Some clearing, which- according to their description- does not violate standards,

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I do not want to hear one more God-damned word from the left about 'insurrection' and such when they threaten

a combination of black mail and treason.

Annealing cases, small stuff(Ok, one more thing because I forgot to publish it a couple of days ago)

By the way: this is one of those projects I realized would make a good post, and then thought "Would've been better if I'd thought of this before I got everything cleaned up."

Also, the Disclaimer:
I'm doing this after having read on the subject and tried some things over time.  It may not work the same for you, depending on individual factors.  Also, it involves fire.  So if you burn yourself or heat something you shouldn't have, or in a bad location, that's on you.

I've written something on the subject before, but I can't find the posts right now.  Those cases it was mostly annealing .45-70, but this is smaller stuff: .32 Smith & Wesson Long.  It's an old cartridge, at one time it was commonly used as a self-defense round, at one time a lot of police departments, including New York City, had it as their issue sidearm.  Now it's primarily a target and small-game cartridge.  More on that later.

Annealing is heating a metal up to a suitable temperature to relieve stress in the metal, in the case of cartridge cases mostly in the neck/shoulder area where repeated resizing and firing has caused the metal to work harden.  One of the things that can cause is, in the case of lower pressure loads, the case cannot expand as well as should, which means the case isn't sealing the chamber as well as should, which can leave fouling streaks on the outside of the case.  Which was the problem here.

With brass it's usually heating the affected area up to about 650-700 degrees F, which softens the area heated without any softening of the base area; that has to be harder to help hold against high-pressure stresses.  In most, if you overheat the base area you might as well crush it and put it in the scrap bucket.  The usual method of preventing that is to put the base either in a holder that acts as a heat sink, or applying the heat in a short enough time that the base area doesn't heat up that much; often dumping it in water when done to make sure.

Here I picked up a cheap cake pan, stacked a bunch of resized and mouth-expanded cases in lines(so I could keep track of where I was), added enough water to cover the lower 1/4 of the case, and got out the propane torch.  Based on earlier work with larger cases, a little watching showed that with the torch set with the inner blue flame at X length, holding that part of the flame about 1/2" above the mouth of the case, took about 4-5 seconds to get the color I wanted.  Ran through about a hundred, then dried them thoroughly and loaded some using a load from the newer Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook, using a 100-grain semi-wadcutter bullet.

The result was wonderful.  The cases showed no sign of gas leakage around/below the case mouth, and no sign of the cases being overheated or damaged.  

Depending on what you're shooting, it may not be worth it to you to reload cases after they get a bit too hard.  Or, for some cartridges, it may well be so.

Among other things, we have Musk and some others taking that 1500 pages of bloat

the Democrats and some Republicans called the 'necessary Continuing Resolution, and used a AI search engine to find all the bullshit they larded in, which let them start telling people about all of it.  Including

Link

This is one of the upsides of Elon Muck buying Twitter and getting rid of most of the "I don't like what this post says, let's kill it and if he does it again kill the account" leftists; it made it easy to get around the Major Media censorship work and let people know exactly what's going on.

And it's giving the left conniptions.

This one is general "What the hell are these people doing?", I got them out of order

More on the CR crap

Link

One of the disgusting things done in this was to put money for disaster relief, for the people FEMA has been either ignoring or screwing over, in this and then insisting "You have to pass all of it or there won't be any relief money!"

Link

Now, this one is special in a good way.  Apparently the Poles, having dealt with Russia feeling froggy many times over the centuries, decided "We need to pour Roundup on this sprouting problem right now."
I can hear it now: "What was that clack-clack noise I think I actually felt as well as heard?"
"That was every rifle in Poland being function tested at once."

Link to the whole thing here.


Germany is getting even more of that Cultural Enrichment their 'Elites' insist on.  Which is likely going to include follow-ons like politicians learning about the fine old 'get their attention' method of tar and feathers.


Speaking of politicians and bureaucrats who need a real attention-getting...


Once again a foreign news source brings the information most of our media won't touch unless forced to.
Only people surprised: leftists and Biden lovers who've had outbursts of "Deep fakes!" and such.

And last for tonight: If you haven't seen Area Ocho, you ought to take a look.

An awful lot of people seem to think the murder of an insurance company executive is just fine,

because "He is behind Bad Things!" and "It sends a message to the others!"

Ok, let's play that game.  How many government agencies can you think of who've ruined people, harassed people, even taken people's lives for really bad reasons('to send a message', 'No, we didn't need to do a raid, but we did it anyway!', 'Hey, we're the (fill in alphabet designation) and we can do this!", "Our work is important and we need to be able to do this!")?  

So, will all those leftists and young dumbasses be ok if people get fed up and start doing bad things to one of the agents/agencies involved?  Or will it be "But it's different when they/we do it, and we like what they did!" again?

If "They did harm to my family/friend/land" becomes the standard for "It's good someone did this", that's a bad path to start down.

A quick note on Fecesbook

You try to log in.

'Check your notifications on another device'.

In the past there's been a 'try another way' option, now that doesn't even come up.

Find another device and check.

NEVER ANY NOTIFICATION.
Now, rarely, 'the 'try another way' bar shows, except it doesn't work.

I truly don't know if it's Fecesbook("This site is shit", L. Correia) being effed-up, I wound up on one of their lists for saying unapproved things, or both.

I miss being able to see stuff from certain people, but otherwise?  Screw the censorious bastards.

This is my shocked face.  Now let's see if the Georgia Bar does anything about him.


Obviously, I can’t prove that West Point was deliberately trying to make Pete look bad, or that ProPublica would have moved forward with their "bombshell" story had Pete not proved them wrong before publishing. I can only assure you that LOTS of bureaucrats currently employed by the US Military do NOT want to work for Pete Hegseth. And it seems equally clear that ProPublica isn't all that interested in writing stories about bureaucrats who actively and repeatedly misinform them. And that's a pity.

That man can move.


Some of the BS Hegseth needs to clean out.

Well, you and your British Labour comrades have basically told the islamists that they're protected from consequences and can get away with all kinds of crap, so what did you expect?


Connected, thanks to the commies and general leftist idiots here,
Could campus protests against Israel turn violent?
Well, duh.  So many of our institutions of 'higher education' have coddled and encouraged these Jew-haters to the point they're pretty sure they'll have at least some protection, so yes, they almost certainly will.

I'm reminded of a guy who bitched about a cop shooting his friend because 'It was only a little knife!'

According to Leroy Schumacher, even though his grandson was in the middle of a burglary when he was killed, his death was unjustified, Tulsa’s ABC 8 reported. The grieving grandfather acknowledged that breaking into a house was “stupid,” but he said that the AR-15 gave the homeowner’s son an “unfair” advantage over the three burglars and that death wasn’t the appropriate consequence for the teens.
Well, the basic emotion is 'Too damned bad.'  

But wait, there's MORE!
It all began with 21-year-old Elizabeth Rodriguez, who authorities believe was the ring leader. Rodriguez, a mother-of-three in need of rent money, drove 19-year-old Maxwell Cook, 16-year-old Jake Woodruff, and 17-year-old Jacob Redfearn — who she says all lived with her — to the Wagoner County home. They first stole liquor, speakers, and a machete from the garage, but then, Rodriguez said they “got greedy.”

After deciding to break into the main house, the young men, wearing all black, donning masks, and armed with brass knuckles and a knife, went inside while Rodriguez waited with a teenage girl in the getaway car. Zachary Peters, the homeowner’s 23-year-old son, was taking a nap when he heard a door slam and glass shatter at approximately 12:30 in the afternoon, according to News On 6. Peters grabbed his father’s rifle before coming face to face with the three suspects, who all froze when they saw him.

So, they armed themselves before breaking into the house, too.  Which does not speak of good intentions.  Guy, it's too bad your grandkid is dead, but it's worse that he made the decisions that put him in that place and time, and I cannot fault the homeowner's son for shooting.  Because, among other things, three armed criminals against one isn't exactly 'fair'.

Michael Byrd, the Capitol cop, is a serious piece of crap

It seems some of those missing files about disciplinary action have turned up, and yeah, he's worse than we already knew.
A source with detailed knowledge of the Internal Affairs Division case told Blaze News that Byrd was charged with abandoning his post, eating and drinking at his post, and lying to investigators — a terminable offense. It is one of three Byrd disciplinary cases for which records could not be found when a House oversight subcommittee requested them in early 2024, the source said.
...
“It’s funny to me that everyone knows Mike’s a liar and the case that sustains it that had all the evidence that shows he is a liar is something that Tad [DiBiase] and the department can’t find when there’s all these different records. If they just did a search on the emails, all this stuff, it would be in existence.”
Can you say 'The fix is in'?

And a ways further down,
DiBiase wrote that the USCP could help Byrd obtain mental health assistance, “but not move forward on a FFDE [fitness for duty evaluation] since a negative one could mean we should not allow him to carry our USCP-issued firearm if he is not fit to be a police officer.

Read it all, including all the money involved, and some of the politicians giving some.

Wray needs to be put under oath with the sure knowledge that this time,

he lies, he WILL be prosecuted for it.  And note the IG brings this out AFTER the election.  For some reason.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation of the Capitol Hill Riot found no undercover FBI agents attended. Still, over two dozen confidential human sources (DHS) were at the event.

However, the FBI only assigned three of the sources to attend on January 6:
Which tells us the IG is full of shit.

More.

And more.