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  1. Reloading endeavor range report: Made it to the ranch and shot my progressive 375 WBY loads: Everything went great. No issues from my first ever handloads and the velocity numbers were a nice surprise. Success! There aren’t many published loads for 375 WBY, and those that are published seemed like they used faster burning powders than what would be optimal. I ended up trying a powder I thought might work well, but the closest cartridge it has published load data for is the 30-06. I extrapolated the 30-06 data to the 375 WBY. That might have been a little risky for my first attempt, but everything I read lead me to believe it would work fine. The last couple loads were compressed, and the bolt handle seemed just a little tighter when I opened it after the highest load (which I almost didn’t shoot because I was comfortably over my target velocity), which might indicate a little too much pressure. Here’s the data. Next I think I’m going to work up some loads around 2900 FPS and check grouping, then adjust from there if need be. Also need to shoot from the sticks and make sure the recoil hasn’t become ridiculous. Also, I used Caldwell’s phone ap, which is a handy way to automatically log the data, especially when you’re shooting groups:
  2. Caldwell
  3. Rolled up about 10 progressive loads. Hopefully I’ll have some time to swing by the ranch tomorrow and chronograph them and see what the speeds look like. Definitely going to be watching for overpressure signs.
  4. It’s getting real. Trying to get the die positioned correctly to crimp and working up some progressive loads.
  5. Walk back to the pool bar WiFi and give us an update ICF
  6. Like SB said, first figure out exactly what you've got, both the specs and then operational condition. Then you can look at comparables on the internet, like this: http://www.boattrader.com/search-results/NewOrUsed-any/Type-any/Category-all/Zip-76513/Radius-1000/Length-21,30/Year-1990,2000/Make-sea+ray/Sort-Length:DESC http://www.boattrader.com/listing/1996-sea-ray-270-sundancer-103130904/?refSource=standard listing
  7. Took some time today and got a temporary bench setup, sized and primed 48 cases in about 30 minutes. Had one “oops”: Powder scale came in so hopefully I’ll have some time to finish a few rounds.
  8. Troph can you share some aqueous pics of your Axis with us yet?
  9. G650 is going to blast your maritime screw skills stanco
  10. Yeah, but then the normal gun people might not see all the “fun” they are missing out on. I christened more case prep gear tonight, pretty handy:
  11. I’ve actually never made my own jerky but I really should do that, maybe this year. She got that thing for drying kale (not worth it) and apple slices (a lot of work for the result), so it really only gets used now when I have a big crop of apples from my trees and want to make some apple chips. Since we had it I decided to go ultrasonic instead of the tumbler route, pleased with the result so far, fast and easy.
  12. Here’s the 270 grain LRX I’ll be loading up, pretty great looking bullet for the .375 IMO
  13. Reloading endeavor update: I’ve purchased most of the gear I think I’ll need to get started. I splurged on an Rcbs Chargemaster Lite electronic powder measure, which should get here tomorrow. This evening I wanted to do some case prep, so I used an ultrasonic cleaner for starters, seemed to work well: And then into the wife’s dehydrator for drying:
  14. You mean enjoying the seas together?
  15. 6 x 6 x 10 welded wire mesh works better than any store bought cage I’ve used, roll and cut to your desired diameter. The big boxes and McCoy’s has it, probably in ~ 4’ x 8’ or 10’ sheets. You going determinate or indeterminate? I like indeterminate, but I have more loss of “tomatoes that will be perfect tomorrow” to birds I think because there are only a few ripe at a time vs a whole bush of ripe fruit.
  16. Found a fawn last week when I was out pushing brush, just a few days old I think:
  17. You know what they say about opinions.... G650 is this your old boat?
  18. G650 is raking the shit out of errbody.
  19. Did someone say wakesurfing? Still haven’t got my ballast dialed in the way I want it, but today was a good day on the water. Hang loose and feel the aloha y’all.
  20. Gave my new cans a workout last week. Really enjoy both the 45 setup and this setup. Most of them blend in with the grass, but there are seven shell casings in the air in this pic. Good times.
  21. Thank god tapa is back
  22. I’m a Hobby Forum poster that went on a little hiatus while tapa was down. Imgur going to hell and tapa down at the same time really hurt the photo sharing based threads. Let’s see if the traffic pics up now that tapa is back
  23. We had a good day last week. I left some ballast at home and didn’t have the wake set up right, but we had a good time. Weather and water was great.
  24. I would also add traditional Chinese medicine to the list of Historical Chinese innovations. I haven’t seen the data, but I’ve heard that more people believe in traditional Chinese medicine than believe in the Bible. Seems like kind of a big deal.
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