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.

boycotts

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I thought it was childish when Republicans boycotted Barry’s State of the Union speech.

I think it is even more petty, childish, and immature today. They can’t even articulate why beside “Trump!”.

14 Democrats boycott Trump’s first State of the Union speech.

Surely, at some point they have to act like adults, don’t they? Weren’t they taught how to behave? Or will they always act like immature 12 year old girls? 

Don’t trust ’em, Donnie:

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Ronnie Reagan trusted the rest of his Government when he went for Immigration Amnesty in 1986….And he got screwed. So did the American people.

There was no border security implemented (as promised)…none.  Few of the “legalized” illegals paid any fines, and few ever met any of the other requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

There were 4 million illegals when the act was signed.

Now we have 25 million illegals. No border security to speak of, and the Left (and some of the Right) has done their best to keep us from getting a border wall for the past 32 years. We have a greater problem with illegal immigrants now than we did then. And remember: 4 million or more got amnesty in 1986. So those 25 million (or more) are all new.

Mr Trump: DON’T TRUST ’em. Demand a COMPLETED wall before ANY other actions take place regarding immigration or Amnesty for ANY illegals. A wall must be completed as a precondition for all the other legislation to become law.

COMPLETED. WALL.

Don’t trust anything else. Don’t trust the congressmen (and women) on the Right, and SURE AS HELL don’t trust the congresscritters from the Left.

They want the illegals so they get cheap labor (right) and more voters (left). More people to exploit.

Make ’em ante up first. Wall.

What does this tell you?

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A paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science reports that a group of researchers directed by James Barrett of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, has radiocarbon dated 153 new finds, including arrows, tools, skis, rags, horse gear and “scaring sticks” (poles used in the hunting of reindeer).


According to Cosmos magazine , the objects were all unearthed from melting ice patches in the region of Jotunheimen and the surrounding mountain areas of Oppland in Norway. According to the experts, the dates shed new light on the occupation of the region, with the researchers concluding that the population and hunting practices in the area increased and decreased drastically in combination with the climate changes there. During periods of extreme cold for example, signs of human presence decrease, while they appear to return again in the warmer periods.

This find tells me that it was longa go, warm enough that people lived there, and worked there, and hunted there and grew crops there. Then it got cold enough that they all left and went somewhere else.

Then it warmed enough that someone else went and found all the stuff that they left behind that, until now, was covered with ice.

Therefore it has been both significantly colder there (In Norway), and significantly warmer. (Much like the rest of the earth).

“Global Warming” is bullshit, so is “Global Cooling”, “Climate Change” is also a bunch of bushwah.

These cycles happened over and over in the past. The changes we see today are normal variations in climate.

All thse climate scientists should be shot for stealing money from governments and false reporting. 

Who is writing the script?

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Seems that all of the DNC types, and a goodly percentage of the RNC types keep repeating the Mantra:

“A Border Wall isn’t a good solution, we have Technology that is more effective”

“We have technical solutions which do a better job of keeping our border safe”

WTF? Cameras don’t deter anyone. Nor do motion detectors. A physical barrier that is difficult to climb or go around, that is imposing and is hard to scale is a Great Solution. It may not stop everyone, but it WILL stop most.

The only technological solution  that is a deterrent is a minefield (which is also a barrier). The downside is the maintenance (and the fact that it kills people rather than just deterring them).

Spycams and motion detectors don’t do anything unless you have the manpower to back it up and apprehend what/who the devices detect. We don’t have that much manpower in Customs and Border Patrol.

But seriously: Who is writing the script that these congressweasels keep repeating? Someone is telling ’em what to say. They’ve been saying it for the past 30 years or so, (and fighting against a wall for all that time) and so far, I can’t see that we have a better solution than a wall. Oddly, walls and fences work where we put ’em along the border near California and in some places in Texas….People have to go to other locations to cross.

Who is putting words in the mouths of our Senators? Who’s paying ’em to repeat back that bullshit?