Helping those that helped us, and unfortunately it's still not over.
Figured by now y'all would have sumthin to talk about. I have been hearing more and more about this new fangled stuff that uses a nitric acid derived base to push boolits down the bore. Seems wrong to me...maybe that's where all the boys have gone, they've lost their love of the Holy Black. They've lost their way, been beguiled by the siren song of 19th, nay 20th century technology! Believe it or not there are guns that actually reload themselves now, self loaders they call them. I've seen them with my own eyes, terrible they were.
Surely, everything hasn't been solved. Has nothing been a topic of interest?
~Mako
Nitric Acid!?!?
In MY bore !?!?
Heaven forfend!
I imagine, but cannot prove, that the lack of posting is due to a number of lamentable issues,
Some of which you have enumerated….
Allow me to babble further:
1) lack of resources….
The various conflagrations around our sphere lead to primer and cartridge shortages
Then powder shortages 5en primers and percussion caps (again) then the Great Pandemic
Which is still mutating and mak8ng folks sick….
I myself was about to resort to my secret fallback: a stash of about 10,000 plastic toy caps from germany,
Which , whilst corrosive, do contain enough juice to reliabley ignite 3f in my revolvers, as long as one seats them fully and carefully with a dowel….
2) lack of shooting venues…. Well, see above. Those who are fortunate and resourceful enough to arrange their own range are better off than most…. I myself have reverted to shooting a 1911 CO2 blowback bb gun and an 1873 SA CO2 revolver in my garage, using rigid foam in heavy cardboard boxes which allow for easily resettable targets and collection of BBs for reuse, as well as keeping the muscle memory going.
Prior to primers becoming unobtainium, I have also manufactured Hot Glue Bullet Cartridges, by drilling out case primer holes and using (at the time ) available LP primers. Allowed use of any revolver, short range ~ 10 yards, but quite accurate. Until 5e primers disappeared. Thes are like wax bullets, no powder.
Since shotshell primer are still available, I have been experimenting with those. I found that those are so powerful they will accurately shoot a well lubed .30 cal rifle bullet, no powder, to 20 yards accurately, and stick said bullet in a 2x4.
Howver I did not expect to have much discussion over such topics.
3) we are (mostly) all getting old and/or sick and/or fambly memembers suffering suchly.
I myself have been expending most of my waking moments assisting Mrs Marvel ( She Who Must Be Obeyed )
In her efforts to continue her journey through this portion of the Wheel Of Dharma, re: horspital excursions, knee replacemnts, pamonia, caract surgicalness, partial toothless… oh and my Dad just died mid march. Not unexpected, at 97 he went out on his own terms!
Soooo people been busy with the Karmic Wheel Of Fortune around here.
Yhs
Prof mumbles
PS I currently have 2 Big Lube molds in .45 but am actually interested in a mold that would shoot well
Out of an a percussion .36 Colt …