runout. I can keep going on and on about comparing top notch factory loads to reloads but I will say if it can be done to a round during the brass prep and loading process, I do it from neck turning to weighing and sorting my brass. Now you can see a major difference in the way the ammo shoots. I have a 100% custom FLAIG .308 that is a true blueprinted rifle built by a fameous gunsmith to be accurate. With Hornady 155gr TAP ballistic tip ammo the rifle will shoot about an inch at 100yds, but with my reloads and the exact same bullet the rifle will shoot 1 ragged hole. For me the fun of reloading is pushing the limits and seeing what can be done. It's fun to work up that magic recipe and seeing what it will actually do. So for me the saving money isn't really a factor, it's quality. Knowing what I put together at night in the basement will blow away anything on the shelf is a rewarding feeling for me.

wait this has to be an impostor. He was around for a while and then poof he's gone. This cant be the genuine Richie, it has to be a fake. Last I heard that Richie guy was rich and famous and said I'm done with guns, I think I heard he turned into a liberal and played nightly for Nazi Pelosi.

My thoughts are rather than do the work myself, make a guide to show you how to do it. Some people enjoy doing the work themselves and feel a sense of accomplishment when they see the results. Also this will be about $5 to show you how to do it start to finish, which isn't bad considering it's a $80 gun. If you drop it off for someone to do it you are almost doubling the cost of the gun and you really didn't learn anything.

yeah, I am already working for a smith but figured this would be a cool little project. I have someone that is a magazine editor going to do the editing when I am done and another guy that is a lawyer going to draw up a zero liability statement. It's gonna take a while to get right but should be worth the effort.

well after a bunch of good responses I am going to go for it. Like I said before what do I have to lose, and it may be some extra gun money. It is going to take a while because there is soooo much I want to put into it without overdoing it but when its done I am going to send it to a couple of people to get a honest opinion. I figure choose some people that are knowledgeable in Mosins and choose someone that just got one and has no clue. That way I get a full spectrum review of what people think.

Well I went shooting with a friend of mine who is an FFL on Friday and he brought out a Mosin to play with. The thing had the typical rough action and horrid trigger and wasn't shooting the greatest groups. I said when we were done I was going to his shop and work some of my magic on it. I slicked the action, did my 5 minute trigger job and did some of the stuff I know for accurizing a Mosin. This all took a matter of maybe 20 minutes. We went to shoot later that day and he swore it wasn't even his gun, I mysteriously replaced it with a slick accurate gun. His groups shrunk by 50% using the same ammo and his action was smooth as silk and I got the trigger down to about 3lbs with a crisp break. He was so impressed that he threw out the idea that I should start writing little books or pamphlets that are rifle specific on everything on how to pick a good one, decosmoing, general maintenance and even go through some accurizing tweaks and a basic trigger job. He said if I write one up and print a couple he'd sell them with the Mosins in his store for an extra 10 bucks. If there was a little guide like this would you be willing to pay maybe $10 for one? I know it sounds goofy but I figured WTF do I have to lose. Everyone that shoots my Mosins asks "how the fugg did you do that?" So maybe print something that explains how to do it and make a little extra money in the process.

My dad grew up in Plainfield, I am gonna ask if he remembers the shop. Welcome to the site

A&P is airframes and power plants, its pretty much for the mechanics. Avionics is separate and highly specified. You do get your FCC license though. I was an avionics nerd though.

First off I think everyone in bootcamp can remember the "peanut butter shot" and sleeping at attention I was in Navy and went to boot in the end of January. I will never forget to this day that on Feb 14 it was -19 outside and we got in trouble for talking after taps. Senior chief ordered the fire watch to open all the windows in the berthing as punishment. WOW that was FRIGGIN COLD! I never in my life thought you could feel the heat given off by a fluorescent light, but i was sure glad my bunk was right underneath one...

yup Ray it seems lately that we have a weekly thread on AK vs AR and a daily thread on CCW. This stuff is getting old......

I try to avoid shooting in NJ so pretty much all of my shooting is in PA. Bring em out and have some fun.

I have used a ton of wolf primers and never had any issues at all. Good deal!

speaking of which I just pulled out a couple and did my 6mos check over and oiling on them.

this stuff is getting ridiculous

not again.....