I have buckets of my own ‘picked up’ brass mixed with range pickups. For my first go-around with 10 mm I want to use new brass, so I bought Starline, since that’s what they had at Scheel’s (the Hornady brass was out of stock).

Do I need to prep brand new Starline brass? Size? Trim? Or just stuff the load?

I have Hornady 155 gr XTP bullets. I’m thinking 10.8 gr of HS-6 (but I also have Power Pistol).

Suggestions? Does new brass need to be ‘prepped’?

Sometimes I get a little soft hearted (and headed). This old guy pleaded with me to give him a good home and I just couldn't turn him away.
It pre-dates model numbers and there's some disagreement so I just spent $100 for a factory letter. One guy offered me $3,000 so I figured I'd better find out what I have.
Not that I want to sell it, it's really a sweet shooter, but I'd like to know.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, 38 special.

My wife took her oath of citizenship in Des Moines. She’s now a dual citizen of Canada and the United States.



…it only took 41 years!

Two of my kids were there (the eldest is in Tucson)

I tried a suppressor on a 6.5 Grendel the other day. I knew it would be dirtier but had no idea how much so. One range trip w/o it for 60 rounds and the next trip with it for 35 rounds before cleaning. I normally don't let them get really dirty so I've nothing to compare it to but I imagine it would take 400 rounds in noisy mode to get this dirty. 
The superlative arms adjustable gas block was recommended to me so I looked it up. Interesting block, it vents to the outside rather than restricting the gas. Unfortunately, I'm limited to the parts I already have because of the ban here. Oh well, it's for the children so I should be happy

Wife had a family emergency up here in Canada so we drove up.

In Toronto, very rude assholes when they find out we are American & the wife was actually verbally attacked for marrying a American and so on so forth 

It’s filthy, druggies, trash, just looks like a inner city garbage dump 

The further west we went, the nicer and polite people were as well as cleaner 

In Saskatchewan now…..people have been nice and friendly

The news is constantly saying how Trump’s tariffs are attacking Canada. How trust with the states has been violated and will take decades to repair if ever 

How tariffs are paid by the American & not Canada & in 5 years this will be proven to be a boom as Canada is buying Canadian and building Canada instead of importing from the states 

It’s like Trump is a Canadian politician as wound up Canada is….the PM ran on a anti Trump platform and he lies to the people so he looks good Doug Ford is constantly attacking the states and Trump turn off the electricity to the states, see how Trump likes that 

Stop selling Canadian oil to the states, they will run out of oil then and on and on 

Gas was $1.85/9 a liter out east & we paid $163/9 liter today 

I was told they pay .50 cents per liter federal tax, then .17 cents a liter provincial tax & then you have local taxes of a few cents 

Canadians we have talked to don’t understand how little Americans care about Canada as it’s nothing down south like it is up here 

Oh and some bridge opening really has Canadians would up as Trump…but I don’t remember what and why 

I’ve never seen such a huge rift between Canada and the states it’s all I see on the news, tons of anti American propaganda and down right lies constantly repeating over and over 

Carney will save Canada & when I show this, I get called a liar 

I ran across this article on another forum and thought most of us here would enjoy it and the accompanying video. It's all about how a dedicated group set about getting all of the government permissions and building the equipment to arm a vintage P-40 with real M-2 guns and fly it on strafing runs.

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds...ntary.html

Several guys on another forum I frequent were bragging about this so I tried it last night. It is surprisingly good!
Whisk an egg with a spoonful of mayo until it gets a little fluffy. Put that and a pat of butter into a ramekin or bowl and microwave on high about 35 seconds. I used 2 eggs and a heaping soup spoon of may and put it in for 75 seconds. I mixed dried chives because that's all I had handy, but maybe some green chilies and cheese next time.

Worked up loads for the Grendel using 100gr Amax, Lapua brass, 8028xbr and rem 7 1/2s. It started out good, 29.3grs gave me a group measuring.325. Low pressure with very sooty necks. Then things went south, nothing under 1". I brought my arbor press, Harrel measure, and wilson seating die. Loaded more at 29.3 and they weren't much good either. Decided to try it with the suppressor and discovered the thread protector was about 1 turn from finger tight. Hmm, no wonder it wouldn't shoot.
Usually it's the nut behind the trigger but it turned out to be the one at the muzzle. Well, I guess the nut behind the trigger should've check it.