1. I got a dig bick
2. You that read wrong
3. You read that wrong too
4. You checked
5. You smiled
7. You are wondering why you're still this reading this
8. You saw that mistake... right? (On 7)
10. But did you see that I skipped 6?
10. You checked
11. And saw you that I doubled 10 and skipped...
A bit of advice, Wilbur.
Delete what you need to, but say nothing. When somebody with a burr under their saddle starts a rant demanding to know why, wait until they & their cohorts go overboard again & delete that one.
Behold, perpetual emotion!
No, that wasn't the point I was making. I was just qualifying the situation to say that I dropped out of the sport when it started to become more expensive than a person in his first 5 years of the workforce could afford - and that it was best part of 50 years ago, that I wasn't somebody likely...
... which possibly leads a potential newby to think:
He said that I'll never be good enough to beat him? What a #$%@!
He thinks benchrest is the only shooting sport where the first thing newbies have to do is swallow the pain of being w-a-y off the pace. What an ego!
Gee, I don't think I'm...
If you can clear a loaded round without scratching but not a bare case, then it seems to me that the scratch is coming from the mouth of the chamber or somewhere on the action rather than in the chamber itself.
Didn't read these, but I found them via a Google search of Rifle basix ERV 3 instructions:
https://archive.org/stream/gunmanual_Rifle_Basix_Erv-3_Instructions/Rifle%20Basix%20Erv-3%20Instructions_djvu.txt
https://archive.org/details/gunmanual_Rifle_Basix_Erv-3_Instructions...
Always remember a Born Loser comic panel where his son asks, "If it doesn't matter if you win or lose, why do they keep score."
There's more than one recent generation who have lost the capacity to keep score.