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Love it! A round of applause for Derek and SC Arms!

I use CCI and Winchester primers interchangeably for rifle and pistol, but I've always stuck to rifle primers for rifle cartridges, pistol primers for handgun cartridges. For match use, I keep the lots separated by primer brand, for practice I don't worry about it. I've pretty much eliminated magnum primers from my inventory, as my loads don't require them, but would bring them back if that's all I could find. Loads may need to be adjusted when going from standard to magnum primers. I've been forced before to pick alternate powders before. I start with a burn rate chart like this one Burn Rate Chart to see what powders are most similar to what I've been using, then go to the load manuals or powder manufacturer's web sites to get the load data. For target loads, I'll also check various online listings of 'pet loads' known to be consistent and accurate. I use mixed brass for practice regardless of the gun I'm shooting. I'll use that same mixed brass ammo, after running it through a chamber checker, for any matches that are more about speed than accuracy. For precision matches I'll separate brass by headstamp, but for most events I don't separate it by lot number.

It's not unusually contagious for a natural virus. Yes, it's more contagious than flu, MERS, and Ebola. But it's less contagious than mumps and rubella. And it is MUCH less contagious than measles. Some representative R0 values are here: R0 Basic Reproduction Number

I don't suppose they are testing them for the virus before release? No, that would make too much sense, and the state is already willing to overlook the small fact that their earlier test for criminal conduct came back 'positive'.

The range closures infuriate me, especially for the outdoor ranges. Separation of stations on a trap range exceeds the 6' social distancing recommendation, even at the 16 yard line. The same goes for separation between firing ports at most outdoor rifle and pistol ranges. Restrict gatherings in the clubhouse if you must. Maybe restrict the number of people in a pit, where the firing line isn't well defined. But to restrict people from standing on well-separated, numbered concrete stations outdoors? The firing line enforces social distancing in a way that you'll never see with other activities that are still allowed.

Harvey Weinstein was confirmed as having COVID-19 yesterday. And by the looks of him, he's got all the risk factors. He must be thinking about now that if only he hadn't been such a felonious sleezbag, his money could have bought him the best medical care on earth. Instead, he'll probably now be sharing the prison's one 1940's-era ventilator with the rest of the general population.

As noted above, stating you are self-employed works just fine. I always gave my personal office number as my employer number, figuring if called I could either confirm my own employment, or forward the call to HR if pressed. But in 20 years of doing that, the towns I lived in never called... But I'm sure that some do.

A moment of silence, please. This month, Playboy announced that, after 66 years, they are discontinuing their print edition.

There's a crystal-clear legal interpretation for you. His AG must have helped with it.

I hope 'by appointment' is allowed. Or, this might be the time for FFL's to open that drive-through window they've always wanted. If the NJ NICS shuts down, the only reasonable solution is to let dealers bypass it entirely and use the federal NICS system like everyone else. I wish NJ believed in reasonable solutions.

Coronavirus. You've found the queen.

Sniper and Malsua called it correctly. I just came from Kings(not a fan, but their high prices are keeping things in stock that I can’t find elsewhere). I checked out behind a guy with maybe 60 bottles of tonic water-everything they had in the store. He saw me looking and said “I got a lotta gin”. Maybe wisecracking, maybe thinking he was protecting his secret cure. I said “I hope that works for you, but quinine is a completely different molecule from chloroquine.” He only looked a little deflated.

I've been very happy with Oakridge. Not to detract from the other good vendors on this forum, it's just that my experience has mostly been with Oakridge.

And even that was mostly fought with revolvers!

Got it. I don't know any specifics about the Bayer donation; didn't know of it at all until Scorpio mentioned in in this thread, but I'd think the donation was for testing to confirm if the early, small scale results against the novel coronavirus could be confirmed, and to make sure there weren't any unexpected side effects in COVID-19 patients, since there wouldn't have been any of those in the earlier clinical testing against malaria. I also don't know if there were any restrictions on the donation; like if the tablets can be used only for testing, or if the Feds, if convinced of their safety, can start to distribute them as they see fit.

If the drug proves effective, it will work out well for Bayer AND the patients. What would you have had them do instead? Sit on the 3 million pills and refuse to allow them to be tested?

Some certainly said that in VA. When NY passed the SAFE act, a LOT of the upstate sheriffs said the same. I believe some number would stand by their statements and not enforce the unconstitutional laws; the concern is that it has never really been tested, when loss of government jobs and pensions were on the line.

There is a pharma/biopharma blog that has long been followed closely by many in the pharma industry, and outside. There is usually just a single post per day on whatever topic the author, a senior medicinal chemist at a Boston pharma company, deems most relevant at the moment. The author does a great job of making the science, and the industry insights, accessible to a wide audience. He also usually links back to the primary literature, for those who want to get more down in the weeds in a topic. Most of the comments are pretty good as well; a lot of the posters are directly or indirectly involved in the work being described. Most of what is contained in the blog posts on the coronavirus and COVID-19 are already being discussed on this board, but these summaries are great, and may contain some new nuggets of information. The blog is: In the Pipeline Recent posts on the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease include: COVID-19 Small Molecule Therapies Reviewed COVID-19 Biologic Therapies Reviewed Time Scales, Viral and Human Angiotensin and the Coronavirus Coronavirus: Some Clinical Trial Data Chloroquine past and present (added 3/20) The Latest Coronavirus Clinical Trials (added 3/24) Comparing Hydroxychloroquine Trials (added 3/31)

MD's prescribe off-label all the time. It can be hard to get insurance to cover off-label prescriptions, and I understand that, but chloroquine is off-patent and cheap. To add the novel coronavirus as an indication, they might be able to skip phase 1 clinical trials altogether, since those have already been done, unless they want to change the demographics of the trial, perhaps to include an older population. Phase 2 trials would take time, but wouldn't have to be large, since the therapeutic index for chloroquine is pretty narrow--they wouldn't be testing a wide range of doses. Phase 3 would still be phase 3, big, expensive and slow...

I even lost the boat, on that fateful day. And by the time I swam back to shore, someone had stolen the trailer.

You'd never get the same dose. There is no chloroquine in tonic water. Quinine is a different molecule; no idea if it happens to have similar activity or not. But yeah, there will probably be a run on tonic water...

This. I'm not out a lot now anyway, but I don't anticipate much resistance if I do have to go somewhere, given the way the current order is written. If there is more of a crackdown, I was given a "critical employee/critical industry" letter from my company yesterday, which is supposed to allow me to travel without hassle in NJ and PA. The implication is that it's for travel between home and the work sites, but it doesn't actually have that limitation in the text. Supposedly the police in NJ and PA will honor these 'transit papers', but we'll see. I'll still be working from home almost exclusively, but waiting to hear of any horror stories from the road warriors.

Looks like it could also be used for cleaning crock pots. It would scrub that boiled-on rib residue off so fast, you could have it re-installed on the toilet before anyone noticed it was missing.

Heavy handed response, yes. Proof it was a government test? I'm not seeing it.

Yep, they're still scum.