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Rick H
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I'm from Michigan and have heard that there are all sorts of erotic happening that go on in that safe when the door is closed and no one can see. Some of those unexplained items are the progeny of those shenanigans.
One piece of advice though, don't try that explanation on your significant other, mine never ever bought it.
One piece of advice though, don't try that explanation on your significant other, mine never ever bought it.
Kevin Stenberg
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No one has mentioned how good we are at enabling
358156 hp
At large, whereabouts unknown.
A strong candidate for most understated post of the week.
That's as bad as saying thread drift here. 
RBHarter
West Central AR
Nonsense I say . We would never encourage someone to purchase another gun just because they have dies and suitable brass available .
I brought the 6.5×50 home Friday night with 35 pieces of Norma brass factory loaded with 139 SP ......... anybody have any loose 10 ga cases around ?
I brought the 6.5×50 home Friday night with 35 pieces of Norma brass factory loaded with 139 SP ......... anybody have any loose 10 ga cases around ?
StrawHat
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A hearty Buckeye welcome from NE Ohio!
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” Pin those handles!
As far as switch cylinder revolvers go , why waste money on the extra cylinder? We all know you are going to leave the ACP cylinder in place!
And because “This thread is worthless without pictures!” Here is one of my ACP revolvers.
These are purpose built as ACP.
If you need more, let me know!
Kevin
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” Pin those handles!
As far as switch cylinder revolvers go , why waste money on the extra cylinder? We all know you are going to leave the ACP cylinder in place!
And because “This thread is worthless without pictures!” Here is one of my ACP revolvers.
These are purpose built as ACP.
If you need more, let me know!
Kevin
My last Ruger 45 acp cylinder was quickly re-chambered to 45 Win Mag. A non-handloading friend talked me out of it, he uses it to hunt wild hogs down in TX.
The revolver I haven't been able to find in stock is a Ruger 41 mag (or an affordable 357 max). Was going to go out searching today but the weather knocked me back a bit.
If I had had sense, I'd not have converted the Ruger. One day I noticed here was no way on earth I would ever shoot the loads in a Ruger in 45 Colt that I casually did in the Ruger converted to 45 WM. The 451 D-mag, with bullets seated to a longer OAL, would have been a better choice. But I was young and dumb, and the D-mag would have only given me ~150 fps more than the .45 Super loads with 200 gr. bullets.
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
Some of the loads listed by Brian Pearce in his Feb. 2017 Handloader article on "45 Auto Rim +P" gave me a bit of pause. Once 200 grain bullets go past 1000 FPS--or 230 grainers exceed 900 FPS in the 625--it seems like time to apply the brakes and downshift a bit. Same story in the 1911-series or other 45 ACP pistols.
In the 45 ACP, diameter is your primary ally. I would venture to say that is true of the 40 S&W as well. There have been all sorts of formulae cooked up to compare cartridge performance, and they all "square" some value of the bullet--its diameter, its weight, or its velocity. Diameter is he only value that empirically squares itself in The Real World. That is why I view Hatcher's Index of Relative Stopping Power as a more reliable predictor of wound effectiveness--it squares a value that is squared in nature, and it uses mass instead of weight to assess a bullet's momentum. Is it perfect? Not at all. But it is pretty good, and had its genesis in actual live-critter testing--Thompson/LaGarde's "beeves". I trust "Hatcher" more than the other lab-coat-derived hocus-pocus from the jello blasters. All of it compares ammo to ammo, not performance upon live assailants. Any conclusion so derived is a leap of faith, variable in length.
In the 45 ACP, diameter is your primary ally. I would venture to say that is true of the 40 S&W as well. There have been all sorts of formulae cooked up to compare cartridge performance, and they all "square" some value of the bullet--its diameter, its weight, or its velocity. Diameter is he only value that empirically squares itself in The Real World. That is why I view Hatcher's Index of Relative Stopping Power as a more reliable predictor of wound effectiveness--it squares a value that is squared in nature, and it uses mass instead of weight to assess a bullet's momentum. Is it perfect? Not at all. But it is pretty good, and had its genesis in actual live-critter testing--Thompson/LaGarde's "beeves". I trust "Hatcher" more than the other lab-coat-derived hocus-pocus from the jello blasters. All of it compares ammo to ammo, not performance upon live assailants. Any conclusion so derived is a leap of faith, variable in length.
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