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It will be ignored, just like the knife attacks in China. Fcuk media in the neck. With a pencil. Jon

SAAMI says you can go that extra 0.005"...if you really need to. Of course, if you have an operational .300 BLK do it. Jon

I would call and talk to a tech. Chances are the person that responded just got the info off of their webpage. Tom's right. If you look at the pic that barrel is mongo thin if the gas block is 0.625". Jon

There is in Kentucky. Not that far. There is in Arizona. Jon

Oh yeah...he's a full-fledged member here now! <laughs> Jon

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My buddy lived in Virginia, had a buyer for their house, and they were getting ready to move back out here to AZ. Called him up during the process, asked what he was doing. "Right now I'm confiscating crayons, pens, markers...anything that can leave any sort of mark. Then I'm going to repaint the fcukin' hallway. What are you up to?" Jon

Aahhh...the dreaded whisker yank. Jon

Yup. Our girl was sleeping 6 hours a night (except feeding twice) right out of the hospital. Everyone said "The second one won't do that." Then there's the time at 4, when for the first time in months I rode in the back of my wife's car, and there was ink-pen drawings all over the passenger side door. The whole door. Like the Cistine Chapel. Didn't yell...asked the wife if she'd seen it. "Seen what?" All that artwork. "Oh, that. Yeah...we had a talk about that, didn't we?" Guilty ass look from the carseat. <laughs> <lmao> Jon

They should've captioned it "Ta-da! Thank-you for attending The Pyro-Flatulence Festival!" Jon

Been a long time since I had push-n-pull shoes. Jon

http://www.saami.org/specifications_and_information/publications/download/206.pdf Page 41 .223 Remington Case length 1.760" -0.020" That means you're good down to 1.740"...just trim it all the same length. The thread I mentioned before was on .308 Winchester (page 66). A person had many that were 2.005" and was worried. Another person spoke up how nobody ever talks about minimum cartridge length recommended by SAAMI, which with the .308 is 1.995" (a -0.020" tolerance from 2.015"). It is a good practice to have all your brass trimmed to the same length, for uniformity of the seated bullet giving the same COL cartridge after cartridge. I load handgun brass at the lowest loads that cycle the semi-autos. 9mmx19 and .45acp brass varies 0.020" easily from case to case, brand to brand. But you aren't dealing with 60,000psi chamber pressures either. Some people at one of the ranges I use picke up any and all .223/5.56 brass and stuff it all, no trimming, with the cheapest primers they can find (think of that thread on the Korean tool shed). They alternate between rounds that never fire to completely blown primers. I don't shoot their stuff. Jon

They would bring out an honorary platinum medal for lifetime achievement for some here. Jon

Kids have an instinct to wail at the one frequency that wasn't damaged by concerts, gunfire, or machinery. It is amazing how well that part of our hearing still works. Jon

German engineering versus Chinese engineering. Jon

Maybe...maybe not. This is pretty damn accurate. Jon 11 Step Program for those thinking of Having Kids: (from a good friend...had to share!) Lesson 1 1. Go to the grocery store. 2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. 3. Go home. 4. Pick up the paper. 5. Read it for the last time. Lesson 2 Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their... 1. Methods of discipline. 2. Lack of patience. 3. Appallingly low tolerance levels. 4. Allowing their children to run wild. 5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's breastfeeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior. Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers. Lesson 3 A really good way to discover how the nights might feel... 1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner) 2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep. 3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM. 4. Set the alarm for 3AM. 5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial. 6. Go to bed at 2:45AM. 7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off. 8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM. 9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive) Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together. Lesson 4 Can you stand the mess children make? T o find out... 1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains. 2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer. 3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed. 4. Then rub them on the clean walls. 5. Take your favorite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it. 6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look? Lesson 5 Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems. 1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh. 2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out. Time allowed for this - all morning. Lesson 6 Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that. 1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there. 2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player. 3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot. 4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. Lesson 7 Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children. Lesson 8 1. Hollow out a melon. 2. Make a small hole in the side. 3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side. 4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane. 5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone. 6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air. You are now ready to feed a nine- month-old baby. Lesson 9 Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. Lesson 10 Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying 'mommy' repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each 'mommy'; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler. Lesson 11 Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the 'mommy' tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

<laughs> I hope she was talking about the apartment carpet. Don't know about the beetles but at one place where we were, there were these tequila worm looking things that munched on floor carpet, leaving a hole looking like a clean burn. Jon

There is already conspiracies going around about Noveske and Kyle. Maybe they're onto something. Man, I hope Rock River keeps steaming along...maybe even increasing production. I love mine! Jon

If you're asking about trading to your boss, $450 is fair IMO. Jon

$400 is what new ones here sell for, with a LE discount. Jon

Seriously...look up that video 98 posted about popping those out hydraulically. Way, WAY easier! Way, WAY cheaper than that $70 RCBS tool. Jon

Just found this subject a couple of months ago on sniper's hide...I think, in reference to .308 brass. Find the SAAMI minimum length or the shortest stuff in your batches, and trim to that. Jon

Fortunately I have a minor child in the house to share demented humor with. Wifey doesn't realize poop and farts are always funny. She has her own sense of humor though. The other night we were waiting for admission into the auditorium for a school recital. Something kept doing the obnoxious mosquito buzz around my ears. After waving my arms a couple of minutes I asked her "Do you see what's making that stupid noise in my ears?" She said loudly "No. Is it time to take your meds?" :ugone2far: Jon

Dammit edge!! We really need a smiley burning a pile of cash. Jon

I'd like to hear the non-cellphone recording: Jon