11/19/2023 – Seems like it takes longer, each year, to change over from landscaping to snow removal. Since both coop space in the garage, the lawn shed is the buffer for rotation. Now I just resign myself to pulling everything out that needs to be and replacing it with not…...
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Every Clunker Gun Is An Opportunity
10/29/2023 – How would you define fun, Joe? That is tough, because fun comes in so many forms, and what is fun to one person may not be for another. Take losing the tractor assigned garage door remote as an example of fun. I moved the little buttoned bugger from…...
Woodstockers Vs Barrel Nutters
10/15/2023 – Ah yes… the gift of Fall. An opportunity to drag 20 pieces of fossil fuel burning equipment out onto the driveway to perform preventative maintenance and season prep. Some equipment will serve over the winter, others will endure the winter in an unheated storage shed. One of the…...
Case Head Expansion Pressure Checking
10/08/2013 – There are many techniques for detecting excessive pressure within a population of handloads. Some are ineffective, none are singularly adequate, all require a good deal of subjective interpretation. Still, everyday, handloaders find safe passage, as evidenced by the number of us that still have a full compliment of…...
Ruger's 41 Magnum Blackhawk Part II
08/20/2023 – I took this picture with my phone, a Samsung Galaxy something or other. It’s big, about the size of a brick, with a screen to match, and it takes truly crappy photos. Anyway, my latest home project is digging a hole… excavating as it were. While hole digging…...
Ruger's Blackhawk In 256 Winchester Magnum Part II
The bold, the brave the few… Handloaders For me, this is an exercise an independent study that may, or may not, lead to a practical conclusion. It doesn’t matter, as I like the handloading process and that is often its own reward. Handloading can be an exercise in production; a…...
DIY Reloading Press Tray 2.0
03/12/2023 – When the original reloading press tray 1.0 was constructed, above, there was no intention to rest on our laurels. More so, we were surprised, after extensive research, that laurels was not a metaphor for “butt”. The process goes something like this. Get an idea, turn it into something…...
M&P 15 Volunteer XV Pro M-Lok & The 6mm ARC Parte Terza - Conclusione
03/07/2023 – In Maine, it is never good to say that winter is coming to an end and sunshine will soon follow… for a couple of reasons. The first, it will jinx this happy ending and it will snow until June. Second, men should never phrase the weather with such…...
M&P 15 Volunteer XV Pro M-Lok & The 6mm ARC Seconda Parte
03/05/2023 – “Yesterday”, and the rest of the 1965 Paul McCartney lyrics that follow, express the day. This scene was a black top driveway, patches of green lawn and woodland. The town was out posting roads in anticipation of spring thaw. The daytime temperature was 40°F. But that was then…...
M&P 15 Volunteer XV Pro M-Lok & The 6mm ARC Prima Parte
I want to build a 33 Willys pro street car but, for the life of me, I am not sure for what purpose? Pick up groceries or mail? Drive to New Hampshire to the nearest NHRA track and bracket race? If it breaks, how would I get back? Do I…...