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Fundraiser for Angel update:

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You can find it HERE.

For those of you who donated, in any amount, I too thank you. She is good people.

If you haven’t, why not?
Toss what you spend a week on coffee (or smokes) her way. It’ll help a LOT and will go a ways toward balancing the scales….she has helped so many folks.

And for those who can’t. or won’t help, at least keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

Boosting the signal:

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In case you haven’t heard, one of our own has suffered a tragedy.

Read HERE.

My condolences to Angel and her Family. If ya got a minute, and are so inclined, say a prayer to whomever you pray. Or at least think good thoughts her way. She’s good people, and doesn’t deserve this.

Ken Lane (Wirecutter), AKA Knuckledraggin, is doing a fundraiser, ’cause this couldn’t have come at a worse time for the family.

You can find out how to donate HERE.
I tossed a Benjamin her way (who needs ammo this month?), but even $5 or $10 will help.

We often help many we don’t know, who aren’t part of ourTribe.
Let us come together hand help one of our own. 

This is what I get for being a range hound

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I tend to pick up brass at the range, especially if it is a caliber I shoot….I mean, hey, if folks wanna leave it behind, why should I let it get tossed?

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So I go to load some .45 ACP for a new shooter that I am taking to the range on Friday.

I tumbled some range pickup brass, load 2 tubes with primers, pull out a box of plated 230 grain, check the powder levels, lube the 550 and commence to loading.

about 10 cases in, I get one where the primer just will not go back in. …Odd, but hey, this is brass of no certain pedigree, so I pull the case out and toss it into the trash.

About 10 cases later, I get another. Then another.
Damn, this is affecting my rhythm.

When I got the 4th one, I looked at the primer pockets to see if they were staked, or had burrs, or what was causing them to not load primers.  They were all the same headstamp.

I began checking the base of each cartridge I picked up out of the bin before loading it into the press (I usually just get into the rhythm….pick up a case, load the case with my right hand, put a bullet in the primed and loaded case on the other side of the press with y left hand, pull lever, rinse, repeat…..

Having to look at each piece of brass slows me down, but I soldier on. I mean, I can usually load about 250 .45 in an hour, this is slowing me down to about half that.

It wasn’t until I was done that I noticed what was different about the uncooperative brass….

Not obvious, izzit?

How about if I show you a case that WILL take primers?

Yeah, Who ever heard of a .45 ACP case that takes SMALL Pistol primers?

Now I got about 3000 cases to sort through.

Nice speech:

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Now, MAKE IT HAPPEN.

And here’s the thing:

WALL.

BUILD THE FUCKING WALL FIRST.

None of those other “Pillars” will stand without a BORDER WALL>

A COMPLETED wall. Built from the Pacific to the Gulf.

Then start the rest. As for the other proposals? Yep, I gotta say I like ’em. Especially the proposal wherein bad Government workers can be fired. (I doubt he can circumvent Civil Service laws, but lets  see)

Well, that was interesting

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First time at a class C airport.

Lots more to the workload: radios and frequencies, and figuring out what to repeat back and what not to is gonna take some experience.  I hope the controllers weren’t laughing too hard….

So far, up ’til now, I have done all my work at untowered (pilot controlled) airports, with one class D once as a touch and go.

I’m thinking it woulda been easier to start at a class C and go down to untowered places, rather than work up.

I’ll get it, just more to learn.

Onward and upwards, as they say.