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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Sooner or later pretty much everyone is going to get it. Look back at the Spanish flu, killed a lot of people when it first showed up and it kept mutating. Now everyone has had some form of the flu at one time or another. It's already been said, and I think it will eventually be confirmed that the Omicron variant is weaker. Viruses don't get stronger when they mutate, they get weaker. Scientific fact.

Maybe they meant binary trigger?🤔

I'm right there with you two (imagine THAT!), I had no idea what it was either. My favorite 'DILLIGAF'!

It HAS been quite entertaining!

Been at my brother's for the holidays and not online much but I hope you all had a great Christmas and I wish you all a happy New Year!

As the others said, definitely clean them, dirty cases can be really hard on the sizer die. In the tens of thousands of pistol rounds I've reloaded (38 Spec., 357, 44mag & Spec., 40 S&W, 45 ACP, 38 Super and 9 MM), I have never trimmed a pistol case. Since they are straightwall, they don't stretch like a shouldered rifle case does.

I agree, we can't tell if you scope mount is backwards without being able to see the whole mount. Nice, sharp, up close pictures (which yours certainly are) are great at times but other times an overall pic can be more useful.

Damn, I like it!

I just started reading this thread and wondered when someone would bring this up! Definitely a BIG difference!

You would have missed us anyway Doc, we were still in Albuquerque just after my son's bodybuilding competition. He took 1st in Masters Div. Funny story, after the competition we went to a Brazilian restaurant. For anyone who hasn't been to one of these places, they have a kick azz salad bar and then they have people coming around to your table with skewers of different kinds of meat, and slice off whatever you want. They just keep coming around until you cry uncle and can't eat anymore. So, Jesse was eating anything and everything they brought around, and drinking the schit out of water, he had been on a strict diet for at least a month and was dehydrated for muscle definition for the show. After we were finished eating he said he had to go to the bathroom and we sat and waited, and waited, and waited. My daughter-in-law finally got a text from him and said "He will be out as soon as he finishes puking!"

We have really hard water here too. It's been in for about 8 years now and no problems. I do a vinegar flush on it pretty much every spring.

Like 98 said, I usually pitch mine when the primer pockets get loose. I'll also occasionally pitch one with a split in the case.

It's been working for me for over 40 years. Funny thing is, I've never had a case head separation in all that time! Go figure.

Yup, we actually did it in the fields during the summer, usually on johnsongrass. The first time we did it we found out the hood can get hot really quick! A packing quilt or two solved that issue. It's a damn wonder I survived my high school years, in a small town you gotta find your own fun and sometimes it isn't exactly safe and sane!

You should have went with a tankless water heater brother, never run out of hot water and it only heats on demand. At one point there was me, my wife, my two granddaughters, my son'r girlfriend, and her daughter living in our house. That's me and 5 women. That was when I put the tankless water heater in. I've never regretted it!

We actually used to do something like this back in Kansas when I was in high school, only we tied a hood on behind the truck! Small town and at 3:00 AM there's no traffic other than some crazy azzed kids hood surfing behind a truck.

Welcome from New Mexico!

Welcome from New Mexico (almost in Texas)!

Minimal shoulder setback will only work if the reloads are only being shot in one and only one rifle, you would most likely run into chambering issues if you tried to use them in another rifle. The only real benefit to setting your die for minimal shoulder setback is for accuracy, like long range accuracy! It's not a recommended practice for semiauto rifles either, it's mostly done for target style bolt action rifles where tight chambering isn't an issue. If you decide to go to this trouble, don't be surprised if you start having issues with you bolt not closing all the way on you AR type rifle! As you've already seen, minimizing shoulder setback really doesn't have an effect on case overall length stretching. That is because the stretching takes place at the base of the case, just in front of the case head. Nothing you can do about it, it's just how things are with shouldered cases. Once again, you are nitpicking at something that is not going to really get you any gains, but you do you.

Thanks!

I think I partied with these guys back in the day!🍻😲

Damn, that was funny as hell!!!!! (I'm laughin with ya brother, not at ya!)

An old guy once told me "You don't own property in this country! In spite of what you think, you rent it from the government. If you don't think so, just quit paying your property taxes, they will come and evict your azz and take it from you!" After thinking about it for a little bit, I realized he was right!