@RM.510bigbore Wait. You're saying that you take them straight from the oven with powder coat and dump them into water? What's the purpose of doing that?

The reason being I powder coated 1100 slugs at one time. One heaping pile on a oven cookie tray..Dumping them hot 400 degrees instantly into water separates them perfectly no marks..Otherwise you would have to individual handle each slug a set up right in silicon.ice.cube trays.. So 1100 slugs cast time 4-5 hours. Total.time powder coating including 13 min oven maybe 30 min total..It took 8 lbs of pure lead at a $1.00 a pound to make 1100 47-50grain.slugs..Probably about 2 table spoons of powder coating... Arsenal 5 cavity mold $100.00 shipped... I rebelling against $20.00 a.hundred airgun slugs....lol. The fatal flaw casting is having.to size your slugs...Its a slow handle each slug process...... There is a.new.Lee APP press with feed tubes ,,its way faster,,, but I'm sure at a min$165.00 to $300.00 tricked out to work good ... Lee sizeing bushings will be here tomorrow in .221 and .222 diameter.. I'm ready to test my 22 condor= Chaszel 12 twist barrel liner... $68.00

I'm not sure if shutter speed has anything to do with it?

Anything that is recorded live can be put thru editing software to slow the projectile footage to milliseconds?

It's my understanding that the photog that took that shot was shooting with a special camera at 1/8000th of a second and at 60-frames a second. (Perfect for catching a "pink-mist" situation.) He's a still-photographer. I do not know why he chose those settings. My much older Nikon DSLR won't do near that.

If the bullet was moving at 2800-fps, a shutter speed of 1/2800th of a second would show the bullet leaving about a one-foot streak. This pic doesn't jibe with what's being reported. The streak should be much shorter. I'm hoping someone will check my math here.

I can say that there is SO much that's hinky about this entire situation. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but there's a lot about this that just ain't computing.

That is not the bullet but the jet stream / turbulence from it which is still impressive to catch, imo.

Apparently the joke was on me, Huma just use a generic photo for all O-ring related.
Dunno about you guys, but stuff like that infuriate me greatly.

Ha! lol

Mine is even worse, I’d have to hold her hand to cross …

My work partner did 8 years for attempted murder. He is one of the nicest guys I have ever met and probably the most liked in our shop. You just never know.

Yeah... I looked up this particular guy's priors. He's a convicted woman-beater. Multiple felony convictions. I'm done with that.

Sounds like he needs a longer time out this time. Apparently his prior sentences didn't "rehabilitate" him.

So sick of everyone worrying about what race someone is. We're ALL one race and it's called Human.

Unless they consider him an animal, then race would apply!

I remember helping my friend putting a new complete gearbox into a land rover parked at the curb.
That be shoehorning it in thru the back door, and then drop it down ( floor removed ) and finagle it into place )
Now we was 2 doing the lifting but if you know a land rover you know there is not much room back there, and the complete gearbox as i recall was 208 kilos / 458 pounds.
Back then in the 90ties i was only 65 Kilos / 143 pounds myself, and 6 foot 3 tall, with no shirt on you could count my ribs from 25 yards with ease.
But i was at least lifting the 150 of those kilos, at least i could fairly easy dead lift that weight in the late 80ties.

I could use a lathe tomorrow when i cut 100 mm of one of my FX barrels.

A lathe are not rocket science,,,, you got this buddy.
BUT ! watch your fingers.

People tend to confuse observations with criticism. I think that it stems from insecurity, but what do I know?

One of the things I love about mechanical work is that is reality based. Feelings have no part in it (except of course, when you crank an engine up and it purrs after you spent hours getting it back to right). That said, the problems happen when someone feels a certain way about how something should work. Reality doesn't operate that way. Getting that across to them without pissing them off is the hard part. I once said to a former client - "Have you considered finding a Holistic Mechanic"?

I apologize. I didn't mean to start an argument. I am 51. I don't have kids. Never wanted them. I did watch my friends and coworkers have kids over the years and have noticed most of them don't raise their kids, the way my mom raised me.
Then again... how could they? When I was a little jerk, my mom/principle would beat my @Ss to teach me discipline. Parents/Principles aren't allowed to do that these days. If you can't teach today's kids, the same level of discipline... how can you expect them to turn out the same?
I agree kids are out of control these days. We just disagree on the source of that behavior.
Finally. Being a 'Boomer' is a badge of honor. I had a lot of friends that did not make it to 'Boomer' status.

I certainly didn't think anything said so far was criticism, I have seen avery generation take the easy road of blame (me included when I was young) instead of the hard road of change.

All I see is a plastic bottle cap.
If it isn't that, what is it?

That's a cake container like the grocer store uses for angel-food cakes. I hate angel-food cake... The dogs disagree.

Totally a COSTCO cheesecake container!

I get busted EVERY time I pop it open to sneak a piece.

Good to read that things are looking up for you. Sounds like you have solid friends.

Now that’s some research I could be coerced into…just looks like fun to me..John

John, are you and your squad going to be able to get to the N50 this year at Raton? I had to pull out last year due to family emergency. This year it'll take Godzilla to keep me away. Hope to have you guys there. New Mexico needs some shooters better than me, to represent

Not this year…I haven’t put in the time on that very perishable skill…Hopefully have more time to devote to my favorite activities over the coming year. Not sure if any of our other shooters are going.… health issues in one form or another seems to plague us as we get older. Thanks for your vote of confidence. John

No, it was an even cheaper gun and I just knew that there was a disconnect and LOTS of warning signs ahead of time.

No one to blame but me. I just wish I hadn't spent all those hours on it.

Sometimes you just gotta say no and turn down certain customers. It's not worth the headache or stress. I find myself turning down side work on cars more and more, especially more critical/bigger jobs. Had a timing chain job fail 8000 miles after I did the work, solely because the owner didn't want to replace the vvt cam gears as I recommended, and they tried to blame me for the failure.

I no longer do timing chains or belts because of that. Too much liability.

I feel you. There are people that will never be happy regardless of how well they're taken care of. "Ever since you fixed my bike, my neighbors' mower won't start." The upside is that once you know who they are, you can both avoid them and warn others off.

Try to imagine a diesel engine, as big as a house.
Then imagine you have to do something simple with it, and find out you need to unscrew parts of that damn thing for half a day just to do something extremely simple.

I have lost count on how many times i have cursed engineer's to hell.

I hate working on diesels. Did that for 8 years as a bus mechanic. They stuff those engines in the back of those bastards. It got to the point I would just pull the whole motor/trans out to do most anything on them vs crawl inside there and get cramped up and disgustingly greasy.

HEHE yeah i could imagine that, probably more cramped than some exhaust manifolds i have been inside. ( and i am 6 foot 3" )
Plenty of chances to get dirty on a ship too, some jobs actually mean a +50 % bonus.

Also remember the old days where you could drop a tool working on a motor, and it would just fall to the ground below it, these days popping the hood and you cant even see the GD engine.

@RM.510bigbore Do you hunt bear?

No.I really.haven't... I.do enjoy having my old mountain fiest run a bear on occasion... Here in SW Pennsylvania its.a.new thing seeing Bears,Coyotes,Bobcats.....Are Wild Turkey numbers are half what they used to be...Ground Hogs are so.few.in number they aren't a pest anymore... Maybe I'll.get a bear tag.this year

Thats AWESOME!

I got a LS Tractor last year, I'm getting a brush-hog, rotary mower this summer to knock down the hay/grass so I can keep the 100 yard lane as well.

hehe ( as in chuckle ) somehow i dont think that would cut it for poor Michael.

You know how to make a hormone?



Don't pay her!

I love it!!! This is hilarious!

I had one of these feeders , the Squirrels (it looked like ) played on it till the motor wore out . bought a new motor and they burned that out , gave up . Stan in
KY.

EDIT: yes it is motor driven rechargeable

@beerthief There's a motor that makes it do that? I thought it was spinning because of the momentum and weight distibtuion of the squirrel on the feeder.

Yesterday evening was perfect for summer in central MN. How are the skeeters in your neck of the woods? Practically every day I walk around my property, I'm picking off wood ticks.

Tics are off the chart in Denmark this year, apparently it have been a ideal winter / spring for those.
Also it would seem we will soon have to welcome another moskito from the south, it also possibly carry some exotic decease.

Nature in general also not doing so well, a study released recently show that in 10 different kinds of nature, there are progress in 0 of them, so to avoid the tics, dont go out in the miserable remains of Danish nature.