Seventh night

Visuals to study. 

Go.

One of the nights you wait for

has arrived

Well, the police are just citizens like everyone else, so make that law

apply to them as well.  The way it always should have.

The ones who cheered these idiot laws and got to go around them aren't going to like it.  Ain't it just tough?

And the cat says,

 "I'm staying with him."

And a few gifs

Some clearing is needed, so:

Kentucky Ballistics actually tested the .50BMG ratshot cartridges

Widener's has a post on the "Can you shoot 7.62x51

in a .308?" discussion/argument.

One more group of idiots I'm going to bitch about

In the broadest lens, the biggest problem with wanting to “cure” blindness is that it reinforces a moral superiority of sorts by those without disabilities over those who are disabled. Although not confronted nearly as often as racism and sexism, systemic ableism is pervasive through all parts of society.

The fact of the matter is that the majority of abled people view disability as a failure of the human condition; as such, people with disabilities should be mourned and pitied. More pointedly, as MrBeast stated in his video’s thumbnail, disabilities should be eradicated — cured.
...
If someone “cured” deafness, what would happen to the people? Deaf culture is real. The culture would fade away because there’d be no reason for sign language to exist and the experiences derived from it. …

Disabilities need no cure. What truly needs curing is society’s proclivity to view the disability community as little more than real-life characters from a Tod Browning film. Disabled people are not freaks. Disability isn’t a bad word. You can learn a lot from us.
We already know two things: blindness and deafness really are disabilities, and you're a fucking idiot who thinks that helping heal those problems is bad.

A few years back there was an article about a lesbian couple, both deaf, who wanted a child.  But they specifically wanted a deaf child, 'so it would grow up in and be fully a part of deaf culture.'  Found a deaf sperm donor to try with.  No, I don't know if it worked.  I hope it didn't, because it's a couple of idiots wanting to create a disabled child, and if they got a kid who wasn't deaf, what kind of like was it going to have with these two for parents?  "We love you, but we really wanted you to be deaf like us."

More of the people who, someday, need to be made to pay for what they've done

After being swarmed by health providers who enabled her to medically transition as a minor, Prisha Mosley now says she’s been abandoned by the medical community as she attempts to navigate a complicated and painful detransition.

“I was under the impression that my doctors, who were transitioning me, loved me. They said they didn’t want me to die, they were saving my life, they were worried about me, and they wanted me to be healthy and happy,” Prisha told me. “Clearly, they don’t love me. As soon as it’s not profitable, they don’t want to help.”

A quick bit about cases and black powder loads

in particular, since it seems they're so damned picky:
Lots of brands have differences, one being the thickness of the case walls.  In the case of .45-70, I've read that Winchester has the thinnest walls, and Remington the thickest.  I'm not going to say one is the best, because I've seen too many reports on people shooting very good scores with particular brands; it depends on the rifle and powder/bullet/primer/wad combination.  Just like some .22 rifles*(for instance) can be remarkably picky, so can black powder rifles.* *

Which makes finding the magic combination for one particular rifle a first-class PITA.

*Example, I used to have a BSA Martini .22 match rifle that was a pleasure to shoot, and after trying various brands(including two very good match brands) I found it shot the best with either Eley Sport or Federal Champion.  Yes, some of their least-expensive general shooting load.  That rifle would, with light winds and me doing my part right, shoot 1" groups at 100 yards.

**yes, some will shoot damn near anything well.

Got to the range, (first update) Second update, and another bit of 'what I did'

and was able to set up the chrony for those subsonics.  Update with details later.

Part of the update:
I had two sets of five loads, both using the 200-grain Berry's plated bullets.  Five used Federal cases, five Lake City that had been converted to .300 Blackout, both with the same load-

DISCLAIMER

I started with the load in the new Lyman manual, and worked down .1 grain increments.  Note that the manual says "DO NOT REDUCE LOADS", as, if you get it too low, you could wind up with a bullet stuck in the barrel, which can rate from 'a pain' to a big 'Oh SHIT!'  And yes, I was very damn careful trying these loads.  If you use this, the results are on you.

- which I'll tell you if you ask in the comments, at 50 yards.  Time came to try them, I discovered I hadn't brought the rest bags I use with AR type rifles, so didn't have the best of rests.  Both were about equally accurate, but the velocities were interesting: 

Federal cases        LC cases
    1000                    914

    1081                    928

      985                    943

      973                    933

For some reason the LC cases gave much more consistent velocities.  As to accuracy, 

the two at the bottom are with the Strike Eagle center dot centered, and the Federal cases.  So I used the first stadia line as the aiming point for the next three, which are the three up/left.  Then used the same aiming point with the LC cases.  Considering the rest, and that this was at the end when the cool and wind was getting to me I won't say "THIS one is the best!" until I can try both again.

Thus ends the first update.


2nd Update:

Also tried some .45-70 loads, and this one looks real promising

Promising because the first two were on top; the third I knew I'd pulled as soon as the trigger broke, that's off to the left.  Fourth was right in with the first two, and the fifth, I'm pretty sure was my fault as well.  So this one I'll try again.   Difference between previous results with this load?  This was with Winchester cases instead of Starline.  We'll see if this works with the next set.

Yes, there were some others; none worth getting excited about.

'What I did'
with that warning about reducing loads in my mind, when I started working with reducing it I made sure I had the 36" brass rod along.  I'd fire one, make damn sure that
the bullet hit the paper, and
the hole was round.  

And kept looking at both with each shot.  The rod was in case one didn't make it out of the barrel.