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be careful if ya' rehab one...... cuz "napalm sticks to kids".....

Now you've got me curious. I've grown up around nitrogen tanks and done a lot of fabrication in cold weather and seen lots of steel shatter in the cold.....sawblades, dozer growsers, subframes, hangers and many instances of it being too cold to bend rebar. My crews are actually trained to stop...

OK, I'll try one ....... or 7 ........ failed

Them Mountain Men were monsters....incredibly resilient. Hugh Glass..... the original Badass..... And absolutely NOT the pussy played in that blasphemous account called "The Revenant". I grew up hearing about the exploits of John Colter and thought him to be a real survivor til I read about Ol'...

yup, we growed up on Mrs Mike, Bud and Connie Helmericks and the Foxfires, Thor Heyerdahl and Ranulf Fiennes .....and Laura Ingalls Wilder which as I grew up I realized was fake, like Thoreau and Slavomir Rawicz and pretty much every survival manual written in the 70's (Army Survival...

Yeahh see for me, I've got a hi-tech solution for that problem...... It works thisaway. I bugger something up or can't get something to work and within a day or three I get expert help. We have family over several times a week and nearly always on weekends so I swing thru the gameroom and kype...

Well the relief cut idea was a total ballsup!! I went down to videotape the process for an upcoming episode of my 50BMG series and she din't go so veryvery well :) I couldn't efficiently get rid of the inner burr and pulling back off the mandrel became problematic so I turn't off the camera...

The softness of the 12L14 isn't an issue when turning in the lathe as I don't set for a slip-fit but instead I jam the case onto the mandrel with several thousandths interference and turn it on the spinning mandrel...... in fact, in this case I've even got a relief cut into the mandrel such that...

Well.... I was wrong, I got lucky. The next two pieces machined terribly. I ended up making a mandrel from 1" stock

I THOUGHT I had plendy round stock in the hamper..... but had nothing suitable. I live in the boonies an hour from town so the local 12L14 supplier is a 2.5-3.5hr round trip depending on traffic and gas is over a dollar.......and I wanted to go NOW :) I'd heard of folks making tools from...

So I'm deeply engrossed in a BMG project, trying to make a series of accurate BMG's and the first thing that becomes apparent is that these things are BIG!! Not BIG! but BIG!! And I'm at the stage of making nice cases...... and I set out to turn some necks. I say "set out" because this...

The stuff I sometimes work with things like sandpaper, cardstock, leather etc simply melts :) try 250lbft with some sort of paper product LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAeB2vHunQ&t=753s the wrenching action starts around the 15 min mark

I couldn't agree more :) Also, as my Lord said from the cross, "forgive them for they no not what they do"..... I don't expect incisive reasoning skills from artists. They're overgrown children and I smile and enjoy all sorts of unreasonable behavior from children. Because it's NOT unreasonable...

I agree, he's a liberal puke but then most authors are :) however his historical perspectives seem sound Dean Koontz gets some conservative digs in and early Heinlein but they're in scant company

Mort, you might would enjoy Dan Carlin's 'Hardcore History' blog...... https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ ....... driving, mowing the lawn or maybe even in da' evening wit' some tatertot hotdish and a nice blueberry buckle.... it's more lively than WCCO

This whole situation is a real pita. I've got 20+ front bags including some of the ones Francis refers to with the side-to-side ridge and that what you said above "it shoots until it gets hard" is where I'm stymied. What this REALLY means is that "it shoots worse and worse until it's really hard...

So funny this..... I got all excited, then realized what the dots represented (some days I'm slow)

Actually, I'll have to disagree with Mr Becigneul on this one...... shooting a 50BMG for BR accuracy just makes all the problems much BIGGER. The problems remain the same, just easier to see than with the small gun. I've a Heavy 600-1000 300WSM with a 2" adjustable keel as well as a Light (17lb...

THANK YOU Asa :) this is the sort of gems I'm mining here...... I've never heard of this account nor probably would have It's really hard to find good war accounts. I liked 'Bridge on the River Kwai', 'Samurai!' and stuff on Pappy Boyington