Recent content by karl_h

You could have downloaded the XAPK yourself and loaded it. Looking at it's permissions and data it collects I wouldn't touch it myself unless loaded on a device with no data/phone access. The august 7, 2025 2.6.8 update is out there for anyone to download, just have to know how to load XAPK's...

Most accurate bullet I ever used in my 357 Texan was a Hornady 9mm 147 gr boat tail XTP. Lot of work to get there. Extremely violent and fast expansion in water jugs over 125 yards, and in the couple critters I shot messing with my apple trees 80+ yards out, one big coon, one big groundhog. I...

I know, been off the site a bit. One of those things you get sick and tired of repeating to people all the time, get in a hurry and get a bit backwards. It happens. Done the same thing in pb land with stuff I've repeated so many times you get sick of it and say something backwards. Oh well.

I own lots of top of the line Swarovski's and Zeiss, none of the price point stuff they make. I own one Schmidt & Bender that was kind of an accidental purchase. I only had one occasion to use their repair facilities and I knew it was going to cost me. Idiot friend broke the eyecup adjustment...

A lot of things going on in the graph below, but it shows you will not(without extreme and very expensive measures) ever get enough water vapor out of ambient air prior to compressing to 300 bar. This is taken from a british government paper in 2006 when they were revamping their breathing air...

Gotta laugh at that, several months ago on a Sunday, I had something blown in my eye in a parking lot. Just happened to be an eye doctor there walking out of the store. He saw me tearing up badly and introduced himself, looked at my eye and said to come with him to his office, closed on...

I see a lot of people saying live trap = spray. Not in my experience or those that taught me. I've trapped and dispatched close to a dozen next to my house, never sprayed, the people that taught me have been doing it for decades without one spray. Skunks don't spray when they drown, may sound...

Just to be clear, current state they are firearms under federal law, once you get your tax stamp, you still have to do a 4473 form, either on paper or electronically to take possession, the tax stamp serves as the NICS check so no waiting. The tax stamp just allows you to do the 4473 on a new...

Yes you can, with 99% certainty. If you can't, well...... Parts are available and expensive, your description of that compressor you "fixed" and sold, I would not touch it for more than the cost of a good one minus all parts that may be needed to fix it correctly. In my opinion, you did a...

Of the two possibilities of it passing, one leaves them under the NFA but has a 0 dollar tax and form 4473 modified wording to make it applicable to them under that circumstance(it's a tax law thing). The other is to make them "firearms" and transfer on a standard 4473, senate rules are funny...

I was going to grill some ribs tonight, turned on the grill to heat it up and when I went back outside it was off, no problem the tank was getting low and it burned it’s last propane while heating up. Hooked up new tank I had filled a month or so ago which is the same tank that was on the grill...

About the same time period for me. Those 1500 dollar used Bauers back then were not bargains, they were used/abused and needed rebuilding whether the ebay ads said that or not. I sent a lot of messages on ebay to those people with direct technical questions and never got one response, they...

#12 shot works very well on carpenter bees, it takes next to nothing to kill them. My setup will not penetrate through your typical one sheet of shipping box cardboard at 2 feet, half the shot bounces off, and about half is in the interior of the cardboard layers. It will not leave a mark on...

I thought about that myself a few years ago when I considered buying something to launch arrows, decided against it mostly because of how loud they are, someone I know bought one with a barrel the arrow slides over, ungodly loud. Other than that it worked great. If you are than handy sort, you...

Not wrong at all, check the real science from manufacturer's of breathing air compressors and filters. Check the labs that certify breathing air, research a little and don't be stupid. It is absolutely scientifically documented.