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A little humour for your day
I generally find the Babylon Bee to be cringily bad, but they nailed this one. That's funny!- Dougfirtree
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- Forum: Jokes
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Bedding a Tikka
I like this idea a lot, but can you clarify where you're taping with masking tape, and why?- Dougfirtree
- Post #13
- Forum: Firearms
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Bedding a Tikka
Do you mean that you just bedded over the lug, so it's now permanently a part of the stock?- Dougfirtree
- Post #3
- Forum: Firearms
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Bedding a Tikka
Have any of you ever bedded a Tikka T3x? Any specific advice since the recoil lug isn't part of the action? Full disclosure, I've never bedded a rifle period. But, I'm thinking about it with my new stock. I'm pretty sure that accuracy has suffered since I got this stock, but I'd really like...- Dougfirtree
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- Forum: Firearms
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Ladder Test for finding powder charge
This thread, and some gentle challenging from my brother, has been making me take a dive into the subject of sample size and reloading. Way behind the curve, I know... I've been aware, but resistant to the idea that findings that seemed meaningful to me, probably weren't and resistant to a...- Dougfirtree
- Post #82
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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Extreme Downsizing of Dept. of Interior. Hits just keep on coming.
It feels like we're seeing what parts we can cut from the plane, while we're flying it... And to continue the metaphor... the airline fully understands the risk, but the inevitable crash will be really profitable.- Dougfirtree
- Post #33
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Forest Service Reorg - Progress or Politics
Decision making being more concentrated at the top, by political appointees should be really fun for the people working on the state/district level, as different administrations come and go... I agree strongly that hard questions to your reps in congress are in order, as are hard questions from...- Dougfirtree
- Post #83
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Forest Service Reorg - Progress or Politics
Ha ha, that's a dangerous question to ask someone in power, who has an idea...- Dougfirtree
- Post #76
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Forest Service Reorg - Progress or Politics
And it's the only way we're going to protect what we have. There's nothing ambiguous, or hypothetical about the threats to public lands at this point. There is a battle being fought and people (especially people who live in "red" states and tend to vote Republican), speaking up loudly is the...- Dougfirtree
- Post #70
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Forest Service Reorg - Progress or Politics
Do we know anything about how state directors will be appointed? Seems like this could be one of the key mechanisms to do a lot of damage..- Dougfirtree
- Post #45
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Forest Service Reorg - Progress or Politics
I can't think of any way to spin this as a positive (unless it's more outdoors-oriented people being pushed away from the President's cause). I think with this administration, the cruelty, the chaos and the destruction are the point. We're in deep doo doo. I hope that those of you employed by...- Dougfirtree
- Post #40
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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One guys rant
No argument that these are factors!- Dougfirtree
- Post #42
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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One guys rant
I hear you. Not to totally derail the thread, but having sent my oldest to college this year, it's handy if 529's for their education can be owned by someone else, like grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc. Even if you contribute to them to contribute to the fund, there were questions in the...- Dougfirtree
- Post #20
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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One guys rant
I call bullchit on this. That dynamic is real, but FAR from a complete explanation, IMO. Just track wages vs. the cost of real estate, education, etc. Living as frugally and simply as our parents, or grandparents would not be enough to attain their purchasing power. My dad went to an ivy...- Dougfirtree
- Post #18
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Suggestions for Lead Free Hunting Ammo
I shot a couple deer with the 140 E-Tips. They definitely opened (and the one I shot into water jugs opened beautifully), but they did seem to be a bit on the 'poke a small hole through' end of the spectrum. I think they work fine, but maybe a bit less forgiving than some bullets in terms of...- Dougfirtree
- Post #43
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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What's your rule of thumb for changing COAL?
Yeah, this I understand. I’ve been reloading for years (though I genuinely appreciate the concern). I think I didn’t describe my question very well. See my responses to Brockel above.- Dougfirtree
- Post #10
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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What's your rule of thumb for changing COAL?
Or to say it more concisely, work up to pressure signs from where? And how did you determine that starting charge?- Dougfirtree
- Post #9
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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What's your rule of thumb for changing COAL?
Yeah, this is what I’d like to learn more about and get more comfortable with. And it’s more or less what I do, but it still helps to have confidence in where the window of safe powder charges is for the COAL you are using. Which is going to be different from the range in the published data...- Dougfirtree
- Post #8
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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What's your rule of thumb for changing COAL?
Understood. But my question is, 'how do you determine what max is if you're changing the COAL from the data (since COAL affects pressure)?'- Dougfirtree
- Post #3
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
