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Just a point of clarification, in case anyone is confused by my initial post. When we say "suicide survivor" or "survivors of suicide," we are referring to the families, friends, etc. of someone who has taken their own life. We use the term "suicide attempt survivor" to refer to someone who...

I'm so very sorry for your losses, Dan. If there's anything I can do, please let me know.

I think they use 22 as the number of veterans + current service members who are lost every day. Just heartbreaking.

JD, is your daughter and family in a support group for suicide survivors? If not, I might be able to help find one in her area.

Hey, folks. I know we are all anxious and ready to get the fall season started, with all of the good things that come with it. But please allow me a few minutes of your time for something very serious first. If you don't already know, September is National Suicide Prevention Month. Certainly...

Officially, the answer is "no." The official answer is "supply chain difficulties." Ya gotta wonder...

Without going to the trouble of cutting brass, I decided to use my borescope to take a peek inside the 30-06 cases that had been loaded with 4166. I believe that these were loaded back around 2016 or 2017. For a reference data point, I pulled another case that had been loaded probably longer...

It's worse than that. The rusted lids were on other cans of powder, not the 4166 (it has plastic lids). Those escaping fumes were attacking nearby cans. Crazy. But, hey...it meets the NATO standard. They'd better hope that NATO burned up all the ammo that was loaded with that crap before it...

I'm sure those will do the job. I took this buck with the little 85gr GKHP from my .243.

Exactly.

I'm certain that they are aware of the root cause, but they are using that weak excuse as their escape hatch. A recall would have been the correct response, but then they have to admit there's a problem, and that opens them up to other exposure. So they pretend it's not a problem at all.

Yep. That's exactly what I meant in my response to Hodgdon. Maximum 10yr shelf life is not reasonable for the average reloader.

Probably explains this case failure I had a few months back. I had chalked it up to bad brass, but now I believe that the 4166 had corroded it and/or caused overpressure.

Well, no love from Hodgdon. I called them this morning, and they refused to own their bad product. The guy fed me a line about it being tested to "the 10-year NATO standard" for shelf life, blah, blah, blah. No replacement offered. So I waited until this afternoon and submitted an email thru...

I think I have a box or two of loaded ammo with the 4166. I'm planning to pull the bullets and dump the powder.