Recent content by Turpentine

No sir, not worried about it in the slightest. In the shape I'm in I'm much more concerned with outliving my usefulness.

I shoot next to a very dense hedgerow that is on my left about 30ft. from the flight line and runs the full length of the farm/range I shoot. Winds from the right are no problem. But I get eddy effect on winds coming from the left and they are very hard to call. They seem to roll over the...

Amen, to that!

I like to shoot 1911s but I personally won't buy anything but a Glock if it's role is carry and self defense. For those roles I could care less what it looks like and after a while on my hip and in a holster it's gonna have some rash on it anyway. I know they aren't pretty but they are very...

I had this happen when seating a primer in a 410 hull in a MEC 9000. At the end of the stroke when the primer fully seats the loader drops powder into the hull. The primer detonated and ignited that powder which flashed up through the powder drop tube. Thankfully the way the MEC is designed...

He knows his business. You're in good hands.

You can usually get rid of that by adding a bit of pitch to the stock. Some cut the stock to do it. Some use a pitch spacer. Some pitch the base of the recoil pad. I have done all three with great success. To figure out how much pitch is needed you can loosen the recoil pad and slide a...

I've been using Bore Tech eliminator /or Wipe Out. Both are pretty easy and they don't smell bad. I recently customized a Ruger SFAR 20" in 6.5 Creed and noticed after break in that I was still getting some flyers. So, I decided to do a good clean and scrub with Bore Tech Eliminator. The...

I had a major flood at my house over 10 years ago. A volunteer group came in and threw primers, and some lives ammo in with regular debris in my burn pit. I still have the occasional primer or round go off in that pit. Just go easy with a full length sizer or decapping die. You'll be fine...

Y You found a good fitter. Not all are that way. Some will read off the measurements, tell you that's what you need, take your money, and that's all. The worst thing is to have the comb too low and have your eye buried behind the receiver. Then you simply can't see. I do quite a bit of...

We would get along fine. I usually shoot and break stuff too. But I can't afford to hire somebody to fix it so I usually wind up doing that too. That's not all bad though. The man that can work with his own two hands and fix things is becoming a lot less common today. I'll generally have...

Sometimes I may tend to shoot a little too straight on certain topics but I also like to cut up and have fun. Life's to short to be serious all the time

T I live right on the Black River in the low country of South Carolina. The area right around my house was well known for its stands of big long leaf pines. The majority of those pines at one point in time had catch cans on them to collect the resin just below where an area of bark would be...

I have nothing at all against Carolina. I used to party with some of the guys that played there. I just don't pull for them when they play Clemson.

Yes Yes sir I'm fortunate to be alive after my fall and even more fortunate that I was later able to walk again. I fell 23 feet while hanging a loc on tree stand. I had unbuckled my harness to get past a limb I wanted to use for camo. Then for some reason I couldn't get the buckle...