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Down Range Cafe / Bah! Humbug!

« Last post by Big Frank on Today at 01:37:20 AM »

It looked like it was going to be a good Christmas, until my neighbor's dog from 2 houses down came in my yard and bit me again. I made it though November unscathed, but had to make 2 trips in 3 months to the after hours clinic, to get my wounds treated and start a course of antibiotics which always give be explosive diarrhea. As the old saying goes, $#!t happens. A lot! Usually while sitting on the toilet, but not always.   The cops eventually came after I called 911 and I told them what happened, then they headed over to the neighbor's house. I think this dog is a pit bull mix. I don't know what it's mixed with, but it's meaner than a badger and bites like an alligator. Maybe it's part Hodag.

It's a good thing I bought a Bah Hum-F*ck T-Shirt when I bought a few other Christmas shirts this year. This was my contingency plan if things didn't go well. I was hoping to never need it. The new dog bite looks worse now that the bruising has shown up. It bit me on both arms and one leg in October, but the bite on my arm, just blow this bite, stung like a bad carpet burn and I couldn't even feel the other bites. I saw them when I changed clothes. I didn't wait for it to lunge at my face this time. I swung my fist by its head but missed. I was moving too fast, or anticipating its move. I continued the swing as it jumped at me and used my arm to shield my face. I'd rather have it bite my elbow than bite my nose off.

https://www.gruntstyle.com/products/bah-hum-f-ck-t-shirt-red-plum?srsltid=AfmBOor751lGHkRYesloEMumwA04VuPA90I89XQtsPNk7nG-Na13npbW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag

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Down Range Cafe / Re: Adventures in Ham Radio

« Last post by Big Frank on Today at 01:07:58 AM »

Line throwing may not be a very good reason to buy a Can Cannon, but it is a reason.   And at night you can pretend you're Batman. I replaced the cheap piece of crap upper mine was built on with a good, mil-spec, forged upper. Now you can't twist the upper and lower back and forth like you're wringing them out.

https://xproducts.com/first-responder-grappling-hook-and-line-launching-system/

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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

« Last post by Big Frank on Today at 12:46:59 AM »

Three slices of cheesecake; butterscotch, peanut butter with fudge, and peppermint bark, a seasonal flavor.

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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

« Last post by Rastus on Yesterday at 11:21:03 PM »

White chocolate cheesecake.

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Down Range Cafe / Re: What are you watching?

« Last post by Rastus on Yesterday at 11:17:44 PM »

Sea Hunt from 1958

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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

« Last post by Majer on Yesterday at 08:43:59 PM »

Toasted Almond Cream cake from the local grocery store, made in house fresh daily.

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Down Range Cafe / Re: Adventures in Ham Radio

« Last post by alfsauve on Yesterday at 06:54:06 PM »

Probably next week I'll be putting up the horizontal (slanted) end-feed, 5 band dipole.  I ordered a Forester line throwing bag and line.  Have done some measurements and decided to use the neighbor's tree which will give me E-W coverage.   Reason for using the neighbor's tree is that she's left he house vacant for ~15 years now.  I watch over it and call her when there's a problem.  She has a lawn care company keep up the outside.  She done some updating this fall but still no one is ever there.  Don't ask why she hasn't sold it already.  I've been happy not to have neighbors for all this time.   Miss Kitty and I, as well as several other neighbors use her driveway for overflow parking which is nice.  Figure I need to try that tree first before she sells the house and I really have neighbors.

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Reloading / Re: Frangible Ammo

« Last post by alfsauve on Yesterday at 06:45:15 PM »

how much crimp are you putting on it?  i have heard that any more than a slight roll crimp and it can break.

The retailer and most web sites dealing with frangibles do warn against too much crimp as the bullets may crack.  That said, I loaded my first couple hundred with the same die settings I use for the 147gr plated bullets.  No problem.  However these little suckers are a little "slippery" and I've had one or two that are seem loose in the case.  SO.  I add a tad, possibly a tad too much, more crimp.  No cracked bullets yet.  But after 100 I back off just a bit on the crimp.  No need to crimp more than really needed. I'm pretty much only going to use them for Revolver in Steel Challenge, though if I decided to shoot some matches with PCC, then I'll have to see if they function okay. 

ASIDE:  saw a post on THR where someone new to 147gr plated was loading his 9mm with 2.7gr of Tite Group and was asking if that was too hot.  The consensus was that was probably too low regardless of what the loading manual said.  Everyone is using closer to 3.1gr.  My semi-autos won't function at 3.0gr reliably.  FN and Sig definitely need more power than 3.0 and Glock tries real hard but is most reliable above 3.1gr.

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Reloading / Re: Frangible Ammo

« Last post by Big Frank on Yesterday at 06:22:10 PM »

I was wondering if you were supposed to use a roll crimp or taper crimp. It makes sense you couldn't squeeze them much either way before they fragment.

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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

« Last post by Big Frank on Yesterday at 06:19:11 PM »

Chicken gizzards with Bonsai sauce. I don't know why this sauce was named after tiny little trees. I figured almost everyone would pronounce it wrong if someone like Mr. Miyagi wasn't there to correct them, so I asked for Banzai sauce and they didn't hesitate one nanosecond. So, like kamikaze pilots would supposedly shout "banzai!" as they rammed their planes into enemy ships, I said that instead of asking for sauce named after a tree that would fit on your desk and could be several centuries old.