Ah Capt, glad to hear your barrels are well oiled... would that be Athens GA, Athens Montana, or Athens Greece?
I can only imagine the all you can eat deal would just slide on thru.....
who told ya glazed wuz better - I bin shootin unglazed fer 25 years - did it cuz I reckoned it wuz better - now along comes the nutty perfesser and ruins all my ideeeas. An I spose coffinmaker will blame it all on me standin on me head to load or somethin.........
for the technically minded (like perfesser) I have been absolutely unable to make graphite burn ina gun barrel - so I assumed (very unscientific to asume anything but I did it anyway) ..assumed that said graphite glazing slowed the burn and added more poop to what was already in the barrel
just tryin to help ole Bunk wid his ruckus raisin campaign
missin the action but a thousand miles away at work so difficulter than normal to participate
Ah yes, on the topic of razing the devil , a couple of saints were over in the corner praying up a storm and got him nearly 6 feet off the ground...
Oh raising a ruckus....
Well I disremember a long
conservation conversation several Lustrum ago on the now defunct Open Range site, where All The Finest Minds were socking their powder to remove excess
pencil lead graphite, and I do recall how magnificintly shinyand pretty thoseBP grains were, and how amazingly dirty those gym sock came out.
What I don't remember is how it affected the shooting, if at all!
Then this aftermorning I went back researching my oid notes, links, parchments and clay tablets to discern the old Balloon Head whys and wherefores...
And Lo and Behold there in my links is our own Pettifogger holding forth on the pros and cons, and as long as the recalcitrant brass casing did not split
and the rim works as designed, it does not matter a wit for our purposes.... Except for when PJ Hardtack related that a fellow split one due to overuse and spew nasty hot gasses and etc all over his own face....
Whereupon I fell down the WunderLand Rabbitt Hole of the history and hows and whys of cartridge devolpment, found this page with pretty pichers
and lots of interesting long winded historicity and many wordiness as long as your truly - which also shows how the rims are sloped, and can bulge "not flat", and other unhappiness
https://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?787-Word-of-caution-about-balloon-head-caseswhich then led me to the history of copper cases with riveted rims and coiled copper sidewalls, for Bob's sake!
but then I had to pay bills, wash and move the newly dead freezer out of the garqage, order some used esoteric cooking and Japanese books from my favorite bookstore in Portlandia (which is having a sale with free shipping) , investigate where this blasted nose choking smoke is coming from ( phoenix area - seems SE arizona is on fire again) and then figure out WTF a Trash Panda is and why it would go to Rocket City....
and then I wonder where my day goes and why I can't seem to get anything accomplished...
yhs
prof marvel
PS Mrs Marvel says "Trash Pandas Are CUTE!"