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PA is using a liquid salt brine , to pretreat the roads before a snow hits . then they use the typical salt / antiskid during the storms . the brine is mean stuff , it creeps . it gets inside of everything .it seems nothing is sealed good enough to keep it out .

Mark , great , that's what I hoped for ,you're checking after each step. if this is a bushing die ; when you shake the die can you hear the bushing move ? the bushing should be free to move . try flipping the bushing over , to see if that helps . how much are you down sizing the...

I'm not sure about you other guys , I live in a bad rust area . heavy use of road salt just kills the local vehicles . trying to keep an older vehicle going mechanically is not too hard . trying to keep ahead of the rust is tough .

I'm not sure what the set up is on these Henry's . watch the picatinny mounting screw length . I've ran into screws that were a touch too long and bottomed out before clamping tight against the base . the easy way to check this is to put one screw in at a time , snug up that screw and...

I've never tried to use an oversized expander button . my thoughts was , it might crush the case being the sharp taper on the button . I put a nice inside chamfer on the case mouth , lube it up , and go slow , with a mandrel . is this how you use an expander button ?

are you measuring the .002" runout before or after using the mandrel , to expand the neck ?

Transmission problems seem to be the norm in todays vehicles . this seemed to start with the "CVT" transmissions , and has carried over into the more traditional transmissions . the more gears , or speeds , it has , the more shifting it does . I blame a lot of todays problems on the...

I've spent a bunch of money trying to find something I like better , but my 7 Rem Mag is the first rifle I pack to go away hunting . it just keeps gettin it done . I was starting to work with RL26 when the powder shortage hit . since then a few more powders showed up , that have my...

I have no idea why the virgin brass doesn't fire consistently for you . is this brass factory primed ? if it is maybe bad primers . try to use your calipers and measure the belt width , and also the measure the case head to the top of the belt. this one will be tricky . maybe the belt isn't...

on a belted case , the shoulder length means nothing for correct firing . the belt holds the brass case back against the bolt face . the belt sets the headspace on the initial firing . after the brass is fully formed , the brass can be resized to headspace off the shoulder . most new brass...

I thought I had a few pics of the Red Wolf in N. Carolina . sorry they are not great , the best my phone could do

I've hunted deer in N. Carolina probably 20 - 25 times . I've only hunted the east side though . the farthest west I've hunted would probably be 30 miles west of I-95 . probably Scottland Neck would be a town that would be as far east of I-95 as I've hunted . hunted a fair amount around...

my Newfoundland hunts were the same price regardless of the sex . I had an either sex tag this past hunt . the older hunt must have been either sex also , I shot a cow .

sounds like you're in the 7 step program to recovery . 🤣

would a " trigger Shoe " solve your problem ? many different ones on the market , this is the first one to come up . https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.01L8DeqD9eONR-KxacDE0QHaFj?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3