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I had a great uncle who served in the usn during WW1 I'm the submarine force. Yikes machines were cruel back then
 Another great uncle served in the Canadian Army got to France in the second group late fourteen he basically was in every major battle the Canadian Corp fought in up until and including passchendale or the third battle of Ypres.  He was wounded there and that ended is army career he and my grandfather drew straws to see who would go over seas and who would stay and run the farm. Uncle Tom got back to Canada after the war ended he was in the hospital in England for most of a year. When WW2 came about he tried to go back but they wouldn't let him because of his medical status so he joined the veterans guard and worked in the prison camp in Lethbridge. Lol there were twice as many prisoners as there were residents of the city.  He farmed on his days off. He ended up buying grain for one of the grain company s in town and was laid to rest in the cemetery in the veterans section in 1953. I get a huge amount of pleasure putting flowers on his grave as there are so few that get any attention anymore because of the passage of time. I drop a Canadian flag over his grave on Remembrance Day. Regards Tom.

I know this is a really old thread but Nick Adams has some cool old Moto Guzzi videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/nick949eldo


Most of his rides are in Canada.

Thank you!

Lol I bought a horrendously priced walk in tub. Basically a bathing hot tub jets, air bubbler, heater, and some kind of colored lights. Thinking I would be great fun to take the rubber duck collection for a swim and feel closer to the outdoors! Lol anyhow after many trails and tribulations the farm door seal leaks. Hopefully that can be fixed as we had to have a wall taken down to get the tub into the bathroom and the wall is setup again mudded and taped painted. So the jury is still out if this American standard is worth buying! Lol the rubber ducks will stay in dry dock for another fees days.or weeks!

Nice. I find the short days depressing. Glad you have a bunch of sunlight again! ☀️

Your days are still.pretty short no?

I always liked it 4895. Have you tried any of that?

Interesting you fellows think they can pass emotion on genetically!

I would have to agree about house cats. They have come in handi around the farm. Anytime the out building s started smelling like mice it was time for a few more cats. On to the real cats. I bought a few cougar hunting license s over the years and have never seen one in the wild untimely the fall early winter of this year. I was driving on the number three highway near Kelowna when what appeared to be a really large cat crossed the road in front of me. The only thing that made me wonder if I had really had seen one was the color. It crossed the road in front of me less that two hundred feet away moving relatively fast but was a brown black color. It sure moved over the guard rail like a cat though. When I got home I sparked up my Japanese brain and looked up cougars on the web. Sure enough they do come in that color although really rare. Funny how I have only seen one then as rare as that is in an even rarer color. I would consider myself lucky having seen one wild cat in its natural habitat in my life. Sounds like you have seen more than one! Is it as rare as I am thinking or have I not been looking in the right places?

I read an article online that I personally don't think is right but I wonder what others opinions of this is?

I read that crows had such wonderful memories they could pass that fear on to the offspring genetically!

I maybe wrong but that seems more like a pile of road apples to me.

Welllll...

There are a couple of reasons I am unlikely to 'fiddle' any more.
1) The factory ammo has TRULY "one-hole" precision. There really isn't any improvement on that.
2) My imitations of the factory load is within the variance of the factory ammo's precision.
3) Once I achieve a certain level of precision, (necessary for the hunting I do with the firearm), I don't spend more time or resources on getting better precision.
Finally, and most importantly:
4) The 35-grain, .22 caliber V-Max is a relatively short bullet. At the current seating depth of ~0.216", it's already less than a caliber into the neck. While I am willing to go to as little as 67% of a caliber if necessary, coming out 0.055" shortens the seating depth to ~0.161", only 72% of a caliber, very close to that minimum of 67%. My personal experience suggests that shortening seating depth below 1 caliber has a tendency to reduce precision, not improve it. Certainly there are exceptions to that, but when the cartridge is already well within my personal precision standards, it is my opinion that the 'odds are against' realizing any realistic improvements by making the seating depth as little as 70% of a caliber.

I have considerable faith in the following personal experience: There are 'sweet-spots' in distance-off-the-lands, that are, within reason, independent of cartridge. Those sweet-spots are:
1) "just off" the lands. There's a substantial risk to loading HUNTING handloads "just off" the lands. That risk overwhelms whatever advantage in precision might be gained.
2) AROUND 0.050" +/- 0.01" off the lands,
3) AROUND 0.080" +/- 0.01" off the lands,
4) AROUND 0.120" +/- 0.01" off the lands.

As you can see, at ~0.115" off the lands, the factory ammo (and my copies) are near that "long" sweetspot. I could move out to the 0.08" point, by I have to ask, "why"? One-hole groups are REELY tough to improve on.

Paul

Well on point number three I can most times agree with this one.hunfref percent. When you have developed a load that shoots well and is consistent I have little energy left to bother trying to make it better. Back a number of years I loaded 17 Remington ammo tryed a few loads I made one that was fast and five shot groups had an extreme spread of just under 5/8 on a inch spread. I am trying to say to the outside of the bullet holes. Anyhow I never deviated from the load and shot it for years and many thousands of times. I basically hit what ever I shot at unless I was a really bad day and the next day I could shoot again. So I agree when you find a load that works just keep using it. Basically it's a different game if a guy is bench rest shooting. Hunting in my opinion it is a great way. Once in a while due to unavailable components a person has to try a few different options lol just don't let your inventory get to low. Regards

You have that one moving out real good.

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I never had anything that exotic but I always found the light weight Sierra s to work well in my k hornet

How do you do picture sharing now? The old Photo bucket is not free anymore. So if I pay for it can everyone still view it or does everyone else use something different?