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@thor Try Yerba Mate as it's easier on the stomach.

@lore whoop!

@thor @pre That's strangely beautiful.

@freemo You made holes in the paper but it looks like the shots were straying horizontally and vertically. Those were still good groups.

The good news is that even armored attackers can't soak up 25 rounds. I have seen the glory of the coming of the lord...

@freemo Setup?

@JonKramer @freemo
The Lee Classic is a good deal. The iron sights at 1,000 yards crowd used them. We are such disappointments and can never live up to them unless we also learn to omit important details.

@JonKramer @freemo I'm a person on the internet who doesn't like Ruger.

@JonKramer @freemo That Browning Action becomes especially apparent when a pistol using it has seen a few thousand rounds. The High Power and 1911 use the regular system. I think Glock pistols and not horse semen use it too. The M9 series are a bit odd.

It's interesting to note how the AR-15 family was said to use Direct Impingement. Words suck sometimes. Schematics and patents are better.

It simply is what it is until it is something else.

@JonKramer @freemo Oh that's the Browning Action. A Blowback System is used in the Makarov. The barrel is fixed to the frame and doesn't move. Everyone's favorite firearm company, Hi Point, made a 45acp rated for +P loads and a 10mm with this Simple Blowback.

I honestly thought that the DE used regular Blowback in 44mag without causing injuries. A gas piston and locking lugs make much more sense.

@JonKramer @freemo Maybe handloading is the answer. There's a lot that can be done with different powders and bullets. It's also the only real way to get some Mosins to be accurate. I preferred the Ruskie ammo but in the older rifles it wasn't uncommon for a good barrel to be around 0.311 instead of the expected 0.308. Handloaded ammo made the rifles consistently accurate.

Might as well invest in a reloading bench to help with the cycling. If it doesn't help for some reason, you would still have a reloading bench.

@lore It has always been fun and will continue to be.

@freemo @black6_ @jlcrawf The Millennium pistol couldn't fire 9mm +P when it first came out. That's rather rare for a modern pistol.

It's just a tongue in cheek reference to the quality. If you want a good M9 clone, Taurus made them with Beretta machinery and they seem to be of good quality.

The Judge doesn't seem to be lacking in quality but I did see them in pawnshops. Perhaps the original cost included buyers remorse. It wasn't inexpensive.

Taurus isn't a bad manufacturer but they have made a few questionable designs over the years. They seem to have made a lot of good quality clones of classic Beretta pistols. The list even includes the Tomcat and Bobcat.

@gat @freemo I remember shooting a rattlesnake with a 22lr Luger and yes it was a Luger. Like one would expect from a Luger, it jammed so I had to figure out how to unjam it and finish the snake off.

I've never used Snake Shot rounds. 22lr was what I was taught to use on snakes. There's nothing to it except for not screwing it up.

@freemo @JonKramer CORRECTION, it's not a blowback system but actually a gas system. That's odd, I could have sworn that it was a simple blowback system.