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The transfer bar and RFP remove the human factor. In other words, shooters can load six and no longer need bother with situational awareness. Our entire society is moving in this direction and someday with cars that brake for us, let us know when were drifting into the adjacent lane, etc.
Even in the microcosm of shooting and handloading, our world is filling up with things that remove danger for us. For example, Trail Boss and Tin Star- We no longer have to be cautious when loading because you can't double charge with this powder. Gadgets that let us know when our the powder hopper or primer feed on our progressive press is low so we don't have to pay attention anymore. Cars that automatically brake for us and warn us when we're crossing into another lane. Humans are being dumbed down at an alarming rate.
CHT
My Dear CHT -
I believe you have summed up the situation in a nutshell.
What The Great Unwashed ( and the corporate lawyers)
don't get are the resulting unintended consequences!
like
- people who freeze to death in a perfectly insulated house because " the heat didn't come on"
and they "didn't know" that a dozen plumber candles in soup cans could heat up a 12x14 room
- people who never bother to put up a larder with a weeks worth of canned food and several gallons of water and starve during
a natural disaster becasue "the store is always right there"
- and now self driving cars that will make Artificial Intelligence decisions of which bystanders ( or occupants) will die in an untenable siuation , ie:
the car knows it can't brake to avoid the jacknifed semi, so what will it choose ?
+ go left, head-on into oncoming traffic killing 2 vehicles worth of occupants
+ go right taking out a minivan full of a family, and possibly the car's occupants
+ go straight into the semi, killing the car's occupants
The lawyers are lining up to go nuts over that coming situation, and are already litigating several deaths caused by self-driving cars....
And the only thing they care about is "who takes the blame" !
I myself got lucky and recently snagged an old Sauer & Son single action with a perfectly nice "carry five" system. I got it dirt cheap
at the LGS because nobody knew WTF a "Herter's 44" was lol . I am perfectly happy with it 'cuz for my purposes most of the time if I can't do it with five I am in trouble anyway, and if I absolutely need 6 , a correct functioning safety notch with a hammer thong is perfectly good in my mind.
yhs
prof marvel