Something on black powder cartridges

I think I've done the lecture before that 'There can be no space between the powder column and projectile, or wad and projectile, because Bad Things will happen.'  Something I've done, just to be on the safe side, is that whether the load causes the powder to need to be compressed or not, I seat the wad so that the bullet will compress the powder the last 1/16" when seated; in a non-compressed load, the bullet has to compress that small amount to get to final overall length.  That way I can always feel that last bit of 'oomph' as the bullet seats; you can measure very carefully and all, but I like that tactile notice that 'there is no space'.

Where that's touchy is with a non-compressed load.  Just in case I haven't mentioned the compression thing, 
Black powder burns better with some amount of compression.  A lot of people get all the packing they need for accuracy by using a drop tube, a brass or copper tube about 24" long.  You measure the powder, then pour it slowly(I use a slow five count) into the tube, where the fall lets it pack nicely into the case you're holding at the bottom.  And it does pack.*  Other people use the drop tube, and then use a compression die** to compress it further to what they've found works best for them.  Then the wad(if you use one) and bullet.

With powder that you've already compressed some, you can really feel when the bullet seats that last bit.  With a charge that's just been drop-tubed, there's not nearly that much feedback.  Which is why on the ten I just loaded I- as usual- measured things several times and felt the pressure really carefully to make sure of that last 1/16".

It eases my mind considerably.***

*When I started this mess, while figuring out starting loads, I'd drop the charge down the tube, measure where it came up to, and have to tap the side of the case to get the last 1/3 or so of the powder to come out.

**It's a die with a plug turned to just fit into the cartridge case.  You adjust the depth to get the amount of compression you need/want.  It was a bit of a queasy feeling the first times I heard that powder crunch a bit.

***I've known a couple of people who stopped working with black loads, they're just a bit too picky about things for them.

Among the reasons college is becoming more and more of a joke

is the attacks on free speech and thinking in the name of Woke.  Which includes "It doesn't matter what he did, he's black and leftist and that's what counts!"
In another incident, Porter emailed faculty to object when he found out a search for a new faculty member had identified Terrell Strayhorn, an African-American “social justice scholar,” as a finalist. In his previous position at Ohio State University, Strayhorn had been accused of using OSU employees to run his side business giving speeches across America, and had been charged with having inappropriate relationships with students.

“He was terminated from his center director position at OSU, forced to resign his tenured professor position, and paid OSU $29,000 as part of an agreement to leave the university,” Porter’s lawsuit notes.

However, Porter’s objection to Strayhorn being considered for a job at NC State angered some in his department, with one colleague writing to the department chair saying, “NOT COOL!!!! I am so mad about all of this I could scream!! I can’t stay silent about this. It’s maddening!”

From then on, Porter says there was a concerted effort by department head Penny Pasque to have him removed from positions of authority within the department.
This clown was screwing students and using them as unpaid employees(probably along the lines of "You are helping anti-racism!  Now get those messages sent!  And you, you need some counseling time."), and these assholes don't see that as a problem.  Hell, it's probably a plus to them because 'He was abused by the Man!"

Wonder how much Ohio State charges students so they can hire abusers as faculty?

That slimy bastard McCain turns up again

The efforts to disseminate a now-discredited theory that the Trump campaign had secret computer communications with the Kremlin extended beyond the FBI, CIA, and State Department to the U.S. Senate.

Under the late Sen. John McCain, the Armed Services Committee engaged a former FBI official and his progressive-funded nonprofit to produce a report on the matter, according to court records obtained by Just the News.

The Senate committee, now under Democrats' control, successfully waged a secret federal court battle this summer to quash a subpoena that would have forced one of its staffers, Thomas Kirk McConnell, to turn over documents and testify about his dealings with former FBI analyst Dan Jones and his nonprofit, The Democracy Integrity Project, the records show.

A spokesman for George Soros confirms the progressive megadonor was one of the financial backers of The Democracy Integrity Project. Tax records show the group raised more than $7 million in donations in 2017 and hired Fusion GPS — the same firm that produced the debunked Steele dossier for Hillary Clinton's campaign — to pursue allegations of foreign interference in elections.
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The legal skirmish with the Senate also provides new context to allegations filed last week by Special Counsel John Durham, who indicted a former DOJ lawyer named Michael Sussmann for lying to the FBI during his efforts to peddle the same debunked story about the Trump campaign, a computer server at the Alfa Bank in Moscow and the Kremlin. Sussmann was being paid by Hillary Clinton's campaign when he pitched the allegations to the bureau, court records show. He has pleaded not guilty.

And I'll throw in a bit of clearing of stuff

A couple may be repeats from the past.  I don't care, I like them.

And now, to take our minds off some of the people who deserve to be tree and lamppost decorations,

this nights data.

My thought is "Maybe we can hang Fauci next to Milley for this

and I haven't yet read all of it.
Speaking at the 2017 Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference on a panel alongside Anthony Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak admitted his controversial “work on coronaviruses in China” was carried out with “funding through” Fauci’s National Institutes of Health agency.

The unearthed conference follows Fauci’s repeated attempts to distance his agency from the controversial New York-based non-profit, which, as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant registry shows, used the money to collaborate with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The National Pulse has previously uncovered footage of Daszak describing the viruses he manipulated as part of his “longtime” collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party-run lab as “killers.”

Yes, Daszak needs to be swinging up there, too.  Because anyone helping the PRC do what amounts to biological warfare research is a traitor.

So not only are kids at very low risk of Wuhan, Link fixed

locking them up in the house for long periods screws them over.  Who could have imagined?
Members of the Senedd (MSs) were told children were much less likely to get seriously ill with coronavirus or to develop long Covid.

But Fliss Bennee, co-chair of the government's technical advisory cell, said children had suffered "unproportionally" in the pandemic by losing out on education and play.

She added: "We are also aware that there is a harm that builds up from not being able to have social interaction that leads to the development of barrier immunity from exposure to other infection diseases."

That's on top of all the people screwed by "You can't get the care you need right now, you must stay locked up at home!"

Experts.  What would we do without them?

After that last, I need something to take my mind off of the clowns and shitheads trashing our country