chas0218

I have a 29" barrel if you include the extended choke. I have never patterned my 870 20 ga. but it seems to kill birds pretty good. My buddy is a big time turkey hunter, he went out and bought some mossberg turkey gun supposedly really expensive magnum gun with a special fitted choke the whole 9 yards. He has had birds that he has knocked right over they get up shake it off and get out of dodge. I have a 12ga. pardner pump I bought for $129.00 and that does a nice job with a 29" barrel never had that happen to me. I have even dropped a few geese this year with this gun and am pleasantly surprised how well it does and I could care less if it gets knocked around dinged whatever. He treats that thing like his first born, when I buy a gun I buy it to use it. Now don't get me wrong I don't abuse them but if they get a ding or something I'm not going to cry about it. Is there really any benefit to buying one of those turkey guns? I mean my pardner pump is light and maneuvers great in the woods and the blind. I know my buddy's gun has a short barrel could my longer barrel be making that much of a difference?

First job was in 2002 as a sale associate at Chase Pitkins in the garden department. I loved the spring and summer just standing outside watering the plants getting to people watch (watch the good looking girls). Made $5.00/hr. and gas for the ole nissan sentra was $1.05/gal and $.99/gal on sundays. Wish I could have those days back stress free doing what I want without a care in the world. Now it is the old grind until retirement, man did I have it good.

I have been throwing around the idea of getting a summer job to help pay for some bills maybe a new boat. Not quite the same scenario but even with household income of 100k we seem to come up short once in a while.

Wow that must be one nice grocery store. My father in law was a the meat manager for Big M (private owned store) he and 2 other guys ran the entire meat department. When he retired after having 40 years as the manager (he got the manager position when he was 18 and worked until he was 58) he was making 48,000 before taxes. He made a living and liked his job. He cut up deer on the side as hobby for a few years to help pay for his truck. With that being said the average walmart employee makes $10-$15/hr. I worked at walmart during college part time and when I left I was making $17.50 as a dairy department worker and managed 38hrs a week. The jobs are out there just no one wants to work for them.

Where is that money going to come from? If you want to have affordable goods raising the wages will only drive the price of the products up. It is a circle, if one goes up the other must go up.

And get rid of guns in the process.....

You need one of these. http://www.ontrackcorp.com/original-protector.cfm?id=03

Go split some firewood by hand and it will keep that shoulder conditioned enough to pull that bow back.

Why would the media cover some story about a foiled plot? That doesn't get them the blood and carnage that makes their ratings soar. I would be willing to bet there are a lot more attempts that only the government knows about to keep the peace and prevent chaos in the streets. On a side note statistics mean diddly crap they can be manipulated to favor any angle. It's like taking a poll on gun rights in the most liberal part of NYC (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan) then heading to upstate and taking the same poll and using only the NYC poll as the "countries mindset on gun rights."

Yup, agree 100%!

The brass looks good. The primer strike looks good too no flattened primer or crater. Congrats on your first reloads now you'll be hooked.

No but de-railed this thread! haha

Just curious is that a smokeless ML? I don't follow ML's very closely and have been throwing around the idea of a smokeless one.

Looks great but too flashy for me. I like the blued finish on walnut look or stainless on black.

You and me both but I don't think my good fighting days are gone. I have no problem knocking someone on their butt if they deserve it and started the fight.

Yeah that's pretty sad. I was hoping for 2k-3k. Wow I really thought there were more members that frequented this site.

That is strange, I have seen flattened primers and crater because of loose primer pockets but never the hard bolt lift. I did load up .243 with about 5 grains more powder. Not sure how i did it but it made operating the bolt a little stiff. I think when I was re-loading with my son he knocked it and I didn't notice. I noticed at the range, never had a .243 kick that hard or whistle one that fast out of that .243. I can usually get 2 reloads before needing to trim on once fired (fired 3 times Full length sized 3 times). I haven't loaded any new brass in a while. I'll have to check my logs to see if I get any more reloads out of new brass.

Which pressure signs are you seeing?

"You got to be 2% smarter than the equipment your working with." While you're watching someone struggle to use something. "You know why they hire the handicap? "no" "They're fun to watch." Again while you are watching someone struggle doing something. "Another day, another dollar." "I've got an axe to grind with (insert name)" When using some power equipment one of the old timer college professors told me "Never put your fingers where you wouldn't put your d!ck"

Sorry T3 bolt.

.270 winchester, not wsm or wssm.

I used mine for sighting in and POI isn't any different than off sandbags. I don't strap it in just lay it in and pull the trigger same POI for me. I wouldn't think twice about buying one best investments I have made.

When I first started I did 20 rounds for my rifle all the same and it hated every 9 of them I shot. I ended up coming home from the range very upset and frustrated because the rifle shot sub-moa on cheap cor-lokts and these top quality loads were lucky to have a 3 shot 3" group. My rifle really likes the Nosler ballistic tips vs the Hornady SST ballistic tip not sure why they were the same weight, ballistic tip and a boat tail but the noslers just shot better. Now I always do a full length re-size is that the reason my brass doesn't last as long?

Any idea how many people have taken it? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I too took the survey I think. I may not have. Was it a paper survey our web based? The one otto was talking about sounded really similar to one that was after that webinar not to too long ago.