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Deleting posts will work here here, though checking the wayback machine (the internet archive) the forum has been archived 101 times since 2009. No way to remove it from there, though it can’t archive the password protected 1A forum. Unless they somehow got their hands on the cryptographically-uncrackable password. :-)

Bob, you had a good 9 hours left in 2020 when you posted this. Surely you can squeeze in a couple more this year!

Fired in a gun chambered for something else. It looks like the chamber was too big for the body of the cartridge, hence the split, the nose of the cartridge extended into the barrel, resulting in that weird fire-forming of the front of the case. At least that's my guess.

Correct.

I load a lot of light pistol loads on a manually indexed progressive press. The powder measure has a baffle (its Dillon hardware). It is freakishly consistent. I can go months without seeing a variation of even 0.1 gr, with flake powders-they tend to meter well in general. The only thing I do to keep the charges consistent-and I’m not even sure how much it matters-is to only pull the handle once on a charge I’m going to put in a case. For example, if I’m fiddling with the resizing die or having issues seating primers, I might pull the handle multiple times with no case under the powder drop. That might compact a bit more powder into the charge bar, so when I’m ready to start loading progressively, I’ll dump that first charge back in the hopper and start fresh with a one pull, one loaded cartridge cadence.

That sucks. I love Sportsman’s Warehouse; much better than Cabelas. They carry serious outdoor gear; Cabelas is a much more gentrified alternative.

Is there still snow on the ground there? Might be hard for them to assess damage and make repairs until they can see the ground.

I’m a huge fan of learning to shoot well with a .22 before moving up. I start all new shooters with the .22. Cheaper, easier to diagnose errors, much less likely to induce a flinch that will be hard to unlearn later, and the .22 will probably be more accurate than the 9, depending on what guns are selected, of course.

And flamethrowers are nothing if not precision weapons.

We've got about 5" right now in Morris County, and we're in the 12-18" predicted band. Only snowing lightly now, but it will be interesting to see what we have by mid-morning.

The secret is to pick a really secure PIN. I use the last four digits of pi.

You'll shoot your eye out!

Yep. This is so important for achieving financial stability. Avoid debt to the maximum extent possible! I've always worked to finance less and less of each car I've purchased over the years; I would keep the old one on the road until I was sure I could pay for a bigger fraction of the new one in cash. Finally, on my 9th car since high school (and not many years before retirement) I finally got to the point where I could buy my last new car for cash. A milestone, decades in the making! Too many people go in the opposite direction; each new car has a bigger loan, or a longer repayment period, or they shift to leasing rather than buying, just so they can have newer, bigger, fancier...

Put a plow on it, and head up my way!

I'd read some years ago that Amtrak did not have any mechanism to secure guns to their liking, so no means exists to transport on the Autotrain. No direct experience, though. The magic of shipping guns to yourself is that NO INTERSTATE TRANSFER TAKES PLACE. You send them, you're there to receive them. They move, but they aren't transferred in the legal sense. It doesn't work if there are different parties involved, of course. I'm not sure how it works in this crazy state with handguns; I think you can ship them to a gunsmith, or back to the manufacturer, without going through an FFL (If I'm wrong, those more knowledgeable will chime in), but I don't recall discussion of the legality of transporting from home to the shipper for purposes of shipping them to yourself in another state.

I shipped long guns to myself, residence to residence, years ago. It worked pretty well. The hardest part was convincing the local USPS office that it really is legal. I went in with printouts of both the USPS policy and relevant federal law (sorry, it was a long time ago and I no longer have the links). The printouts were necessary just to get a counter clerk to go ask a supervisor, because they are pretty much hard-wired to say 'no'.

I don't have a good way to post this as an image, but I found my new favorite Yeager cartoon on one of the pilot boards. Yeager at the pearly gates I think that link is working, at least for today.

Ah...poking around the Smith site, I see that some do. MP-9 Shield (looks like it's the EZ line that has the grip safety) And some don't. MP-9 Shield (edit: and I see Krdshrk types faster than I do)

Unfortunate juxtaposition in the beginnings of the first two posts, but anyway... I don't think the Shield has a grip safety, just a safe action-type trigger.

Not awful prices in the current environment, and popular powders at that. Hopefully the fat hazmat fee hasn't gone up. Were the W231/HP-38 purchases due to limited availability of either? They're the same powder, repackaged.

True. He noted in one of his books that the first time he ever saw a jet...he shot it down.

Nice. But how could they forget the bayonet lug? Liberals fear that even more than the air vents, laser sniper scope, or machine gun grip.

Indeed! Especially considering you had no involvement in loading or securing the cargo.

Chuck Yeager, dead at 97 I'm sorry to hear it. I don't know if the appropriate response is a moment of silence, or a thunderous sonic boom. Probably the latter.