wildcat junkie

I think I would be finding some better brass if I were you. For American brass I always liked Federal. I have about 60 Federal once fired 243. (I never got around to getting dies before I sold the M700 turd that I had) A small flat rate box is $6.80. If I can get them in a small flat rate box I'll sell them for $25 shipped.

I found some nickle plated 7mm-08 cases that had the brass wiped when the bolt sheared off the metal that extruded into the ejector hole from over pressure. (M700) It's easier to spot on the nickle case head as the nickle is gone & brass is showing. These weren't extremely hard bolt lifts BTW. I've heard of guys having to hammer the bolt handle with a wood or rubber mallet to get it to open. When Wifey gets home I'll ask her what she did W/the camera & I'll try to post some good close-ups.

Internal case volume can have a significant affect on chamber pressure as can the chamber being over/undersized as well as loose/tight spec bore. I never work up loads W/O a chronograph. Book loads are only safe in the particular rifle with the particular components used. A "fast" barrel means a high pressure combo. There is no free lunch. I start 10% under max & shot 3 rounds over the chronogfraph increasing by 1 gr increments until I get near listed max Mv. Then I fine tune W/5 round volleys looking for the best standard deviation. I like 100% load density or lightly compressed loads. They normally are the most consistent.I also set my bullet seating die to have the ogive of the bullet @ .015" or less from the lands in the throat. I often have the load development done before I go to the range & put the load on paper. The target below was the 1st group I shot W/my 8x57 using 200gr Nosler Partitions after working up a max Mv low standard deviation combo W/compressed loads. Right before that group I shot 3 rounds of 180gr Ballistic tips at the target. The gun does well W/180gr bullets, but it loves 200gr pills better. Again, this was the 1st 3-shot group on paper for that combo. Hard bolt lift is usually due to the brass of the case head flowing into the ejector slot/hole. If you look closely at the case head after a hard bolt lift you can see a shiny spot were the brass is wiped as the bolt turned shearing off the brass that was extruded into the ejector slot/hole. That is time to back off considerably. Flattened primers can be a sign of excessive pressure or it can be a sign of excessive head space or excessive re-sizing of the cases. Hard bolt lift is a sure sign. I no longer use "book" data.. I use QUICKLOAD to find the most efficient loads W/the best load density between 100 & 107% at a given pressure ceiling.I input the (fired) case capacity in grains of H2O, the bullet, COAL & barrel length. Using a fired case for capacity takes the chamber of the particular rifle into account. I have found that Remington chambers are larger than Savage chambers & the Savage will reach the same Mv W/perhaps 3gr less powder than the Remington. As W/"book data" I watch Mv & pressure signs stopping when I reach maximum Mv predicted regardless of charge volume or when pressure signs appear..

Get a kinetic bullet puller they're less than $20. I'm a bit curous as to how you worked up to a load 3gr under max. Rule of thumb is to start 10% under maximum & work up. That would be 44gr or 5gr under max..

I get $.50 for square bales & $5 for round bales depending on what the farmer does in a particular year. It will also save you the cost of bush hogging & will be more attractive to the deer in early fall before frost hits the new growth of green grass. An added bonus is that if the farmer spreads manure, it will become a serious turkey magnet as they pick through the manure.

I don't shot at 400yds, but more than 1/2 of my shots are right around 240-250yds. Most of my rifles are capable of 1/2" or less groups @ 100yds off of bags. Anything more than 1" to 1 1'4" is unacceptable. A 2" POI change @ 100yds will be 5" at 250yds. Add that onto shooting from improvised rests as well as the group spread that is now 1 1/4" to 3" & it can lead to less than ideal shot placement.

I would say that they would be great for load development, but "sighting in"? Are you guys going to carry the lead sled around while you are hunting? I wouldn't expect a weapon to shoot to the same POI from the shoulder/bags as W/the lead sled. I sight in over bags W/my left hand holding the forearm on top of the bag and another bag under the toe. The recoil should be the same as when I shoot off the rails of the stand. Recoil affects POI.

Here in the North Country it's White fliers & black flies.

Full-stock flintlock plains rifle L&R lock 35" octagon barrel 1" across the flats 1:70" twist .015" deep rifling .535 230gr Round ball .020 linen patch 120gr GOEX fffG main charge, ffffg priming 1900 fps Sliver blade front sight, "Nordon Bomb Sight" rear sight (open sight) 2" C-C groups off a bench @ 100yds if I do my part. I've killed 2 whitetails on the run broadside @ 30yds or less. One through the top of the shoulders that required a finishing shot, one through the base of the neck. I've lost track of how many total it has killed.

I "partially" full length resize. I set my dies up so that the shoulder isn't pushed back. I resize the full neck yet the case body is barely resized. I like to feel the bolt offer some resistance just as it is fully closed. This is W/bolt actions. On most cartridges it is the primer pocket that finally gets loose after 12-15 reloads. No evidence of incipient case head separation on any of the rimless cartridges I reload. 30/40 Krag is another story though.

Fred Lucas of Morgantown, IN had a 2 year backlog back in the late '80s when I did odd jobs in his shop. He was rated among the top 10 in the country. He did heads from all over the country icluding the Wentzels. The work load has a lot to do with the led time and the (high) caliber of the work can add to that work load..

One of the things I find interesting when looking at both side by side is the difference in the overall look of the 2 bucks that were killed from the same stand albeit 5 years apart. Both deer are 3 1/2 years old & both have nearly identical over all score on the racks. Neither rack is "trophy" size but are better than average for the area. The buck on the left has a pristine cape while one can see a couple of battle scars on the bruiser on the right. When the buck on the left was killed he weighed 242# dressed & it was 11/15, just about the peak of the chasing phase just before breeding. He was calmly feeding when I shot him. In contrast, the big guy on the right was actively working scrapes & he has some shredded bark on his antler bases. His neck was extremely puffed up from the thrashings he was giving to the trees in the area. Some of hem had branches ripped off & were totally trashed. The hair on his neck was also bristled when he was shot. The 2014 buck was still very actively rutting even after the peak of the rut on 11/29. He still weighed 190# dressed. One can only speculate, but it wouldn't surprise me if he had lost 30# or more over the month of November given his active roll in breeding. We had seen his rubs & scrapes along the horse trails all through the last 3 weeks before his demise.. Taking all this into consideration I think the big guy was a bada$$ while the smaller buck was somewhat of a wuss. Overall body mass probably had a lot to do W/that. I think the over all appearance of the mounts convey that difference. That is what I was looking for when I discussed the mount W/my taxidermist.

Those are most likely sanctioned by the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) They are a voluntary member ship nationwide organization that provide $1,500,0000.00 liability insurance when you fly from one of those fields. They are also active in lobbying when there are possible legislative issues. The current craze of easy to master multi-rotor aircraft is causing a lot of problems in that arena. (Bold red above edited for correction)

Isn't that "toxic, as in poisonous'? I wouldn't want to harm the dog or make it sick. I just want them to (vividly) remember what happened the last time they chased me. I don't usually have a problem handling one dog, but my wife gets scared when she comes upon an aggressive dog. If I educate the dogs along a particular route, they're not likely to get aggressive when she is with me.

A different license plate for my car. What kind of pepper spray isn't legal in NYS? I want to get some really potent bear sprat for dogs that continually harass me when I'm riding my bicycle.

If they put your brain in a matchbox it would roll around like a pea in a boxcar. I think that was Doc Adams to Festus Hagen in an old episode of "Gunsmoke".

I am violating a basic safety rule in taking the PIX from in front of the props, but W/CDI there isn't much danger of a kickback that would throw the prop. Unfortunately W/the direction of the natural light needed for the optical tach, I had no choice. I now have a digital tach that reads the pulses from the Hall affect sensor so I could take videos from the rear.. The videos are bit deceiving because I used the zoom on my camera to get a better shot while staying as far as possible from the spinning props. When you are talking about 3 + HP spinning a heavy 18" nylon prop it would not be unlike getting involved W/the business end of a rotary mower blade. Not as dangerous as a steel blade but at 8000 RPM it would get more chances to slice you up before you could get away. The larger wood prop isn't quite as dangerous as it will shatter on the 1st strike so it only gets 2 bite but the nylon prop would keep on slashing.

No confusion I understood the arrow weight thing, still about the same balance as the 125/375 broadhead combo 500gr arrow. Sorry if my comments conveyed confusion. What draw weight is your sons bow? I would guess in the 65# range? Does your son shoot wood? If so I may have some shafts he could use. The OP is using 200gr broadheads with a bow that should be shooting at the most a 450gr arrow to be efficient. That weight arrow with a 200gr broadhead would not be balanced well.

I'll bet he shoots a long bow. Is he using "Rib Tech" broadheads? I used to sell every 190gr Rib Tech I could lay my hands on at the Ocala FL Traditional shoots. The guys loved them for feral hogs. The guys that bought them told me those heavy Rib Techs would blast through the gristle shields that the hogs had over their rib cage. They could hunt feral hogs 365 days a year. 190gr broadhead on a 790gr arrow is only 24% of the arrow weight. That would balance about like a 125gr broadhead on a 500gr arrow.

The (2 piece in this instance) wings come off W/2 1/4" x 20 nylon bolts. I can haul the 110" plane in the 1st PIX in my 2006 Charger if I pull the rear seats. That entails removing five 18mm nuts & takes about 5 minutes W/my electric impact driver.. I want to get a trailer to haul more than 1 plane at a time.

The FA-300TTDP twin is the largest engine I have running right now. I do have a larger engine in pieces on my workbench. I bought a basket case FA-450R3 Radial to soup up by putting bigger cylinders on it to boost displacement from 4.5 cu in to 5.1 cu in & milling the case deck to raise compression to 14:1. The insides were pretty well trashed from some parts that got loose, thus bashing around inside. I wanted a rebuild-able core anyway so I filed a PayPal dispute & got enough kickback to build it into a bigger more powerful engine With all new reciprocating assembly parts. It's going into a 1/5 scale FW-190A WW-II fighter. I'm going to model it after this particular plane that was flown by a German ace. Here is a YT clip of a similar model W/a similar power-plant. Turn up the volume. So now you know where I disappear to in the summer!

Here are some YT clips of my engines running on the test stand.

The range is determined on how far you can see to stay oriented. With the larger stuff that might be as far a 1/4 mile. It is easy to get confused as to what direction the plane is headed or whether it is inverted or not. The range of the radios is about 2x that if not more. That was the older 72Mz transmitters, now they have 2.4Gz so I'm not sure what the range is on those. Can you post a picture of the one you have hanging?

This is the plane that the 3.00 cu in twin will be going in. (this is not me, just a picture of an airplane like mine)

I built a lot of cars, ships & planes of the plastic variety. Eventually I got into balsa & tissue WW I planes that has morphed into larger R/C planes W/4-stroke Hemi-head power plants. This one has a 110" wingspan & is powered by a 3 1/4 HP 1.8 cu in 4-stroke. This is the biggest engine I have, 3.0 cu in 4-stroke, 5 HP. Dual carburetors, CDI ignition burning 15% nitro-methane/methanol mix. I weighs 4#.