so waht ya doin today?

Ian

Ian

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Yup, the shippers finally clued in that LLA is technically orm-d. Lee finally figured out they could delete the LLA and charge the same price for the die and container.

First one I got fhat didn't have the LLA in it I called Midway and bitched, thinking it was a mistake. No explanation but the CS rep sighed real big and sent me a bottle gratis. That was about three years ago.
 
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Mitty38

Mitty38

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Glad I reload.
28 bucks a box for 9mm. I will just put the 9 up for a while. Stick to plinking with what I load.
Might be a good time to unload the 100 rounds of Blazer aluminum 45 ACP. I have had for about 2 years, since I traded off my Hi Point carbine.
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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Ole_270 said:
Just got a picture of the other side of that Kimber showing the real reason it was purchased for the donor.
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He bought it used, wouldn't eject. I replaced the ejector and cleaned out a burr in the slot to get it working. There was about .050 difference in the length of the two ejectors, don't know if the previous owner had gotten rough with it trying to get it to work or what. Anyway, it's getting ready for a new 7x57 barrel and a VX3i 3.5-10 scope.
This makes three Kimbers he has. Classic Select .257 Roberts with better wood than the -06, 308 Classic with the darker wood, and the -06. All under MOA with my handloads. The 150 Interlock load in the 06 wasn't even worked up for this rifle, but for his JC Higgins M50(FN M98 action). Nice set of rifles!
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OK--so, if I read this correctly, the man has ANOTHER 30-06 available as needed. He could do a whole lot worse than an FN M-98 Mauser-pattern, BTW.

The 30-06 is never a mistake, per Townsend Whelen. The only "mistake" is to be without one after having one.
 
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Ole_270

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CZ93X62 said:
OK--so, if I read this correctly, the man has ANOTHER 30-06 available as needed. He could do a whole lot worse than an FN M-98 Mauser-pattern, BTW.

The 30-06 is never a mistake, per Townsend Whelen. The only "mistake" is to be without one after having one.
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Yep, the JC Higgins M50 is just as accurate, though not as light or with as nice wood as the Kimber. It could use new bottom metal since somehow the magazine box is missing/ cut off this one. It already has a Timney and will get a side swing safety on the cocking piece. I think I showed a picture of it once before. It had a cheap tupperware stock on it that we changed to a M51 deluxe stock with checkering.
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My backyard range comes in handy.
 
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Gary

Gary

SE Kansas
Just found out the Virus is among us in Chautauqua Co. Time to shelter in place.
Actually not a resident of the Co. but a "interloper" . Still clear of any positives here.
 
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462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Last evening, we heard that the 7-million residents of seven Bay Area counties were ordered to shelter in place. This afternoon our county ordered the same, till April 7.
We are well provisioned, but I still have a retirement sideline job I need to tend to, and still plan to keep Friday's V. A. hearing exam appointment unless they cancel it, but the dentist called to reschedule my wife's Wednesday cleaning appointment.

I remember nuclear bomb shelters and was scared because our family didn't have one, and elementary school bomb blast drills, did my part to prevent the Domino Effect from happening and got mortared and rocketed for doing so, made it through several 7-plus earthquakes and particularly the aftermath of a 7.2, contracted neither the Hong Kong nor swine flu, helped the residents of a dozen house fires and a forest fire, and none of my electronics suffered any Y2K malfunctions. That said, what is happening now is the strangest of all the events of my lifetime.
 
fiver

fiver

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didn't those Higgins have chrome lined barrels?

what did I do today..
fiddled around the yard some.
I got the 2 trees in some dirt in a couple of buckets, moved some seedlings out to the green house.
put the top trim and built the lid for the new garden box [now I need like 55 cubic feet of dirt to fill it]
probably empty the mulch bin in there.
I think I might just build the last box now [and not finish it off quite yet] then move the mulch bin over and build a secondary turn over box next to it.
then I can put the posts in for the fence and measure everything out for the gravel around all of it, as well as build the watering system.

the wife wants me to use most of the money I have set aside for the garden stuff this year to go down and buy more food.
I just looked at her like she was nuts and even Littlegirl was like WTH.
Mom you know you have 120 days worth of stuff on hand what else do you need?

apparently she had got into it with some lady over the gallon of milk she was buying at her work this afternoon, and now she is getting worried about this whole thing.
 
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Ole_270

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I don't believe either this model 50 or my M51-L has the chrome lining. I haven't looked at the 06 with the bore scope, but the 308 M51-L doesn't appear to have one. Might be certain years they did it
 
oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

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Ian said:
Yup, the shippers finally clued in that LLA is technically orm-d. Lee finally figured out they could delete the LLA and charge the same price for the die and container.

First one I got fhat didn't have the LLA in it I called Midway and bitched, thinking it was a mistake. No explanation but the CS rep sighed real big and sent me a bottle gratis. That was about three years ago.
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WELL! THAT truly sucks!
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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My Husqvarna M-98 of about the same vintage does not have a chrome-lined bore.

Gotta remenber--postwar priming in 30-06 milsurp ammo remained corrosive well into the 1950s. Soviet Bloc weapons systems use chrome lining extensively, because their priming compounds remain corrosive even today (in some ammo makes). In such a scenario, chrome-lined bores made a lot of sense.
 
fiver

fiver

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you can get Alox from white label lubes.
he calls it Xlox because LEE had a hissy fit about him using the trademarked? copywrited? name.

might have been just a few years, and I seem to only recall the 0-6 having it.
one of those things you pick up somewhere and only sort of remember half the details.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Only ammo I buy is for CC use, and a box lasts a long time................not concerned what the scalpers are trying to get for factory ammo. Been reloading and casting for 45 years and can't remember the last box of factory ammo I purchased. Hell, I can't remember the last time I reloaded j-words. Have a couple lifetimes of those on hand, for the small calibers I don't cast for like 243 and 270W.
 
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popper

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Oscar - did that for a Co. trip last year but winds were terrible (as was the fishing) so didn't get to use any.
Got 50 GC'd for 30/30 and BO ready, when the BLL dries, they get loaded.
She's on the phone today, social time. Some crepe murtle branches to trim before trash tomorrow, another 3" rain last nite. Can't hardly walk on the grass without leaving footprints. County is about to join DFW in shelter in place rules. Kid called, said his kid is friends with kid in school that now has a suspected Wuhan virus student. Just my luck. Over there last weekend for GKs birthday. Oh well.
 
fiver

fiver

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that's how you get it even without trying.
say hi to someone at the gas station or the kids go to school or someone you know works at a convenience store, heh,, someone sneezes on your dog.
whatever.

well we got about an inch of hard frost this morning.
I need like maybe 2 boards and I could build the second and final raised box.
I think I have everything else on hand [except the dirt] the wife has today off so no matter what I plan I will probably be doing something else.
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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fiver said:
The wife has today off so no matter what I plan I will probably be doing something else.
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^^^ THIS ^^^

Yeah, Marie isn't going to school now, so she has all day to dream up things for us to do. At least there isn't ice on the ground to deal with.
 
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