I've been helping out a little with the estate. My neighbor Dave, told me the large collection of Avon ruby red dinnerware was worth a lot of money. We looked up asking prices on Etsy, ebay, etc. There may be a few 1000 there. Keep in mind that the time required to sell this stuff pales in comparison to either of our incomes. Jay asked if Dave would like it. The answer was "I can't afford it." Jay told me to give it to Dave, which I did tonight.
Not 30 minutes later Dave comes to my door with two of the three packages he'd opened. Hidden inside those two was an assortment of jewelry. One doesn't hide costume jewelry like that.
Jay knows I trust Dave completely, but he was still blown away! He also knows Dave is a poor boy, hence the gift rather than sale.
The treasure hunt will continue tomorrow and I'll help, not to supervise, just to help. Also, another young neighbor lady I hired to help turned over several findings of coins from the 1840 to early 1900s (no supervision, she could've pocketed them).
I'm truly blessed with several friends of such good character!
[FPC News] FPC Statement on Committee Passage of Newsom’s Anti-2A Amendment Push
<p><strong>SACRAMENTO, CA</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (August 29, 2023) — </span><a href="https://www.firearmspolicy.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Firearms Policy Coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> issued the following statement regarding California Governor Gavin Newsom’s </span><a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/08/28th-amendment/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“28th Amendment” convention proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SJR-7</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, to deny the fundamental rights of all peaceable Americans passing its first committee hearing:</span></p>
They have been trickling in here in PHX. Sportsman's Warehouse has had them most of the time for the past three months. Lots of SR and SP types with some LP stuff. I have not seen any LR's. I've been sticking up on Fiochhis for my SP and have enough to last me for many mons of shooting. I had the others pretty well cover and SR low pressure stuff can be shot with SP. My stock of 7 1/2's and 450's is pretty decent.
Bullets are scarce outside of Hornady though my local benchrest shop does have the Berger's and the Internet is supplying any thing else. I got some SPEERR 20 calibers a few weeks ago and have a new project on the burner that will hopefully use those and if not Berger's will do.
[GOA News] Tell the Federal Government that You Don’t Support Efforts to Ban Lead
Update: The Comment Period has closed, but we want to thank the 17,608 GOA supporters who submitted comments. Our supporters submitted 95% of all comments opposing this effort to attack our hunting heritage and Second Amendment Rights. If They Can Ban Ammunition, They Won’t Need to Ban Guns Those who despise the Second Amendment never seem to stop. So far, …<br/> <a class="postReadMore" href="https://www.gunowners.org/na08102023/">Read more<i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a>
My son got some 45 SWC bullets he’d like to have loaded. I want to do a nice job for him. Usually, with FMJ’s, I just pick a good load near the middle, bracket out a couple grains, choose the one I like and load them. I don’t load max charges, but I also don’t sort brass for those ball ammo loads.
The load I’ll do for these bullets calls for Federal brass and, sorting through my brass, I have relatively few Federal. The vast majority of what I have are Winchester- probably from “white box” Win loads I had in bulk. I’m pretty sure I can come up with 100 Federal but… could I use the Winchester brass? If they’re all the same brass, the consistency should be there? Would Remington Peters brass be a better choice than Winchester if I can’t find enough Federals?
He wants accuracy, so it’ll probably be a relatively modest, to light, load.
